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Posted on: 5-30-06

Romy the Cat

Boston, MA
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Thread: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4
           Reply: Tchaikovsky/Koussevitzky 4 is real high-end audio!  

Actually I use Koussevitzky 1949 version of Tchaikovsky’s IV (first movement) to assess my mono analog. There is not doubts in my mind that any more or less serious records enthuses much have a dedicated mono cartridge, preferably permanently installed. I use Ortofone SPU MONO into 64dB 7788-7721 phonostage.  So, how do I set the cartridge and make sure that the entire mono chains sound correct? I listen Koussevitzky leading the Boston Symphony performing the First movement of the Tchaikovsky Forth.

I am not a big fun of the other movements (there are better) but the first movement is something totally out of this world. I do not think Boston Symphony before or after played such phenomenally. There is so much going on there: tonality, articulation, phraseology, phonetics, syntax.. at all levels of sonic perception:

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=50#50

that 30 seconds of listening of the Koussevitzky Tchaikovsky IV give an instant objective depicture of the state of my mono analog chain

Rgs,
Romy the Cat


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 Posted Date All replies in the thread
  4-26-05   Tchaikovsky Symphony #4   (4-26-05)..Romy the Cat
  10-27-05   Tchaikovsky Symphony #4+1   (10-27-05)..Ronnie
  10-28-05   Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony   (10-28-05)..Romy the Cat
  10-30-05   Re: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony   (10-30-05)..dazzdax
  11-11-05   Tchaikovsky’s Fifth: the witnessing ...   (11-11-05)..Romy the Cat
  3-6-06   Re: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony   (3-6-06)..Ronnie
  3-6-06   The Fifth Symphony   (3-6-06)..Romy the Cat
  3-6-06   Re: The Fifth Symphony   (3-6-06)..Ronnie
  3-6-06   Misunderstood Tchaikovsky.   (3-6-06)..Romy the Cat
  3-7-06   Misunderstandings   (3-7-06)..Ronnie
  3-7-06   Tchaikovsky's letters   (3-7-06)..hifitodd
  3-7-06   Re: Tchaikovsky's letters and not only   (3-7-06)..Romy the Cat
  3-12-06   Tchaikovsky bass calibration   (3-12-06)..Ronnie
  3-12-06   Re: LP bass calibration   (3-12-06)..Romy the Cat
  5-30-06   Tchaikowsky bass calibration joke   (5-30-06)..Ronnie
  5-30-06   Tchaikovsky/Koussevitzky 4 is real high-end audio!   (5-30-06)..Romy the Cat
  8-31-09   Russia - Land of the Tsars: the music   (8-31-09)..Romy the Cat

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