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| Good FM tuner for around $1K FWIW, one of the finest vintage tuners made, was the Accuphase T100. If you can find one that has been gone thru, i.e. new caps, lights, possibly RCA, etc, and aligned, for under $1000 you can not do better. I had and used one for many years it w... | |
| Reference Recordings IMHO, none of this stuff is realistic, only just a poor facsimile of the real thing. That said, IME some systems do sound better at higher volumes at doing the soundstaging tricks, etc. However, with systems not properly set up or constituted, the... | |
| Reference Recordings Whart, Revised! But I thought all you guys were clairvoyant and would just know these things. :-) | |
| Reference Recordings FWIW, a few other Reference Recordings I think highly of - 1) Copland - Appalachian Springs Suite (OV for 13 instruments)2) Menotti/Barber Concerts for Violin & OrchestraBoth were recorded by Prof Johnson with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. ... | |
| Reference Recordings I think many of their earlier works were very good. I have not been as enthused by a lot of the later recordings which I have and rarely refer to.I agree with twoleftears re Arnold's overtures as well as his disc for Bands. I thoroughly enjoy Copl... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV, thanks. No need for the '99 version I think.twoleftears, I think you may like the Arrau. I find this performance a bit relaxed and very enjoyable. I think you will like the fact that the piano is more spot lit than Zimmerman's. FWIW, I haven't... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV, I'll look forward to your comments.FWIW, from an audio perspective only, something I noticed last night after hearing PC 1 and posting. I listened to PC 2 - contrary to my comments about the piano appearing left of center in PC1 (which I reche... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Well, twoleftears, something must be wrong with my system. I get no sound beyond the boundaries of my speakers, but then I don’t expect any. You can revisit what I had to say about set up in RV’s other post on imaging wherein I talk about the ’ste... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier First tube amp - ARC D115 II. Last SS amp -Threshold SA3. I dumped the ARC and wish I kept the Threshold. | |
| If you could just pick one instrument that you think sounds best on your speakers "What you think sounds most realistic? " Really? Nothing comes close so I really try not to think about it. To me recorded music is at best a reminder, no more. I think audio's main weakness is its inability to replicate large scale music in th... | |
| Classical composers, symphonies twoleftears, I have more than two performances. :-)But I must admit I rarely listen to them now. Farberman’s is, at this stage of my life, or it could be argued, any stage of my life, too long! :-)Just for fun I put on Botstein’s (on Telarc) as it... | |
| One speaker observation from the New York Hifi show. rvpiano, Re GE, I find it not so strange (other than 8" does sound a bit close to me). Bass is, to many, the reason that distance of placement of the speaker from the front wall is important. That is a common problem we all share. But, the impor... | |
| One speaker observation from the New York Hifi show. rvpiano, Not necessarily for your benefit, but FWIW as it does relate to others, re 'side to side' imaging, it is important when evaluating this to remember the 'stereo' construct does not provide for any 'in phase' stereo image to appear outside ... | |
| Songs for Speaker Placement 'Depth of Image' by Opus 3 is IMHO the best recording I've ever heard in reproducing depth of image. It is on LP or CD and may be hard to find now. But I have heard it on a modest system carefully set up and it was so holographic as to be almost s... | |
| One speaker observation from the New York Hifi show. If you have positioned your speakers too near the wall behind them, as many folks seem to do (from the system photos I see) I believe your observations are probably valid, certainly are to you. However, if you bring your speakers well out into th... |