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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 09:37:45 AM

@Mandryka Are these the stands that you are trying to get ahold of?

https://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/526/index.html

PD

Yes, those. A friend of mine in Switzerland wanted to sell me a pair, but the import duty into the UK made it prohibitive. There was one pair on eBay, but at the last minute he decided to keep them for himself. 

Nice article that! I was happy to learn that I have speaker cabinets with assymetrical insides! 


The cabinet is made from 22mm medium-density fiberboard, then a "high-density lining" is poured in and allowed to set asymmetrically so that the internal surfaces are not parallel. This both damps the cabinet walls and spreads out the air-space resonances in frequency.

They're so heavy I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the lining is concrete!

The cat litter is indeed unscented. And thanks for the complement about the fireplace and shelves. Green is good - lucky because the leprechauns like it.

[Bruckner]

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Linz - Today at 09:27:25 AM

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak, Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 09:18:57 AM

@Mandryka Are these the stands that you are trying to get ahold of?

https://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/526/index.html

PD

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The Diner / Re: Reaction Videos

Last post by drogulus - Today at 09:09:36 AM

    Doug is frightened by stars.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 09:02:06 AM

Well everyone says that they are hard to drive. At the moment I'm using an 80W solid state Conrad Johnson, and it drives them better than it drove the speakers they replaced -- JR149s. I've got a couple of monster amps, a Krell and a 200W Conrad Johnson, and I guess I'll try them with the AE1s soon -- but the amps are heavy and I'm too lazy to move them. Also the Krell has a tendency to explode if you look at it in the wrong way.

I'd love the original stands! They're very hard to find.  The ones in the pic are cheap Atcama stands -- heavy, but filled with cat litter (someone told me it's great for filling stands, and it seems fine!)  They're at the right height, 60cm, which I guess is the most important thing.

Hope that you bought unscented litter as the time that I tried using any of the scented stuff for my cats' litter boxes, I ended up with a fit of coughing!

PD

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 08:59:26 AM

I had AE1s, used a massive Musical Fidelity amp to drive them and they do take some driving but sound fantastic in the right conditions. I recall purchasing the heavyweight stands designed specifically for them which look very similar to your pair?  Later AE brought out a more wife acceptable wood veneer finish, mine were the original composite black. 

Nice!  And @Mandryka I like your old fireplace and green shelving for your books. 

Here (and I tried posting this earlier but goofed and only signed on for an hour and my post went "poof" when I tried to post it):  Quite enjoyed Torelli's Concerto Grosso No. 9, Op. 8 with I Musici and featuring Mariana Sirbu on violin.

@Harry I'll bet that your Hungarian CD is quite nice!  I have one on Naxos of Hungarian music for cello and piano which has some of the same composers on it which I quite like.  It's on Hungaroton with Perényi and Várjon.

PD

[Erofeeov is totally unknown to me]

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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 08:57:31 AM

There's also the question of whether the person reading is able to convey the book onto tape. Erofeeov is totally unknown to me, but I'm reminded of how sometimes composers are not the best conductors of their own works: despite the apparent authority of the performance, perhaps another person might do better.

You haven't missed anything, unless you're a heavy drinker or particularly interested in the Brezhnev-era Soviet cultural underground. Erofeev's reading is more than congenial.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 08:49:45 AM

I had AE1s, used a massive Musical Fidelity amp to drive them and they do take some driving but sound fantastic in the right conditions. I recall purchasing the heavyweight stands designed specifically for them which look very similar to your pair?  Later AE brought out a more wife acceptable wood veneer finish, mine were the original composite black.   

Well everyone says that they are hard to drive. At the moment I'm using an 80W solid state Conrad Johnson, and it drives them better than it drove the speakers they replaced -- JR149s. I've got a couple of monster amps, a Krell and a 200W Conrad Johnson, and I guess I'll try them with the AE1s soon -- but the amps are heavy and I'm too lazy to move them. Also the Krell has a tendency to explode if you look at it in the wrong way.

I'd love the original stands! They're very hard to find.  The ones in the pic are cheap Atcama stands -- heavy, but filled with cat litter (someone told me it's great for filling stands, and it seems fine!)  They're at the right height, 60cm, which I guess is the most important thing.

[Beethoven - Op. 24 - Violin Sonata No. 5 "Spring" (1801):]

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Classical YouTube Video Library / Beethoven - Op. 24 - Violin So...

Last post by W.A. Mozart - Today at 08:44:12 AM

Beethoven composed this piece in 1801, when he was 30 years old.

Performers:
- Violin: Wolfgang Schneiderhan
- Piano: Carl Seemann

Beethoven - Op. 24 - Violin Sonata No. 5 "Spring" (1801):
00:00 I. Allegro
09:42 II. Adagio molto espressivo
14:55 III. Scherzo: Allegro molto
16:21 IV. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 08:43:05 AM