frogman
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| Keys/Piano - Funkiest Solo | |
| Keys/Piano - Funkiest Solo | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement **** The idea that there can be a high rez system (def: revealing of the recording) that is not well-balanced is, if anything, a contradiction in terms. **** Wrong! Most audiophiles with systems that have aspirations of being truly “High End” (hi... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement Fantastic advice from Atmasphere re making one’s recordings “to know what’s right and what isn’t”. I would include and stress increased attendance to live performances. In that advice is the simple reality that there IS a “right”…..certainly wit... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Many great suggestions. Not mentioned: Shirley Horn “Here’s To Life” - Gorgeous recording. Arrangements by the great Johnny Mandel. Abbey Lincoln “You Gotta Pay The Band” - Bonus: Stan Getz as guest soloist. Phoebe Snow “Phoebe Snow”. Fantas... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement **** The sound of a high rez two channel system sounds nothing like live music**** Three possibilities: - The “high rez”’system is not assembled well; is not well balanced. - Recordings being played are not very good. - The listener is not fam... | |
| 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... |