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May 13, 2003	Classical Music as Relics for easy listening A question which emerges from your discussion: has the homogenization and stagnancy occurred because radio and public performance are no longer the ways in which music is heard? Is it possible that music via the cd has become the dominant form of ...
May 13, 2003	Classical Music as Relics for easy listening Shubertmaniac, you are right in many ways. But one reason modern classical has tanked so badly has been its excessively non-melodic intellectualized nature. Composition gets trapped in styles for periods of time and has to re-emerge in a form peop...
May 13, 2003	Classical Music as Relics for easy listening Rats, I left out Gyorgy Ligeti, speaking of chamber music.
May 13, 2003	Classical Music as Relics for easy listening I generally find the internet to be a much better way to locate classical music, especially modern, than searching locally. The Tower and Amazon URL's are pretty decent, and if you look, you can find a number of British and German internet sources...
May 13, 2003	Classical Music as Relics for easy listening There are LOTS of good modern composers!!! I listen to modern music all the time and love it. I would forget the radio and start with a contemporary music history text as a source for directions in 20th century composition. I've never had any trou...
May 09, 2003	Apple's Music Store - The Future of Music In fact Apple has made strong moves in the direction of the music market with their acquisition of Emagic and their development of 96khz/24b support in their OS. Apple has always been a favorite platform in professional audio, and the Emagic invol...
May 02, 2003	A Lamm amp with Avalon Eidolons? Eidolons need power. They do best with 200-300 w/ch of solid state, high current drive. I have no direct experience but would discount the Lamm 1.1. Be certain to hear the combination and talk to the factories and/or dealers who carry both.
May 02, 2003	The Future of Recorded Music "Rather it is about the conditions of access, use, and distribution, what kinds of conditions -- restrictive or free ("free" as in "free speech" and not as in "free beer") -- apply to these. Imagine if vinyl (or: CD's) could only be played on TT's...
May 01, 2003	The Future of Recorded Music Interesting philosophical point Agonanon, but what example in the history of recorded music can you cite that both emerged and survived on a purely public, non-commercial basis? DVD-Audio is the format I can think of that attempted to be as univer...
Apr 30, 2003	The Future of Recorded Music There are two issues. The first is the music industry battle against p2p downloads. On that, I agree with Aganon that this and other floating ideas (like 'weed', which is a paid version of a p2p) will have a difficult future. It's hard to defeat "...
Apr 29, 2003	The Future of Recorded Music Between compression and the focus on singles, this is aimed at the tunes market. I can't quite make the mental jump to this business model for classical, jazz, & concerts. Would you want to have to download a whole disc's worth, plus burn time...
Apr 28, 2003	Kharma CRM 3.2F vs. Avalon Eidolon and Diamond Shubertmaniac, I heard them at a north California dealership, which is a fine place but simply lacks the space that Overture has and will freely admit that their showroom space is too small. I've spent over 2 years dialing in my own pair of Eidolo...
Apr 28, 2003	Kharma CRM 3.2F vs. Avalon Eidolon and Diamond I've heard Diamonds sounding hard and aggressive in the upper frequencies too and think it's probably related to room setup. The room I heard them demo'd in was too small and had too little sound treatment. From Shubertmaniac's comments, it seems ...
Apr 19, 2003	Why do AC cords make so much difference? I believe Sean is fundamentally correct in significant parts of what he is saying. Good recording studios routinely use large transformers, shielded low inductance in-wall wiring, dedicated circuits, and extremely low noise grounding systems for h...
Apr 17, 2003	Video & Audio: Power, Ground, EMI, Noise in Cables Hooray! I second your idea. Reference lists like these should become part of a library at Audiogon. It has often occurred to me also that there should be a few basic tutorial discussions on how to lay out a dedicated a/c system including pros &...