What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

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

[Pohjolas Daughter]

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

[Pohjolas Daughter]

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

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

PD

[Linz]

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

[Mandryka]

@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.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

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.

I saw that in the article (about the lining)!  A pop of color is always a good thing too.  Is there a particular model number that you know of re the stands?  I do like the fluting on them and the nice-looking bases.  And, no, I'm not trying to buy them out from under you! 

Was also interested to see that AE is a British company, but their address is listed as being in Indiana.  Were/are they designed by British engineers but are now based in the US?  Or did someone buy them out?  Just curious.

PD

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

Telemann

[Linz]

Claude Debussy Sonates & Trios

[Lisztianwagner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
6 Lieder Op.48
An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98

Matthias Goerne (baritone), Jan Lisiecki (piano)

[foxandpeng]

Ivo Jirásek
Symphony - 'Matka Naděje' or 'Mother Hope'
Zdeněk Košler
Czech Philharmonic
Supraphon

Left field discovery while looking for Novak's, 'The Storm' on Spotify (which doesn't seem to be available for streaming).

Can't find much on Jirásek at all, on t'internet. I like this symphony very much, however. Atmospheric, dramatic, thoughtful, punctuated with contemplative passages that build and drop tension, loud and strident brass and percussion... niiiice....

[Todd]

[Henk]

[Linz]

César Franck Orchestral Works, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Jean-Luc Tingaud 

[AnotherSpin]

[foxandpeng]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 9
Vasily Petrenko
RLPO
Via YouTube

Hm. DSCH. A little more rambunctious than I planned to be, this evening. He is always remarkable, however.

[vandermolen]

Malcolm Williamson: Symphony No.1 'Elevamini':

[Harry]

Malcolm Williamson: Symphony No.1 'Elevamini':

Malcolm Williamson: Symphony No.1 'Elevamini':

Such fine music.

[Todd]

[Linz]

Bruckner Pange Lingua, Philipp von Steinaecker, Musica Saeculorum