STIXX   So, you consider yourself a master do you?   In what way does my espessivo resemble your C3g?

Update   Peiter T of Tribute has just informed me that he is still willing to supply autoformers to DIYers. Good news.

Hi – many of the builds in this DIY thread are truly awesome. So it is with some trepidation that I post my new build here.   Dsavitsk’s head amps and DIY pages offer several excellent examples of the art of the amplifier; indeed his Electric Avenue featured here a short while ago. So now I...

Sorry David. Catching up I missed the relevance.

David    While catching up I found this quote of yours at the beginning of April:   'Overall, if I could only have one headphone, I would choose the LCD-2 Revision 2.'     Yet no one seems to have picked up on this amazing admission. It is only amazing because you own many more...

Joeyjojo   Link seems to be working now. Please look at the ecp site before making such comments. What cheap step down transformer would adjust volume and be better than an amorphous core autoformer?

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Arcamera   'The complete symphonies of Sir Arnold Bax, conducted by the late Vernon Handley-- possibly my favourite musical purchase of the last decade. Recommended. To say the least.'   Bax very underrated. And Handley the perfect interpreter. Handley made recordings on vinyl 'Classics...

arcamera: you did not mention ARNOLD - exceptional recordings: Flute Concerto; Peterloo; and symphony No 5!   extrabigmehdi: try Purcell's Dido and Aenes again exceptional.

What a wonderful thread. So many appropriate recommendations. I think between you all you have listed almost  all of my favourite classical music. I have every one of the items mentioned. I don't like to think of the music as 'Dark'. The music mentioned sometimes has a very dark theme but not...

Ich liebe dich Österreich

While I mentioned Previn and the LSO one of my favourite recordings is 'Four Sea Interludes' from Peter Grimes. The music is very atmospheric - indeed magical - and the recording SQ of the highest order.   No one has mentioned Shostakovich here. One of my favourite composers. His music is...

A bad year for outstanding musicians. Brubeck then Shankar and in October Bert Jansch joined the celestial choir.   Herbert "Bert" Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011[1]) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to...

David   We both have clouded judgement regarding the K1's. Yours is clouded by bad experience - mine is clouded by good. I blame the Austrians: they sent all the good examples to the UK and all the bad examples to the US. Ergo the Austrians love the British and hate you Yanks

Fritz   I still have and still enjoy my K1's. I did contemplate selling them but not because I did not love them.   I am retired and living on a small pension so my funds are now limited. I have a hearing problem - my hearing is still acute but one ear is much more sensitive than the...

Hi David   I was not disappointed with your assessment. As my long acquaintance with the KIK has never once yielded a rattle or buzz or for that matter any extraneous noise I was surprised  and perhaps a little indignant rather than disappointed   Your total review is a masterpiece -...

David   First, I have owned a pair of AKG K1000 for about 15 years. In all of that time I have not heard a single rattle, not once. not ever. And even as a newly retired headfier my hearing is very accute and I have the graphs to prove it.   Second, you remarked only once about tactility...

Any of the HMV (EMI) recordings of the London Symphony Orchestra with Andre Previn from the 1970s are worth listening to. The Interpretations are top notch and the sound is glorious. One of the best recording Engineers of all time was Walter Clegg, husband of Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, who made...

Who could play cross rhythms like Brubeck? Saw him in Bath and London. Met him in Berlin with Jerry Mulligan after his concert at the philharmonic in 1972? A wonderful musician and a real gentleman. RIP indeed with a little 5/4.

Britten Cello Suites with Rostropovich. On Decca so the SQ is very high.