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[King Karajan]

Just got my headphone amp back with new improved tubes!! I need suggestions for an inaugural CD to break it in with a nice bottle of wine. Any suggestions on new releases??

[bhodges]

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra) - Although Oue's interpretation might not be "the" one for all time, the recording certainly is.  Here's a review in which the writer calls it "the finest orchestral recording I have ever heard," and I might agree.  Reference Recordings (a small company in San Francisco) has done an amazing job capturing the ensemble (which sounds terrific, by the way).  Definitely "show off your system" material. 



--Bruce

[King Karajan]

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra) - Although Oue's interpretation might not be "the" one for all time, the recording certainly is.  Here's a review in which the writer calls it "the finest orchestral recording I have ever heard," and I might agree.  Reference Recordings (a small company in San Francisco) has done an amazing job capturing the ensemble (which sounds terrific, by the way).  Definitely "show off your system" material. 



--Bruce

Thanks Bruce! Given my Rotel player is HDCD compatible this should be great.

[bhodges]

Thanks Bruce! Given my Rotel player is HDCD compatible this should be great.

Just pay no attention to the silly seagull photograph on the cover.    (This is a great example of a recording that could benefit from different artwork, IMHO, but that's another story.)

--Bruce

[hautbois]

Hmmm....I don't quite agree, maybe i do not have a better sound system to judge, but i find that the engineers zoom in certain instruments over intentionally creating a zooming in and out picture which to my ears is not so fine. I would recommend perhaps this:

[Steve]

Asssuming you have yet to innaguarate your repaired system, might I suggest a classic very likely already in your collection?