edcyn
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| Most valuable LP My Casino Royale? Who knows? Who knows if it's now only worth a dime? BTW, I filched it from my cousin's seemingly abandoned record collection...that had been idly sitting in the room of his childhood home for a good ten years. | |
| Does anyone collect something else other than music. I don’t collect stuff because I’m into collecting. I end up with collections of stuff because sometimes an individual item will "speak to me," even though I have a similar item already. If that item happens to be one more guitar or fiddle...or one... | |
| I Think I Am Becoming An Audiophile Artemus -- I bet there are lots of London/Decca and EMI/HMV/Angel records in your pile. Both labels are chock full of the finest opera recordings in existence. The only difference between London and Decca is the name on the label, as the British D... | |
| I Think I Am Becoming An Audiophile Yeah, the quest for realism and good sound quality can be a prime motivation for experimenting with new genres. Wait'll you get to opera, Off-stage choruses. Crowd scenes. Singers wandering forward, backward, left and right across the soundsta... | |
| Favorite Lyricists? Dylan, Bowie, Joni, Lou Reed, and any of the Thirties, Forties, Fifties Tin Pan Alley crowd. And oh yeah, the anonymous writers that contributed to Des Knaben Wunderhorn. | |
| Favorite reviewer? My audio reviewer faves --Hairy PersonMikey FremerArt DudleyDick OlsherAnthony CordesmanRobert HarleyJust plain good writing from these folks! | |
| Audio reviews: too many analogies, never simple, but most of all, never clear. I agree that audio reviews can be frustratingly long-winded these days, but I love it when a reviewer uses analogies from outside the audio world to better describe what he/she is hearing. I want the review to be subjective. Bring on those food ... | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world Albums that turned my head around & upside down; and that changed my predilections and tastes in music -- Meet the BeatlesThe DoorsAladdin Sane (Bowie of course)Kind of BlueMahler Fourth (Haitink)Led ZeppelinTurandot (Pavarotti, Mehta)Sex Pist... | |
| can anyone recommend a person in LA area to pay to install a tricky Koetsu cartridge I actually bought and had Brooks Berdan install my Koetsu Black. I actually had the guy at Optimal Enchantment (was it Randall Cooley?) install my Lyra Delos. It's a good thing the Lyra still sounds great. Yes I have all the tools but I now liv... | |
| Rock concerts Too many to either list or count. I grew up in L.A. and by the time I could drive I was always going to live concerts, whether they were in clubs like the Roxy and Whiskey, mid-sized venues like the Santa Monica Civic or arenas like the Forum and... | |
| Monitors and speaker stamds? Quake Hold museum putty. A dime-sized dollop in each corner. | |
| Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer Qobuz and Primephonic have liberated me from the buying bug. In particular, I often go to Primephonic simply hear yet another performance of a piece I already have several copies of. I listen to new artists. Composers I've never heard of. Ain'... | |
| have you ever bought stereo without listening first I grew up in L.A. and always had a plethora of hifi stores to haunt and harass. It's something that got me to fully expect an in-store audition. Now that I'm 3000 miles from anything more audio-oriented than an Office Max, I rely on audio mags a... | |
| Left/Right Channels Only classical nutcases suffer conniptions over reversing the channels, because orchestras and chamber ensembles always sit a certain way onstage. Of course, it might twist your brain a little if you have a balance control. This is because when yo... | |
| Audio reviews: too many analogies, never simple, but most of all, never clear. Well, yes, there is the snob factor. By the same token, though, compared with other genres there is a far better chance that the music is made with instruments that are entirely acoustic, and that the recording is done with no electronic sleight-... |