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| Buidling a Classical Library - MUST HAVES! Jadem6, do you have any period of classical music that you prefer (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century, etc.)? It would help to narrow the field, if you want to do that. By the way, although I may not always agree with their recommendations... | |
| Red Rose or Audio Prism? Red Rose's electronics are the AudioPrism gear, in some cases a little tweaked up but essentially the same stuff. They have been around for a while before Levinson acquired their electronics business. I've always liked their components, which deli... | |
| SACD Players Doug: Haven't heard the Accuphase. I'm sure it's impressive, although take a look at the thread SACD Demo, from last November, where several posters heard an unbroken-in sample of the combo and gave it mixed reviews. Also, Stereophile reviews it t... | |
| Best Classical Music Conductor Oh, and Kertesz (sp., I'm sure) for his Dvorak cycles. | |
| Best Classical Music Conductor Cogito is right; Kaplan made his fortune on Wall Street as a broker/investment adviser, I think, and so loved the Resurrection Symphony that he studied it intently and made that recording. I understand he was involved in the editing of the recordi... | |
| SACD Players Doug, Accuphase has an (outrageously) expensive SACD transport/DAC on the market, and my understanding from my local dealer is that dCs is working on a universal transport. I'm interested by your final question, because the concern you speak of is... | |
| Best Classical Music Conductor Thanks; I have that Telarc disc with his explanation--simply terrific. Also have his Beethoven 5th and 7th, which reflect unusual and compelling tempi which he believes were Beethoven's intent. I'm going to check out his other work. Interesting ab... | |
| Cheap SACD Player or wait for DVD Audio? Well Shubert, you got me interested, though it will be embarassing buying that mag. I know old Neil is on record (pun not intended) as saying "digital sucks", so I'm interested in how he views its latest incarnations. | |
| Best Classical Music Conductor Sugarbrie: A good nomination. Zander's reading of the Mahler 9th on Telarc is superb. Which orchestra is he affiliated with at this time? I'm still thinking of my nominations, but here's a thought to add--live or recorded? For example, while I thi... | |
| Gershwins Best Recording. If you have a DVD player that will play a 24/96 disc (or a 24/96 player), the two-disc Classic Records DAD reissue of Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony with Gershwin's works for orchestra and piano and orchestra is very good, both performances an... | |
| Shed some light on this please Avguygeorge is right in that you should trust your own ears. My guess at an explanation is that the Pass and Electrocompaniet equipment have much better power supplies than the B&K (as they should, given their pedigree, designers and prices), ... | |
| Phono Cable Mark: I used to have the XLO 3.1 Signature, but I used it from an Expressive Technologies step-up transformer (used to have one of the early Transfiguration cartridges) to my preamp, in conjunction with the Graham cable running into the ET. I thou... | |
| Audio Research 100.2 amp Ken, take Peter up on his offer. I have only dealt with S.E. long ago, when I was looking for a used piece of equipment (they have a LOT of good used equipment); they were friendlier and more helpful than the other NYC high end Meccas (except Inno... | |
| no both HDCD and 24/96 simutaneously I found the same to be true, at least listening to the MSB DAC III, which has both. | |
| Phono Cable I've been happy for years with the Graham IC-30 running direct into my preamp; if you have a Graham arm, worth considering. |