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Post Subject: Getting ambience, etc. from Shastakovich (and Verdi)Posted by Paul S on: 4/15/2007
Well, Romy, it took me a while but I finally got the cobwebs cleared out of the phono stage, and the Shostakovich 10th was totally engaging as music (via the TAP). The recording is the (late 60s) Melodiya (stereo) with Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR Syphony Orchestra. I am not familiar with this performance/recording, but the "liner notes" do not describe it well, IMO. In any case I really recommend it musically and as a subject for the Music Discussions. I also enjoyed for the first time with this phono stage the very fine 1960 (CR Fine engineered) Mercury "Rigoletto". You suggested listening for/to low-level ambience, rhythms, pronunciations, etc., and the TAP is also transparent to this as well as presenting the grand scale (and attendent ambience) of these wonderful performances/recordings.
Of course, it is partly "Sunday power grid", but the TAP is passive, after all. I hated to shut it down today. If a buffer stage improved on this I would never turn off the system!
I will be breaking out and cleaning up for play a lot of symphonic records I have not enjoyed for many years. What a treat!
Great music is such a blessing in a savage world.
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site