What are your favourite reference recordings?

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Some of the button logos are not in line. :wink:
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LOL I never heard that before.

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What’s the deck?
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#19 My favorite reference recordings!

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For male voice, space, size and power of a grand piano: Fischer Dieskau singt "Die Schöne Müllerin: Deutsche Grammophone LP 415186-2
For female voice, timbre, distance between instruments: Tuva Semmingsen sings Vivaldi Hyperion CDA66829 2002
For dynamics, geometry,size and power of a symphony orchestra and the room that they recorded in: Reference Recordings HDCD , CD - RR-011
For imaging: Take Love Easy/Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass (a dazzling mono recording LP): Pablo Records – 2310 702
For size, definition, emotion, playing intensity: MENGELBERG The Dawn of Electrical Recording; Live at The BBC (1924/38): (MonoLP) Pristine Classical PASC184
For large Choir, integration of the voices, plausible group size, capture of the room acoustics: Ängby Kammerchor Jefta (LP): ATR – ATR 006
For testing phono cartridges: Shure Era 4 test record
For frustrating anyone that thinks that they have the midrange right: Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus - Kompositionen Für Altus (LP): Telefunken 6.41929
For bass: MARY PRESTON: Organ Odyssey Reference RR-113 (24-bit HDCD)
For forgetting the world around me: Vocalconsort Berlin & Marcus Creed - Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets: Harmonia Mundi HMC902079
For dynamics in a slightly more modern setting: Orange Colored Sky/Nat King Cole THE NAT KING COLE STORY: Hybrid-SACD - CAPP 1613 SA
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Ali Tait wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:27 am What’s the deck?
CS Port TAT2

https://www.csport.audio/products/products-tat2-en.html
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mainscablesrus wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:37 pm
Ali Tait wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:27 am What’s the deck?
CS Port TAT2

https://www.csport.audio/products/products-tat2-en.html
TAT2 ? :lol: :lol:
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mainscablesrus wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:37 pm
Ali Tait wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:27 am What’s the deck?
CS Port TAT2

https://www.csport.audio/products/products-tat2-en.html
Floating platter eh? Very fancy.
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Looks like fun. Some odd quotes on the web page "and the platter rotates by inertia alone."
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Its not a tt its a perpetual motion machine
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Some nice ideas there. How much does that set you back?
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shane wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:56 am Some nice ideas there. How much does that set you back?
There's a lot of interesting ideas in that TT - it can have up to three arms on it. Floats on an air cushion...

The list price, excluding arm seems to be around 25k (I'm probably wrong) with the tracking arm a further 11.5K. I love the mention on their web site that the compressor (without which it will not work) is an optional extra!

My feeling is that someone in the company has a mate who is a monumental mason or machines kitchen worktops... there's 19kg of granite alone... and 17kg of stainless steel...

Having said that, "Profile Cutters" - the folk that use stupidly high pressure water jets with sapphire dust in them to cut almost anything with great precision - can cut 1" plus granite to within fractions of a mm with no problem. There's a company near here who I use to cut panels for amps etc. who have a demonstration jigsaw puzzle made of 1" granite that they did for fun. It's insane... mind you, the machine apparently cost over 100K...

If you have a coronary and keel over trying to carry it, it'd make a decent headstone...
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#27 Re: What are your favourite reference recordings?

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pre65 wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:16 am
mainscablesrus wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:37 pm
Ali Tait wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:27 am What’s the deck?
CS Port TAT2

https://www.csport.audio/products/products-tat2-en.html
TAT2 ? :lol: :lol:
Seriously, if the Tat2 gives David aural nirvana then I'm pleased for him. :)
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