billsw
Responses from billsw
| Favorite Classical String Quartets @retiredaudioguy The Große Fuge takes a little getting used to and is quite complex. Personally, I think is a masterpiece. It was originally supposed to be the final movement to the 13th string quartet, but apparently with some advice, Bee... | |
| Favorite Classical String Quartets Quartetto Italiano for the Beethoven middle and late quartets Also great for the late Schubert quartets. Borodin String Quartet for the Shostakovich quartets. You probably want the second set from the 1980s. | |
| A personal "7 Wonders of (classical) music" These are all great suggestion. Let me add some Shostakovich: Symphonies 5 and 10, Kurt Sanderling for #5, Kirill Petrenko for #10. String Quartets, especially #8, played by the Borodin String Quartet. And Dvorak: Piano trios 3 and 4. | |
| Classical Recommendations Beethoven's 9th symphony, Manfred Honeck and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Bach B Minor Mass, Raphael Pichon and Pygmalion Shostakovich 10th symphony, Kirill Petrenko and Berliner Philharmonic | |
| Getting better audio answers from AI I have quite complicated system with home theater, theater bypass and 2 channel stereo, projector, etc. Much of this has been upgraded over the last several years, with the theater components and power supply can cabling upgraded within the last ... | |
| Long Time Live Music listening friend just passed. In the technical world of audio we may not fully consider our common humanity, which is so much more important. May David's memory be a blessing. | |
| Big issue with my fiber optics internet for Qobuz streaming This is probably a handshaking issue between Qobuz Connect and your streamer. I have high speed reliable internet and use a ethernet cat 6a cable from router to high end streamer (Simaudio 891), and I still have this same problem. Perhaps Qobuz ... | |
| DAC Comparisons using AI Some more thoughts on AI. I have used it a lot for entirely different applications. I find it most useful for summarizing information that it would take me a long time to find. I would not make buying decisions based on what it "says". I find A... | |
| Boutique DACs How about the dCS Varèse. Not a stand alone DAC, but deserves to be mentioned at the stratospheric level. Then there is the Wadax Atlantis Reference Whew! Has anybody actually heard these? I certainly haven't. | |
| Speaker Cable Length I will also give a shout out to Iconoclast. Bob Howard at Iconoclast is great to work with if you have specific issues. Bob wants me to try their speaker cables, but I am all set in that regard. I am using their power cords. Best manufacturing... | |
| What is your experience with Magico A3 or A5 speakers and the company as a whole? Buy high end speakers really requires listening and people will have quite different opinions. This is good as it reflects the diversity of the high end community. Not quite 3 years ago I decided to upgrade older speakers. I listened to quite a ... | |
| Control4, Savant, Crestron Thank you for the response jperry. I have further considered this. I think my setup including frequent changes is too complicated for any of these commercial integration companies. As my system will continue to evolve, I cannot put myself into... | |
| I asked ChatGPT about me and my posts... This is an interesting thread. So many post that I should use AI to summarize. Just kidding. Meanwhile, I am upgrading various components of a complicated home theater/high end audio system with sound sound process, 2 channel pr-amp with theate... | |
| Ethernet Excellent comments by mswale, all of which I agree with and are relevant to my system. I currently have a whole house wired with Cat5, but to the theater/audio system there are several switches along the way. I plan to run a Cat6 cable directly ... | |
| Trouble with Qobuz The Qobuz Connect issue seems to be better, but still not fully resolved, dropping about 1 track in 30 on my Simaudio 891 preamp, which is hard wired with a fast ethernet connection. The issue may be limited by the DNS and therefore not specifi... |