chashmal
Responses from chashmal
| Artists of the Decade Answer: maybe on his day off? | |
| Artists of the Decade Mapman: 50's R&R advocated a rather bland good time attitude, not criminality. When did Carl Perkins ever slap around hoes with the butt of his mac-10 before he sodomized them? | |
| Artists of the Decade To all you defenders of 'rap': How low do we have to get as a culture before you guys admit that there has been serious deterioration? Outright glorification of criminality is not enough for you? It is not like rock-n-roll in the 50's at all. Elvi... | |
| Artists of the Decade I cannot understand how otherwise seemingly intelligent people could say anything positive whatsoever about 'rap'. I remain so thoroughly unconvinced that even my objections are objecting. To my ears, it is the glorification of the most base anima... | |
| What is more important source or preamp? Not the speakers, I can attest to that! | |
| Music for "Tough Times" Anything by Skip James from the 1928 sessions | |
| Lector 7T MK3, is it really that great? Comparing the Cambridge 840C to the Lector is no contest. The 840 is a great player for the money, but it sounds like a CD player; thin, forward, and shallow compared to the Lector. The Lector is almost a turntable. Almost is the key word, it actu... | |
| New To Vinyl... Seeking Recomendations Get a copy of Sun Ra's "The Magic City". It makes jazz at the pawnshop sound like, well, a bunch of old Scandinavian farts playing terrible pseudo-jazz. | |
| What gives? CD’s, Solid State? Mooglie makes a good point. I might think a tubed preamp could be tried. | |
| What gives? CD’s, Solid State? You are obviously a tube guy trapped in a solid state body. | |
| Mono recordings - Listen with one speaker or two?? Years ago I had an old Altec triangular corner cabinet from the 50's. I used to listen to mono recordings through it alone, and it was really interesting. However I prefer mono through 2 speakers. I love the way it hangs in space. | |
| Toe-in or NOT toe-in ?? Best to not listen to dogma. Every room is unique. You will know instantly when you try it. Ears rule over here-say. | |
| Recommendations for close miked classical recordin My 2 cents: screw the sound quality and go for the best performances. Then get the best equipment you can to maximize what you love. It would be a real shame to select performances based on audiophile criteria. In general, audiophiles do NOT know ... | |
| Recommendations for close miked classical recordin Warrensomebody: If you want some Webern in close-miked bliss, get the Robert Craft Columbia recording of the complete Webern. It has exactly the sound you are looking for. However, for the trios and quartets it is not my favorite. That would be th... | |
| Recommendations for close miked classical recordin Here are a few:1. Harnoncourt conducting in 1965 performance of Purcell's "Fantasias for viols"2. Paul Zukofski playing Morton Feldman's "For John Cage"3. Arditti Quartet playing Anton Webern's trios and quartets |