rcprince
Responses from rcprince
| Classical Recommendation I might add that Uru975's recommendation of trying some symphonic band music is a good one--he's referring to some of the early Telarc recordings which were on vinyl. Reference Recordings had good recordings of the Dallas Symphony's wind ensemble ... | |
| Classical Recommendation Not as much saxaphone in classical music as you'd think. Prokofiev's Lt. Kije Suite (RCA reissue on Classic Records) has a bit of it, as does Gershwin. Also, the first movement of the Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances has a nice saxaphone solo with an... | |
| Classical Recommendation Gershwin's Promenade, which was available on Reference Recordings heavy vinyl along with An American in Paris (Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony, an old Vox recording and a good one). If you want to go into chamber music, you can try the Dvorak and Moza... | |
| What i/c to use and mix with NBS ? I recently used all Kubala Sosna Emotion cables in my system with the exception of a very long run of NBS Omega between my preamp and active crossover. The result was excellent. Ultimately I replaced the NBS run with K-S for a slight overall impro... | |
| dunlavy cable costs Dunlavy speaker cables were reasonably priced when new, maybe $3-400 for a 2-1/2 meter pair (John was quite worked up about cable nonsense, felt that you should measure them at input and output to see what they lost, the less the better). Excellen... | |
| Does LAST Preservative DULL sound? Nice response, Elizabeth. FWIW, from my experience, the stuff works, I recommend it. | |
| Does Lamm L1 sounds as sweet as Lamm LL2 ??? Also, the layers of glass are diffferent thicknesses, in order to have different resonant frequencies (a friend of mine who's an audiophile is in the window business). | |
| TAS review of Krell SACD:why? If you believe what they said in the article, Krell found a new source for a transport mechanism. My guess is the units you saw being sold for half price are the older units with the Philips mechanism, which according to the article had reliabilit... | |
| Next on the list for Mahler.... I agree with Newbee that 3 might be a little difficult to digest for starters. 4 is very pretty and easy to follow, the EMI re-issue from Testament with Klemperer is excellent. My personal Mahler odyssey took me from 1 to 2 to 5, then 6, so I'd su... | |
| Recommend relatively obscure high end tube preamps Although it's probably a little better known than the others mentioned here, the Jadis JP80MC (or JPS2, if you just want a line stage) matches your description of what the Wavac unit sounded like. A classic preamp. | |
| Crazy? Lamm ML2/ML2.1 on Avalon Eidolon? I think you would be making a mistake. The ML2s are great amps, but you will never get their magic when they are partnered with the wrong speakers. Think of your speakers and amps as a single component when you make your choices, it's the best way... | |
| Acoustat Reference Preamp. I used to own an Acoustat TNP preamp, my first high-end preamp (sister piece to the TNT amp, trans-nova technology). Is this the unit you're talking about? If so, it was very good in its time, favorably reviewed by J. Gordon Holt in the early 80s,... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Zaikes, Guido, and others, I hope that that all this time spent on the computer writing about the clock is not keeping you from listening to music!! | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? I haven't read this entire thread for a while, but the one thing that surprises me is that Purist, a company I've long respected as making excellent, neutral products, is selling a special edition version of its cables that appears to be anything ... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? By the way, for the record, at the NJAS meeting last week I took the clock out of the house and brought it back in on two occasions while people were listening to music on the system, not telling anyone I was doing it or even letting them know I w... |