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| Tube amp suggestions-Dunlavy IVA I agree with all of Raquel's suggestions, particularly the Lamms, which I own and find to be exceptional amplifiers and able to drive virtually anything out there. One more possibility is VTL, their amps, while not as smooth and refined as the one... | |
| Choral or Classical Vocal Recordings - Must Have Please keep away from my smelly feet for this! Not too much help, but Shaw and his Chorale recorded for RCA in the old days, so you might start there. I just finished a concert recently where we sang that piece, and have sung it before, and have a... | |
| What's The Best Blooming Tube Amp? Along with the SETs mentioned above, the Jadis amps, particularly the JA80s when used with either NOS Genelex Gold Lion KT88s or Mullard EL-34s, would match your description. You'll get lost in their midrange. And I imagine Quickslvers would too, ... | |
| Any Audiophile recording of The Planets? Sonically the Mehta/LAPO on Decca is generally thought to be one of the best, particularly on vinyl--it's been on the TAS list for years. I think it's good, not great interpretively. I like the Previn, but could live without the Susskind (that's t... | |
| What was your first music that you paid for? Shut Down by the Beach Boys, I think. Back in those days I principally bought 45s. Can't recall whether my first album was a Beach Boys one or Beatles '65. | |
| Tweaks That Don't Work Two tweaks that did not work FOR ME (I'm sure many of you found them to work for for you, so take it easy):1. Shakti Stones--tried them on my Forsell transport, without effect, and on the transformers of my Jadis JA 80 amplifiers, negative effect,... | |
| hilary hahn..violinist She's very gifted technically; needs a little more maturing in her interpretations, in my view (I was not moved by her Brahms, though I did like her Stravinsky), but she definitely has promise. I agree with Eric above, there are many fine young vi... | |
| Sorry,need info on Dunlavy again Aletha vs SC-IV I still think the Alethas will overload your room--they have a smaller footprint and are a little more room friendly, but a square room like yours creates many acoustical resonances and nodes. I would follow Sean's advice from your prior post. Dun... | |
| Concert Hall? Or Dedicated Listening Room? "Problem" with that is that the acoustic of your listening room will interfere with the acoustic of the recorded space and the stereo imaging the recording engineer and producer worked so hard to capture. Think of listening to your current rig in ... | |
| DynAudio Audience 52: What Amp? Thanks. It certainly sounded good at my dealer's, and apparently they're coming out with a sub to match as well. I've always liked the smaller Dynaudios everywhere I've heard them; of course, I also like their big speakers!Do see if you can use th... | |
| DynAudio Audience 52: What Amp? I am, horror of horrors, actually building a small home theater system in a back bedroom, and am going to use the smaller Dynaudio Audience 42s for the system. In listening to a couple of AV receivers with them, the one that stood out as the best ... | |
| Smetana Ma Vlast Newbee, could not agree more about Eastern European music, I really enjoy singing it as well as listening to it. When I visited Prague I was astonished at the number of musical events available for the listening--truly a city that loves music. The... | |
| CD Player versu Dedicated Transport Alex said everything I was going to. | |
| Smetana Ma Vlast One other, underrated Ma Vlast is Macal on Telarc with the Milwaukee Symphony; I do like the others mentioned though a little better.Agree with Newbee, there's a lot of Dvorak that's great music--many of his choral works are excellent, particularl... | |
| Is the dunlavy SC-IV still worth to buy? That's really too small a room for the IVs; you need to sit a good deal away from them to get the drivers to integrate properly, and I think the extended bass, particularly with that small a room and its square shape causing room nodes, will be to... |