On October 1, 1905, Czech worker Frantisek Pavlik was killed during a demonstration. Leos Janacek was so affected by the incident that he hurriedly wrote his one and only piano sonata. But as the well-known story goes, he burnt the third movement before anyone could play it, and threw the first two movements into the Vltava after the first private performance. Fortunately, the pianist copied the score, so now everyone can hear this undoubted and unqualified masterpiece.

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I have the November issue and was looking forward to reading your follow up on the Peak Consult Empress speakers. Where the heck is it? TOC says it's on P.70, but it's not there. Please advise!

just wanted to know if anyone here has a pair of epicure 3.0's its always good to meet ohter people that own these fine speakers to me the best i ever heard

I welcome everyone's input for favorite multi channel jazz discs (any format). Always looking for undiscovered gems.

RG

I have a large collection of LP's, mostly classical, which I would like to burn on to CD's. Can anyone tell me what equipment, either stand-alone or something that I can connect to my computer, I will need to do this?

Either the VR4 III SE or better yet the VR4 SR IV, does anybody have any comments on these speakers. Thanks.

I noticed the other day when playing this track, a 'buzzing' type of sound coming from the tweaters of my Paradigm S8 speakers, this was being caused by the bright flute sound on this track. I proceeded to remove the grilles on both speakers, I noticed the tweaters themselves were moving when the flute played. The movement is very subtle but it's there, it looks like one side of the tweaters lifts off a little letting air out. I took the same recording to my other room where I have a pair of S2's, I noticed the same bright sound with this track, though not as bad as with my S8's.

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