frogman
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| Cables more hype than value? Rok, well, I declare! It appears that you are softening your stance; that's a good thing, IMO.A couple of thoughts: Logic will only get one so far. Music and logic don't always mix. Listen to 20th century classical serial music to hear the ultimat... | |
| Cables more hype than value? Hi Irv, actually, I am not arguing. Arguing, discussing; whatever. I truly am trying to understand the other side of the argument; which, frankly, I don't see a lot of evidence of on your part. But, for the record, my reference to posting history ... | |
| Cables more hype than value? But not for long....Oftentimes, when trying to understand a posters point of view, I find value in looking for patterns in a poster's over-all posting history. As with most things, not just audio, I like to read between the lines. This approach is... | |
| Cables more hype than value? ****....(and) "What a miracle it is that someone can reproduce something that is capable of touching our emotions" - Frogman.My nomination for the Nobel Prize!!!!****. - IsochronismDamn!! I am speechless; for a change. :-) | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus, as you know, lot's of great West Coast Jazz available. We can probably skip over the usual known suspects like the Birth Of The Cool sessions, Brubeck/Desmond, Mulligan, Getz, Chet Baker, etc. as there are a lot of other really great and ... | |
| Cables more hype than value? OK, Rock. My cable vs. the cheapo cable OF YOUR CHOICE! Let's tweak this challenge: you send me the cheapo, non-audiophile (generic, "came-in-the-box") cable of your choice and I will live with it for one week. Then you come over, and we do the te... | |
| Cables more hype than value? Ok, here's a challenge, Rok. If you find yourself in the NYC area, you are welcome to come to my place for a listening session. Here is what I propose:We will listen to the same LP side in its entirety using one of the two wires that I sometimes u... | |
| Cables more hype than value? The mistake that is made is the assumption that science is capable of explaining these things at all. Who says it can? Or that it should? We are talking about the sound of music; human expression. In all the talk about wether differences in cables... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** Whatever happened to John Purcell?****Oh man, Acman3! One of the most interesting, and also sad, stories in all of NYC-music-scene lore. I knew John peripherally due to mutual acquaintances and run-ins at various music-industry events. He was... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, check out Elvin Jones' album "Dear John C." featuring Charlie Mariano. Absolutely killer album from 1965 in a more modern bag; one of my very favorite records. There are some cuts on Youtube, but I don't seem to be ale to download them. This ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Forget the world music stuff that he did. Start with my links and other things from the fifties. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Another overlooked great, and one of the most interesting and unusual (in sound and concept) tenor players was Warne Marsh. A West Coast player who was one of the main exponents of the Cool School and a protege of the great Lennie Tristano. His us... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charlie Mariano, my favorite alto player, and one who slips under the radar way too often. Clearly a bebopper, he covered a lot of stylistic ground including Middle Eastern (we won't go there again, Rok) in his later recordings. But, his recording... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I appreciate the sentiment, but there are other members here who are extremely knowledgable in specific and/or general areas of music; either by way of being professional musicians (Learsfool), or having been very devoted to educating themselves o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Actually, I have written liner notes for a handful of recordings; but, not for records discussed here, nor are they in this genre.What I find most frustrating about discussion of music in audiophile circles is that, more times than not, the subjec... |