Rather dark and sombre, in the Shosty tradition, but also very powerful and dramatic, and beautifully recorded, as usual on Decca
Marco.
Rather dark and sombre, in the Shosty tradition, but also very powerful and dramatic, and beautifully recorded, as usual on Decca
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Location: Nijmegen
Posts: 12
I'm Olav.
Stunning imho this recording:
Bruckner. Symphonie Nr. 4 The Romantic (Bruno Walter, Columbia Symphony Orchestra,1960)![]()
Roon > Qobuz > 44.1kHz > Upsampled - 705.6kHz > SMSL M400 > Topping A90 > Hifiman Sundara Balanced
Preamp | Amplifier: Pass Labs XP-20 | Odyssey Stratos Monoblocks
Analogue Sources: Nakamichi DR-1 | Technics SL-1700MK2
DAC | Digital Sources: Auralic Altair G1 | JVC XL-Z411
Speakers | Subwoofers: Magnepan 1.7i | SVS PB-1000 Pro x 2
Power Conditioning: Blue Circle Audio | Monster HTS 5000
Cables: Wireworld | Pangea Audio | AudioQuest
Max Richter - 'The Blue Notebooks'
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Barry
Kronos Quartet (with Terry Riley) - 'Requiem for Adam' and Terry Riley - 'The Philosopher's Hand'
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Barry
Preamp | Amplifier: Pass Labs XP-20 | Odyssey Stratos Monoblocks
Analogue Sources: Nakamichi DR-1 | Technics SL-1700MK2
DAC | Digital Sources: Auralic Altair G1 | JVC XL-Z411
Speakers | Subwoofers: Magnepan 1.7i | SVS PB-1000 Pro x 2
Power Conditioning: Blue Circle Audio | Monster HTS 5000
Cables: Wireworld | Pangea Audio | AudioQuest
Location: London/Durham
Posts: 7,461
I'm Lawrence.
Interesting take on some early French music. Kind of like Jan Garbarek with the Hilliard Ensemble.![]()
Not that it has anything to do with this album in particular, but I'm amazed at what these Klipsch RP-8000F's do for piano. Very convincing with proper body and dynamics.
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Preamp | Amplifier: Pass Labs XP-20 | Odyssey Stratos Monoblocks
Analogue Sources: Nakamichi DR-1 | Technics SL-1700MK2
DAC | Digital Sources: Auralic Altair G1 | JVC XL-Z411
Speakers | Subwoofers: Magnepan 1.7i | SVS PB-1000 Pro x 2
Power Conditioning: Blue Circle Audio | Monster HTS 5000
Cables: Wireworld | Pangea Audio | AudioQuest
Preamp | Amplifier: Pass Labs XP-20 | Odyssey Stratos Monoblocks
Analogue Sources: Nakamichi DR-1 | Technics SL-1700MK2
DAC | Digital Sources: Auralic Altair G1 | JVC XL-Z411
Speakers | Subwoofers: Magnepan 1.7i | SVS PB-1000 Pro x 2
Power Conditioning: Blue Circle Audio | Monster HTS 5000
Cables: Wireworld | Pangea Audio | AudioQuest