cd318
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| What are we objectivists missing? @jtucker My take is that if you can hear a difference, there must be some difference. Ah, if only the sometimes fickle human mind/hearing system was as straightforward and logical as that! | |
| Politics and Music Politics and music don’t really mix very well as history has shown us time and time again. I guess this is hardly surprising when you look at the average age of the typically radical musician. The older ones tend to know better than isolate half ... | |
| The Audio Critic Peter Aczel was years ahead of his time and told it like he saw it. Sometimes I despair of reading magazine reviews. Just the other day I was looking for a new tyre inflator for my car and checked out several magazine reviews. I thought it was ... | |
| Politics and Music Everything is of its time. There's simply no getting away from that. We may no longer have protest singers but the music of today is still very much a product of our time. Context matters, but it's not everything. Just earlier today I heard Wh... | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding I remember a holiday in Amsterdam where they seemed to be playing the Doors everywhere we went. It was damn near perfect to wake up and stick your head out of the window and hear the Doors first thing in the morning. Another time I went it wa... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? @serjio The acoustic version is lovely too. Audrey Hepburn was such a darling. | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? @serjio Once again, thanks for posting. I particularly found 'Kalinka' the most moving. We are all just children deep down and we all need love to survive. As for whether humanity is 'flying into the abyss' or whether we're simply going to ... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? @serjio Thanks for posting "Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl". I was going to skip listening to it but I'm glad that I didn't. That is simply a brilliantly uplifting song, and what a classic rendition! | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? A perfect song would be akin to pure musical pleasure. You’d never get tired of it, and it would never fail to resonate with you. I agree with what @kb54 said earlier. For me also the theme of young love/ lust / yearning never loses its charm... | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive I tried a pair of attenuators for my amp just in case some kid wanted to hear how it sounds with the volume turned up full. Unfortunately the attenuators seemed to be either badly made or I wasn't able to use enough force to get the RCAs in. In ... | |
| Celestion Ditton 66’s. ‘Upgrade’ to modern speakers consequences? Don’t know the Ditton 66s but I helped rewire some 44s. They were quite different to most modern speakers. How to describe? They had a more looser, faster, energetic bass for a start. The giant bass driver must have played its part. The sound... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media @retiredfarmer I was offered the Linn cd12 at at great prices the dealer was wanting rid of it and I should have done what it took to buy that one but I past on it back in the day. Yes, the original price was rather steep. I heard one at ... | |
| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? Loads of good stuff. In particular my Rega Kytes (orig) gave me years of pleasure, my Naim 32.5/110 likewise. However, the best of all, particularly on speech and drama, were my Tannoy Berkeley’s, which I still use to this day, some 12 years lat... | |
| NAD M33 issues, don't know where to start Yes, contact an authorized NAD repair shop. My sister has a NAD CBEE something integrated amp which developed a fault. The repair service was fantastic. That amp has been working faultless for over 15 years since. | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding Springsteen appreciation might require a dollop of some Catholic guilt or similar, and a small dose of self pity. Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town are good places to start as Bruce finally found his own voice after sometimes brilli... |