01-06-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,238 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 1 Post ID: 27866 Reply to: 27866 High-End Audio. The third way! "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

01-07-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Paul S San Diego, California, USA Posts 2,697 Joined on 10-12-2006 Post #: 2 Post ID: 27868 Reply to: 27866 MP3 Finally Delivers! Lots of food for thought here. I do recognize some resistance on my own part, and I think it's (at least partially) because I actually like the process of making the system to sound like I want it to sound, not to mention I am currently "invested" in my personal results. Also, there is some skepticism about rendering Big Great Works by such ostensibly "limited means". Even though any playback is limited, how can it not be a matter of degree? How great to swap a few parts and swap limitations for a pint-sized psychic hardwire! Pocket MP3 player and cordless earbuds doing a better job for me with Bruckner than my current set-up! I guess we're talking a "new and improved topology" with greater Musical Potency, that swamps what might currently be viewed as limitations... right? Part of me is on the edge of my seat, and part is thinking, "Bob Carver on acid..." Paul S

01-08-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree mats Chicago Posts 88 Joined on 09-18-2005 Post #: 3 Post ID: 27871 Reply to: 27866 On practicing high end In performance, Herbert Blomstedt has been my favorite.  Apparently recovered from a fall, he conducted Bruckner 9  in Berlin last weekend, as a substitute. Here are a couple of quotes from a few days ago: “I am usually very unsatisfied. I am happy that my orchestra and my audience are happy after an evening.  My expectations are simply even higher.  You have to start again every time.  Maybe it only works when you have conducted the piece ten times, sometimes even a hundred.  When I was ready, the new orchestra was there.  …you can continue to develop even in old age.  They always say that personal development is complete  at age 30. That is only the beginning.  You have to continue  to develop at 70, 80, 90.”