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Name:
   Jonathan Allen
Details:
   Stage Designer
Location:
   Kent,U.K.
HiFi:
   System 1 : Pioneer DV757Ai (adapted by Audio Synthesis) as transport
Audio Synthesis DAX Discrete
MF Audio passive pre amp
Audio Synthesis Desire power amp
Red Rose ~Rosebud II speakers
Chord Company Signature interconnects
Nordost Blue Heaven speaker cable

Sennheiser HD600 headphones with Stephan AudioArt cables

System 2 : Marantz SA15s-1 SACD player
Musical Fidelity A5 Amplifier
Pink Triangle Super Ventrical Speakers
Chord Company Signature interconnects and Odyssey speaker cable

Only listen in Stereo
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Reviews
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Bizet: Carmen - Karajan (Limited Edition)    (7 of 8 found this review helpful)
  April 19, 2008

This recording was produced by John Culshaw and engineered by Gordon Parry and James Lock in the Sofiensaal in Vienna during November 1963 and was issued the following year in RCA's lavish Soria Series. Decca and RCA had an agreement during the late 50s and early 60s which meant that some RCA ... more
Prokofiev: Humoresque Scherzo etc. - Prague Wind Quintet        (3 of 4 found this review helpful)
  March 23, 2007

I really cannot recommend this disc. I find the recording dull and the performances routine. I expected the wind transcriptions of the Romeo and Juliet music might be fun but after a couple of pieces I just wondered why bother? The two piano version of the 'Classical' symphony is done better by ... more
Liszt: Piano Works - Markus Groh      (5 of 5 found this review helpful)
  June 8, 2006

An absolutely stunning disc. The snippet on the Gramophone cover CD caught my ear and I ordered it from Avie directly. Groh playing of the sonata has all the fantasy, impetuosity and terror that Paul Lewis in his recent rather intellectual CD from Harmonia Mundi lacked good as he is. The fillers ... more
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5 - Roll/RPO/Shelley      (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
  December 6, 2005

Refer to my comments on the disc of the fourth concerto to see that I disagree with raffells about this cycle. I think that it may be the exhilaration I get from these performances that I like.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, Triple Concerto - RPO/Shelley      (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
  December 6, 2005

Roll's swift straight forward unmannered performance is for me one of the best around. Roll and Shelley are in the modern style taking a leaf from the period instrument movement.I do not find the cycle lacks gravitas but is full of the Sturm and Drang that I would expect from Beethoven. I have ... more
 
 
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RCA Living Stereo SACD future releases
June 1, 2008
The titles that are now Decca were part of the distribution and recording deal between Decca and RCA at the end of the fifties to mid sixties. It would be interesting to hear from Sony/BMG on why they seem to have dropped the Living Stereo SACDs. I suspect they would talk of falling sales for the series which of course had nothing to do with a ... more
Rolled off recordings
May 28, 2008
In an news article on the Stereophile web site Dr. Mark Waldrop of AIX Records, a supporter of PCM / DVD-A, claims "it is not uncommon for engineers to roll off DSD above 20kHz in order to successfully encode discs and diminish the artifacts that result from DSD shaping." Perhaps the engineers that look in on this site may care to comment. ... more
Discussion: Bizet: Carmen - Karajan (Limited Edition)
May 15, 2008
The www.cdjapan.co.jp web site talks of it being a 'pre-release' in Japan. So it is possible that there may be a release elsewhere but I didn't wait. ... more
Discussion: Siegmund von Hausegger: Natursymphonie - Rasilainen
May 12, 2008
I have the Szymanowski which I bought mainly for the violin concerto. It is a very good disc and the Concert Overture is fun imitation Strauss. The performance of the fourth symphony is good enough to convince me that I had underrated the work in Szymanowski's output. ... more
Discussion: Siegmund von Hausegger: Natursymphonie - Rasilainen
May 12, 2008
There Rob Barnett mentions similarities to Mahler, Strauss, Delius. Howells and Schmidt. ... more