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Name:
  Brian Geoffrey
Details:
  "..as I sat there in the dark, wondering, as men will wonder at such moments, what this tempest of the soul which music wakes in us can mean: whether it is merely a growth of this our earth-life, or a something added, a divine hunger of the heart which is part of our immortality."

William Henry Hudson 1841-1922
Location:
  Current home less than two hours from Grand Canyon
Previous home less than one hour from Fredric Church's Olana.
Birthplace within view of Golden Gate Bridge
HiFi:
  Home system:
LFD NCSE
Audience AU24
Harbeth C7ES3
Audience aR6TS
Chordette QuteHD
Squeezebox Touch
Sony XA5400ES VSE

Travel system:
dBpoweramp
Thinkpad T430s
Meridian Explorer
Sennheiser HD600
JRiver Media Center 18
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Reviews
Found: 1

Mozart: The Complete Youth Symphonies - Marriner      (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
  November 10, 2012

Very nice improvements on what were already good recordings. I've played the entire four-disc PentaTone collection at home in one sitting (and/or while working from home) numerous times and go away beaming with pleasure. Hooray PentaTone for a first-class engineering (I listen to the two-channel ... more

 
 
Latest Posts

BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013
April 14, 2013
I have noted same and put it down to provincial bias unintended or not, of which the Brits are not alone. Who has not noted the abundance of glowing reviews of UK audio products in top audio publications? There's always Six Moons the cornucopia of reviewers from diverse lands, yet Six Moons focus is hardware and their music reviews are few and far ... more
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013
April 13, 2013
Nice to see one of my recommended recordings: Beethoven: String Trios Op. 9 Trio Zimmermann honored. Great minds think alike, well in their case anyway, not mine. ... more
Discussion: Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
February 12, 2013
Thrilled I would have been seeing Miles at Cafe Bohemia. Pleased is a better word for how I reacted to hearing the Mobile Fidelity disc. ... more
Discussion: Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
February 12, 2013
I was gifted this disc recently. The Mobile Fidelity recording sounds more analog than previous versions. I went through my Miles period in seventies and then as now thought the use of maracas was overdone. This time and with this disc I found the bass runs easier to follow and the piano (when not sounding like it was recorded in a hallway room) ... more
Lumin-osity
February 9, 2013
Brighter network server for the money? http://www.luminmusic.com/ No association whatsoever with this product. ... more