bogdan101

I've been with Tidal for about 2 months. There were some dropout problems (which almost led me to cancelling) that seem to have been ironed out in the last couple of weeks or so. For me, after comparing the sound quality with Spotify Premium (hi quality), the Tidal sounds MUCH better, so I have no problem shelling out another 10 bucks a month. Oh, and the Zeppelin has landed on Tidal!

I much prefer the Pearl approach, surface noise and all. I listened again to some of the Gieseking EMI set, and it still sounds to me like it was recorded underwater. While not complete, his Debussy prewar recordings (on VAI) are better, most importantly in the music making department.

I had a not so happy experience with one of the EMI sacd reissues, the Gieseking Debussy set, which has so much de-noising applied to it that it's a wonder any sound comes out at all. If you say the Furtwangler is good, I will investigate further.

I wouldn't worry about going hi-res on this one, in fact my recommendation is a Furtwangler/Menuhin mono recording from 1953 that can be had for cheap: Amazon.com: Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos: Yehudi Menuhin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Music

If an option, I'd say go for the vinyl; imho it will beat the pants off any digital version.

Sandy Denny ( see also Fairport Convention) Maddy Prior (see Steeleye Span)

This looks tempting, but thought I'd ask here about it first. I read a glowing review somewhere that mentioned how you can hear every breath the sax player takes, and first word that came to my mind was compression. If you have it, is it compressed? Thanks!

Thanks, will do Seriously, I don't understand why a lot of people take such a dim view of this album. On the other hand, I think this was their last good one. I may be biased because Tormato was the first Yes disc I heard, back in high school and worked my way back through their catalogue from there. Of course the words are silly gibberish, but that's no different from everything else they did; I always pretend they are in a language I don't understand, a la Magma. But then my favourite Yes songs are "Survival" and "Something's Coming", so what do I know

I don't like to reply to my own threads, but in this case I'll make an exception Update: downloaded this, burned to dvd-a and listened to it a couple of times. It sounds very good, full dynamics here, much more natural sounding than the cd version I have (the remestered one with a bunch of extra tracks), which is obviously compressed and limited. The treble is less pronounced, the bass and drums sound clean and punchy. The complex parts where there are layers upon layers of instrumentation sound just terrific. Bottom line, it sounds like a straight transcription of some tape they had, with no extra processing. I wish all reissues were like this. Cheers!

Awesome!...I know it's not everybody's favourite, but in my book it's great. Will get this asap.

Great, thanks!... Always looking for tea sources online.

Funny you ask, just got in the mail yesterday a small package of some really nice Keemun Hao Ya A. Time to put the kettle on...

Not nearly as much fun ... btw, any smilies around here? I can't seem to find them.

I wasn't being serious

As a matter of principle, I don't spend any of my hard-earned money on audio hardware; it would make me feel I'm being duped. I only use my easy-earned money on this stuff.