frogman
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| Why not horns? Really? I don't think so; my heroes make music and sound not write about them. Here's what I do know: I can't remember a time that I bought a recording that he recommended, and then, when judging the sound of the recording on my system not being a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today is Dexter Gordon's birthday. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RyzAxgMki9c | |
| Bolero:why can't my system reproduce snare well? ****Obviously these are not snare-specific suggestions, (and are presented with the usual disclaimers: Imo, ime, ymmv, etc.)****Exactly; and it remains the key question still unanswered by the OP: why is it only the snare that seems to be affected... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****Turned out it was Phil Woods!! Grrrrrrrrr. ****I can't resist. Why Grrrrrrr?****He can play.****You think?!****Beautiful tone and phrasing****In the interest of the never ending discussion about the benefits of fine tuning one's listening skil... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks for clarifying, I thought I remembered you saying that you played trumpet. It was probably because of this comment that I misinterpreted,****I was led to Mr. Harrell in the mid eighties by a trumpet player/teacher who worked....****and your... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nice, Acman3; you did it again, finding yet another great player that we hadn't covered. As a trumpet player yourself, I am sure you notice the similarity of tone to Dizzy's. He was one of the first trumpet beboppers and I know his playing from so... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? ****I suppose the growing pressure on classical artists to be hyper-attractive is an inevitable consequence to living in such image conscious times****Concertmasters, like conductors, are not under this growing pressure. Obviously, the astute list... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? It is a leap and mistaken assumption that going from concertmaster in a top orchestra to a solo career is necessarily "moving up". As Brownsfan points out "a steady job in a world class orchestra may be a better fit" for an individual; this could ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Fabulous! Isn't it amazing how the list of great players doesn't seem to end. I first became acquainted with Sahib Shihab from his work on the recordings of the Francy Boland/Kenny Clarke Big Band; probably the greatest of the European big bands a... | |
| Why not horns? Perhaps your reality, not mine. I think your comment "The systems always could play loud, and usually did, could go deep in the bass and with a lot of volume, and threw big images. But to get those traits they often veered quite a bit away from tr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados During a recording session multiple "takes" (a recorded performance beginning to end) of a tune are usually recorded. Sometimes the first performance of the tune is so good that the players (and/or producer) feel there is no need for another and t... | |
| Why not horns? As usual, Almarg comes to the rescue with his indisputable reasonableness; in this case, helping to turn the tide of the usual reviewer bashing which is partly what I like to call simple reviewer envy (all that great gear!). Perhaps the bashers ar... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Schubert, you are clearly a deep thinker and devoted music lover. I am not entirely sure that I am interpreting some of the comments in your last post correctly; so please correct me if I am not. Additionally, I assure you that my comments are not... | |
| Why not horns? Funny, being casually interested in horn speakers for some time, I have been casually intrigued by this thread for some time also without actually taking the time to read it until today when I looked at the some of the posts in this last page. I t... | |
| Bolero:why can't my system reproduce snare well? Allowing for the possibility that Elegal is particularly sensitive to and keyed into the sound of the snare, I fail to see how changing the interconnect cable so that the sound he is hearing from the snare ("terrible/muffled") can be transformed t... |