Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Grinke Legacy
Albion Records - 6th September 2024 (Remaster)
16/44.1
DR: 14
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Rounding off Vänskä’s survey of Beethoven’s great symphonies which I stumbled over while preparing my "100 Greatest Classical Music Works" thread . This time I have chosen to listen through in numerical order and not the order Vänskä recorded them, and maybe that was a mistake. While this is a very nice performance it is hardly the high point of the set and the recording quality is alas not up to the level of most of the other works. On reflection, maybe not the best pick for the “100 Greatest”. It feels like Vänskä (and BIS) raised the bar as the cycle progressed, which leaves me looking forward to his, as yet unrecorded, 8th.
Osmo Vänskä • Minnesota Orchestra “Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’” 2000, Qobuz 24/44.1
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Noga Erez
The Vandalist
Electro-Pop/Rap
Atlantic - 2024
24/88.2 - DR: 8dB
Preferred track: #10, NOGASTEIN
This album is becoming my benchmark regarding dynamics.
Currently rolling driver tubes on my headphone amp to better match the Abyss 1266 PHI TC, this is the record I listen to the most these days.
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FKA Twigs
Magdelene
Indie-Electronica
Young Turks - 2019
16/44.1 - DR: 14dB
Preferred Track: #7. Mirrored Heart
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Nevermind
Conversations
Classical/Chamber-Music/Baroque
Alpha - 2015
24/96 - DR: 9dB
Preferred movement: #6, Sonata for flute, violin, viola da gamba & continuo in D minor, Op. 12/3 (from Conversations Galantes) 1743
Harpsichord and Viola da Gamba, my all time favorites for Baroque music!
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Ella Fitzgerald & The Count Basie Orchestra
Ella and Basie!
Jazz/Vocal-Jazz
HDTT - 1963
DSD128 - DR: 9dB
Preferred Track: #10. My Last Affair
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Ella Fitzgerald
Hello Love
Vocal-Jazz
Verve/HDTT - 1959
DSD128 - DR: 8dB
Preferred Track: #1. You Go To My Head
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How is the Dan SHM CD 24 bit? sHM is the type of material used for the CD rather than them being other than redbook. Is it MQA encoded ( but you haven’t mentioned this)?
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