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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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May 22, 2013
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| Amen ! ... more | |
May 16, 2013
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| My (96 yr old) father has had Magneplanar 1.6s for quite a few years now. I have a pair of Apogee Duetta Signatures which are similar but with better bass and not quite as sweet as my dad's Maggies. For my center channel I have a pair of Magneplanar 2.6s side by side with the tweeters on the inner sides. I sit about 9 ft from them and the two ... more | |
May 8, 2013
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| The Nott 4th is excellent and I enjoy it. But the Stenz is beautifully phrased also and (I need to relisten to the Nott to be certain) I think the Stenz is more vividly, realistically recorded. I would not want to say to anyone: "You should get this one, not that one." I would recommend both and if your preference is to vivid recorded sound, and ... more | |
May 8, 2013
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| Yep - every day for one hour at four miles per hour. Getting harder to do that now with mean old Arthur entering the picture. And yes the Gym 3 times per week. Thanks for the thoughts, Bruce ... more | |
May 7, 2013
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| Well I finally got around to hearing #4 in this series and that experience persuaded me to order numbers 1, 2, 3 and 5. I really have enough Mahler recordings. I want more Prokofiev (and others) but sometimes something is Sooo excellent I cannot ignore it! ... more | |
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