Mozart: Piano Concerto No.13, K.415; Overture to Lucio Silla, K.135
Jeremy Menuhin, piano; George Cleve, 1987 Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra
Bainbridge BCD-6273 (CD). Leo de Gar Kulka, eng. & prod. DDD. TT: 36:58
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kije
Andre Previn, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Telarc CD-80143 (CD). Jack Renner, eng.; Robert Woods, prod. DDD. TT: 63:37
Rachmaninov…
The first thing I noticed about the FET nine/e is the outboard power supply: connected to the preamp with a flexible umbilical cord, this is quite a…
My audio system has evolved somewhat since I described it in "A Matter of Taste" (Vol.12 No.6). The analog front end consists of a Linn LP12, now with Lingo power supply, Ittok, AudioQuest AQ 7000 replacing the Talisman S, and a Bryston TF-1 stepup. Digital source is a Philips CD650 (internally damped and otherwise messed-around-with), now feeding an Aragon D2A via MAS masTER LINK digital interconnect.
My PV5 has been re-tubed; the phono-stage tubes have AudioQuest tube dampers on them; the balance pot and mode switch have been bypassed, and the unused…
The frequency response of the FET nine/e is shown in fig.1. The lower curves show the response through the line-level stages taken at the main outputs—and require no comment. The upper curves show the phono RIAA response taken at the tape monitor outputs. The deviations within the audio band are minor; the rising response seen at the extreme top end peaks above 100kHz. In an effort to track down any possible adverse effects from this, we fed a (pre-equalized) 10kHz squarewave into the Threshold's phono input (set for low gain). The resultant squarewave is shown in…
Description: Frequency response: DC–100kHz, –0.2dB, RIAA equalization ±0.25dB (20Hz–20kHz). Distortion: line stage, 0.007%; phono stage, moving-magnet, 0.005%, moving-coil, 0.05%. Gain: phono stage, moving-magnet, 37.7dB; moving-coil, 58.5dB; high-level, 20.57dB. Input impedance: line stage, 20k ohms; phono stage selectable, 32.2 ohms, 47.5 ohms, 100 ohms, or 47k ohms in parallel with 50pF, 100pF, 200pF, or 250pF. Noise: phono stage, moving-magnet, –80dBA ref. 5mV input; moving-coil, –66dBA ref. 1mV input; line stage, –112dB ref. maximum output. Output impedance…
It's a two-disc set, taken from two weeks of sessions at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village (one of which I raved over in this space at the time, back in May 2010). The gig was hawked as a Bill Evans tribute (the title is a spin on Evans' 1959 album Explorations), but that told only the half of it.
Evans covers dominated the sets, but there were also originals,…
These cables are distributed in North America by Bluebird Music and according to Van den Hul, The Valley interconnect cables are a twisted pair balanced cable with two 21 strand conductors and a double braided shield.
Van den Hul's new True Transmission Technology cables, known as 3T for short, "present an entirely new paradigm to the cable world offering breakthrough performance at very reasonable prices. The 3T wires are comprised of a fusion of five metals and one non-metal…
Actually, I think it's more about dying without the stuff. Audiophilism is usually about having too much music and needing a way—or, in…
Cole was a piano master in the small-group swing idiom, but he gained far greater fame as an Eckstine-style crooner. After Midnight finds him straddling both worlds, and in some ways this makes it the…