rushton
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| Your Favorite Classical Music Recordings J_evege, I greatly appreciate your focus on the music and your willingness to start some further conversation about great music. However, I join Newbee in a reluctance to launch into such a broad topic as you've outlined. If you take a look at New... | |
| Clarinet concertos anyone? You might also look at this earlier thread...http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1189734063. | |
| Your favorite Sheherazade LP ? Has anyone yet heard the recently released Scheherazade recorded by the Marc Aubort/Joanna Nickrenz team on Classic Records CR 2002?Moscow State Symphony OrchestraPavel Kogan, conductorClassic Records CR 2002-200GAubort/Nickrenz are one of my favo... | |
| Aesthetix IO tube rolling experiment at Area 51 Very nice summary of your listening experiences with all the different combinations! Thank you for sharing this.. | |
| Your favorite Sheherazade LP ? Beecham/RPO, EMI ASD 251 (Testament reissue)Reiner/CSO, RCA LSC 2446 . | |
| Walker or VPI motor controller with scoutmaster? The Raven uses a DC motor. Motor controllers like the Walker and the VPI work on AC motors. So, no reason for Elinor to keep his motor controller for the Raven.George: The Walker motor controller will work on any turntable with an AC motor, and I ... | |
| Aesthetix IO Sig tube rolling/initial impressions Thanks for sharing your experience thus far. I'm getting ready to take the plunge, too, and hope to get some simarly positive results.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Elgar, "Enigma Variations" - Monteux/LSO (RCA LSC 2418, Classic Records reissue) - another excellent Kenneth Wilkinson engineered recording for RCA under contract with Decca. One of the great performances of this work. The Classic Records reissue ... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue Jloveys, I certainly did not intend to offer any criticism of you commenting on what is important to you for enjoying the music. That is truly fair game and good to share, and I've enjoyed the portions of your comments that focus on that. If I cam... | |
| Longtime lurker First time Poster Hi Roggae, glad to see you posting! And congratulations on your turntable and phono stage. I would encourage first to focus on getting the most out of your current system that you can before thinking about the next upgrade. Until you do so, you wo... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue Jloveys, the licensing with EMI, who now own the Blue Note catalog, determines the number of copies Music Matters and Analogue Productions are allowed to press. This is a very expensive undertaking, and from Joe Harley's comments posted on the Hof... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue The Hoffman and Gray mastering process is all analog with no digital preview in the circuit.. | |
| Walker or VPI motor controller with scoutmaster? As Dopogue notes above, the VPI SDS motor controller will bring a very noticeable improvement to your Scoutmaster, and to most turntables with AC motors. If you can afford the cost differential, the Walker will bring yet another step higher perfor... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... I agree point for point with Rcprince's comments about the DG recordings overall. The Archiv recordings are frequently of period instruments using both gut strings and higher tuning. This may account for the perception that these can be a bit brig... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... Kirkus, I agree with you about ECM: a good label with excellent artists, performances and sonics. Their classical catalog was somewhat limited in the vinyl era and I haven't kept track of what more they may have done in their CD catalog over the y... |