emrofsemanon
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| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? bobby vinton's 1972 cover of "sealed with a kiss." johnny desmond's version of "speak low" and "long ago and far away." kd lang's cover of "rose garden." chuck berry's version of "my dingaling." ELO's version of "roll over beethoven." mitch ryder'... | |
| How Audiphiles are Different my mind can push acoustics into the background for the most part. but what i can't seem to tune out - is noise, esp. if it is percussive in character [phonographic crackle]. that is the thing that got me to become an audio restoration technician. ... | |
| Hearing and emotions my Stendhal's Syndrome primarily manifests via music. certain musical numbers can totally hijack my brain and carry me away somewhere odd and unexpected. this effect is amplified when the music is reproduced correctly. | |
| Turn down the Volume! a minority opinion here- what would benefit most systems in most listening environments the most, is a good compressor. the compressor would raise the bottom level of the music where it can more easily be heard above the environmental noise floor,... | |
| FREE - THIEL CS 2_2 to a Good Home lordy rop45, that is a titanic generosity on your part, sure wish i lived near there. that speaker would be worth it for me to invest in better upstream components for. i have a baby set that i'd love to use as rear channels to these. | |
| 33rpm vs 45rpm - which is better in my experience, 45 sounds "airier" [cleaner extended trebles, greater sense of EASE from bottom to top esp. towards the inner grooves] than 33 but that it also has a slightly higher volume of surface noise, what noise there is in higher in pitch... | |
| Old CDs and records somebody will love your collection. | |
| Vandersteen Forum what i've long admired about the "vandy" sound is that they seem to commit sins of omission only. i can live with those. the ones i heard [in an acoustically perfect room, meaning large] were not the last word in definition but they made everythin... | |
| Politics and Music the greatest music is multi-level in its meaning. some diatribes are danceable. | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? some songs that are a result of massive inspiration, such as "when a man loves a woman" [percy sledge] country tunes that perfectly encapsulate a feeling such as "why baby why" [george jones] a song that has been condensed down to essentials, su... | |
| I'm at the pearly gates and they tell me I can only bring in one jazz cd hands down fave- red norvo, "the forward look." | |
| Why Is Hi Fi Gear So Darn Expensive? multiple reasons surrounding the central [greedy] reason of "just because it is what the market will bear." your effortless ability to afford exorbitantly-priced luxury hi-fi gear is one of those symbolic things that tells potential mates that you... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? the human hearing mechanism encodes height information based on frequency contouring caused by the shape of the ear. there is a tone map in the brain that instantly "translates" certain directional sounds as "higher" or "lower." SOME stereo music ... | |
| Di I really need to clean my LP's? my recent post was misunderstood, i meant to say that UNLESS one lives in a sterile room with clean protocols, one NEEDS to ALWAYS clean one's records BEFORE each use. | |
| Di I really need to clean my LP's? unless you wear a clean suit in a clean room, you need to clean. |