rcprince
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| Best Bach St. Matthews Passion There is an excellent recent Harmonia Mundi recording of this work (Herrewghe/Collegium Vocale Gent), typically fine HM sound and an excellent performance, which has a lot of extras with it -- a CD-ROM, a booklet, etc. Another highly regarded one ... | |
| Cable observations ....Cardas NBS I find Asa right on the money about the way that NBS cables work with tubed equipment. I bought a pair of NBS Monitor 0 running between my Jadis preamp and amplifiers and was extremely happy with how they let through much more detail without losin... | |
| Where can I get small apogee speakers? It certainly isn't small as a bookshelf speaker, but I think the Stage may have been as small or smaller than the Centaur Minor. | |
| I need the more better digital Forsell or CEC TX1 transport, Audio Logic 2400 DAC; much less sterile, and much more involving, than the brands you mentioned. You could add a DCS Purcell to that as well, to increase the harmonic richness of your CDs. Or else go with a turntable ... | |
| More Dumb "Classical" Stereotypes I find the above posts, particularly Tubegroover's, to be excellent recommendations. I might add for an uplifting Baroque piece Bach's Brandenberg Concertos, particularly Nos. 4 and 6. Although it's not a great recording, the Archiv recording with... | |
| State of the Art? I don t care anymore. I know how you feel, and I think all of us who have been in this hobby a long time have felt that way at some point. I'm no longer into constant major upgrades (my amps, preamp, turntable, transport and DAC have been pretty much the same the past ... | |
| Info on Monster Alpha Genesis 500 I'm sure others of us "old-timers" can help more, but I recall the 500 was the top of Monster's line in the mid-80s, then surpassed by the 1000 (which I owned for a few years) and then the 2000. It's an MC design, reasonable output, and if it soun... | |
| I need TT Help: Please advise The Regas are fine tables, the advice on the models available above is good. A Basis 1400 used with a Rega arm would also be a good alternative. If you can stretch your budget a bit, I noticed a Basis 2000 with Rega arm for sale on AudiogoN, askin... | |
| E.A.D. in trouble? Where have you heard that they have problems? | |
| Latest comments on PS Audio PP? I've had mine since early fall, was extremely impressed with it then and still am. One of those rare products that lives up to its hype. Multiwave is worth the upgrade,too, easily. | |
| Transport for ML360S? Garfish, with respect to the new Levinson transport, do you mean DVD-A or DVD as in 24/96 discs? It seems to me a separate transport for DVD-Audio would not be worthwhile, as my recollection is that the 24/96 DVD-A signal can't be passed through a... | |
| Any Famous people on Audiogon ? Perhaps we should change our definition of what constitutes "famous". I think you should consider Sugarbrie famous, he's performing in concert with Dave Brubeck this month in Baltimore--that's terrific! I'm not famous now, but I was for 15 minutes... | |
| It is frustrating..... Excellent post, Frogman, and good luck with your singing, I presume, Sugarbrie. I'll put in a plug for the NJ Symphony Orchestra, Zdenek Macaal does not let them give anything but a fully committed performance. There are plenty of smaller ensemble... | |
| Tube amp blues I'm not sure how the Golden Tube is set up, but Najo is right, this sounds like it could be the small signal tubes, rather than the output tubes (the larger ones). Try turning off the unit and swapping the small signal tubes between channels (if t... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters ? BAT and Purist Audio make some high quality adapters, I believe. |