Fredrik's Back!

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 09 July 2005

Hello Dear Forum Friends,

The mad Viking is back, and hopefully to stay. This is due in no small part to one Furum member [you know who you are and thank you so very much!].

I hope to bring a few modestly held views to the debates, and please accept them as they are always intended, As My View, even if I forget sometimes to put in IMO or IMHO as that ought to go, here, without saying, perhaps.

Those who remember Fredrik Fiske will soon realise that Fredrik H is indeed the same person, but I have been unable to join the old byline to my new - something I would very much like to do, but my email address has changed and I am not sure of the old password etc!

Fredrik Fiske
Posted on: 09 July 2005 by sjust
A heart-felt "Welcome back!" to you, Fredrik. This forum was a lot less sparky without your always most welcome comments.

Hope to "see" you very often, here !

cheers
Stefan
Posted on: 09 July 2005 by Mick P
Fredrik

Yes indeed, welcome back. Your postings were sometimes inspirational.

Regards

Mick
Posted on: 09 July 2005 by u5227470736789439
quote:
Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Fredrik

[...] Your postings were sometimes inspirational.

Regards

Mick


Dear Mick,

To be inspirational "sometimes" is good enough for me. Surely none of us can do better than pleasing some people sometimes!

I have been having great fun setting up the SBLs in a new home only a 100 yards from the lovely green pastures of Herefordshire. A Thread will emerge shortly on some of the myths concerning these amazing speakers, but in the other place.

Music has developed and I now feel ready to give a few words to my reaction to Helmut Walcha's recording of the 48, but necessarily it is not a small topic!

I got the stereo organ recordings on 15 DG LPs [!] about six months ago, and that makes for a fascinating contrast to the old mono set on CDs. Walcha emerges as both the most sagacious musician and one who grew musically with the years, which should hardly be a surprise!

Also I managed to get Barbiroli's Sibelius CDs [with the Halle] of the Symphonies and some of the incidental music. Quite staggeringly wonderful. It never ceases to amaze me how hard it is to obtain are these classic accounts.

Fredrik
Posted on: 09 July 2005 by Dev B
Fredrik,

A warm welcome back, I haven't been posting much here in the last few months but I look forward to your return.

I will also be happy to share my SBL set up secrets since I moved last year and have a room that really makes them sing.

best wishes,

Dev
Posted on: 09 July 2005 by u5227470736789439
Dev,

Look in the other place! Just posted on that. I have a a few other things I've discovered about this wonderful old design and it recreative powers!

Fredrik
Posted on: 09 July 2005 by pe-zulu
Welcome back Fredrik, you were missed.
Regards,
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Polarbear
Good to have you back Freddie,

Your posts have been very enjoyable.

Regards

PB
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by bjorne
Welcome back mad viking!
Posted on: 13 July 2005 by Johns Naim
Welcome Frederik

As one of the few (it seems) genuinely trained/professional musicians posting here on Naim HQ, I always enjoyed your posts, and the way you rightly ascribed musical values to the assesment of HiFi. And not just over simplifications such as PRaT either...LOL

Naim HQ has become a 'friendlier' place, albeit no less of a clique than it ever was - you're either in or out, and I for one usually always felt 'out', which is perhaps why I seem to be enjoying frequenting PFM forums much more than here these days - there are many Naim users, and the discussion is of a much broader HiFi church than what one will find here.

Of course, if one's world view of Hifi is exclusively Naim, then this is the place to be.

I look forward to your dissertations of Helmut Walchas organ playing etc.

Best Regards

John... Cool
Posted on: 13 July 2005 by u5227470736789439
Thank to you all (and even some who may not have posted) for welcoming me back.

I am am rough this afternoon, and home home work. Wash really bad at lunchtime and the heat doesn't help.

Fredrik