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| Jazz vocals recommendations please Nancy King "Live At Jazz Standard" with pianist Fred Hersch: the pure essence of jazz singing. Grammy-nominated 2-3 years ago, this album was recorded on the sly by Hersch. It documents King and Hersch literally meeting on the bandstand, no rehear... | |
| Favourite ECM Titles Several choice albums have already been mentioned. I'd like to add:"Conference Of The Birds" Dave Holland"Yellow Fields" Eberhard Weber | |
| Speaker most similar to Proac REsponse 2 I would second the idea of the Response 2.5. You get all that's excellent in the 2's with the benefit of a more extended low end, and you don't have to deal with the extra heavy stands that the 2's need to perform at their best. Other than that, I... | |
| Number of records you have Around 8000, collected over 50-plus years. Have made at least three major culls over the years. | |
| How are Proac 1 SC's at low volume levels? Exceptional midrange is the most crucial factor in low volume listening and the 1sc's are indeed exceptional in that regard. Even better---if you can find a pair---are the ProAc Tablette 50 Signatures. The Sigs are noticeably more efficient as wel... | |
| Record Cleaning Backlash This is one of those whatever-floats-your-boat arenas. For some, a multi-step, meticulous process is profoundly satisfying, intrinsically enjoyable. I think that's great. I tend more to the less time-consuming approach, leaving more time for the l... | |
| Cozi fan Tutti, EMI or Angel Records? EMI. Angel pressings were notoriously inconsistent. | |
| Your Favorite Traditional Ballad The Water Is Wide | |
| The best small bookshelf speaker you ever heard? ProAc Tablette 50 Signature | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavilion" | |
| Indian Music? The vocalists Parween Sultana and Dilshad Khan seem to defy what is humanly possible with their voices. Their music is virtuosic, emotionally compelling, and absolutely life-affirming. The master of the sarod, Ali Akbar Khan, is another artist ver... | |
| how long of a break in for 17d3 I don't know your TT and phono pre, but at 10 hours my 17D3 (with a Nottingham Spacedeck and Dynavector P-75 II) was a bit on the aggressive side. It got fractionally better over the next 20 or so and then started to relax noticeably. By 50 hours,... | |
| Looking for great violin CDs in solo. An enthusiastic second to Jburidan's recommendation of the Biber Mystery Sonatas: absolutely magical stuff. | |
| phono pre amp giant killer? I'll echo Stanwal on the Dynavector P75. Unbeatable for the money, both for sound quality and flexibility. | |
| Looking for some Art Pepper recommendations All the Contemporary albums are benchmarks for engineering. Artistically, "Modern Jazz Classics" (also known as "Art Pepper + 11") is an acknowledged classic. A sleeper in his catalog is "Winter Moon", the rare jazz plus strings album that works. ... |