newbee
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| Have you noticed as your system improves? For sure. Especially if you are listening to music you know and love. You just don't really need 'loud' for most music to enjoy it. Most of my music plays at about 75 db on average and I don't feel I'm missing anything. | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings FWIW, to deal with the orchestration 'issues' in Brahms symphonies one might try Berglund's and Mackerras' (on Telarc) versions. I've really enjoyed both, not necessarily at the exclusion of others but as an alternative. I like Berglund's Sibelius... | |
| Small Discrepancies in Speaker Placement Did you futz with the cables? The change in sound could well be ’out of phase’ caused by the reversal of one set of cables to your speakers. If you return them to the original placement does the sound change back to ’directional? Another thing to... | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings Another one for your list to check out. Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid/Rodeo by Leonard Slatkin and the St Louis SO. Early 80's EMI digital but IMHO it does not suffer much by the new medium. If you haven't heard this it's big joyful/exciting Amer... | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings FWIW when I just want to pig out on acoustics I put on Copland's Symphony #3 on Reference Recording's CD by Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra, and the performance is quite good too. You mentioned Yuja Wang - you might like her recording of Ravel's P... | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings Yes I was referring to that disc. A brain fart perhaps, that is why I deleted that post. But the reality is that I love Zimmerman! Solo and with orchestra. In addition to his Chopin and Ravel you can add Liszt’s PCs with Ozawa. Not shabby stuff. ... | |
| Do You Have to Play a Component to Warm it Up? Typically, unless you are breaking in a component, yes just turning the transport on should be enough. | |
| The joys of mid-fi Viridian, Sorry about that moniker thing. I should be more careful. I don’t pretend to know what ’you’ hear, What I should have used in its place was the word ’one'. I should have been more careful with the words selection but I thought that the ... | |
| The joys of mid-fi Veridian, Most of what you hear in a hall is, IME, determined by where you sit and what you are listening to. The closer you sit to a center seat, just in front of the orchestra pit, the more you you will hear instrument specificity, so long as i... | |
| The joys of mid-fi RV, FWIW, IME, I'd bet that when you were listening to music over a mid fi system you were not focused on its recorded sound so much as you were exploring new music or the alternative performances of music of which you were already aware. From tha... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? I share frogman's POV, especially as set forth in his 2d paragraph. FWIW I've found good recordings are nothing much more than validation of the effectiveness of the audio set up I have worked on for many years, i.e. that it fairly represents the... | |
| Records and CDs RV, FWIW, I bought several RR CD’s of the Pittsburgh Symphony/Honeck performances. based on reviews. I listened to them once. Sound v performance? Who cares. Frankly I’ve not been overly happy with recent RR’s. Last liked them when it was with Oue... | |
| A treat for those who like classical piano Mahgister, you mention one of my long time favorite composers (and transcribers) of music for solo piano. Liszt! Too many performers and recordings to mention but I started with Annees De Pelerinage played by Berman on DG. Great performance, I th... | |
| Let the best be your guide FWIW, I have my stereo system in a room 2 walls and 12 feet away from my large office. My system is on all day to FM or a multi play CDP. I thoroughly enjoy my music in the office. Then I go into my music room and sit down in the 'sweet spot' and ... | |
| A treat for those who like classical piano mahgister, OT. I've noticed you often speak highly of Scriabin. I have Maria Lettberg's complete set. I find them rewarding. Am I missing anything? |