frogman
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| Class D Amplification Announcement Understood and I appreciate your attitude in the face of disagreement. **** the live music thing alway struck me as kinda silly. **** I could not disagree more. To use your example and turn it around, are we to use studio recordings as a benchma... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement soix, thank you for the evenhanded response. The problem with comparisons to other gear as the basis for a review is twofold. First, to take that approach assumes that everyone, or even most, interested in the piece of gear being reviewed has he... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement The more things change, the more they stay the same. The bashing of audio reviewers by audiophiles who are themselves wannabe reviewers; it’s been sport as long as there have been audiophiles. Out of control egos who are so convinced that it is in... | |
| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet …. and speaking of clarinets and Adolph Sax, Sax was also the inventor of the modern bass clarinet which he patented in the late 1830’s or so; before (!) he patented his Saxophone. Earlier bass clarinets predated Sax’s instrument, but they used a ... | |
| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet Nice demo, thanks! The “octave key”, also and more accurately referred to as register key overblows a 12th (one octave and a fifth). This is a function of the fact that the clarinet has a tubular bore, as opposed to the saxophone’s conical bore ... | |
| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet Great commentary re this most wonderful chamber work and great to see the clarinet get some love! A few additional comments; some, related to the already mentioned facts. It is interesting to note that early in the evolution of instruments common... | |
| The Good Stuff inna? 😊 | |
| Shostakovich Fifth Symphony **** The question is, do the images you receive from the music depend upon knowing the history of the piece, or are the emotional images / feelings independent of what you know about the history surrounding the piece. **** A great musical work is... | |
| What I really hate about some music We like what we like and we could leave it at that… depending on what level of involvement with the music we each want. However, to approach listening to music (or any art) with preconceived and rigid ideas about what aspects (repetition, rhymi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados inna, curious, why and how exactly? | |
| Beyonce releases first album in six years RENAISSANCE There are concrete and specific reasons that any one of us dislikes a particular performer’s music. Not that I spend much energy at all thinking about Beyoncé’s, but speaking for myself, I dislike her music because I find her music to not be on a... | |
| Beyonce releases first album in six years RENAISSANCE **** I was only commenting on how odd it seems to me to take the time to just let people know your opposition to a choice they have made. Do you poke your head inside a restaurant to let a patron know the meatloaf is overrated? **** This common s... | |
| Live versus Recorded & Reproduced Music The short answer to your question is simply that even the very best audio systems have a long way to go before they’ll be able to reproduce all the nuance in every aspect of the sound of live music; not only in the areas of dynamics and transient ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, I don’t think it is the odd meter tunes that cause some to be luke warm about Brubeck’s music. In fact it is those tunes that became his best known. I think it is more the fact that Brubeck’s music had a distinct feeling and way with swing.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados mahgister, nice! |