frogman
Responses from frogman
| Placebo Effect...a good thing? An EE with an open mind. Imagine that! There's hope for the high-end yet. Good luck and all the best, Hueske. | |
| "Ringing from pre-amp If removing unwanted "ringing" and false brightness from the sound of your system constitutes deadening the sound, then yes, they will do that. They will also allow more detail to be heard since there won't be as much high frequency garbage gettin... | |
| "Ringing from pre-amp Swampwalker, before you discard any "culprits", try installing a set of tube damper rings. It might be all that your singing tube needs, and will help all the tubes sound their best. Good luck. | |
| Have you "lied" to yourself? Perhaps whoever gave my post negative votes missed my point; perhaps I was too vague and not direct enough. I will answer Felthove's query as directly as I can: NO! I have never "made a fairly costly purchase and not been able to hear a difference... | |
| Have you "lied" to yourself? Attend LIVE performances; preferrably but not necessarily acoustic!!!!!! Live music. Live music. Live music.Live music. Live music. Live music. Live music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| "detail" enjoyable inversely related? There is no such thing as too much detail; if true accuracy and musicality are the goals. Not only are accuracy and musicality NOT mutually exclusive, but you can't have one without the other. The problem is that the so called detail is often a di... | |
| Counterpoint and Mike Elliot Hey Kubla, glad to share my reactions to your query. I will go through a brief "personal pre-amp history", which includes the Counterpoint 5.1, to hopefully put my comments in perspective.A 5.1 replaced an Audible Illusions 4D a few years ago. The... | |
| Dogs who love music My sadly departed pet parakeet Rudy, showed a distinct preference for Mozart; the only music that he would sing along to. He also posessed an extensive vocabulary. Phrases such as: "Beam me up Scotty", "Hey Moe, look!" and "Let me out, damm it!" | |
| Best Cool Jazz Record There is a radio station in NYC, CD 101.9, that bills it self as a broadcaster of "cool jazz". Most of the cute pop-jazz that they play is not jazz at all. During the forties and fifties, as Kublakhan points out in his inimitable style, a "cool sc... | |
| Best Sax Jazz Well said, Jay. | |
| Jazz Review CD only. | |
| Jazz Review What do you get when you combine the best jazz players in New York with some high-profile guest soloists to back up, in a big band setting, a featured artist? The usual answer? A competent, somewhat exciting set with a bunch of players each trying... | |
| Best Sax Jazz oops! Not Walt Levinsky (different era altogether). I meant Walt Weiskoff. | |
| Best Sax Jazz or Eric Alexander, Rich Perry, Walt Levinsky, Gary Smulian, Marty Erlick, Bill Evans............... | |
| Best Sax Jazz Jay, good to hear from someone who obviously knows what's what in the saxophone world. It is unfortunate that so many of the really great and interesting young players seldom get heard by so much of the music loving public. Regards. |