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In Reply to: RE: Classical music: digital or analog posted by BoezR on February 11, 2017 at 19:15:39
I would get a turntable in any case...however, many of the great classical performances have inferior sound....many have excellent sound. I find that some of the winners on vinyl are extraordinary, while I can just enjoy the performance/artistry of the lesser sonic discs.
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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.
Also, I am giving a dozen of so "duplicates" to my friend. I cannot remember all the details, but I remember the following:
Reiner conducting R. Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra. We found two copies. One is a shaded dog RCA Living Stereo with the conductor on the cover. I was told this was the very first commercial release of a stereo recording. We found another copy of the same performance on the maroon Victrola version, and he is taking that one.
Nathan Milstein playing Bach's unaccompanied violin sonatas. One version is on Capitol, mono I remember and another one is stereo DGG. He is taking the stereo one.
Found two identical copies of Karajan conducting Bizet's Carmen on RCA Soria Series. Both are stereo, but one is sealed. He is taking the opened copy.
Two identical copies of Eugene Jochum conducting Carf Orff's Carmina Burana. I am giving him one of the two.
There are a few more, but I cannot remember. We both are in need of building up our vinyl equipment so that we can listen to them.
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