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| How does one "Get lost in the music"? Try staying away from your "high-end" system and listen to favorite music on your IPad, computer, or simply on a decent radio and see what happens. Spend some time on Youtube and search for rare or unknown performances by favorite artists. Best of... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? ****The reason live drum sounds don't go through your hifi is the fact that uncompressed drums would blow up most any home system's speakers, unless you're using large, professional, huge coil 15" or 18" woofers****Understood, and I agree. But, th... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? ****Live music is the reference when but one can NEVER it replicate in one's room****I couldn't agree more. But here is the problem: because of that unfortunate (?) reality, most audiophiles are very quick to abandon the POSSIBILITIES from using t... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? The subject of the value of the sound of live as a tool for establishing a (at least partial) benchmark for the accuracy of reproduced sound is a topic that always elicits strong opinions; some of which are simply misguided. Misguided because the ... | |
| Blindly deafly? bought Purple Flare cables... Actually, Judyazblues said it most imperfectly. Cynical, totally useless and unhelpful comment; in typical fashion.Timothyd11, I admire your willingness to ask for advise and to admit that you simply don't know the answer. That is much more than m... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? I like Mapman's suggestion. IF the sound of live is your goal, I would take Mapman's approach a step further. Listen to as much live music as possible leading up to the speaker audition date(s). Bite the bullet and don't worry about wether it's yo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****There is no atheism in Jazz**** - Rok2idThat one goes next to my other favorite quote about Jazz and religion:"Jazz is the sound of God laughing" | |
| VPI bearing oil/grease? Slaw, is this the "Royal Purple" grease? How would you compare it's viscosity to that of white lithium grease? Thanks. | |
| The Audiophile and the Frog .. True Story Had him fooled for a while. He did finally kiss me, but as soon as he realized that I wasn't a princess at all he got very angry, tied me up and made me listen to this for 24 hrs continuously without a break:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFqhb2TXb... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, glad you liked "Voyage"; it's a gem. "Focus" has also been a favorite of mine for a long time. It happens to be one of the very first jazz records I ever purchased, and back at a time when I really could not understand nor appreciate it; no ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I can't think of a time that I heard something by Sonny Rollins that I didn't like. "+3" is one of his best. Sonny is one of the greatest and most influential of the modern tenor players. Miles considered him to be the greatest tenor player e... | |
| Last time you felt that "tingling" sensation? Tostados, on that same TV show (Hollywood Palace), in 1964, The Rolling Stones made their first USA appearance. If you want to check out more Nancy Wilson this record is a great place to start; great tunes and fabulous arrangements by Billy May an... | |
| Linn Sondek LP12 impressions Bravo, Moonglum! Well said. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Fabulous! One of the great pairings in jazz. Thanks for sharing.This old thread might be of interest:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1302841452&openmine&zzFrogman&4&5#Frogman | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, thanks for the links; great stuff! "Yesterday's" is simply incredible. I was not familiar with that record, so it has to go on the "to buy" list. Sounds like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis on tenor (?). Beautiful!And the Kirk/McDuff! In the pocket in... |