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The value of open space

Composers such as Webern, Cage, Feldman, and Stockhausen all utilized vast spacious open passages with faint and delicate sounds within them ('colored' silence as Stockhausen put it). If a system is set up right, this allows those sounds to 'sparkle' in deep space, opening vistas for the ear to swim in. How many audiophiles really appreciate this phenomena? It is really one of my favorite things in music. It seems to me that digital sources crunch this space into blandness, and it really takes a turntable to do it justice. Agree?
chashmal
guidocorona
4,298 posts
 
Chashmal, lots of excellent CD players out there, e.g. Audio-Aero Prestige and Capitol Classic, TEAC X-01D2, etc. . . . . . and then there are all the multibox players
chashmal OP
605 posts
 
Good work Guidocorona, you got me. I have never heard the players you mentioned. I also couldn't find them on A-gon. Where could they be heard? I live in NYC.
guidocorona
4,298 posts
 
Hi Chashmal, in NYC there are the usual suspects. . . Lyric Audio, Sound by Singer just to name a couple of them. . . they have lots of gear to show. . . but can on occasion be prickly to deal with. Between them you are likely to be able to listen to the top gear from TEAC Esoteric, Audio Aero, EMM, DCS, and a few others. Bring your own CDs. Not sure if they do in-home auditions. By the way, Audiogon has a fabulous long-lived thread for discussing top-flight digital gear where you will find mountains of good info/opinions: try:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1126769860&openusid&zzGuidocorona&4&5#Guidocorona
The thread is approx a dozen pages long. . . but it's worth reading it from the very top. Guido
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