So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this. I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part." I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?
I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.
Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.
You can wire from phone ( or tablet or other home computer) to digital input on amp. Connectors needed would depend on cellphone/streamer device type and digital input types available for amp. Usb most likely from a smart phone. Another Easy way is use a Bluetooth adapter. Google search should turn up wiring options from a specific phone type to a specific amp to be used.
We can reduce Bach music to melodic Vivaldi+dance music , he copy it with much admiration and devotion....Then it is pure snobbery to dislike Vivaldi...
Last year nine (9), unarmed blacks were killed by police officers. In the same year, nineteen (19), unarmed whites were killed by police officers.
For the past 4 years, in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, each year twice as many whites were shot by police officers then were blacks.
Target??? Seriously?
BLM is silent in cities across the country when black on black murders happen. If BLM really cared about black lives you would hear Al sharpton in Chicago, in New York, in Atlanta, in Los Angeles, in Detroit.
As difficult as it may be for people to hear, Black Lives Matter only cares about black lives when they are killed by white cops.
As Mark Taylor said, Get you popcorn and buckle up because things are going to get crazier. The deep state (the far left) are not going to give up without one hell of a fight, because they don't want to hang for treason.
your statements reinforce my own thoughts about you. I will leave you with this question, “How would you like it to be born Black, with a target on your back?“
He uplift the spirit even of Bach that copy him and integrate his melodic brain in his own music.....
I think that Vivaldi was so much talented that he never worked, his music sound like a spontaneous improvisation except few works.......Bach worked hard.... :)
I think I am going to try streaming. Anybody have suggestions for a quality streamer that won't break the bank? I don't think I need a DAC since my Lyngdorf TDAI2200 is all digital that should be all the DAC I need right? Yeah, trying to re- hijack this thread.
BLM? I do not support racists or domestic terrorists in any way, shape or form. In short, the left is weaponizing coronavirus and BLM for their own political gain. Whoever doesn't notice that is living in la-la land and I feel sorry for you. The left wrings their hands anytime trigger events occur. Like I said, never let a good crisis go to waste, right?
The number of cases and the number of deaths have been greatly exaggerated. We showed just how obedient and compliant we are in a crisis situation. This, IMO, will have very, very serious consequences for the public if socialists get in charge. Say bye-bye to your freedoms. Say bye-bye to the first amendment. Say bye-bye to the second amendment.
Tell the 130,000 US Citizens and their families that their deaths equate to nothing. The message it's given us is lockdown is the best way to prevent further suffering until a better option is available.Financial repercussions are a separate issue from the Nations health.Fake news comes from the top.
Interesting you now state the virus is no worse than a normal flu season. I would remind you of your past posts when at the beginning of all this, your local area in Washington state was the first hot spot. Remember? You were screaming the exact opposite. Your posts were nothing but apocalyptic, "It’s the end of the world!" diatribes. You chastised anyone who took lightly the graveness of the virus. (Yes, that’s a word). You stated you work in the medical field and have first hand knowledge of how serious and deadly the virus is. Now you say, meh, no big deal. Again interesting. What changed for you? MAGA hat on too tight? Or do you now just blindly believe everything your Lord and Savior Cheeto Christ says?
I hope that it will not take a personal tragedy to get those of you in denial to start taking this situation seriously. If you don't want to hear a rather long and sad story move on now. I tried for years to get my father to stop smoking. He was a very stubborn man and was determined he was not going to listen to others. He had terrible emphysema and suffered a massive heart attack. They were going to put a pacemaker in his chest but found that only 10% of his heart was functioning. It was just a matter of time. I was by his bedside the night before he died and he said to me: When everything is going OK, you don't hear those voices, now it's all I can hear. Remember Brady when Reagan got shot? He was a staunch conservative, strong supporter of the Second Amendment. When he got shot he had a conversion. He started working for sensible gun control.
I just retired from teaching. I used to tell my kids; some of you are standing on a railroad track and there's a train coming. People are screaming at you that there's a train coming - get off the track. But you're not listening. They can see what's coming, but you don't want to hear it. There's a train coming and you need to take it seriously. But you won't, and that makes me sad.
I've got one more thing to say to devilboy. You questioned au_lait when he/she said (they) lost 12 acquaintances to Covid. If you don't know au_lait, you have no reason to doubt that claim. In LA, depending upon what you do and your lifestyle, it is very possible that au_lait was acquainted with 12 people who lost their lives.
Sorry mapman. I have too much energy to let some of this stuff go unanswered.
Cal91 I would save your energy. Nobody with any choice who has totally dissed the significance of the pandemic that has affected pretty much the entire world to various degrees to date is going to admit they were wrong. Too embarrassing....
OK devilboy, I'm not sure how you can make the claim of using logic and common sense. The pandemic has not been apocalyptic because of steps that were taken by many governors and mayors. Now we are seeing a surge because some governors are afraid of offending a certain person and reopened too soon against the advice of science. Even the Texas governor has admitted he made a mistake and has mandated or is considering mandating the wearing of masks. The Florida governor took a victory lap because there was no surge for two weeks after he opened. Have you looked at Florida's numbers lately? Apocalyptic implies to me some sort of existential event. I never heard anyone say the pandemic would lead to total disaster. More than 130,000 Americans have died so far and that's with the actions that many people took seriously at the beginning. Now the American frontier, individualistic attitude that nobody can tell us we have to wear masks is creating huge problems in the surge we are seeing. It seems people were willing to make sacrifices to a point and now they're tired of not being able to go to bars, restaurants, and the beach, so they're acting like the virus doesn't exist. Or they're young and have heard that they won't be affected like older people. That is an incredibly selfish attitude but if you don't see the immediate results of your actions, it's easy to pretend you didn't cause them. I'm not sure what you mean by making the virus disappear by moving the election to next year. Is that similar to the way the dreaded caravan that was bringing Leprosy and rapists and murderers across the border, suddenly became a non-issue after the elections? Explain please. I might have misunderstood you on that one. By the way, I don't hate you.
Right. The main thing we have learned from the virus is just how far they are willing to go to stop Trump from taking government back to the people. For that reason and that reason alone the whole world is shut down for a virus no worse than a normal flu season.
It will not however go away if Trump loses. Democrats will keep stoking the fear, because that is how they're able to shut everything down. The story will simply shift from Trump saying we're winning to democrats using it to control people. Just like now, riots and BLM looting is okay, but we must regulate churches, bars and gun ranges the virus is woke and that's where it spreads. Just like now. Liberal logic: not liberal, not logical either.
This is a sick country where a pandemic involving a proven highly contagious Virus that has already killed record numbers of people and physically impacted many more is still discussed as a political not a public health issue. Facts are inconvenient to some.
The only good news about the left winning in November is that the economy will magically open again. It doesn't matter, no one will have any jobs to go back to anyway.
The virus is real. The apocalyptic pandemic was not. With all due respect to au_lait, there is something he/she isn't telling us.
My heart breaks for anyone who lost a loved one or a friend to the virus. I know three people who contracted the virus and thankfully all are okay today.
I'm trying to word this as respectfully as possible but using some common sense, either he knows A LOT of people or there are some underlying conditions we don't know about.
And somebody's going to say it so it might as well be me considering I'm probably the most hated person on this thread because I use some logic and common sense, but here it goes:
The fastest way to make the virus disappear is to move the election to next year.
Again, I believe the virus is real but the people at risk are not the huge demographic the mainstream media fools you into believing.
All of the MAGA hat festooned racists have been proven wrong, at least based on earlier posts to this thread. A gigantic Covid upswing in the uh, "less careful" areas with hospital beds in places like Texas and Florida simply filling up. The "mask and distancing" stay at home idea actually is beating the virus in many places, as it was supposed to, and the conspiracy theory laden barflies and Redneck Nuremberg rally crowd are gettin' as sick their politics. The cancelled rally in nearby Portsmouth was likely due to a lack of available crowd, not weather related as claimed by trumpers.
Thanks for your generous appreciation.... English is not my first language, i apologize then for my lack of written ability, and i dont have any understanding of music theory.... I only listen to music, and images, colors, forms, and souls express themselves in me....
Music is the way worlds become souls, and soul become new world.... Music is truest to the truth than reality can ever will be without it....Music is in some way an image of the way reality transform itself.... Even numbers are music....Their sensible singing made visible is geometry....Colors are also the singing of a fundamental polarities between light and night and Goethe first was listening to this miraculous phenomenon between the eyes and the world....
mahgister... You have the soul of a poet. Have you ever pursued that talent you possess? The guy who does the Youtube videos is named Rick Beato. He plays multiple instruments and seems very knowledgeable about music of all genres and music theory.
Charlie Parker the discoverer of Chet Baker and Bach the discoverer of many great geniuses, beginning with his owns sons, are like stars that will shine after our death over the sorrows and joy of our childrens...
Disclaimer: There are no names in this post (political) and no mention of any particular political parties. If you recognize yourself in what follows, well, if the shoe fits....
au-lait... I am sorry to hear of your own difficulties from Covid-19 and your personal losses. It's truly a tragedy that the pandemic that has already killed more than 130,000 Americans has become such a political issue. The two simple things that virtually all EXPERTS (not somebody's gut) agree will slow down the spread of the virus - social distancing and wearing a damn mask) have become symbols for some of their political allegiances. Certain people are calling for all businesses to open even though health experts are warning against it unless your area meets certain criteria. You're right - we are seeing the consequences of those ill-advised actions. What kind of jazz do you listen to? I watched a Youtube video about the similarities between Charlie Parker and Bach and their use of octave displacement. It was very interesting.
When I read the first few pages of this thread from early May, where most the replies were in denial of the Covid numbers and its effects, I thought, "I wonder how this thread will look by page 9? It won't age well." Scroll to page 9 and it's escapism via Classical. LOL.
I had Covid in Feb, but it still hurts to breath for portions of the day, it's more or less now chronic. I've lost 4 friends and about 12 acquaintances. Here in LA we had 4000 new cases just yesterday. We're at 1/100 people positive, in a county of 10 million. Anyone who thinks this is NOT a direct result of relaxing the lockdowns, is delusional, senile or both.
Heifetz is superhuman violonist if there is one...One God in his own planetary system....
Oistrakh is so great that he seems the better there is most of the times... Pure russian heart in all his rendition....
But Grumiaux colors are rainbow sun and it is not about lyricism (Oistrakh) nor superhuman virtuosity and artistry (Heifetz) but in the Bach and Mozart quartets his"lumen" is incarnated sun on earth....This is why for me it is my best in these works....
The best Menuhin i listen to was in his younger years.... His Bach violin sonatas are marvellous....
@mahgister...Glad to hear you have an appreciation for the violin as well as the piano. Before I became obsessed with Chopin, most of my listening was devoted to great violinists. As I read your post about Grumiaux's Bach concertos I had Heifetz's rendition of the Double Concertos on my desk beside me. I've never heard someone play so naturally and effortlessly. I think I've mentioned before that there is a Youtube video of Menuhin and David Oistrakh playing the Double Violin Concertos. I can't find the CD anywhere. I'll see if I can find something on Grumiaux.
An example of that obsessive listening of mine is Arthur Grumiaux rendition of Bach violin concertos....This violin tone so luminous like the mediterranean sea sunset or sunrise, makes for me impossible to listen too often to any other versions even those i like very much.... The Grumiaux one i listened to it for 50 years without being able to discard it....I listen to it easily a thousand times probably more....
Much is the fault of Grumiaux violin pure luminous genious.... It is the same in the Mozart quartets version by him.... Pure sunny sound....Any virtuosity apart.... There are many great virtuosos on violin indeed.... Only one sound like a sun in these 2 works...
Andras Schiff Bach Well tempered Klavier is stupendous.... :)
My version of choice for thousand listenings sessions....
If we listen a work a few times only, our preferences are not the same at all than for thousand listenings sessions instead....
My preference are then based on possible many, many, listening sessions... I can appreciate all great artists, but some are able to create miracles.... I look for those first, because when i love some piece i want to listen to it without end, then the artist must be a miracles creator....Luckily after 55 years of music listening i can change one work for others i love on the same level and not be stalled with only 2 for example....
« Passion create obsession, or is it the reverse?»- Groucho Marx
And what is your opinion of Algerich? I have several of her recordings which I much enjoy
Indeed Argerich and Horowitz are great pianists.... No negative criticism will make sense because at WORST, they play anything good...
I am not a specialist at all nor a musician by the way.... I am so passionnate, way too much to be objective in fact.... :)
I already named my favorite Chopin interpreters.... Barbosa And Moravec... I will love any pianist that play them well, then, half at least of very well known pianists will please me...
But Barbosa and Moravec touch me in way that the others cannot especially in the nocturnes for Moravec and the mazurkas for Barbosa....I already described my reasons....
Sorry for my late response glupson.... I prefer Nyiregyházi first Arrau second, and Perahia third between these three....It is personal for sure....Perahia play well (but check his Mozart instead) for sure but lack the heartfelt rythm there is in Arrau....
N. is out of any league or over comparison for me but he plays Chopin like Liszt and all afficionados will not be pleased by him tough..... :)
mahgister,
After reading this thread last night, I picked what Chopin I have for today’s commute. It is Murray Perahia (link below) playing sonatas and some more. What do you think of his interpretations, if you have heard them? I must admit that, unlike Arrau and Nyiregyházi from youtube, I did not find it engaging at all. What is your take on it? I am a total ignorant when it comes to this.
@clearthinker...Edmund Burke once said; "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." We have to make our voices heard. We get that opportunity in a few months. I was a skeptic at first, but there have been important and significant changes in attitudes in the country. I am becoming less pessimistic. Now, so we don't get kicked off the forums - let's talk audio. I still don't see how streaming is more convenient than CDs.
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