Sounds right up my street, Martin. Where did you obtain it?
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Sounds right up my street, Martin. Where did you obtain it?
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.
Years ago, Marco, so I can't remember. Amazon list it, though.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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Cheers. I think I'll snaffle that.
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.
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Digital, from The Decca Sound box - would love the LP (if i buy myself a new turntable one day) but the recording is amazing regardless...
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So much wonderful stuff came out of Montréal back in the day - the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, The Planets, the gorgeous Fauré Requiem… ooh - the Ravel Piano Concertos with Pascal Rogé.Originally Posted by MartinT
I don't know - mine is the Roman Trilogy without any Rimsky-Korsakov.
I learned a good while ago that analogue or digital recordings make far less difference than good microphone setup and engineering. Ry Cooder's Bop 'til You Drop and Telarc's Mussorgsky Pictures were both firsts in digital recording and are both superb.
i'd love to hear that Roman Trilogy -- I have the BIS SACD version from Sao Paolo which is staggering.
I have the Saint-Saens and the Holst recordings of theirs. I think the venue (St Eustache, from memory) contributes a great deal to the sound, and Dutoit was as-one with the orchestra.
The Roman Trilogy is well worth looking up.
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Karajan's last recording before the very last curtain call of them all
It's been criticised over the years for being a bit sloppy - which is fair enough, I guess, but it's still more than a bit special. And good sq, too.
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Digital, again from The Decca Sound box.. This has been issued as one of those Esoteric SACDs by Teac - anyone have any experience of them?
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i think that was one of those times when everything came together - performers, recording team and venue. Great stuff. I have the Elgar Enigma Variations which was given a lukewarm review at the time but I think it's lovely, and the Gershwin disc is a lot of fun, too.
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A lot of very lovely music on this.
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