the forecast today was for the high 90's......in Seattle.....so what does an audiophile do?
hummm?
slept in until 7am, out the door at 7:15am driving to Portland, Oregon (390 mile round trip.....very light traffic) to pick up an EMT 948 + Durand Kiros tone arm for my #2 Miyajima Infinity mono (0.7mil stylus). i have the 1.0 mil stylus version mounted on my NVS/Telos......and have run out of arms. had this EMT 948 (one just like this one) in my room for 3 years but never liked the arm or cartridge. think i'll like this one just fine.
got back to my room at 1:20pm (6 hours, 5 minutes/400 total miles including stop-for-gas, drive-thru-burger, and picking up & dropping off the stuff) including a detour to drop off the EMT at my friend Andrew's house to go over it and make sure it's in tip top shape.
sat down in my room and opened up Quboz and selected a 2005 Ivan Fischer Mahler #2 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, dimed the lights and away i went. liked it, but thought maybe if i go to a file on my hard drive it would get a little more real and i was looking for serious recovery from my drive. decided to switch to a native 4xdsd Mahler #2 from Daniele Gatti recording on my hard drive, this was even better.......got about 20 minutes in and thought about what Mahler #2's i have on vinyl and recalled i have the Bernstein CBS (1974) Mahler Box Set, so grabbed that and found the 2 discs for #2 and put that on the CS Port.
away we go. ok now, we are getting deep into the music.......
full disclosure; i don't know my Mahler at all. but i do know that i like it. keep playing it. and this one is really great to my ears; very lively....lots of nuance and subtlety, holographic, lovely string tone, flows along. i've played this box before. it's good however i experience it. i'm finished with disc 1, the first 2 movements, and now time for the 3rd movement. my 400 miles are now completely behind me. it's Lenny and Gustav and me. this is really wonderful. it's with the London Symphony Orchestra.
hummm?
slept in until 7am, out the door at 7:15am driving to Portland, Oregon (390 mile round trip.....very light traffic) to pick up an EMT 948 + Durand Kiros tone arm for my #2 Miyajima Infinity mono (0.7mil stylus). i have the 1.0 mil stylus version mounted on my NVS/Telos......and have run out of arms. had this EMT 948 (one just like this one) in my room for 3 years but never liked the arm or cartridge. think i'll like this one just fine.
got back to my room at 1:20pm (6 hours, 5 minutes/400 total miles including stop-for-gas, drive-thru-burger, and picking up & dropping off the stuff) including a detour to drop off the EMT at my friend Andrew's house to go over it and make sure it's in tip top shape.
sat down in my room and opened up Quboz and selected a 2005 Ivan Fischer Mahler #2 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, dimed the lights and away i went. liked it, but thought maybe if i go to a file on my hard drive it would get a little more real and i was looking for serious recovery from my drive. decided to switch to a native 4xdsd Mahler #2 from Daniele Gatti recording on my hard drive, this was even better.......got about 20 minutes in and thought about what Mahler #2's i have on vinyl and recalled i have the Bernstein CBS (1974) Mahler Box Set, so grabbed that and found the 2 discs for #2 and put that on the CS Port.
away we go. ok now, we are getting deep into the music.......
full disclosure; i don't know my Mahler at all. but i do know that i like it. keep playing it. and this one is really great to my ears; very lively....lots of nuance and subtlety, holographic, lovely string tone, flows along. i've played this box before. it's good however i experience it. i'm finished with disc 1, the first 2 movements, and now time for the 3rd movement. my 400 miles are now completely behind me. it's Lenny and Gustav and me. this is really wonderful. it's with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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