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| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, writing poetry was never difficult for me because I was bursting with something to say and I wanted very badly to say it. I studied with Gary Snyder and other notable poets, so I had a technical foundation. Once a poem burst out of me, l... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, very well said! I do understand how difficult all jazz is and the degree of study and musicality that is involved. And I am really glad that you mentioned the inner feminine. As a writer, it something I have to struggle to find within mys... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? Cey, I think you are right about smooth upper frequency extension, but I think there is something also to the way the musical notes sound on both uppers and mids. I'm not sure about bass. People love tube gear because it brings "bloom" to the soun... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? When talking about black backgrounds, this comes mostly from the electronics, black backgrounds are the result of lowered noise floor which results in higher resolution/transparency. With lowered noise floors we hear far more of the 'inner' detail... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? What wonderful responses! I thank you for them. I read an audio review recently (sorry, I'm 78 and I can't remember where I've heard various things) in which the reviewer said that he was tired of "accurate" speakers in which the sounds are too we... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, good question about intellect versus funk, or what I call raw emotion. What the poem is saying is that music doesn’t come from the intellect, it comes from the streets, and I include the feminine because it is often excluded from discussi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I forgot one of the best classic female jazz musicians of all time. Alice Coltrane. She flies very high in "Journey in Satchidananda" accompanied by Pharoah Sanders. | |
| Jazz for aficionados This conversation feels a bit stuffy to me. Why? I was a good chess player in high school. When I went off to college I looked for chess games. A whole bunch of guys were playing in the student union. But the question hit me immediately. Where are... | |
| Upgrade ....streamer or amp? I was streaming through my computer into a Chord Qutest which I thought sounded good for about $2K. I tried it out against several Chinese DACs a little lower in price, and I thought the Chinese DACs sounded... too digital. Crispy critters. I upg... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area My listening room is 20'x15' with wooden floors (with an 8x12 carpet) and windows. What I don't want are woofers that are so powerful they rattle my windows and shake my floors, adding bass distortions. I have a pair of Sonus Faber Olympica Nova ... | |
| Shakti Stone I was given a Shakti Stone as a present from someone I helped to get hired for a job as a software engineer. I kept it for several years moving it here and there, trying to locate the power source on components so that I could put it on top. I hea... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? I could happily upgrade forever, but I have hit some big limitations, mostly in $$$. Upgrading my system would be in the tens of thousands of dollars. And I'm not simply spending my money. I have a wife who wants a new car but will most probably n... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research I've owned a PH-3 and PH-7 phono preamps. Both excellent for their time. I grew out of the PH-3 and looked in the used market for an upgrade and found a PH-7 in Canada. I didn't think there was anything new or used in its price range that was as g... | |
| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? rikkipuu struck a nerve with me and perhaps put his finger on what bothered me about the Varese review. It was given many more pages than any other review I can remember. So many pages for perhaps a handful of readers who could consider purchasing... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? On what I call "fine" changes to your system, in which I include power cables and power conditioners, I don't recommend A/B ing. Have a friend change (or not change) the setup while you leave the room for a while, then walk back in and see if you ... |