From: IainNG@kolumbus.fi   
      
   "flipper"  wrote in message   
   news:8kfgj79pt1smb5p160l1rvajdcmmqekrkr@4ax.com...   
   > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:25:25 -0800 (PST), Roger Jones   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Feb 11, 10:18 pm, Ian Iveson  wrote:   
   >>> What's your favourite source for recorded music? What fits best with   
   >>> good valve amplification?   
   >>>   
   >>> Just listening to an old Marantz seedy65 playing through my prototype   
   >>> 6CH6 SE headphone amp.   
   >>>   
   >>> New to this kind of thing, I'm surprised to hear a choir singing   
   >>> inside the piano. Did Beethoven put it there on purpose? Sounds kinda   
   >>> cool, all in 3D.   
   >>>   
   >>> I've only heard a real grand piano once, and it had an orchestra with   
   >>> it. The multi-layered sustain thing going on in these sonatas sounds   
   >>> so beautifully contrived, I hope its not a malfunction. Dual TDA1541   
   >>> DACs, BTW.   
   >>>   
   >>> Phones are AKG K702. AFAIK they are the only things made in Austria.   
   >>> Austrians yodel, and make headphones. If you find K701s going cheap,   
   >>> snap 'em up. They start off like bees with chainsaws, but eventually   
   >>> come really good.   
   >>>   
   >>> Anyway, what source do you like best, and why?   
   >>>   
   >>> cheers, Ian   
   >>>   
   >>> Sorry, Austrians. I know you do other stuff too, but you probably   
   >>> don't want me to mention it.   
   >>   
   >>Ian,   
   >>My favourite source is a live concert.  Educates the ears... but not   
   >>often enough!  So, my most used sources are CD's and old vinyl.  I've   
   >>recently recommissioned two vintage turntables and dragged some LP's   
   >>out of the basement.  This system has two Heathkit WA-P2 preamps to   
   >>one Williamson and one Pilotone amplifiers, into two Ditton 44   
   >>speakers.  I may change one channel to a Leak TL/25 with a Point One   
   >>Plus preamp (just refurbished) when I get around to it.   
   >>I also like to play other people's grand pianos (when I can find them)   
   >>for the same reason... keeping the ears up!  While my electronic   
   >>keyboard is good (General Music PRO1), as is the sound system (2 x 40   
   >>watt s/s stereo amp, two PSB 2B's plus a 150 watt s/s subwoofer   
   >>amplifier to a 12" subwoofer), it's not a Steinway!   
   >>Cheers,   
   >>Roger   
   >   
   > That disclaimer reminds me of a Victor Borge concert where he   
   > proclaims to the audience "The Steinway people have asked me to   
   > announce that THIS is a Baldwin piano."   
      
   I was at a concert in Copenhagen, where he opened the fall board   
   of the piano, put on his reading glasses, studied the gold lettering   
   for a moment, and said:   
      
   "Steinway and Sons. He didn't tell me he was married"   
      
   At the same concert, he was talking about the instruments of the   
   orchestra.  He said: The difference between the violin and the viola?   
   The viola burns longer!""   
      
      
   Iain   
      
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