edcyn
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| WTH TAS?! Thanks for the critique of the vid. An eminently worthwhile.addition to the audiogon website. | |
| A Beginner's Guide to Audiophile Try to hear somebody playing music live, whether it be at a bar, a nite club or a musical instrument store. It doesn't matter if the musicians are good. Just try to get an inkling as to what musical instruments actually sound like. Of course, if y... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media @charles1dad -- I use a relatively inexpensive Cambridge CXN that the phone voice at Upscale Audio recommended. My Mytek Brooklyn Bridge had just bit the dust, and I just couldn't hack listening via my Laptop PC. The Cambridge is connected via Ea... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media What can I say? I'm truly in love with streaming, this despite my wall of records and six foot tall rack of CDs. SQ competes with and often surpasses my vinyl. Selection is vast. Idagio and Qobuz use their evil algorithms to suss out my tastes an... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Maybe I've mentioned this before, but my choice is the 4th Movement of Mozart's Symphony #39. | |
| Top 10 vintage cassette decks The only cassettes I care about are those of my old bands either in performance or jamming, and me playing my musical instruments. No, we weren't very good, but it'd be great if I could hear how bad. | |
| Top 10 vintage cassette decks I still have a shoe box full of cassettes but I haven't had a machine to play them on in at least a decade.. In any event, way back when I went through a number of cassette player brands including Nak, and ended up enjoying my Denon the most. | |
| Most Realistic Recordings @melm I've been cruising some of the recent EMI orchestral recordings on Idagio. And yes, they are actually very good. Surprisingly good also are some recent DG orchestral recordings. | |
| Politics and Music Laughable, insightful or just plain entertaining, I get a kick out of musicians who put their political views front and center in their music. Let a thousand flowers bloom. Just remind yourself that you don't have to sniff them too closely... | |
| Politics and Music If it's gonna be good you gotta write/compose from the heart & gut. In any case, I might as well admit it now. I have a strange fixation on rhymes that involve Moon and June. | |
| Politics and Music Shostakovitch delivers us straight into the horrors of WWII with his Second String Quartet. No glory. Just madness. | |
| Wall Art The only piece of art I have in my stereo room is a 15x20 blow up of a medium format black-and-white I took during my travel adventures. It's a grab shot of a guy playing the saxophone beneath an arch of a bridge over the River Seine in Paris. It'... | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding Did I ever mention on this website that I went to Jim Morrison's 'concert' at the Aquarius Theater(?) to hear him spout his poetry? | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Serjio -- Love that vid of Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl! | |
| Best progressive rock album side There are a lot of late British Invasion bands mentioned in the second/third pages of this thread that I just did not enjoy. I gave good listens to Humble Pie, the Soft Machine, the Incredible String Band, and Procol Harum. I even saw several of ... |