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User Details - Windsurfer
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Bruce Zeisel | |
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I am a devotee of Classical Music, especially violin, cello second. Enjoy music from Vivaldi and Bach to Shostakovitch, Schnittke, and living contemprorary composers. Enjoy Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven Schubert etc but maybe revel more in Bruckner, Mahler, Dvorak, Sibelius, love early Bartok, and the Concerto for Orchestra. I love Mozart Piano Concertos and Brahms also! I am a member of the Board of Directors of Troy Chromatic Concerts, a volunteer organization which sponsors 4 to 5 concerts annually in the wonderful Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy NY, USA In that capacity I am on the Artist Selection Committee. Although we live in Albany and attend local concerts, my wife and I also have a "mini series" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, so we make that trek 7 or 8 times a year plus forays to Carnegie Hall, and for soloists who are REALLY interesting - such as Vadim Repin, Pieter Wispelwey, Hilary Hahn, or Julia Fischer, we will even go to Avery Fisher Hall. That venue, in my mind is a poor place to listen to music so when we go there, we sit up close. |
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Albany NY, USA | |
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Hi Fi Currently consists of: Left and Right speakers: Apogee Duetta Signatures (unmodified) Center Channel speakers : pair of Magnepan 2.6Rs each driven by one half of stereo amp with Y connection to that amp from center channel of preamp. If you are not familiar with these, they are planar magnetic speakers (no cones or enclosures), with ribbons for the higher frequencies. the Apogees have 4ft long ribbons for tweeter/midrange. The Magnepans have what looks to be about a 30 inch ribbon tweeter. (Quite spectacular in that it is less than a quarter the thickness of a human hair) Rear Channel speakers: Mirage Omni-Sats Amps: Musical Fidelity P-270 for front left and right B&K 140 for center channel as described above Parasound A-23 for rear channels Pre-amp: Bel Canto Pre 6 (7.1 channel analog preamp) SACD: Sony SCD XA 9000 ES Interconnect Cables: Neglex 2534 Quad Microphone cable Speaker Cables: As supplied with Apogee Speakers and 10 gauge Home Depot Outdoor Extension Cord with terminations from Radio Shack for center and rear channels. Favorite labels: PentaTone; Channel Classics; LSO Live; Chandos; BIS Footnote: I have analog equipment in storage and maybe some day it will become part of the system. Turntable is a Merrill - Tonearm is the Well Tempered Arm - Phono cartridge is a swiss made Empire, reworked by its designer to approx Van den Hul specs for their MC-10. - Phono preamp was a project from Audio Amateur done by my son before he became an electrical engineer and VLSIC designer. I have a collection of approximately 2500 stereo LPs - mostly EMI-HMV, London, Decca, Philips, RCA Living Stereo, Teldec, Supraphon, and DG. I also have about 45 Lyrita LPs and a large collection of Classic Record's reissues of Living Stereo, Mercury Living Presence recordings - several on 45 rpm sets. These were all purchased before I discovered the excellence of SACD. |
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Yesterday 01:47 pm
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| SACD is a smaller niche market than Vinyl. I understand that is a fact. Why that should be is a puzzle, since to my ears, SACD multi-channel as represented by Channel Classics, PentaTone, Chandos et al thoroughly trumps vinyl with respect to "the absolute sound" or the sound of live music in an acoustic environment. The public voting with their ... more | |
Yesterday 12:05 pm
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| Hear! Hear! Bully for unbridled capitalism and on and on. The point remains that those individuals exerting free choice can not do so intelligently without information. The more biased that information, the less intelligent those decisions must be. Unfortunately Cherubino's posting rather puts to sleep the idea that sa-cd.net could effect change ... more | |
March 10, 2010
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| Why don't you guys take your 1812 debate elsewhere? - or just agree to disagree? ... more | |
March 10, 2010
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| The initial posting began with: "Am I the only one to have noticed recently that not only does he ignore most of the best SACD releases that gain rave reviews on here and elsewhere but now he seems to have adopted the rather irritating habit of marking down the sound rating of every SACD he reviews." Your initial post (post #3) began a ... more | |
March 10, 2010
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| The ancillary discussion arising here dealing with "sound vs performance" has little to do with hiredfox's initial post and is sort of hyjacking this thread. The subject "sound vs performance" seems deserving of its own thread as so much has been stated on the matter right here. I am declining to comment further on the matter in this thread but ... more | |
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