Bach:  Mar 31, 1685 · Eisenach, Germany
Mozart:  Jan 27, 1756 · Salzburg, Austria
Beethoven:  1770 · Bonn, Germany
Brahms:  May 07, 1833 · Hamburg, Germany
Bruckner:  Sep 04, 1824 · Ansfelden, Austria
Mahler:  Jul 07, 1860 · Kaliště, Czech Republic
Strauss:  Jun 11, 1864 · Munich, Germany

fltws said:

 
Bach:  Mar 31, 1685 · Eisenach, Germany
Mozart:  Jan 27, 1756 · Salzburg, Austria
Beethoven:  1770 · Bonn, Germany
Brahms:  May 07, 1833 · Hamburg, Germany
Bruckner:  Sep 04, 1824 · Ansfelden, Austria
Mahler:  Jul 07, 1860 · Kaliště, Czech Republic
Strauss:  Jun 11, 1864 · Munich, Germany

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Exceptional Googling. Compliments.
Thanks for the intermezzo.

andrew rieger said:

Pics of the Schiitr.

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Are .. all .. those .. poor schitts .... USB connected?!!! {Trembling in disbelief and compassion}:nauseated_face:

Geez! All these cliffhangers! Pretty please Mike what is your rescue plan. Does it begin with E...?

andrew rieger said:

  Pics of the Schiitr.
 


 
They should be adding more headphones after Can Jam. At the moment, the premium cans they have are the HD800, Ether (original), T1 Gen 1, ZMF Omni and HE400i. Seems like a cool place to relax and demo gear. You are also more than welcome to bring your own headphones. 

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Wonderful taste in both speakers as well as headphones, as expected from the Schiitheads. Looking forward to the Vidar, probably going to be buying a pair of LS50s after wanting them for a few months.
 
Great pictures by the way!

baldr said:

  The latter. 
 
Yes, you did manage to redeem yourself by including Ricard Strauss in your postscript.  Im Abendrot may be the most exquisite song ever written.  How does one choose between Salome, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Die Frau Ohne Schatten??  How does one person write both Salome and Der Rosenkavalier?  The tone poems? Metamorphosen?
 
Although he did not start it, he capped off the incomparable canon of German Romantic work.  One can only imagine what our musical universe would be like today had Mahler lived.  Although there are exceptions (Otello, some Puccini moments), Italian opera merely makes me want to eat a salami panino as they do in Milan.  I may only be obtuse as opposed to a Francophobe, but I have little affinity for French music, much as I have tried.  At least Italian music makes me hungry.  I could probably appreciate Russian opera more if I could get past the notion of Heldenbasses and evil tenors.
 
Ah but the Krauts and the Osterreicher!  Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss.  These are the works which bring me to states for which there are no words.  OK, OK, there are a few throwbacks in one genre, such as Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, and Gorecki.

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Elektra is even more off the rails than Salome.

Bosiemoncrieff
Since to my knowledge we don’t have an opera thread on Head-Fi, I appreciate your observations here.  (However I am not a fan of Wagner)  Due to location  and expense I don’t see a lot of live opera, I do it more with DVDs .  Eugene Onegin has not been on my list, I’ll have to check out whether this was just an exceptional performance or if indeed Tchaikovsky did write a good one.  NF

vigrith said:

   
Wonderful taste in both speakers as well as headphones, as expected from the Schiitheads. Looking forward to the Vidar, probably going to be buying a pair of LS50s after wanting them for a few months.
 
Great pictures by the way!

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I spent a couple of hours at The Schiitr on Saturday, listening to the LS50s. Driven by a Yiggy into a Saga and the Vidar prototype.
 
I came home and ordered a pair of LS50s.

I heard a very exciting rendition of Tchaikovsky's second symphony last weekby the Florida Orchestra here in Tampa. This week they are doing his piano concerto no.1  with pianist Vadym Kholodenko, a Van Cliburn competition winner, and I am just giddy to hear it ! 
 
BTW has anyone heard Mahler's piano quartet in a minor ? It seems to be very little known and I can't find a good recording of it outside youtube. 

mr rick said:

 
I spent a couple of hours at The Schiitr on Saturday, listening to the LS50s. Driven by a Yiggy into a Saga and the Vidar prototype.
 
I came home and ordered a pair of LS50s.

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Well... Schiit. Congratulations! I don't own Yggdrasil so here's hoping a gumby does the job! (I'm sure it will)
 
I wish I lived in the US, I'd love to visit the Schiitr before I make my decision but if all goes as planned my setup will be Modi MB (until I get a gumby) -> Freya -> Vidar -> LS50s (which I'm hoping I can afford by then).
 
Freya is so useful, one of my absolute favourite electronics, can add in my headphone chain; DAC -> Freya -> Mjolnir 2/Jotunheim or Pathos Aurium -> HD650/ZMF Atticus, even after the speaker setup's sorted. Can't wait!

Mr. Rick,

I have an Yggy/Rag/LS50/JLAudio e110 sub nearfield setup which is fabulous. I'm considering a new system in a room under construction with Yggy/Freya/2 Vidars to Salk Song 3 with or without e110 sub. Did you get a chance to listen to the Salks, and if so, what was your impression compared to the LS50s? What sub were they using if any, and for both speaker setups or just the LS50s?

Thanks
DSNORD

artur9 said:

  Any celebs hanging at the Schittr yet?  
 
Which celeb would one want to sport Schiit?
 
BTW, am I correct in thinking that a Gungnir will play louder than a Bifrost because of the balanced vs single ended outputs?

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That would be 6db.
 

wink said:

  That must be me......   I was born there almost 70 years ago.
 
Love Richard.Strauss and Gustav Mahler, but also Rimsky-Korsakoff (Scheherezade, Sadko (Song of India, I think rates up there with Scheherezade))   and Capriccio Espagnol is just marvellous........

French composers such as Gabriel Faure and Benjamin Godard can be sublime......
 
Frederic Chopin is a love/hate affair.  Some of his piano compositions are just "plink, plink....", and yet others are true delights.......  
 
There is more to music than just opera....  just sayin'......   

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Oh absolutely agreed.  Let us not forget The Butthole Surfers, The Violent Femmes, The Dead Kennedys, and Captain Beefheart.

dsnord said:

Mr. Rick,

I have an Yggy/Rag/LS50/JLAudio e110 sub nearfield setup which is fabulous. I'm considering a new system in a room under construction with Yggy/Freya/2 Vidars to Salk Song 3 with or without e110 sub. Did you get a chance to listen to the Salks, and if so, what was your impression compared to the LS50s? What sub were they using if any, and for both speaker setups or just the LS50s?

Thanks
DSNORD

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I listened to the Salks first. They really sing with the Vidar. ( I'm sure it's the reason Jason and Mike picked them ) The Salks have much better low end, even without a sub. ( the one pictured was not hooked up ).
 
The LS50s have a midrange to die for, as you know, but need a sub for the bottom end.  ( I happen to already have one )
 
I'm a product of the Rock & Roll era, so my high frequency hearing is shot. So I can't really speak to the top end of either speaker.

winders said:

The implication is that something has changed to address some “problem” within the Yggdrasil.

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Glitch.

Doing my part to uphold the MP namesake...

mofofunk said:

Are .. all .. those .. poor schitts .... USB connected?!!! {Trembling in disbelief and compassion}:nauseated_face:

Geez! All these cliffhangers! Pretty please Mike what is your rescue plan. Does it begin with E...?

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My rescue plan, of course, would be a CD transports and a hundred pounds or so of discs.  There are only two problems with this rescue.  The first is that even if I wanted to (barf) we do not make a transport.  The second is the problem of whatever discs we pick, there is going to be somebody wandering in only to request some audiophile recording of dubious musical value.  This is not to mention some audio progressive will show up proudly trumpeting the fact that he has solved all content problems with his terabyte server which has 400 million minutes of pirated content on board.
 
Even if I were to bring in somebody else's transport (Onkyo C-7030 ain't terrible and has coax out) for one station and a thousand or so discs, we would still not have what folks want to hear and they would let us know.  I could be one of those picky content ashloes easily.  As I speak I am listening to Brahms' Alto Rhapsody with Mildred Miller as the Alto.  Now she is suitably German (I smell sauerkraut as she sings), but just sucks compared to Kathleen Ferrier's LPO/Krauss from a few years earlier.  I digress.
 
The best fix for an environment like the Schiitr would be a Wyrd driving the USB input only stuff as well as a Bomb-ass USB isolator and S/PDIF converter for the converters with a proper set of inputs.

baldr said:

  Bomb-ass USB isolator and S/PDIF converter for the converters with a proper set of inputs.

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We are waiting here patiently.