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RE: Classical music: digital or analog

Posted by BoezR (A) on February 12, 2017 at 20:01:22

In Reply to: RE: Classical music: digital or analog posted by SgreenP@MSN.com on February 11, 2017 at 20:09:59:

Many thanks to all who have replied - they have been very, very helpful to me. In the end, I think I have decided to spend up to $1K to invest in a turntable, cartridge, and phono stage. I was also able to get a close friend to help examine the collection earlier today. Unlike me, he used to be deeply into vinyl but sold everything in early 1990's. He is in the process of getting back to vinyl, but does not have a turntable yet, so I was not able to audition the records on his equipment. As a token of thanks, I will let him pick some nice albums from the collection. I start to listen to classical music about a decade ago, but I am not familiar with older generations of performers. But my friend is. He gave me the following notes after going through the collection: a very wide selection of music, a lot of orchestra work ranging from Baroque to the 20th century, but also with a healthy concentration on piano, violin, cello, and chamber music. Many Deutsche Gramophone (including early tulips), Phillips, London (but few Decca), US Columbia (more two-eyes than six-eyes), some later EMI but few ASD, some audiophile pressings under RCA Living Stereo shaded dog, maroon Mercury Living Presence, Argo, Telarc. Mostly stereo, but some mono for instrumental music on Westminster, Capitol, which my friend thinks are valuable from a collection perspective. Also some less known but what he thinks are interesting labels such as Harmonia Mundi, Telefunken, Erato, nonesuch, Hovhaness on Poseidon Society, etc. The records are in very good condition, but cleaning will help improve the listening experience. He gave me some performers' names that he liked, although I am not familiar with many of them: Furtwangler, Jochum, Gould, Richter, Gilels, Milstein. I know I have a lot to learn, but I am excited about this.

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