My Positive Feedback Review of the dCS Varese
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Great to read Lee - plenty of information and entertainment as I appreciate. And you were surely conservative enough to please this forum hyperbole police - from light years to country miles! 
Nice playlist, although I would have liked to see a recording of chamber music carried by Bert van der Wolf in the list.
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Nice playlist, although I would have liked to see a recording of chamber music carried by Bert van der Wolf in the list.
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Thank you. Will work on the chamber music.Great to read Lee - plenty of information and entertainment as I appreciate. And you were surely conservative enough to please this forum hyperbole police - from light years to country miles!
Nice playlist, although I would have liked to see a recording of chamber music carried by Bert van der Wolf in the list.
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Interesting and well-written review, Lee. The emphasis on the experience of lower noise floor gives the reader a good idea. Yet it would be very curious how this translates to separation and distinction of instruments on complex, polyphonic, large-scale orchestral music, which was not discussed in your review.
On the level of performance of my own system, I am already marveling at its highly satisfying capabilities to unravel such music and to present it clearly and transparently to the listener, with most recently Olivier Messiaen's very complex orchestral works like Turangalila Symphony and Chronochromie on the playlist. It would be very interesting to hear how this still can be taken up a notch.
On the level of performance of my own system, I am already marveling at its highly satisfying capabilities to unravel such music and to present it clearly and transparently to the listener, with most recently Olivier Messiaen's very complex orchestral works like Turangalila Symphony and Chronochromie on the playlist. It would be very interesting to hear how this still can be taken up a notch.
Well, Copland’s Fanfare for the common man was in the music list and that is of course a large classical piece. But otherwise I totally agree with you: in particular massed strings and the full dynamics of large symphonies are extremely difficult to recreate at home in a realistic way. So (much) more of that kind of music would have been helpful.
It translates completely to orchestral works. Instrument separation is the best I have heard.
Yes, orchestral music brings its own challenges, including the ones you mention. Yet I was specifically referring to polyphonic complexity in large-scale orchestral music. The examples that I gave are for a large part far more complex music than Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. There are many other examples as well, of course.
Agree … and Messian’s music is much more interesting than Copland’s Fanfare for the common man, but that is of course just a personal opinion. Many moons ago I had the privilige to listen to Messian’s music being performed in Vienna’s Musikverein. Damn impressive (although many consider Messian not an ‘easy’ classical composer).
That must have been a great experience! I have heard the Turangalila Symphony live twice, once in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in the Nineties (I found it pretty noisy then, but, hey, music appreciation can grow) and recently at Boston Symphony Hall, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducting and Yuya Wang on piano. I was much better prepared for the latter concert.
I would love to hear Chronochromie live. Another spectacular work.
No, it is not an easy composer, but a very interesting one - thanks for remembering. Just for the sake of those curious enough to look for his works, the composer name spells Olivier Messiaen, not Messian. He is a French composer.
I have never visited the Boston Symphony Hall but would love to because is it not - just like for example the Musikverein in Vienna and ‘het Concertgebouw’ in Amsterdam (I visit the latter frequently) - one of the most beautiful sounding music halls on this planet? And watching/hearing Yuya Wang playing the piano must have been wonderful.
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And please allow me to ask you the following, Lee: did you maybe listen in the past to the DCS Vivaldi in the same audio set up? And if yes, is it possible to put into words the sonic differences between the Vivaldi and Varese? I am asking because I have never been a ‘fan’ of the Vivaldi (and I listened to the latter at home in my Tidal La Assoluta system, albeit in the ‘pre Apex era’).
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