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What CD are you listening to? What CD Player?

Augy said:
Listening to ECCOTONIC...FLOW MOTION....Cool Jazzy electronica on a Cambridge 840C Player
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Weird, we both just listed different CDs with the same title...

Right now:

The Definitive Charley Patton, box set

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Shota Osabe Piano Trio, Happy Coat, K2HD mastered by LIM.

This is a reference CD for me because of it's incredible sound, among the best I've heard on CD. I believe this was the penultimate recording Ray Brown (bass) did before he died. It was recorded in February 2002.

Naim CD5i-2

I now roll CD players like tubes. :D
 
Mr. Lin said:
Shota Osabe Piano Trio, Happy Coat, K2HD mastered by LIM.

This is a reference CD for me because of it's incredible sound, among the best I've heard on CD. I believe this was the penultimate recording Ray Brown (bass) did before he died. It was recorded in February 2002.

Naim CD5i-2

I now roll CD players like tubes. :D
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Happy Coat is just a wonderful recording!

I have a number of both FIM and LIM cds, as well as a fair number of the
recent HDK2 recordings. We've done comparisons using FIM's SACD versions of the same recordings with the K2 version and have found that the K2 is often as good (& sometimes better) in the comparisons.

FIM's Winston Ma is a member of the Pacific Northwest Audio Society ("the club") and has served as a judge in all "The Puget Sound! DIY Speaker Contest" over the years.

We also get to hear a lot of his latest releases and a fair amount of (as yet) experimental formats.
In fact for our last Speaker Contest, Winston Ma, Gary Koh (Genesis Advanced Technologies) and Bruce Brown (Puget Sound Studios) produced a custom, SOTA CD as the Grand Prize. It (the only one in existance) had the lowest Block Error Rate (BLER) of any CD outside of JVC's R&D Lab in Japan. They really pulled out all the stops, and it featured a lot of techniques that, unfortunately, are not economically viable.

Winston also has one of the most extensive collection of Decca records in the World. Recently, Decca was working to updated their archives, when they found that they didn't have an original album cover for one of their records. They called Winton, who was gracious enough to let them borrow his copy, in order for them to reproduce the cover art, etc.

Best Regards,
TerryO
 
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Mr. Lin,

Some of the FIM HDK2 recordings that I own (and have found to be quite good) are:

Red Cliff Capriccio
Cantate Domino
Jazz at the Pawnshop (K2HD format)

I don't know if you've heard these, but the sonics and the music are just wonderful.

Best Regards,
TerryO
 
That's great info, thanks TerryO! I haven't heard any of the other ones, although I'm aware of their existence. I passed on "Jazz At The Pawnshop" because I have an lp version of it, I believe it's a Swedish pressing but I could be wrong about that. I'll look into those other ones though.

That grand prize CD sounds awesome, what a great idea for a really desirable prize. I guess FIM is a company that's more serious about Redbook CD than most others. And this just reminded me, another one I bought not long ago but haven't listened to much is "Romantic Russia," which features the K2HD mastering, and the CD is made from silver instead of aluminum, which I presume is intended to make it last longer.

The great thing is that I can really take advantage of these CDs now that I've got some excellent CD players. Well, I know what I'm listening to next!
 
Romantic Russia - Georg Solti and the London Symphony Orchestra, FIM K2HD Mastered CD

In all it's glory on the Naim.

To TerryO: If you have any interest in classical music, you might want to consider this one as well. I'm sure you're familiar with some or all of the pieces on this CD. Although it's not the type of classical I usually listen to or prefer (which is more often chamber music), this is an exciting CD, a great performance, and very good sound, of course. This is an old recording, but they sure managed to squeeze a heck of a lot out of it. Everything is very "real" sounding.

Funny thing about this title - I actually gave a copy to an old friend for her birthday since she's both a music lover and a PhD in Russian literature, and therefore a Russophile (is that the right term? :) ). She is not in any way an audiophile, but her comment was that she put this CD on, went into the kitchen to get something, and noticed it sounded like an orchestra was actually playing in the other room! Of course you and I know this is an exaggeration, but you get the point.
 
Mr. Lin said:
Romantic Russia - Georg Solti and the London Symphony Orchestra, FIM K2HD Mastered CD

In all it's glory on the Naim.

To TerryO: If you have any interest in classical music, you might want to consider this one as well. I'm sure you're familiar with some or all of the pieces on this CD. Although it's not the type of classical I usually listen to or prefer (which is more often chamber music), this is an exciting CD, a great performance, and very good sound, of course. This is an old recording, but they sure managed to squeeze a heck of a lot out of it. Everything is very "real" sounding.

Funny thing about this title - I actually gave a copy to an old friend for her birthday since she's both a music lover and a PhD in Russian literature, and therefore a Russophile (is that the right term? :) ). She is not in any way an audiophile, but her comment was that she put this CD on, went into the kitchen to get something, and noticed it sounded like an orchestra was actually playing in the other room! Of course you and I know this is an exaggeration, but you get the point.
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Mr. Lin,

I haven't heard Romantic Russia yet, but I'll buy it on your recommendation.

If you're wondering, I do listen primarily to Classical Music with Opera, Film Scores, some Jazz and World Music thrown in for good measure. I also like Rock Oldies (50s & 60s) and to add a bit of Zest to life: Bagpipes!

Evidently the 'Pipes are a genetic imperative, otherwise it doesn't seem to fit in to my tastes in music.
:D

While in College, I did my undergraduate and graduate studies in History, with an emphasis on Modern Eastern European History which, given the years of the Cold War, meant the Soviet Union and primarily Russia.

Best Regards,
TerryO
 
TerryO said:
Mr. Lin,

I haven't heard Romantic Russia yet, but I'll buy it on your recommendation.

If you're wondering, I do listen primarily to Classical Music with Opera, Film Scores, some Jazz and World Music thrown in for good measure. I also like Rock Oldies (50s & 60s) and to add a bit of Zest to life: Bagpipes!

Evidently the 'Pipes are a genetic imperative, otherwise it doesn't seem to fit in to my tastes in music.
:D

While in College, I did my undergraduate and graduate studies in History, with an emphasis on Modern Eastern European History which, given the years of the Cold War, meant the Soviet Union and primarily Russia.

Best Regards,
TerryO
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I have a BA in history, with a minor in German. I have a connection to the Russian thing because of my friend with the Russian literature Phd.

Yes, the pipes are a strange thing regardless of anyone's tastes. Many years ago I was living with a family in Weinheim, Germany. One day I was in their den using the computer, and the man of the house suddenly started playing the bagpipes a few feet away from me, fully dressed in a kilt, etc. :D They were an unusual family.

I'm a huge fan of smaller scale chamber music, like Haydn's string quartets. Additionally, I happen to really enjoy solo harpsichord, particularly pieces by Bach and John Bull. I know that instrument irritates the heck out of a lot of people, but when recorded properly, and played back on a good analog or digital system, there's nothing annoying or grating about it to my ears. Another AK member and I discussed the harpsichord thing once, he can't stand the instrument and he likened the sound to skeletons having sex on an aluminum roof. :scratch2:

Lately I've been in more of a psychedelic rock phase, a la Can. But I switch it up all the time. The new Blue Note XRCDs are quite good, as has already been touched upon in this thread.
 
Mr. Lin,

"he likened the sound to skeletons having sex on an aluminum roof."

Was your friend Sir Thomas Beecham? Beecham however, referred to a tin roof.
He was the Conductor with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra many years ago and was widely known for his great sense of humor.

Best Regards,
TerryO
 
Jeff Beck

Emotion/Commotion
Marantz SA8003 on my new Parasound Halo P3 and A23 seperates. Sounds awesome.

Saw Jeff last night at the Jazz festival here in Rochester. What a show.
 
TerryO said:
Mr. Lin,

"he likened the sound to skeletons having sex on an aluminum roof."

Was your friend Sir Thomas Beecham? Beecham however, referred to a tin roof.
He was the Conductor with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra many years ago and was widely known for his great sense of humor.

Best Regards,
TerryO
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No I don't think so, it seems more likely that this particular AK member just, ah, borrowed the quote. :) He did mention that he's a musician, violin I think, but not a conductor. And he probably did say "tin," that was my mistake.
 
Haydn, String Quartets Vol.1, op.1, no. 1-6 (Auryn Quartet on Tacet)

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This series of Haydn's string quartets on the German label Tacet is so good I've purchased six of them. They're new recordings, made using four vintage Telefunken U47 tube microphones.
 
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