Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #43)

Thanks, Jim! Hope to start posting and sharing soon!

 

Get whatever gets your wattage going!
Personally I'm very happy with a modern Yamaha AVR.
Tube stuff is way outta my price realm if ever went bad expensive to fix.

 

Now playing CD8 - Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord from the following set for a first listen ...

 

Nobody at the CMC has a bigger collection of piano works than George ...

 

My understanding is you can blow a $200-300 tube pretty easily. At least with solid state, you don't have that kind of problem. Not sure if you do not set the bias right, you can damage the tubes/amp. Perhaps a class-A SS amp is the way to go ...

 

It always impressed me!
I just don't have that kinda space for that many CD's.

 

90+% of the collection are piano works?

 

This is the series I have.
Might wanna check into one of these......super nice for the money!!

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio-visual/aventage/

 

I am not into video much. My wife did 95% of the tv watching in my household. Most class-A amp is low-powered, two-channel and pretty pricey ...

 

It's ok Stuart.....you can come out of the cave fire won't burn you.
The dinosaurs are all gone and won't eat you!

 

Do you already have a surround setup? The rate I am going, I will never hear the 5.1 surround sound even though I have close to 400 hybrid SACD's ...

 

Oh yes definitely surround Polk Audio!
My setup listed below:

Yamaha RX-A710 90Watt 7.1
Mains: Polk RTi A1's Center: Polk CS150 Sats: Polk RT15i's Sub: Velodyne DPS-10 200watt powered
Music CD: Sony CDP-CE375 5 Disk
HD TV: Vizio 42" LCD 1080p E420VO
Blu-Ray: Sony BDP-S350
DVD: Sony DVP-NC665P 5 Disk
AV Rack: Sanus Euro EFAB-II Audio Base x2 EFAS-II Audio Expansion Shelf x4
Cables Used: Monster Cable HPD Sony HDMI DLCHE18W
Phones: Sennheiser HD280 Pro

 

Now playing CD11 from the following set for a first listen ...

 

Far be it from me to ignite a tube vs. solid state dispute, but I would suggest that anyone considering changes to his amplification should at least audition the modern amps known as "T-amps" or "Class T" amps. They're small, many are dirt cheap, and to my ear at least some of them are astonishing performers. In fact, I came to the conclusion that even with quite conventional, older speakers, one of these bested my old McIntosh/Magnepan combination, and so I have gone in that direction myself. In the end, you need to satisfy your own ears and draw your own conclusions, but I'd say these new contenders offer an alternative that should not be ignored. To bring things vaguely on-topic and away from something more appropriate to the "hardware" forum, the principal virtue I've heard from them is surprisingly good definition--I find that orchestral choirs, for instance, stand out in uncommonly bold relief. I think it's a function of much greater channel separation than we're used to from more conventional designs, but that's just my theory.

If you'd like to read more, a good starting place is here:

http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/t-amp_e.html

or here

http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/trends_ta10_e.html

or here

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/trends/ta10.html

Disclaimers: Not everyone agrees on this subject (suprise!), and my own equipment has tended toward the elderly that I could pick up without spending boatloads of money.

 

Now playing the following CD from my Wagner collection ...

 

I have 3 that I have been listening to mostly; Shubert Symphonies in C maj and B minor SACD RCA Red Seal; Shubert Symphonies No. 8 & No. 9, Telarc Scottish Chamber Orchestra, but I bought it because is was recorded by the great Tony Faulkner. But, I am also impressed with Eric Whitacre and WaterNight which is some excellent choral music which is just excellent.

 

This must be the same or very similar....from my collection?
Looks like a classic example of same recording diff art work.

 

They should be the same recording. My version was supposed to be remastered at the Abbey Road Studios.

 

I did a oooopppsss but in a good way!
This one is pretty much the same as the EMI above but.....
This a a super rare French CBS release....research on this was a REAL challenge.
Outstanding historical recording!!

 

Yup mine too....has the [art] symbol just like yours.
Kinda like the art work on mine better.

 

This is probably a mono recording ...

 

Here is an interesting and the last Wagner recording I bought (a few years ago). It was recorded in stereo sound ...

 

Nope Stereo....Recorded ©1959
CD released ©1989

 

It must cost a fortune ...

 

This is very odd "Recorded In High Fidelity Stereo" 1954
Stereo/Stereo Sound didn't become available till 1958.