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| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? Check out Norman Brown, Paul Jackson, Jr, Lee Ritenour, Chuck Loeb, Fourplay, The Jeff Lorber Fusion, Yellowjackets with Jimmy Haslip on bass, Weather Report, Return to Forever and The Chick Corea Elektric Band. | |
| McIntosh purchased by Bose...NOT an April Fool's joke. The saving grace is Bose is a pioneering audio giant with a stable history. A far worse situation is Masimo, a medical device manufacturer, acquiring Sound United, Classe's owner. Masimo dissolved Classe's engineering team a year and a half later. | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget Consider the Golden Ear BRX, Genelec G3, or the MoFi Source Point 10. You don't have to spend $10K! | |
| ???YOUR Personal Favorite???Why??? I am very pleased with my pair of 15-year-old PSB Image 2Bs for which I paid $200!!!! My top 2 replacement choices are the Goldenear BRX and the Genelec G3 based on numerous stellar reviews I've seen and read. | |
| Subwoofer Advice JL Audio subs, while not cheap, can't be touched and their new Dominion subs are a steal for the price!! Also, REL(I have one in my system) makes great subs. | |
| Speakers on top of subwoofer Definitive pioneered combining loudspeakers and subs in the same cabinet for decades and Golden Ear is doing this as well. I haven't seen any complaints about them. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk Yes, I know about this. I was being considerate by keeping my list, which could be a lot longer, short! | |
| Jazz for aficionados Miles Davis-Kind of Blue Miles Davis-Bitches Brew Return to Forever-Romantic Warrior Pat Metheny Group-Pat Metheny Group Yellowjackets-Yellowjackets Stanley Clarke-Journey to Love Chuck Loeb-The Moon, the Stars, and the Setting Sun George D... | |
| You're not a true audiophile unless... According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an audiophile is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. That's a good baseline for me. | |
| Small footprint subwoofer SVS 3000 Micro REL Serie T/x JL Audio Dominion Series | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings Pretty much anything engineered by the late great Michael Bishop. Here's a sample: Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem; Symphony No. 4; The Lark Ascending Telarc Classical SACD Sampler 6 Christopher Theofanidis: Symphony No. 1; P... | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? Being a bassist myself, NO!!!! Let’s not forget that the A in AI stands for ARTIFICIAL which means it’s FAKE! Music is not just notes, chord progressions, and rhythms, it involves EMOTION and is one of the greatest creations of HUMAN BEINGS. AI do... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? Regardless of how much or how little your system costs, as long as it sounds good to YOU, that's all that matters!!! | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? I'm thrilled with my PSB Image 2B front and Image 2C center channel speakers, REL subwoofer, and Radio Shack Optimus LX5 rear channel speakers powered by my Yamaha RX-V571 receiver(soon to be replaced with an Aventage RXA-4A receiver)! Even if I h... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? The kick drum is usually not prominent In classic "laid-back" jazz versus high-energy bebop and fusion where the kick drum is usually more prominent. |