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| how much to $pend to claim i am an audiophile? Restock's suggestion is a good one. And choose your nick wisely. I didn't, so am stuck with polysyllabic inanity forever. Anyways, if you love music and audio stuff then you qualify. Love sounds a bit too hubristic of course, perhaps discriminatin... | |
| Jazz CD suggestions for evening ambience Woah, I haven't yet thanked everyone for their kind suggestions. Sorry for the delay - and thank you! Your help is very much appreciated. Lngbruno, thank you also for the good wishes! | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? Thorens TD150 MkII turntable, NAD 3020 integr.amp, Infinity Modulus bkshelf spkrs (orig's from 1990).The former two still charm for their no-nonsense design. The overall quality of the latter is still surprising. These are like old faithful dogs t... | |
| I have a vocabulary question. I'm not entirely sure that Tutordennis' 2nd sentence is entirely wrong. Pairs in cables and IC's may be able to be like shoes sometimes, like scissors at others. From a prescriptivist point of view, there would be no ambiguity, but I think I have ... | |
| Which low cost turntable should I choose ? The reasoning in the AA mssg posted above by psychicanimal seems pretty sound. Regarding budget, the real bottom line goes not to hardware but to LP "software" acquisition. Imagine if your musical tastes run to Blue Note jazz classics... something... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Wdhsvbgod - thanks for taking the time out to reply! Yes, we do move on I guess... nice to have memories of such places in any case.Best regards, | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Wdhsvbgod, where can one go out nowadays for a night of cosy etc. live jazz in TO? I used to swing by George's from time to time (many yrs ago), plus another place on the waterfront whose name I can't recall now. I wonder if old haunts have been j... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Rockinroni, yes, they s---. But I wonder if it's radio itself or the listener. I find, with age, one simply becomes more discriminating. So when one looks, a lot more appears to blow now than ever before. Perhaps the personal age of innocence has ... | |
| NEW MUSIC Indeed, and I hope others will continue to post comments, etc. re new music on the board - but I have to go shopping now too... Schubert's Sym N 8 - also known as "Die Unvollendete"/"Unfinished".Neue Musik - an incomplete blog based on music menti... | |
| OK, A'Gon/guys: I like to print the odd thread but Unclejeff - the right mouse button and Mac hot keys are also options. Of course similar procedures exist if running applications under X (possible in Mac's OS X). | |
| NEW MUSIC Flex: I am very grateful for your kind recommendations and specificity. I feel very much that -certainly as regards contemporary classical- our musical tastes significantly overlap (but you are much further along). Thank you for the benefit of you... | |
| NEW MUSIC Shubertmaniac, I have not been partial to Glass fearing the jokes may not be entirely untrue, will have to investigate further... For her may I rec'd Messiaen's rhapsodically tranquil Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus? It comes with a guarantee of ... | |
| NEW MUSIC Elli-ot, Elli-ot, ... - Say, wasn't that ET's little friend? Carter ex.'s -- Symphonia/Clarinet Concerto, GRA f. B flat clarinet, Sonata f. Cello | |
| NEW MUSIC In the same vein as the first post -but generally (not restricted to the contemporary)- visit alsoGMN.com, Classical Plus, Composers (Birtwistle, Lutoslawski, ...-astonishing site :0)Naxos.com, CD Catalogue (Berg, Shostakovich,...)Classical Music ... | |
| NEW MUSIC Bienvenue cher confrères!To Flex' book rec'n --coming in at 1,376pp (!) in its 2003 edition-- I'll add, for general purposes here, any of C. Rosen's writings on music, especially the slim & succinct monograph of '75. One of the questions that ... |