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.
Both the artist and the piece were new to me.
At the Manchester Hifi Show yesterday I was in the Brodmann room in front of their extremely handsome VC7 speakers. The Austrian chap asked us all if we were okay to listen to some classical music and put on this...
Bruch: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 as played by Friedrich Kleinhapl on Cello
Well I considered it not only a beautiful piece of music but also an excellent demo.
Tonight I have just downloaded two Kleinhapl CDs from Presto Classical - including this. Lovely and a well spent £20
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Dvorak: New World Symphony
Smetana: The Moldau
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Karajan
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Lyrics are the ramblings of man, sometimes inspired by The Creator, most often, not.
But music (melodies, harmonies, rhythms), that's God stuff.
Always was. Always will be.
One of the biggest lies ever told was that only certain kinds of people should listen to certain kinds of music.
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I listened to the 1st symphony last night. What a fine piece.... it continues to grow and grow on me.
And excellent sq, too.
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Mahler 5 - the search for a truly great recording continues. I have over a dozen in my collection, but somehow none are excellent in all ways.
This is surprisingly good, Wit was a very fine conductor --
Shame there isn't a bit more bite to the bass.
followed by the 5th from this set --
Hmm. This may be my fave of those I have heard.
The 1970s sq is a little bit forward and unsubtle, but loads of oomph and definition.
And Levine is a wonderful Mahlerian.
Any suggestions for a great Mahler 5?
(I have Boulez, Abbado (Chicago), Abbado (DVD, Lucerne), Abravanel, Litton (live off radio), Barenboim, Inoue, Zander, Nanut, Morris, Rattle plus the above mentioned two).
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Hmm, I have the Abbado and Rattle plus at least a couple more. I'll check them out.
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.
I'm pretty sure I got mine from Amazon, Marco.
<hunts around>
Here you go:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphony-7-L...4210571&sr=8-2