rcprince
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| Golden age of vinyl recordings? In classical music, the so-called "Golden Age" was probably the mid-to-late 50s and early 60s, when companies were just starting in stereo, recorded in analog and didn't multi-mike or process the sound that much; as a result, recordings from that ... | |
| Lamm M 1.2 against Tenor 300 and Boulder 2060 I would second Brian's advice. The Halcro and Boulder electronics, in my auditions of them, are excellent but neutral almost to a fault, if that's possible--they reveal so much detail that I wind up hearing more of the recording and the upstream e... | |
| "3 Dimensional Sound"? While I've experienced the illusion too, not that many speakers can get the height aspect right--Dunlavy/Duntech and big Maggies seem to do it well, the Wilson Watt/Puppies never seemed to do it that well to me. However, while you're correct about... | |
| My baby left me... left me sad and bluuuuueee.... How about "I Feel Like Home Made Sh*t" by the Village Fugs? That one comes from the late 60s, and seems to sum up your feelings perfectly. | |
| ''I Feel Fine''by the Beatles, who does the lead ? With respect to Sunshine: Rosstaman is correct-Bruce sings the first and third phrase in each verse, Clapton the second. Even on my lousy Zenith record player you could hear the different timbres of the voices, and that's how they sang it in conce... | |
| Different sound from inputs 1 and 2 on preamp Usually the tape inputs have sounded the best on the Jadis preamps I've owned--probably less wire/bussbar to travel, although there is a cheap relay switch it goes through, which would seem to contradict my observations. On some preamps from Jadis... | |
| "Must-have" SACDs Out There If you like classical music and Mahler, the San Francisco Symphony Mahler cycle (Symphonies 1, 3,4 and 6 so far) is superb, has plenty of dynamics, bass and emotion. The more recent Telarcs, from the Vaughn-Williams Sea Symphony on (particularly t... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music The slow movements from the Shostakovich 5th Symphony and Violin, Cello and Piano Concerti. He had a special knack for writing these movements. | |
| Transport for a dCS Delius - HELP Having heard the Levinson 37 in my system, I'd say the Sony in its stock form was close to it; however, I admit to not liking the Levinson in my system that much. Since I had the Kern modifications done to my Sony, its performance as a transport h... | |
| Transport for a dCS Delius - HELP I'd tend to agree with Dr joe, much as it doesn't make sense to me logically. I have a Forsell, Sony SCD 777ES and Marantz DV-18 which I have used at various times to feed my Audio Logic DAC, and damned if they don't all sound different. Forsell i... | |
| Use Only 1 Channel of A 2 Channel Amplifier? For solid state amps, I don't see a problem--I currently use only one channel of each of my Sonogy stereo amps for bass, solely because of space/wiring considerations, and the amps have been fine. Tubes, though, are different, as I believe they ne... | |
| Upgrade for Day Sequerra FM Reference Tuner Strapper 211, try dvday@atiaudio.com, 1-800-922-8001, ext. 101. | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder This thread is great, takes me down memory lane. Don't think I saw Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen mentioned here. A record a friend of mine bought just so he could destroy it with a sledgehammer. | |
| Your favorite movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony Marakenetz, great memory, I'd forgotten that! Liked that movie, Oldman was a bit over the top but still good. Interesting he then played the part of Beethoven in Immortal Beloved. | |
| Your favorite movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony For me, it's the second movement. Perhaps the greatest scherzo ever written. From my point of view, the rest of the symphony goes downhill from there, but I know I'm in the minority here. |