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Lately I've listened once again to Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony performed by Sinfonia Varsovia (conductor: Jerzy Semkow). It is a wonderful piece of symphonic music, I've listened to it - I don't know - 20 times perhaps and every time I find something new. And, even though I'm not an expert to...

Yes, I always consider some old parts distorting the sound in a vintage player - partly we can avoid that by buying a not much used, serviced piece (which mine CDP-101 is) and partly it will still impair the quality - no way to replace half of it's components, and surely, if we made some...

Hi again! My desire for collecting things and passion for old, vintage pieces made me end up having another 1st-generation CD player. Yes, this time it's - it had to be - the very first model available on the market, the famous Sony CDP-101. I've been searching for a week or two and soon a...

No, I... don't like the design, firstly, and secondly - it's a very old player and how can I know how much it will last? I think it's better ust to have a vintage CD player in a modern system, than a whole vintage system that may fail at any time. Still, if I have a place big enough to start a...

Only recently I've obtained one of the legendary, early compact disc players, the Marantz CD-84 and I wanted to share some thoughts. released in 1984, the early project used the Philips' initial technology, including the 14 bit TDA 1540 DACs (separate for both channels) and superb near-immortal...

I still own a pair of KEF iQ3. Fine speakers for the price...

I currently have two systems, one is my own, the second is shared with the rest of my family. Starting with the better one, I have a pair of some 6 year old KEF iQ3 lovely speakers connected to a nearly brand-new Onkyo A-9030 amplifier and a cheapish (but fine enough) Pioneer DVD player. The...