I'll be going with someone who is not much of a classical music fan, but did want to go to this concert with me. Maybe the experience will open his mind more.
The concert has an appealing all-Sibelius program (Finlandia, Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1) that makes it a good one for someone less familiar with classical music. Batiashvili has an outstanding recording of the Sibelius concerto.
Please do yourself a favor. Give a listen to Circuit des Yeux's track 'Stranger' and decide if you dig what you are hearing out of her four octave vocal range. If not, you are not meant for her and she is not meant for you. Don't take it too hard.
Thanks for the tip. Martha Argerich has also played parts of Romeo and Juliet for four hands, not sure if that was with the same partner. Anyway, Argerich is always interesting. I love for example Janacek violin sonatas played by her and Gidon Kremer.
Listening to it now, and I really love the performance of both concertos. My up till now favorite performances by Shlomo Mintz have to accept second place now.
Mixed feelings about the Dance of the Knights. That has nothing to do with the performance. But......Prokofiev deliberately made this piece sound bombastic, heavy, loud. And that is missing here, as the orchestra had to be tamed in order to be able to hear the violin. So, although played beautifully, this is not the Dance of the Knights for me. Maybe I will get used to it as a beautiful piece in its own right after repeated listening.
I've heard the LFT-3's and LFT-8's in years past, but have only owned the LFT-11's. The LFT-11's sound excellent when properly set up, but need to have the baffle of the woofer box at the same height and slightly forward of the plane of the panels to integrate within reason. I liked the LFT-3's quite a bit, but (personally) preferred the Apogee presentation back when I was auditioning them all. I haven't heard any of the recent offerings.
Sometimes I have to scroll up to make sure I’m still reading the right thread.
Question for @Jason Stoddard if he’s willing to answer—most of your amps use discrete designs because you say you prefer it. (With obvious exceptions like the Heretic.) yet your DACs as far as I can tell still use op-amps to bring the signal to line-level. Why don’t you also use discrete amplification in your DACs? Relatedly, will Schiit ever make a tube DAC?
Well a lot of women show up for my wife’s pottery as well, I am not sure men have the same interest unless it is a coffee cup or mescal copa. I often show my work and some want to hear my audio system after hearing the one I built for my wife’s studio. I try to be cordial. I generally put on an Art Pepper CD, run that through a Gungnir, into a PrimaLuna integrated tube amp into Sonus Faber speakers with REL subs. I might then let them hear an Incubus Elegan tube headphone amp with Focal Utopias. I spent a long time working on my tube choices and folks like @bcowen, @sam6550a, and @jonathan c. helped with that process.
For my final tube purchase yesterday, I decided to be a little frugal and order only 3 pairs of 1960's Amperex ECC88's. Thanks to @Paladin79 for recommending them to me a bit over a year ago. They are absolutely wonderful tubes in the Freya N. The sellers were selling their dad's fairly large collection. Their dad's family is from my area and they used to spend Summers here visiting family when they were kids. Anyway, they emailed me this morning and they had one pair of the tubes left after my purchase so they added that to my shipment at no cost and are not charging me shipping. What a wonderful surprise to wake up to!
Then I stopped at the post office after getting the groceries. Waiting for me was a bill from Fed-Ex for taxes and fees from the Gungnir Multibit I bought from a fellow Schiitizen in December. CDN$205! I'll call the Canadian tax folks tomorrow to get a clear understanding if this bill is valid. Private purchases of used goods for personal-use are generally not taxable. The cross-border monster may be rearing its ugly wart-covered head.
On the plus side, I have the arrival of 20 tubes to look forward to!
I've always said, when flying, that I want the pilot well trained, well rested and well paid. I absolutely do not chase the lowest ticket price or fly budget airlines (*).
(*) I understand there can be excellent pilots and crew on budget and discount airlines but I don't believe they are supported by the system and, in fact, have to overcome the system.
Oh yes, this! My son came of professional age/experience in midst of COVID-steria… Flew cargo for about 18 months, then got in w/ SkyWest (regional), then moved to Spirit for “quality of life” (base was near home, etc.) and to build hours. But, the stories he can share about the budgets (and especially Spirit)… Yes, pretty much all good pilots had to build their multi-engine, turbine, instrument, hours and PIC time in order to GET to where they are (at least) paid better. Now, he’s entrancing into Southwest. (Finally, paid his dues and going to a major).
That said, ALL the airlines treat their unions like excrement; the only question is to what extent and for how long. Hard to say, to be totally honest, where the blame for the adversaries lies for certain; but I know that global financialization of all industries isn’t helping.
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I often show my work and some want to hear my audio system after hearing the one I built for my wife’s studio. I try to be cordial. I generally put on an Art Pepper CD, run that through a Gungnir, into a PrimaLuna integrated tube amp into Sonus Faber speakers with REL subs. I might then let them hear an Incubus Elegan tube headphone amp with Focal Utopias. I spent a long time working on my tube choices and folks like @bcowen, @sam6550a, and @jonathan c. helped with that process.
