chowkwan
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| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @edcyn. Now we're remembering Callas, she was an audiophile. At the end of her life, she spent her days listening to her old recordings on reel tape. Prolly master copies. There is a photo of her in her apartment with her tape machine but even the... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @danager. Re:clip of Tebaldi and Callas. Well you tried. More than that I cannot ask of any man. Or woman. They do say that the fastest way to empty a room at a hifi show is to put on some opera. Tebaldi was technically superior to Callas. Tebal... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @mike_in_nc I’m trying to get to know some of the newer singers who are interesting, not just blond and sultry. I for one will not stand by while you insult Taylor Swift who happens to have the hottest legs in show biz. 'nuff said. Who are the ... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @tablejockey Black Coffee b gr8. Is there anything it can't do? All seriousness aside, I'll have the pleasure of checking out early Ella which I confess to not having explored. @tablejockey Maybe you're referring to the later 60's and forward sc... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @danager I don’t know about opera This one's for you. Thnx for the Riff Raff - great name for a group. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Johannes Brahms' Variations on a theme by Haydn. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? The cover including great guitar solo. The original with the originator and the cover artist. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Cover of a cover. The cover. The original. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Cover of a cover. | |
| How Audiphiles are Different Have you ever been at a concert where the orchestra sounds better after the intermission? Did the orchestra or your hearing adjust to the room? Have you ever been tucked away in the upper corner of the Musikverein in Vienna and found the sound of... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Bangkok Thailand Phrom 9 MRT station. (MRT is the underground. Not to be confused with the BTS skytrain.) Next to the station is the Fortunetown Mall. Third floor has the hifi and record stores. Hit the Furtwangler and Karl Richter motherlode.... | |
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| Best progressive rock album side From the Sage of Houston, Billy Gibbons: Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing som... |