frogman
Responses from frogman
| Good old days Seems to me that the problem is not your system; especially if, as you say, you “like it too much”. By starting to change out gear in order to find the new “right” gear you will just be feeding the monster. If you like your current system so muc... | |
| Some more modern jazz piano trios Surprised no mention of the great Fred Hersch. Check out his trio recordings for some beautifully introspective playing. | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://youtu.be/oW9_6cBTFhs https://youtu.be/D573CZuradE https://youtu.be/5kHQWIAFk5c | |
| Good old days rv, based on the impression left from reading your posts you are clearly a true music lover. You have started several threads which address essentially the same conflict that you struggle with as described in this OP. You clearly struggle with thi... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" You can’t be serious! “yet to enjoy”? Anyway, as far as I’m concerned the opinion of anyone who can sing like this, so connected to the music, deserves to have his opinions on music at least considered. https://youtu.be/Dr-McSXdFEQ | |
| Casual listening With the possible exception of the “listening at lower volumes” part, well………DUH! 😊 | |
| Does Chet Baker remind anyone else of Clifford Brown? Well, there IS a remarkable similarity to the shape of the the melody of “Lullaby of Birdland” and the first couple of measures of “That Old Feeling”. The two tunes also share a similar style/time history. Perhaps those are the things that you are... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! Bingo! Agree completely. Related to that, it is the reviewer who is able to write about the way that the gear impacts the music in the sound that are best. | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! @prof +1000 Some audiophiles are wannabe reviewers and some still are simply envious of the fact that reviewers get to play with all that gear while they can’t. Audio reviewer bashing has become sport for some, often with an unwarranted level of ... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? **** HP's absolute sound is effectively meaningless for most listeners. **** Sadly, probably true. Most audio enthusiasts seek little, if any, exposure to that sound. They attend few, if any, performances of unamplified music. Moreover, the ... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? bdp24, too much subtlety for this simple mind, I guess. Read everything you wrote again…..again. Less is often more as they say. What seemed to come through very clearly in what you wrote was the putting of JGH on a higher plane than HP as far as... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? bdp24, to characterize the focus of HP’s writing as “sound effects” is inaccurate and a bit of a cheap shot. He wrote about all aspects of, as I wrote, the relationship between performance and sound. This necessarily includes what you credit D... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? Interesting indeed to compare the writing styles of JGH and HP. I mostly agree with bdp24’ s comments about the two writers (and their associated reviewers) on “technical” grounds (credentials?). However, I strongly disagree with the implied rela... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I’m always suspicious of absolutist commentary and expressed opinions about what is the “correct” approach to any audio related topic when after continuous inflexible opinions, the opinions are not accompanied by some reference (if only vague) to ... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? I would say that to deem any specific stereo system trait “the most difficult” to get right is, more than anything, a reflection of that particular listener’s ultimate sonic priorities. IOW, what he/she is most sensitive to, or simply wants in a p... |