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User Details - wehecht
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Bill Hecht | |
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I'm a semi-retired banker/lawyer/preacher. More relevantly I'm a passionate lover of great music, live and recorded. Multi-channel sacd gets me closer to the experience of live music than any previous technology at a fraction of the cost of the "high end" stereo gear (cd and lp based) that now sits mostly idle in the guestroom. I've been listening to concerts, recitals, and opera live for 50 years and at various times the New York Philharmonic under Bernstein, the Chicago Symphony under Solti, and the Philadelphia Orchestra from Muti onward have been my "hometown" bands. | |
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Suburbs of Philadelphia Pa, USA | |
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Denon 3910 universal player, Denon 3805 receiver, Sound Dynamics RTS 9 front speakers, Sound Dynamics RTS 3 center and rear speakers | |
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May 4, 2013
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| I really don't think the lawsuit had much to do with Hyperion's cancellation of sacd having come several years earlier. Rather than marketing its hybrid sacds as discs containing both a standard cd and higher resolution stereo and multichannel content all for the price of one disc, Hyperion followed the ridiculous double inventory strategy designed ... more | |
May 1, 2013
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| I like the 1st very much. Not so much of the old "indebted to Tchaikovsky" canard, more bracing and Nordic, more of a piece with Sibelius' whole body of work. To each his own. ... more | |
May 1, 2013
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| The Schelomo's quite good, though it's nowhere near as high on my personal list of favorites as on yours'. But the real gem is Frank Bridge's Oration, an absolute masterpiece in my book. And Stephen Hough's mini-concerto is a very pleasant surprise. All in all it's a wonderful disc. ... more | |
April 29, 2013
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| Yes, great news. Thanks for the update. ... more | |
April 22, 2013
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| Not any more, and I'm not disputing your observation about shows in the US (the only ones I've experienced), I'm just saying that the idea that high end stereo lovers listen to nothing but crap is belied by the presence here of jonalogic, hiredfox, et al, and collectively we already spend too much time on gratuitous insults. If I misunderstand your ... more | |