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https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2024/7/3/mtronome-aqwo-2-hybrid-dac-sacdcd-streamer

I focused on one very special recording, the ESOTERIC SACD/CD of Mischa Maisky, cello and Martha Argerich, piano from an original Philips digital recording from 1985 of music by Schubert. I’ve been playing the Red Book layer for many years on the MBL and have yet to hear a cello sound (analog or digital) more beautiful than Maisky produces when playing Schubert’s famous “Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821.” This late Schubert work is a masterpiece and the Maisky/Argerich duo play it better than most.

We began with the SACD layer played back on the Métronome. Just as I remembered it on the MBL, rich, harmonically sophisticated with a perfect chamber music soundstage and pinpoint imaging. Maisky and Argerich are sitting in front of me. Glorious.

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