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| Bootleg bust That was a time machine for me. Look at how pent-up and pissed off Young is which was his almost constant state of mind. That is unfortunately often the forge in which genius resides. | |
| "The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism" The most amazing musical instrument I have ever encountered was the voice of a girlfriend of mine in college 5 decades ago. This was just her everyday conversational voice. She was not a "singer" as such, but everyone thought she was singing all t... | |
| Musical Expectation Bias I tend to look at the brain as a "component" with the same issues concerning "wiring," "voltage," "interference" etc. Just because the brain is neurologically wired and runs "wetware" instead of software doesn't mean it is exempt from the same typ... | |
| Musical Expectation Bias How Great This Is Very cool including when he wryly looks back over his shoulder at us at certain spiffy moments. Spacetime church music. | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line I got the Kaiweets off of Amazon. It is showing a voltage fluctuation between 119 and 122 volts. It is gradual throughout the day. The higher readings tend to be late at night when I favor what is coming out of the system. However, since injectiin... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! There was some Formula One champion who said his main secret to racing success was "brake management" by which he meant using them as sparingly as possible in order to extend their functional life, and apparently he was a supreme master at doing t... | |
| Scientifically proven improvement for sound clarity. My wife wears hearing aids which have nullified whatever pleasure she used to get from listening to music. I might have to get a pair of these elfin things for her to try. | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers My Audions are fronted by a Primaluna EVO 400 pre which has been in my stack for 2 years. This sounds good, but in a few weeks supposedly I will be receiving a Holo Audio Serene KTE pre. My DAC is a Holo May KTE, and the Serene is supposed to comp... | |
| Occam's Razor: The Signal to Noise Ratio Indeed you are right. I was actually making a little funny with this topic. Artists like Heifetz and Artur Rubenstein sometimes caught grief for twiddling a bit with the notes by subtly re-writing and spontaneously improvising and embellishing wh... | |
| Occam's Razor: The Signal to Noise Ratio Perlman On Heifetz Here's my example of SNR - Heifetz freewheelin' it. I remember Perlman also saying upon Heifetz's death that he played like "lava." Heifetz Plays Sibelius | |
| Jazz Mount Rushmore It is such an overwhelming question that it tends to strike most people into near muteness, but it is a good question anyway. | |
| Musical Expectation Bias Thank you for clearing the air. | |
| Scientifically proven improvement for sound clarity. His Master's Voice | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers Another thing I had change with the Audions - the 10 gauge "western electric" speaker wires I had been using with the previous set up had to be changed over to 16 gauge. With the 10 gauge wires the sound was way too overbearing and difficult to ge... | |
| Musical Expectation Bias So "rhythm" is a goofy audiophool term. Brilliant. The cyborgs live among us. "Rhythm" |