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| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman thatnks for that link. I never heard of this Haydn oratorio! Listening to it now. I much prefer Haydn's choral/liturgical writing to instrumental (I'm probably alone in feeling that way, but there it is). | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman are you referring to Dorati's version of "The Creation" (Royal Phil, London/Jubilee)? If yes, it's easily the best version of the four or five I own. Just my 2 cents. I'm nuts for oratorios, so many through the centuries. Handel is the ma... | |
| Do some DACs "handle" sibilance better than others? OP, the answer is yes. After years of painfully bright digital music from CDs on various delta/sigma DACs, I found NOS & R2R DACs, and everything changed. Some of them manage to be bright, but way fewer than any random assortment of d/s DACs w... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @audio-b-dog, you are so right about Bach's Mass in B Minor. It's magnificent music. So much of what the man composed is magnificent. Are you hip to Haydn's "The Creation"? I love that oratorio. The man was playing his A game when he wrote that. ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries Delighted to see people talking about Kiri Te Kanawa. I love her voice. Every voice is totally unique ... the timbre of hers is wonderful. Her interpretation of Richard Strauss' 4 final songs is easily the best of the dozens I've heard (probably ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @audio-b-dog, I know all about Oliver Sachs. Actually have a copy of Musicophelia; this is a good reminder to read it. I’ve also heard his lectures. I first became acqainted with him via the neurology connection: he was a well-known researcher in ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries mindless technicolor rat? besides, I have it on good authority the future will be a dingy, medium grey light. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries I heard music from infancy onward. I actually remember music as a very distinct feeling as far back as 2 yrs old. I have pictures of my twin brother and me sitting in our high chairs at dinner time. My mother was feeding us (food we immediately th... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? The Jimmy Hendrix Experience at Hunter College in NYC in 1968. I saw him again twice later, but nothing compared to that night in ’68. My mind and ears got completely blown..... | |
| Old SS amps I bought a gently used B&K ST-202 power amp in the early '90s. That thing worked perfectly from day-1 to now. Sounds pretty good, too. | |
| Was anyone else caught out by this? "I can't get a sound out of this tonearm--but my records have never been this clean!" | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? RE: "So, my question is why is this a superior mode of listening, what makes it inherently superior? And why is consciousness of sound quality or qualities necessarily a critical mode of listening?" I don’t think either kind of listening, critica... | |
| Chair This suggestion may not be workable in a living room setup, but here goes anyway. I worked for >30 years in a home office (freelance medical writer, often 10-12 hr days). In the first year my back began to fall apart ... the trash office chair... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? OP, only you can decide if you want to do critical listening--if so, when and why. I’ve done a lot of it, specifically: When I’m writing a review of a headphone, amp or DAC (to post on an audio board ... not a professional reviewer) When I’m ... | |
| Electronic cross-over on pre-amp out, to split signal to subwoofer and bookshelf speakers I, too, can wholeheartedly recommend electronic crossovers made by Marchand Electronics. I use the XM66 2-way crossover: it has variable (user setable) crossover frequency; 24 dB/octable slopes; is single-ended; had a pot for each of the 2 outputs... |