frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados Best wishes, O-10. Wishing you a full recovery. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Amazing! Fantastic clips both. One of the few tenor players who could play those breakneck tempos with the fluid agility of bebop alto players. And you're right, easy to forget what a beautiful and soulful ballads player he was. What a tone! ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados The "Jazz Crier" (jafant) is working overtime. He mentioned Johnny Griffin:The legendary two-tenors frontline of Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis; two of the most exciting tenor players ever:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJ1u93iSWQ | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? **** Numerical limitation would killcreative expression. ****I should read Frege; would spare me a lot of typing. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pryso, you are correct re ticket pricing in NYC; and that's for starters. Re "Focus": great minds think alike 😎...just kidding. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, this was written in response to your previous to last post directed at me. I will briefly address your most recent post at the end.************************Dear Raul,There is an expression often used by orchestral musicians: "No one is fired... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Bargain indeed; $2 would be $17.50 in today's dollars. I understand your feeling about jazz with strings; the arrangements often seem to put too many constraints on the jazz player. However, I happen to like that record a lot and posted it early... | |
| Jazz for aficionados http://www.jazzinpopculture.com/assets/img/coltrane-chicken-supreme.png+++ A couple goes to see a marriage counselor. They say their marriage is on the rocks because they never speak to each other. The counselor tries to get them to talk, but they... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,**** Each audiophile can have their own system targets ****Exactly what I said: "Not every listener wants the same things from recorded sound". **** My target is to stay truer to the recording truer as the recording microphones pick up t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pryso and alex, great clips both! Evans/Bennett is one of my very favorite records and a classic. How can one not like Tony Bennett? The man drips love of singing. This is from their "Together Again" album. If anyone ever doubted what an incr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? nandric, you have a very good memory and I share your frustration with the state of contemporary music and the young.**** We in the West or rather Europe have an ubelievablewelth of musical tradition which is in danger by Americanartificial amplif... | |
| Jazz for aficionados It seems to me that now is precisely the time to ramp up activity here in order to show our appreciation to O-10 for starting this thread which, differences of opinion and all, has been a very positive and educational addition to these forums. Wi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I suppose that the best way to answer nandric’s question (’what "should be" should mean’?) would be to quote what I frequently tell my sons: "there are no ’shoulds’ in life". Not every listener wants the same things from recorded sound, and I thin... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners You are correct; definitely prudent to check that and may indeed be the issue. On that note, the "rim" of the bearing tube should be flush or very close to flush with the front side of the joint. If the bearing tube extends out beyond the side o... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners It is my understanding that for proper setup if one imagines (or when using the set-up jig) a straight line from the front edge of the turntable to the back edge and which goes directly through the platter’s spindle, the ET2’s tonearm tube should ... |