edcyn
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| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... three easy payments -- It’s because jazz is a hell of a lot more difficult to play. | |
| Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned? My PrimaLuna Integrated. Or is it my Nola Boxers? | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... When it comes to music it's best to follow your heart, not your mind. As fun and enlightening as analysis may be, don't let analysis get in the way of a good time. | |
| A question for those in the know about streaming FM/Music sound quality Try Qobuz. Try the classical streaming service Primephonic, too. In addition to classical, Primephonic also offers a limited but finely-curated selection of jazz and pop. More often than not, I get superlative fidelity from both these guys. | |
| Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store If they were gonna charge me for an audition, I’d probably gleefully unleash torrents of abuse on them. Just because. It would take a lot to keep my dander down. Then again. Were the sellers lovely folks? Was I absolutely smitten by the components... | |
| RIP Toots! Loved Toots and the Maytals, also. And, yeah, I also saw him live. I'm pretty sure it was at the Troubadour, but it might have been at the Whiskey. | |
| Main Audiogon site barely works? For the last couple days I was getting an "Oops! Sorry, this website doesn't exist" message whenever I tried to log on. Then, this morning, like magic, it's back. I guess Audiogon HQ installed a couple of bad tubes. Or was it too much Tweak that d... | |
| Leave tube amps always on? I just can't get myself to leave my tubed integrated on all the time, even though a tech suggested I do it. It just doesn't sit right for this virtuous, right-thinking guy. To be honest, if it does indeed shorten tube life, so be it. It'll give... | |
| Affects of Badly Centered Hole Wow from warps, off-center pressings and misplaced center holes has driven me nuts since I was twelve...which was perhaps about one or two years ago(!). Flutter and wow from Four Tracks, Eight Tracks, cassettes and reel-to-reals at anything slowe... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings I repeat once again once again, right now this fiddler is experiencing superlative string tone from Primephonic, this time of Lalo's Symphonie espagnole. My system -- Mytek Brooklyn Bridge, PrimaLuna Prologue One, Nola Boxers. | |
| Are systems genre dependent? I agree with you. More often than not I have indeed found different systems and components to be somewhat if not grossly genre dependent. To my ears my system delivers lovely sound in whatever genre I venture into, but I'm sure any true heavy met... | |
| Mic for recording sound demos ? I have an MXL V67Q stereo mike, which I use to record myself on piano, fiddle and guitar. I connect the mike to my Zoom H4 portable recorder. Not that the Zoom’s attached mikes are rotten or anything, but the MXL actually gives me bona-fide tone a... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Fuzztones -- Not that I ever played in an orchestra but I used to regularly gather with a bunch of fiddlers for Old Time jam sessions. The jams would happen at bars, restaurants, somebody's living room, or in backyards, parks & patios. Of co... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Right now I'm getting outstanding, edge-less violin string tone from a Primephonic stream of Hillary Hahn and orchestra doing "A Lark Ascending." | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Yeah, it just seems to be one of those things recording engineers have trouble with. I've got hundreds (thousands?) of orchestral recordings on CD, vinyl and cassette, and probably only about twenty or thirty of them get orchestral strings close t... |