Ron's Speaker, Turntable, Power and Room Treatment Upgrades

[Ron Resnick]

Why not W2549? It's got a bit less capacitance to shield per foot. Seems more appropriate over 2791, even though they're almost the same.

Simply because Gary Koh recommended W2791. Gary’s speaker uses substantially the same ribbon driver as is used in my speaker.

Gary thinks that in this application the 2791 sounds better than the 2549. Of course that doesn’t mean that I would agree, but Gary’s recommendation is a good enough place to start.

 

[Folsom]

Higher capacitance bass loss won’t mean much to someone with independent sub towers. More C means a less offensive sound in many other cases.

 

[Ron Resnick]

When I began a couple of weeks ago to open boxes of un-opened records from piles of such boxes I had been collecting for the last seven years I had absolutely no recollection of ever purchasing these records. I had never seen these records in my life. My best guess is that I bought them inadvertently during an alien abduction.

I don’t even like opera!

I brought them over to Don’s house yesterday, and we listened to music until 3:30 AM.

I figured out what happened. On the back of each record is a sticker with initials and printed words: “hp/from the collection of Harry Pearson.” So I think I now remember vaguely that Harry Pearson’s estate put hundreds of his records on eBay a few years ago, and I must’ve bought these four.

Each of these performances was very well recorded!

I still don’t like opera, so I gave that one to Don.

Don thought the Scheherazade was an interesting contrast with the famous Reiner CSO performance. He felt the Reiner performance and recording was weightier in the bass, but he also liked this natural and interesting performance.

Kedar will cross me off his Christmas card list for this, but I still don’t care for Scheherazade as a piece of music. I find it to be too snake charmer-y and unstructured for me. For big classical music I prefer the structure and precision of Mozart and Beethoven.

We both liked Overture! Overture!

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

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When I began a couple of weeks ago to open boxes of un-opened records from piles of such boxes I had been collecting for the last seven years I had absolutely no recollection of ever purchasing these records. I had never seen these records in my life. My best guess is that I bought them inadvertently during an alien abduction.

I don’t even like opera!

I brought them over to Don’s house yesterday, and we listened to music until 3:30 AM.

I figured out what happened. On the back of each record is a sticker with initials and printed words: “hp/from the collection of Harry Pearson.” So I think I now remember vaguely that Harry Pearson’s estate put hundreds of his records on eBay a few years ago, and I must’ve bought these four.

Each of these performances was very well recorded!

I still don’t like opera, so I gave that one to Don.

Don thought the Scheherazade was an interesting contrast with the famous Reiner CSO performance. He felt the Reiner performance and recording was weightier in the bass, but he also liked this natural and interesting performance.

Kedar will cross me off his Christmas card list for this, but I still don’t care for Scheherazade as a piece of music. I find it to be too snake charmer-y and unstructured for me. For big classical music I prefer the structure and precision of Mozart and Beethoven.

We both liked Overture! Overture!

Agree on the Opera (curls my spine) and Scheherazade while OK has never done anything to keep my boat on the top of the water.
Will have to see if I have Overture! Overture as I too have a fairly large Living Stereo collection from in my buying frenzy days, of which in its entirety I do not know what I do and do not have. I do know I have Spain in there somewhere however.
My inner struggle to love classical again continues.
I think its awseome that you have some HP memoirs in your collection, very cool!

 

[Ron Resnick]

In classical I like:

Beethoven 5th

Beethoven 9th (minus the choir part)

Beethoven Egmont Overture (sort of okay)

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (March to the Scaffold)

Mozart Jupiter Symphony 41 (still my favorite!)

Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain (last 3/4”)

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (Great Gate of Kiev)

THAT’S IT!

I have many different copies, versions, speeds, formats, tapes of these titles!

 

[Ron Resnick]

Gryphon Pendragon crates on pallets being delivered to my garage late next week, thanks to the infinitely patient Jason Lord of The Source AV, Torrance, CA!

 

[KeithR]

Ron, turns out I use 2549 for 18’ interconnects.

 

[bonzo75]

In classical I like:

Beethoven 5th

Beethoven 9th (minus the choir part)

Beethoven Egmont Overture (sort of okay)

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (March to the Scaffold)

Mozart Jupiter Symphony 41 (still my favorite!)

Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain (last 3/4”)

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (Great Gate of Kiev)

THAT’S IT!

I have many different copies, versions, speeds, formats, tapes of these titles!

minus the choir part lol

 

[PeterA]

minus the choir part lol

I really like the choir part in the fourth movement, Ode to Joy.

 

[bonzo75]

I really like the choir part in the fourth movement.

well yesI just found it funny someone likes the 9th minus the choir part.
He probably likes stairway to heaven minus the lead
good bad ugly minus the shootout at the end
Ben hur minus the race at the end

 

[PeterA]

well yesI just found it funny someone likes the 9th minus the choir part.
He probably likes stairway to heaven minus the lead
good bad ugly minus the shootout at the end
Ben hur minus the race at the end

Ravel’s Bolero….

Or Planet of the Apes without the Statue of Liberty. Then again, some say this hobby is about the journey and not the destination.

 

[Ron Resnick]

He probably likes stairway to heaven minus the lead

I like all of “Stairway to Heaven.”

 

[the sound of Tao]

minus the choir part lol

Let’s face it, the guy was completely deaf when he wrote that bit…

 

[Mike Lavigne]

when i listen to side 2 of Abbey Road (my ultimate Lp side), i always have to listen to 'Her Majesty". how could you not?

i also never remove the green M & M's.....

looking forward to exploring my acquired classical Lp collection for some new loves.

the idea of limiting my potential musical horizon's seems criminal. i just don't fathom thinking like that. why else have a great system?

 

[Ron Resnick]

Let’s face it, the guy was completely deaf when he wrote that bit…

Ha! I am glad there is some argument to support my view!

 

[Ron Resnick]

why else have a great system?

To play the music I love in the most emotionally engaging way possible — over and over and over and over.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

To play the music I love in the most emotionally engaging way possible — over and over and over and over.

do you ever drive your nice cars out of your driveway? or out of your neighborhood?

why?

i get that it's a very nice neighborhood. and you are comfortable there.

 

[Ron Resnick]

do you ever drive your nice cars out of your driveway? or out of your neighborhood?

why?

I drive Bellini (the automobile equivalent of the big stereo) out of the neighborhood only to Malibu.

For an optimal change of scenery.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Back to music . . .

Mike, if you introduce me to a song I love as much as, for example, Eagles’ “Take It to the Limit” or Elton John’s “Saturday Night’s Alright” or Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” or Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” or The Doors’ “Light My Fire” or Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” or Bill Henderson’s “Send in the Clowns” or Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” or Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen” or Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” I promise I will listen to it (a lot!). In the meantime I’d rather listen to these songs — and my couple of hundred other favorite tracks of all time — over and over and over . . .

I am open to new music. But I’m not on a constant quest. If new music penetrates the din and finds its way to me, I’m happy to check it out.

For example KeithR introduced me several years ago out of the blue to London Grammar — and I totally adopted that group as a new favorite band.

I sometimes find new artists (new to me) on FM radio or XM radio. This is how I discovered Lauren Daigle’s “You Say,” and the Chainsmokers’ “Something Just Like This,” and the group X Ambassadors and the singer Birdy.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Back to music . . .

Mike, if you introduce me to a song I love as much as, for example, Eagles’ “Take It to the Limit” or Elton John’s “Saturday Night’s Alright” or Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” or Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” or The Doors’ “Light My Fire” or Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” or Bill Henderson’s “Send in the Clowns” or Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” or Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen” or Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” I promise I will listen to it (a lot!). In the meantime I’d rather listen to these songs — and my couple of hundred other favorite tracks of all time — over and over and over . . .

I am open to new music. But I’m not on a constant quest. If new music penetrates the din and finds its way to me, I’m happy to check it out.

For example KeithR introduced me several years ago out of the blue to London Grammar — and I totally adopted that group as a new favorite band.

I sometimes find new artists (new to me) on FM radio or XM radio. This is how I discovered Lauren Daigle’s “You Say,” and the Chainsmokers’ “Something Just Like This,” and the group X Ambassadors and the singer Birdy.

Ron,

i do respect your 'comfort zone' mentality as a personal choice. but to me it is sad too. sure; you can 'wait' for people to offer you good 'prime cuts' to add to your cocoon of 'safe' choices.

but the absence of a musical exploration mentality is cutting off one of the great delights of our hobby. especially these days with streaming. it's a big beautiful musical world out there calling your name.

once your system is up and running, and maybe if you choose to have streaming as a choice, even if temporary, it would be interesting if you took a month and spent an hour a day just exploring streaming choices......to see if it adds to your pleasure quotient.....and ROI on your system investment. change is good for the soul.