edcyn
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| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? I believe I posted a pic of my system at some time in the past. But I couldn't find it in that forest of system pics, and I gave up before I could make it all the way through the web page...er...Web Library of Congress. Putting it another way, I c... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The Pink Panther movie soundtrack via Qobuz. Totally lovin' it. Yeah, my opinion of it may come off as patently ridiculous, but the only way I can describe it is that it's the Beethoven's Ninth of Lounge Music. As profoundly shallow as the Beethov... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony, in a lovely-sounding (yeah DG!) recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nezet Seguin. CD quality stream from Idagio. Mellow. Happy. Chock full of Rocky's ever wonderful tunes. | |
| How tall do you like your images? Ya know, I just never thought about it. I mean, sure, when I'd go to Festival Seating rock concerts I'd make my way to the front of the stage and hear the music coming from above me. But in practically every other instance, I'd just care about the... | |
| Magico's M9 Let the world turn. Or better yet, get that crowbar out of the garage and get the world to stop. | |
| AI and the future of music The matter has already been alluded to in this thread, but subjective judgments serve as the bedrock issue when it comes to deciding what is good and what is bad in the creative arts. I spent thirty years making a pretty good living at a couple of... | |
| AI and the future of music As I read this thread I’m listening to an Idagio stream of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker performed by the Kirov Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. All I can say is that it might still be a while before a computer might possess the collective intell... | |
| Vintage cassette playlists My cassette player (the last of, I think, three) bit the dust maybe ten or fifteen years ago. The cassettes themselves seem long gone -- including all the live recordings of me, both solo and with my various bands. Alas! My history is history🙄. | |
| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... @bdp24 The stairs to the Classical section were next to the Ticketron Kiosk, to the right when you entered the store. And let me tell ya’, everybody hated being ordered to work the Ticketron window. More often than not, the Ticketron Machine would... | |
| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... This thread takes me back to my Tower Records days at the Panorama City branch, where the classical music department was up the squeaky stairs to the second floor. There was the customer who pronounced Deutsche Grammophon as "duchesses grab-a-phon... | |
| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... I've got my share of Musica Antiqua Koln LPs & box sets. Whether the stuff they perform is obscure or Greatest Hits, they do it with soul and panache. A particular favorite of mine is the three LP set Deutsche Kammermusik vor Bach, stuff J.S. ... | |
| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... For the past couple hours I've had Idagio randomly streaming Romantic Era violin concertos my way that, not only have I never heard, I've never heard of the composers, either. In any case, no matter who Gernsheim and Frohlich were, they came up so... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A deep dive into nerd-dom, comparing my two pressings of the Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man LP, one a two-eyed initial pressing (complete with an ancient Columbia Records soft clear plastic sleeve) and the other a later no-eyed pressing in a paper slee... | |
| Is simpler better? The thing about analog vinyl playback is that you gotta get the record moving around in a circle, and you need something to attach the device on that converts the vibrations carved into the record groove to electrical energy. There's no redundanc... | |
| Thoughts About Turntable Upgrades After spending untold amounts of time in the attempt to make judgments as to what order to place my three sources in terms of fidelity -- CD/SACD, Phono & Streaming, I've simply lost the jones to carve my order of preference in stone. I posses... |