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Hi Carlos. Funny thing about finally getting my system as I wanted it. Now I'm not listening to it as much, and lately it's mostly been jazz anyway.
I've been busy with work. On top of that of that I've taken it upon myself to get back in shape, so now some of my former listening time has been replaced with cycling time.
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I wish I had been in Fort Worth tonight for the Van Cliburn Festival. Hope you enjoyed it!
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.... I have a record player and a cd player and some other stuff that sounds pretty good. MAIN SYSTEM: . . . Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, [B]Koetsu Rosewood or Grado Statement 1 Cartridges, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric K03 CD/SACD Player, Lexicon RT-20 Universal Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System, OPPO and Cambridge Streaming Devices. DOWNSTAIRS SYSTEM: . . . Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amp, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-105 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV, or Clearaudio Discovery Cartridges, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs . Last edited by AudioNut; 08-25-2013 at 06:29 AM. |
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I wonder if the 2L recording engineers have ever attended a live chamber music concert. If so, I seriously doubt that the two violins were in front of the audience and the cello and viola behind them. Well, that's the sonic perspective presented here! While it adds clarity, this arrangement is just not realistic. Thus, I have to listen to it in stereo instead of m-ch. That aside, the sound is astonishingly present, and Engegård Quartet play fantastically.
Program: Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Leif Solberg: String Quartet in B Minor Edvard Grieg: String Quartet in G Minor Op. 27 |
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Listened to Mozart's Requiem on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. Well done
Nikolaus Harnoncourt Christine Schafer Bernard Fink Kurt Streit Gerald Findley SACD
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Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije - I have loved this performance since I was a boy.
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Listening to an elderly LP . . . Famous Oboe Concertos
Leclair, Marcello, Vivaldi and Telemann Heinz Holliger - Oboe Members of the Dresden State Orchestra - Vittorio Negri, Conductor Can't imagine why it is so, but the oboe has long been my favorite instrument and to my mind, no one plays it better than Heinz Holliger. Problem with the solo oboe is that many recordings fail to reproduce the sound of the instrument properly - and make the instrument sound shrill - more like an alto recorder/flute. Fortunately Philips captured the sound in all its glory in most of their Holliger recordings. This one is just plain magnificent. These beautiful concertos couldn't sound better! (IMHO). Excellent performances, excellent sound quality. I guess I've had this record since the 1960's and the surfaces are still clean and here I sit in total amazement at the glorious sound. (The following picture is dedicated to our member Dean, in hopes he can see and read it)
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.... I have a record player and a cd player and some other stuff that sounds pretty good. MAIN SYSTEM: . . . Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, [B]Koetsu Rosewood or Grado Statement 1 Cartridges, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric K03 CD/SACD Player, Lexicon RT-20 Universal Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System, OPPO and Cambridge Streaming Devices. DOWNSTAIRS SYSTEM: . . . Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amp, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-105 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV, or Clearaudio Discovery Cartridges, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs . |
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While running through the fields this morning (yes Dean, keep on sporting!), I heard this on the radio:
Strauss - Oboe Concerto & Metamorphosen ChamberOrchestra of Europe, Heinz Holliger, oboe & conductor. The oboe concerto struck me as a very nice work. What what touched me even more deeply is that this piece, one of the last of the composer, was written in '45, for an American soldier-oboe player, who was part of the occupying forces, there in Garmisch-Partenkirchen...
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