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In Reply to: RE: Ancient Airs and Dances- Respighi posted by ecl876 on May 06, 2012 at 05:43:34
Respighi is one of my two or three favorite classical composers. He gets especially interesting when you get beyond the standard repertoire stuff. Try and find Sinfonia Drammatica, even if you have to get it on CD or SACD.
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It's a great sounding record. I also picked up the SACD, but it is not as good, IMO. I don't know how highly "Golden Imports" are regarded, but the one I have of this title sounds absolutely magical. Wonderful music and sonics.
Some of them are on Art Salvatore's lists of best-sounding classical records. I've got quite a few of them, and I'd agree with Mr. Salvatore.
They're a bargain, too.
Here are three of the best:
There's a Barber collection which includes the overture to School for Scandal which is in fake stereo. That's about the only Golden Import you should avoid.
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and a superb one at that!
This is what we need to have more of; C'mon, within all of us is a music critic.
I'm going to try to write a short comment/criticism about every piece of music I listen to, in hopes that it sort of forces me into listening to a larger part of my collection. Having a large choice makes choosing something to listen to more difficult.
Many times the folks who post a "listening to:" is a very good way for me to decide what to listen to, and almost always it's a great choice.
Fewer equipment questions, more musical comment. Along with a comment or two about the sound and perhaps, if you did so, a comment upon the sound with more than one cartridge.
I realize of course, that the Vinyl asylum is "aimed" at equipment, but equipment is useless without music.
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Music. Window or mirror?
subscribe to Spotify.
I've been looking for the aforementioned Sinfonia Drammatica for at least a decade or two without result. Plenty of performances on Spotify.
Yeah, the music is lossy but it's Vorbis which is better than mp3 and the noise floor is a lot lower.
If the selection was better (it's already good), I'd sell the records and the turntables. Seriously.
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you have three turntables and seven carts listed in your system. You're gonna sell all of them and just listen to Spotify? I doubt it.
Too much of my favorite stuff isn't on Spotify. No Beatles, for example.
But I have no doubt the day is coming. We'll be able to stream and/or purchase high-resolution music from the web. No need for a huge music collection.
Been listening to nothing but Spotify for the last three weeks. I got the premium service which is 320Kbps Vorbis. The SQ is uneven, but generally good. Some music actually sounds better than LP.
Yes; better than LP.
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just pick up the Beatles on CD (or download them from iTunes) and load them into your library, you'll have them right there in Spotify. You don't have to have a physical music collection right now, not at some far off date in the future. No matter what you want to listen to, there's no reason to hold onto your LPs and CDs at this date unless you want to. What are you waiting for?
Of course, before you sell off all your LPs, you might think about those folks who did the same thing when CDs came out, only to recollect their music on LP all over again. Ogg Vorbis at 320kps isn't going to sound better than CD. I'd recommend giving some time for the bloom to come off the Spotify rose before you sell all your LPs, three turntables and seven carts, etc.
But I can see the future. I won't be a bit surprised when the day comes that music can only be acquired via a streaming service or downloaded as a digital file from an online store.
I am getting rid of about half of my rock collection because I don't listen to it anymore. That was in the works B. S. (before Spotify).
But again...some old jazz albums I treasure sound better from Spotify. Noise is non-existent, dynamics are improved, etc.
The remastered Monkess albums on Spotify trounce the original Colgems and the mid-1990's Rhino reissues. I know it's just the Monkees but they're one of the few rock/pop bands who's music I still enjoy.
On the other hand, I won't be unloading my New York Dolls albums any time soon. The Spotify versions lack the detail of the original pressings.
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Most of the time I like how the LP sounds best. There are lots of artists where the only time I've heard a good sounding digital version is if I ripped it from my LP.
I've ripped all my CDs to iTunes using Apple Lossless, and pretty much have no use for the CDs anymore. I have ripped a lot of my most loved LPs to digital as well (so I can listen to them on the road, etc). But I'm not getting rid of the LPs.
It's not just about sound quality for me. I don't really enjoy using Spotify. LPs, I like.
Right now, I use the iPod at work, actually three of them--160GB Classic, 30GB 5.5 Gen that I rebuilt (and which needs a new battery), and a first-gen Shuffle I got as a birthday gift seven years ago (it still works perfectly).
Everything in iTunes is ALAC, but I like a lot of redundancy. Rip the LPs to .wav, burn to CD, load the CD to iTunes, periodically back-up the iTunes folder to another external drive.
So...the .wav, the CD, iTunes itself, the external drive, and finally the LP all backing up what's on the iPod. If the iMac fries, I can install my iTunes folder on one of the other PCs in the house.
If the hard drive dies, etc., etc.
Actually, I doubt that my jazz, classical, and most-enjoyed rock LPs will be going anywhere for a long time.
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I have one backup drive at home and another at work. I figure if they both fail at the same time I probably will have bigger things to worry about than my music collection. I've thought about online backup services, but my iTunes library is currently 1.3 TB, so that would get expensive.
I'm in desperate need of another terabyte or two.
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