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New Price is $1440 for the pair. My Price - $640 for the pair. SOLD Jupiter copper foil capacitors - 15uF Functionally perfect and cosmetically excellent.

Prices: 10uF - $280 pair (new). My price - $160 4uF - $246 pair (new). My price - $140 2.2uF - $222 pair (new). My price - $130 10uF 4uF 2.2uF

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For sale, iFi Hip DAC plus the Italian leather protective case from Miter. HipDAC Original price - $170 Miter Leather Case - $43 Total - $213 My Price - $110 The Hip DAC is absolutely great sounding. I liked it so much that I bought 2 of them, one for me and one for my daughter. I have all...

I’m a big fan of Pollini’s recording of the Polonaises.

Pretty much any recording by Hilary Hahn is worth checking out.

Oh yeah, lots. I’m consistently astonished at the quality of recordings and performances from the last 10 years. I subscribe to Qobuz which has excellent classical music selection. Every Friday they drop a whole bunch of new releases and I discover at least one great recording every week, and...

  Check out the hirez Tokyo String Quartets recorded over the past 5 years.  The SACD's are very, very good sounding.

  I've probably got over 100 Vivaldi albums, this one is my favorite - Podger is outstanding, as is the sound quality.

Agree with bigshot - Glass tries my patience more often than not.  John Adams, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich are all much more interesting composers from the "minimalist" school.

Recently Lagavulin came out with a "Distillers Edition", which is double matured in sherry to finish it.  It is one of the very great scotch whisky's of the last decade, IMO. 

I love Mackerras in everything he does, except Brahms.  He's too even handed, to beautiful for Brahms.  IMO, Brahms needs searing emotional intensity or he falls flat.    For Brahms, check out Szell, Toscanini, Levine, and Dorati for the Symphonies.   The Piano Concerto's are best served...

If you love Beethoven, just wait till you start to get into Mahler :O

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I second the Rubinstein recs, he is perhaps the best interpreter of Chopin ever.  But sound quality is good but not super great.   Zimmerman is one of the few that equal Rubinstein and he has first rate sound, check it out:  

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There's some music that I like, can you tell me what else I might like?   Yeah, I'm lampooning you.  Deal with it.

I'm listening to the Rostropovich set for the first time today - I have to say I am quite enjoying it, which is very surprising after the rather lukewarm reviews I've read of it.  I like that it's different than any other set I've heard.  Where most go for manic (Rozhdestvensky or Kondrashin)...

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It's not so much Ma, as it is BACH :)  You should check out Bach's masterpieces on other instruments too - the Goldberg Variations on harpsichord/piano (I think you'd like Perahia a lot), and the Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (Rachel Podger is my first choice).  Bach could convey the...

Ades is very good!  I think Higdon edges him out, though, for me:    

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Rubinstein, followed by Pires and Barenboim would be my rec's.

Also, remember that classical is a bit different in format than jazz or rock/pop.  Phrases tend to only repeat over long spans, and there's a lot of transitions between keys and motifs, so patience is required, as is listening to a piece several times before you might "get it".  And for goodness...