frogman
Responses from frogman
| How low is a piano? About 40” 😉. The lowest note on a Bosendorfer Imperial is (CCC) 16.5 hz. | |
| The worst sentence in audio writing By this “logic” it could be said that there has been no significant improvement in what audio gear is capable of since Victrola days. **** In order to make gear which has details never before heard the gear must exaggerate some sounds to the d... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time **** I can live with tonal aberrations, whereas the groove or the flow is the heart and soul of music, and that tiny nuances in this metric are what separate ‘great’ musicians from the also rans..**** Agree 100%. | |
| Review - Don Grusin Out of Thin Air - PS Audio First, take it as a compliment. Then, contact them and demand credit for the review. If none is forthcoming, inform them that you will post on every music site, blog, etc. that is available to you alerting all that they plagiarized your writings... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados It is common to think that the soloist always has the last word. This is not always the case at all. First of all, “Das Lied” is a symphonic poem; the orchestral writing is much more than simply accompaniment for the soloist. Whether the soloist (... | |
| What are some of your favorite "COLD" songs? | |
| What are some of your favorite "COLD" songs? | |
| What are some of your favorite "COLD" songs? | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Congrats! Every type of component influences PRAT (if that is what one wants to call it) to one degree or another. We tend to be more comfortable describing issues of tonal and spatial distortion, but less so issues of rhythmic distortion. Sure... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? How would you describe, from a specific sonics standpoint, what your goal is? What about the sound that you are getting now are you not satisfied with and hope to improve? Thanks. | |
| Listening without interpretation...is it impossible? True. Many don’t. However, most musicians do care about audio sound; just not on the same level as most audiophiles. Even so, and I’ve made this point in the past, as a percentage of the population of musicians, far far more of them are audioph... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? I wish I had said that 😊 Btw, for me it has been a permanent arrangement since with the ET2 I have felt no need to do it internally. | |
| Listening without interpretation...is it impossible? Not sure that I agree with the notion that the way others describe what they hear influences MY perception of what I hear. Of course, if there is to be any kind of meaningful dialogue one has to try and interpret what someone else is trying to say... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? **** listen for several weeks on a regular basis to one setup in my own system where I know intimately every component in the pathway, and then to change from setup A to setup B and listen again for an extended period of time to B. Ideally, that w... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? I have shared my experience with and impressions of four different tonearm wires in (actually, with the exception of the VDH, “on” is more accurate) my Eminent Technology ET2 tangential tracking arm- the stock VDH silver clad copper, Cardas, Disco... |