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Yes. It's a lot but I'm aiming for a long retirement! 
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22,000 -I didn't know there were that many recordings of the Beethoven Violin Concerto ….. -
I've really only got 20 CDs. 21,980 are Ida Haendel's...Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
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Just as a ps, I received a very prompt email from reference recordings who could no offer explanation of the problem. They did offer to send me a file which I thought was very thoughtful of them.
I wonder what response I would have got (if any!) had it been a Polygram disc.
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According to my computer, my current 2,525 CDs would take 109 days, 20 hours 34 mins and 4 secs to play. You have a lot of listening there!Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
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read all about it....Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
Many audiophiles became aware of RR in the early 2000s through their HDCD releases. The medium certainly works well, and you'd sit there eagerly awaiting that little red light to illuminate the fascia of your CD player. Most of these (Arcam Alpha 9 etc) had the Pacific Microsonics filter chipset which also had a very pleasing effect on CD reproduction itself. The recordings themselves were mainly from USA sources like Minnesota with Eiji Oue or Skrowacewski. Musical results were variable though - a tendency to offset the roomshaking dynamics
with the politely beautiful, and musically somewhat anonymous interpretations...
Best of them were probably the Stravinsky disc and the Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, but the ones I played most often were Serebrier's Czech-State- Brno Janacek. Just to see if each auditioned speaker could take it......
Lovely Vixen Suite on RR-75, with a physically overwhelming sunrise!Comment
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The next RR release is Honeck conducting Tchaikovsky no. 6 and Dvorak's 'In nature's realm' overture.
You read it here first...
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Blessed is the recording that marries audio finesse with musical genius!Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Postread all about it....
Many audiophiles became aware of RR in the early 2000s through their HDCD releases. The medium certainly works well, and you'd sit there eagerly awaiting that little red light to illuminate the fascia of your CD player. Most of these (Arcam Alpha 9 etc) had the Pacific Microsonics filter chipset which also had a very pleasing effect on CD reproduction itself. The recordings themselves were mainly from USA sources like Minnesota with Eiji Oue or Skrowacewski. Musical results were variable though - a tendency to offset the roomshaking dynamics with the politely beautiful, and musically somewhat anonymous interpretations...
Best of them were probably the Stravinsky disc and the Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, but the ones I played most often were Serebrier's Czech-State- Brno Janacek. Just to see if each auditioned speaker could take it......
Lovely Vixen Suite on RR-75, with a physically overwhelming sunrise!Comment
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This may be mentioned on the RR website, but it's worth noting that recordings with the FR prefix (Honeck's Bruckner and Beethoven, Thierry Fischer's Mahler 1) are engineered by others (SoundMirror, for example). Those with the coveted RR prefix are engineered by the company's in-house audio wizard, 'Prof' Keith O. Johnson. A first-class example of the latter's work is Organ Polychrome (RR-133) which is probably the finest organ recordings I've ever heard. The FR series isn't in the same league, IMO...Comment
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significant detail, thanks... seems true of all the Pittsburgh SACDS, none of which I've heard though... I don't do SACD.Originally posted by mahlerei View PostComment
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JayneOriginally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
You are most welcome. The 24/96 flacs of Organ Polychrome are superb too. Good playing and the Kansas City Casavant is a beaut. Try the Guilmant Caprice, if nothing else:
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They must be amazing considering how good the Soundmirror recordings of the Beethoven 5 and 7 areOriginally posted by mahlerei View PostComment
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The Dances from the Opera disc with Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra is something of an audiophile reference disc. The pieces are actually very well done, imo. I have it as a High Res download, one of the few that I purchased, but prefer to play it from the SACD which I subsequently bought.Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Postread all about it....
Many audiophiles became aware of RR in the early 2000s through their HDCD releases. The medium certainly works well, and you'd sit there eagerly awaiting that little red light to illuminate the fascia of your CD player. Most of these (Arcam Alpha 9 etc) had the Pacific Microsonics filter chipset which also had a very pleasing effect on CD reproduction itself. The recordings themselves were mainly from USA sources like Minnesota with Eiji Oue or Skrowacewski. Musical results were variable though - a tendency to offset the roomshaking dynamics with the politely beautiful, and musically somewhat anonymous interpretations...
Best of them were probably the Stravinsky disc and the Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, but the ones I played most often were Serebrier's Czech-State- Brno Janacek. Just to see if each auditioned speaker could take it......
Lovely Vixen Suite on RR-75, with a physically overwhelming sunrise!Comment
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Oh dear. Listening just now. Still a couple of dodgy moments...Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostWell that's great of course...
as long as it still plays tomorrow, or next week...
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Poor pasty.Comment
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