gerryah930
Responses from gerryah930
| CD-format to be abandoned by major labels by the e Citizens of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, China, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Spain, India, and Brazil must be glad they can stream high-quality music, albeit sometimes censored in those countries, compared with many of us who live in ... | |
| Upgrade SACD/CD player from DCS Puccini to better DCS, Esoteric or EMM Labs? I have only heard the high-end T+A ("T plus A") player/DAC and it was great. I have not heard Vitus, CH Precision, MSB, Solution or Metronome, but they do have expensive product offerings and they seem to be of high quality. In my travels in Europ... | |
| Upgrade SACD/CD player from DCS Puccini to better DCS, Esoteric or EMM Labs? anwar - I have often wondered about the Marantz SA-10 SACD player. I heard the PS Audio DirectStrem combination and they seemed fine, although slightly less resolution than the DCS Puccini. The Marantz, on paper, would seem to represent a good pro... | |
| Upgrade SACD/CD player from DCS Puccini to better DCS, Esoteric or EMM Labs? Thank-you everyone for your expert feedback, and please keep it coming if you have recommendations. Probably the only way that I am going to know is to buy some home demonstration time. This is going to limit me to DCS products, as my local dealer... | |
| The best books on music I also liked Charles Rosen's book 'The Classical Style' (1971); "Shakey" (Neil Young, he has epilepsy); Currently I am reading "Sound Reproduction (3rd Edition) by Floyd E. Toole - a great book on "loudspeakers and rooms";I am not going to list bo... | |
| Best audio companies and dealers My favorite dealers are:Paragon Sight and Sound (Michigan)Audio Salon (Florida)Audio Advisor (Michigan)The Music Room (Colorado)David Dean Smith (New Haven, CT - no longer around, I grew up with them) | |
| The Music Room I recommend them. Traded in some McIntosh gear for an ARC GS150 power amplifier from them. Karl and Rob seem quite knowledgable in my opinion. | |
| Best analytical loudspeakers for strings (midrange)? This is the OP, and I tend to swap out system components. Currently, I have Wilson WattPuppy 7 speakers (thinking of moving either to Harbeth 40.2 or Wilson Yvettes). I now have an Audio Research GS150 tube amplifier, Audio Research LS preamplifie... | |
| Still looking for speakers in the 10-20,000 range I love my Wilson Audio WattPuppy 7 speakers (driven by Audio Research GS150 tube amplifier and Audio Research preamplifier and a DCS player stack).I have a small listening room (<300 square feet), and I listen to classical music, rock, and jazz... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Great violin/violin and violin/cello duet recordings:19. Duets for Two Violins, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas ZuckermanThis is just a wonderful album. Highly recommended for those who love the violin.20. Duets for violin/cello, Mozart, and Beethoven,... | |
| Ranking of 1 or 2 best recorded violin masterworks in my humble opinion, first part (TMI) I love David Oistrakh, but it is hard to find high resolution and well-mastered recordings of his, but maybe I am not looking hard enough.Thanks - Gerry | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Ranking of 1 or 2 - best-recorded violin masterworks in my humble opinion, the second part (TMI) - I was told to move this post here10. Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor, Op. 6410.1 Viktoria Mullova, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Nev... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Ranking of 1 or 2 - best-recorded violin masterworks in my humble opinion, the first part (TMI) - I was told to move this post hereFolks-I come from a different era, so this list is biased, and I have to correct what I may have posted earlier beca... | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera I am not trying to insight a so-called flame war here, but I have to agree with willemj.If audiophile magazines are "hobbyist" journals, then I would stop the product reviewers from including what appear to be plots of measurements of impedance ve... | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera My thanks to all of you for the responses, since I am naive in this domain, and expected audiophile magazines might actually provide unbiased product reviews. One last tidbit of information, since we routinely perform high-throughput data analysis... |