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Same but directly from Denon. Will see how it goes. :)

I believe I've seen/heard somewhere that X6800H was to be announced early next year...

Similar thoughts assuming they bring back AKM (or other better DAC).

Your "those are the only ones tested" apparently means "no Yamaha AVR". As far as I know you can send any AVR to amirm - and he will test it.

Well there are definitely other AVR/AVP including Pre Pro on this forum that were tested by @amirm but not recommended. Check here: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?pages/Audio_Equipment_Reviews/

Thank you. Listened for "Esja" and "Inner Symphonies" with Dobrawa Czocher. Cannot say that I loved it but it was definitely interesting and I think I can say I enjoyed it. :) Sounds (to me) like Michael Nyman with a pinch of Philip Glass. I would say it is for sure modern classics...

+ extra time for communication and collection of evidence to confirm that it is truly AKM + extra time to sell inventory of inferior DAC + extra time to "trickle down" from top level overpriced models I do not think we should expect anything earlier than the end of 2022 before it can even be...

It seems they increased prices by $100 for all models. The reason is probably that they believe people don't have good alternative anyway so the demand is strong and supply is short/disrupted. Which is not an unreasonable assumption. Even if you look at this forum, Denon (and some Marantz) are...

Sounds like a good decision. Quite a few people already came to the same conclusion (including me). If you can afford - it's better to wait. Given chip shortage, supply chain disruption, mess around HDMI 2.1, less than conscientious behavior of some brands (we-know-who)... wait and see looks...

So why were they "hush hush"? I can't seems to find in this correspondence any explanation....

It would be great if OP updated the 1st post in this thread with the summary of information known to date. I believe @peng posted almost full summary a few posts ago. Or if OP is not up to it, maybe we can start a new thread and keep the 1st post up to date? Just an idea.

Talking about cello, Jacqueline du Pre was sort of a revelation for me. Two of her iconic romantic performances:

Some Russian music. I'll share 2 version, pick your poison. :) #1 The passionate one. Stravinsky said “wow!”. #2 The wild one.

This is fun... :)

1954 recording in Dresden.... Oistrakh at his best. I believe this is it: or in better quality on Spotify Thank you for pointing to it. I haven't listened it for quite a while. And I don't have this recording, it is not part of "The Complete EMI recordings". :)

Oh yes, Vengerov is the top of my list for Sibelius.

Oh I see what you mean. Not sure if I could generalize this way but there are certainly quite a few recording, where I would agree. I think I know what you mean by "Russian mood" and if I got it right (Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin?), I would say Tchaikovsky main romantic works do not...

It's hard for me to understand why would somebody "usually avoid Karajan" but everybody is entitled to his opinion. We would not have all that different beautiful music if we all agreed all the time. If this is Karajan thing, maybe give her chance with Previn? :)

And again if I may I would recommend different rendition of Tchaikovsky VC1. IMO it's hard to beat Karajan + Mutter. Precision, power and emotion. And there is a remastered version of DG recording. The quality is quite good.

I have a lot of respect for Hilary Hahn but for this, may I suggest some alternative versions? 1. Oistrakh with G. Rozhdestvensky 2. Zimmermanv with A. Gilbert Cannot find it on youtube. It was remastered and release as SACD https://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=11793&showall=1 This...