A Pitch Perfect Day in the City

[gortnipper]

If you can ever find a CRI LP, buy it. If not - the CRI American Masters CDs are awesome.

But, New World Records have digitized the CRI LP catalog, and they are supposed to be pretty darned nice.

-g

[watercourse]

OK Barr,

It's about time I get off my lazy ass and respond to your question. Here's a short list to get you started:

Beethoven Bagatelles, Brendel (many versions, get as complete a version as possible)
Beethoven Diabelli Variations, Kovacevich
Bach Cello Suites, Rostropovich (good comparison with Starker)
Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Hewitt
Chopin Nocturnes, Pires
Chopin Waltzes, Impromptus, Rubinstein
Grieg/Schumann Piano Concertos, Kovacevich
Horowitz In the Hands of the Master
Mahler Symphony No. 6, Abbado/BPO
Mozart Violin Sonatas, Hahn/Zhu
Orff Carmina Burana, Jochum/Janowitz/Stolze/Fischer-Dieskau
Saint-Saens Organ Works (SACD)

The list above are great performances first, and reference recordings second. And it's coming from a guy who grew up listening to punk, hip hop, R&B, and jazz first and foremost, and only recently learned to appreciate classical, i.e. not stuffy, moldy fig performances.
Why so much piano? Because it's so hard to reproduce accurately, especially the microdynamics of the musician's touch. All of the above are in the digital medium, however, if you can find versions on LP, grab it!

PS Matt @ Pitch Perfect should be able to give you some good recommendations too. He played King Tubby when I was auditioning the Shindo gear.

[jwhite613]

gortnipper... Welcome To AA!!!

[gortnipper]

Originally Posted by jwhite613

gortnipper... Welcome To AA!!!

Thanks!

[baddog]

Originally Posted by watercourse

OK Barr,

It's about time I get off my lazy ass and respond to your question. Here's a short list to get you started:

Beethoven Bagatelles, Brendel (many versions, get as complete a version as possible)
Beethoven Diabelli Variations, Kovacevich
Bach Cello Suites, Rostropovich (good comparison with Starker)
Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Hewitt
Chopin Nocturnes, Pires
Chopin Waltzes, Impromptus, Rubinstein
Grieg/Schumann Piano Concertos, Kovacevich
Horowitz In the Hands of the Master
Mahler Symphony No. 6, Abbado/BPO
Mozart Violin Sonatas, Hahn/Zhu
Orff Carmina Burana, Jochum/Janowitz/Stolze/Fischer-Dieskau
Saint-Saens Organ Works (SACD)

...

PS Matt @ Pitch Perfect should be able to give you some good recommendations too. He played King Tubby when I was auditioning the Shindo gear.

Thanks so much for the recommendations - will need to check those out online and see which ones resonate with me! Ah King Tubby I have a King Tubby Meets Rockers, a bunch of stuff by Augustus Pablo and a a lot of other 70's Reggae - all in vinyl no less! But that reminds me I have not played them in a while...

Barr

[Labpro]

Hello Steve,

I was following some of your old posts, and since I too have Shindo Giscours and GM-70's, I wanted to share some recent findings.

I replaced my cheep wall plugs with some Porter Ports, and added ASC Tube Traps in all the corners as well as primary and secondary reflection points.

This allowed me to greatly enhance the already terrific Shindo sound.

Hope this helps.

Labpro

System Set Up:

Coincident Pure Reference Speakers
Shindo Giscours Preamp
Shindo Lafon GM-70 SET Monoblocks
Lampizator Generation 3, Level 4 DAC (24/192 capable)
Naim Uniti Serve CD Ripper
Shunyata Z-Tron Power Cables
Shunyata Triton Power Conditioner
Shunyata Dark Field Elevators
Kubala Sosna Elation Speaker and Digital Cables
Shindo Silver Interconnects
HRS M3x Vibration Platforms with Nimbus Couplers and Dampening Plates
ASC Tube Trap Acoustic Treatments
RPG Skyline Diffusers

[Freestone]

Everyone loves Matt! Seemed too good to be true until I met him - so I have to agree.

[Jerome W]

Originally Posted by Labpro

Hello Steve,

I was following some of your old posts, and since I too have Shindo Giscours and GM-70's, I wanted to share some recent findings.

I replaced my cheep wall plugs with some Porter Ports, and added ASC Tube Traps in all the corners as well as primary and secondary reflection points.

This allowed me to greatly enhance the already terrific Shindo sound.

Hope this helps.

Labpro

System Set Up:

Coincident Pure Reference Speakers
Shindo Giscours Preamp
Shindo Lafon GM-70 SET Monoblocks
Lampizator Generation 3, Level 4 DAC (24/192 capable)
Naim Uniti Serve CD Ripper
Shunyata Z-Tron Power Cables
Shunyata Triton Power Conditioner
Shunyata Dark Field Elevators
Kubala Sosna Elation Speaker and Digital Cables
Shindo Silver Interconnects
HRS M3x Vibration Platforms with Nimbus Couplers and Dampening Plates
ASC Tube Trap Acoustic Treatments
RPG Skyline Diffusers

Labpro,

Have you been able to compare side by side the Giscours and the Vosne Romanee ?
If yes, what are the main sonic differences ?

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