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Month: January 2018
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Martin Cullingford (Gramophone Magazine) writes as follows: The British pianist introduces her Editor’s Choice recording. ‘Everything glows with affection; and in the Lyric Pieces she casts a delectable impressionistic haze over pages which show Grieg at his most intimate and confiding’ – thus wrote critic Bryce Morrison in the March issue of Gramophone of […]
Paul McGowan Engineers don’t yet know how to measure all we can hear on a resolving stereo system but we know a lot. What are the measurements that tell us what sounds good and what does not? Watch Now ▸
They report: We know that we have a passionate and knowledgeable community of readers and followers on Facebook and Twitter, but even so we were delighted with the response we received last week when we asked the question ‘what classical recording are you most proud to own?’ Listed below are the most popular responses we […]
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The thread starts: As a public service… The following live albums are mastered with far less dynamic compression on DVD than on the corresponding CD for the same concert. (I have ripped the audio from the DVD and I listen to that now! They’re great!) Portishead, Roseland New York Jeff Beck, Performing this Week… Live […]
We are told: This 3 x CD Collection brings together a set of rare recordings by the Velvets, 50 plus years (for most) after they were first made and which will complete collections worldwide for the millions of fans still flying the flag for this strange collective. Everything about The Velvet Underground was astonishing. Take […]
What hi-Fi report: We are impressed by how well the RT100 has been engineered: the main bearing is snug, there’s little give to the tonearm and, a pleasant surprise for an entry-level deck, Roberts has gone to the trouble of decoupling the motor. The RT100 is also semi-automatic, the platter beginning to spin as soon […]
We are told: CLASSIC 1977 BROADCAST FROM TORONTO At 3 a.m. on 28th May 1977, after ten months of legal battles, and nearly two years after Born to Run had catapulted him to national celebrity, Bruce Springsteen and his former manager, Mike Appel, settled their differences and parted ways forever. The move finally enabled Springsteen […]
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Guest contributor Michael Vronsky writes: This is the first of an occasional series shining a light on some of the more unpalatable facets of some (predominantly, but not exclusively) UK-based hi-fi forums / fora. Both covert and overt homophobia, obscene language, anti-semitism ridicule of opinions, bullying, fanatical brand-loyalty, brand denigration and ridicule and more. Fortunately […]
Don’t despair, big band fans, there are still some great big bands to be had on CD and here are two of them. I know many big band fans are also B-3 Hammond fans, so the first one should appeal to them. It is the latest from the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Big Phat Band […]
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We are told: CLASSIC 1994 BROADCAST, LIVE FROM MUSIC CITY USA In April of 1994, Johnny Cash released American Recordings, his first collaboration with Rick Rubin, who would serve as Cash’s producer until his 2005 death. Under Rubin’s stewardship, Cash would reinvent himself for the final time, and later cover, among others, Soundgarden’s ‘Rusty Cage’, […]
Paul McGowan We’re pretty comfortable with the idea of headroom. More food on the table than needed, more horsepower than required, more amplifier wattage than necessary. But, what about speaker headroom? The one characteristic of music’s reproduction that stands out for me in speakers is a slight compression when the music gets loud. I hear it […]
John Harris writes: With the Smiths Johnny Marr blazed a trail for music with a political conscience. Now a successful solo artist, he still thinks it’s a musician’s job to ask awkward questions. But why is he such a lone voice? Please click HERE to continue reading
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Phillip Clark writes: Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer who, more than any other, changed music, the sound of music and what it is that composers do, wrote nine symphonies that jolted music out of itself. Life could never – would never – be the same again. The “classical” rationality of structure, harmony, form, melodic development […]
Spent Xmas with my mum up in Manchester this year. She enjoys listening to her classical cd’s on a ‘modest’ Naim system she has had for many a year – I think the cd player is a 3.5 and the amp a Nait 3. Speakers are old Chario standmounts. She has never wanted anything […]
Lost In Translation with Andrew Scheps provides an engaging, revelatory and humorous presentation of current audio format comparisons. The demonstration showcases the auditory differences of master recordings played back in different formats such as vinyl, CD, MP3, AAC and online streaming models. Scheps (http://www.uaudio.com/blog/artist-int…) has engineered and mixed for some of the biggest acts in […]
This very useful thread starts as follows: “Looking for recommendations for the whole series or individual symphony recordings. I have the Lahti cycle but it’s too cold for me to want to listen to it often. I adore the HVK disc with Finlandia & Pelleas on it (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smetana-Sibe…/dp/B000001GO2), so perhaps the Karajan cycle? Or there’s […]
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Are some high-profile retailers as independent as they make out, or are they covertly owned by their suppliers? And why should it matter? MORE Also ….. Please click HERE to access the entire Point Of View archive