edcyn
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| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments There’s lots of misunderstanding when it comes to how much a musical instrument costs. Yeah, the seven figure price of a Strad gets the publicity, but if you’re a working fiddler you can do more than fine when you got five figures in your pocket. ... | |
| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments I'm addicted to both playing musical instruments and listening to good audio, but despite the fact that both obsessions have to do with the love of music, society considers them very different beasts. A lot of society thinks of audiophilia as not... | |
| 1st SACD Purchase rcprince -- Hey, I've got that Morten Lauridsen CD, except mine is on the RCM label. Not an SACD, though. I played it a lot, back at the turn of the century. Another modernist but eminently accessible, utterly beautiful piece is Eric Whitacre'... | |
| Album that you cherish that are not found on streaming services (Stomu Yamashta & GO) I have lots of classical LPs on my shelf that I can't find on Qobuz or even Primephonic, my go-to site for classical stuff. Not that it doesn't make perfect sense for a streaming source, but hard drive-hogging complete operas are truly scarce in ... | |
| Gender bender Buck Owens' Together Again performed by Emmylou Harris. Okay, nearly everything cross-gender covered by Emmylou Harris. | |
| Best debut album Yeah, I know I'll be instantly cast into the purgatory of tin-eared dimwits, but I'll say it here & now that I never liked the Band. Unable to unbutton themselves. Dripping with ersatz sincerity. Whiny. Forced. | |
| What makes for a "good" musician? bdp24 -- Don't get me started on the Ramones. I've fallen for my share of rock bands in my decades of listening but to me they were the best of them all. | |
| Fuzzy distortion on vinyl........Stylus issue? Your problem takes me back to the bad ole' days, the 1950's-1970's. When no amount of cleaning of the stylus would help and no loose screws needed to be tightened I knew it was time to just get a new needle. I must say, too, that some of my old ... | |
| Don't like vinyl Generally I've turned into a digital/streaming type guy but a decent percentage of the time I'll randomly pull an LP out of my collection and say yeah! | |
| What makes for a "good" musician? When it comes to musicianship, I tend to judge subjectively, not objectively. Sure, sheer technical ability is always nice to have but being able to express varieties of moods & emotions is something special to me, and is something that simpl... | |
| Pick my album asvjerry -- Try any recording from MA Recordings. Todd, the founder and sole proprietor of the tiny label, began in the previous century but continues to produce minimally-miked recordings of off-beat music. He goes to exotic places across the ... | |
| Pick my album iron57 -- See if you can stream Mozart's Symphony #34 with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville Marriner, or Mozart's Symphonies Numbers 25 and 29 with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten. There are ... | |
| Pick my album I'll bite. Schubert Symphony #5. Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra. On Angel/EMI | |
| Don't like vinyl Are you some kind of an ana-hog????? | |
| A moment when you realized better sound was possible. iron47 -- You're on your way! Just try not to go bankrupt too quickly. And try not to make your neighbors too murderous. |