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| BEETHOVEN'S LATE STRING QUARTETS Historic-budget choice The Cleveland Quartet Contemporary The Emerson String Quartet,if you order on line be careful that you only order the last five;they recorded all of them. | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. In addition to the three fine recordings mentioned above,consider the George Szell-Cleveland Orchestra recording and the Academy of St. Martains in the Fields Orchestra with Clifford Cuzon. My personal favorite is the Cleveland but that's subjective. | |
| Regrets Overpaying for a compact disk player,live and learn. | |
| Some thoughts about value in high-end audio While your point is well taken, remember that Canada subsidizes speaker r and d-if only indirectly. | |
| Some thoughts about value in high-end audio That said,just as free speech protects persons who say outrageous things,so capitalism protects the rights of persons to pay 20k for speaker cables that will depriciate quickly. Yes,a Strad is an excellent value. An hundred years from now,perhaps ... | |
| Best system for the budding audiophile? Five thousand is 67% higher than three thousand but I submit a 5k system will not sound two thirds better than a three thousand dollar system. There is a diminshing return. That said,you might try this system: Adcom 200 watt power amp about 5-6c u... | |
| Barber's Adagio for Strings I second what Sugarbrie said above. The Emerson is a fine rendition of it in its oirignal quartet form. In addition to the Toscanini mentioned above, consider the St. Louis/Slatkin recording. When they toured Asia a few years back, the Adagio move... | |
| Audiogon Ethics People Person: Speaking only for myself,not a community,I'd express my concerns in his feedback and let other individuals draw their own inferences from the whole body of his feedback.p | |
| Safe audiogon transactions; lowering the bar. I've read with interest the preceeding posts. I'm confused on(at least) this one thing: If paypal takes compensation from one party to a transaction but not another or the conveyer, is it(Paypal) more beholden to the party that paid its fee? Doe... | |
| What recordings do you use to test new gear? Judit,1. Something that you like, that represents your tastes, that you've heard a hundred times.2. Timbre. A good choir like the Robert Shaw Chorale. Do the voices sound human ?3. Imaging. The trio sonata in C from Bach's Musical Offering. Can yo... | |
| Any tricks to keep cats away from speaker grills? Use the spray bottle technique,adding enough ammonia to the water so the cat can smell it on his(her) fur but not enough to be harmfull. In additon to the displeasure of the water,ammonia is close enough in smell to urine that the cat will figure ... | |
| Feeding Maggie Posters,thank you very much! | |
| Feeding Maggie Tireguy,and others: My budget is what is necessary(used,in a buyer's market) to match Maggies' capabilities, but not any more. I don't want to buy redundant quality or quantity or both.Thanks | |
| female needs expert advice Since I'm not an expert,I'll quote this one:http://www.sundial.net/~rogerr/wire.htm You read it? An eye opener,huh? |