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| Jazz for aficionados **** That they kept playing it until they got it ’right’? ****Yup. Or, at least until they had a take that they liked. Some producers want options to choose from later.**** Does that mean the higher the ’take’ number, the better the performance? *... | |
| Sinatra Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra on Impex vinyl “Far superior”? Man, the original sounds pretty darn good. Let us know how you like the MoFi when (if) you find a copy. I may pick up that original as a second copy. NM, btw. Enjoy, great record. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hard to argue with the Grumiaux, mahgister. Wonderful playing and luminous tone indeed. Raises the question: was it one of his Guarnieris, the Strad, or the Guadagnini? I wonder what his insurance bill was? 😊 | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Glad you liked it. It does take some time to “get” serial music. One has to surrender to the different musical language; kind of like post bop Coltrane compared to Prez. Try his opera “Wozzeck” sometime. Banned by the Nazis as “degenerate art”. F... | |
| Sinatra Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra on Impex vinyl Don’t own or have heard it, but for whatever it may be worth a music friend does and he claims it is good, but he prefers the original. Very different; tipped up in the upper ranges and an unnatural “squeaky clean” (his words) overall sound comp... | |
| Sinatra Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra on Impex vinyl Sinatra was a fabulous musician and your observation is exactly right. Musicians he worked with always had tremendous respect for him. If you don’t have the classic “Sinatra at the Sands” (Reprise) with the Basie orchestra conducted by Quincy Jone... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Fabulous work! One of my very favorite modern works and arguably the most popular composition out of the Second Viennese School. A twelve tone row with strong elements of late Romanticism making the paring with the Beethoven not quite as odd as it... | |
| DeoxIT on cables/Jacks? Deoxit makes a noticeable improvement in sonics. More clarity, less grain; subtle, but obvious gain in overall refinement. Do your interconnects also! Take Qtips (not the plastic stick version) and pull the cotton off the ends so that the “stick” ... | |
| Your favorite audio cartoons Fantastic link, MC. Thanks! Brought back so many memories; not the least of which is how much this scene has changed. But, hey! Why should audio be any different? Imagine, to strive for our systems to sound like live music as much as possible. Wha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Building on Rok’s great posts, let’s look at Cannonball the sideman:https://youtu.be/aKAR2n5Pd_QNotice the pseudonym “Buckshot la Funke” on the album jacket which he used when recording outside his label 😊. The man had a sense of humor (clearly al... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You’re welcome, skyscraper. | |
| How much reality do you really need? To the poster who deleted the post that suggested that I have “disdain for the subject” and asked “why I need to announce it”. No worries, I can handle incorrect, not to mention silly assumptions and questions; and I’m glad that you saw the error ... | |
| How much reality do you really need? No; if one always lets the primary focus be the performance. Otherwise, that search is a constant distraction. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I assume you refer to the orchestral version? If so: Jean Martinon/Orchestre de Paris. 1975, Angel/EMI. Vol. 4 of the series “Orchestral Music of Ravel”. Fantastic performance with excellent sonics. There’s something about the great French o... | |
| How much reality do you really need? Excellent post, realworldaudio; I couldn’t agree more. **** I find that _most_ current ultra-high end gear focuses too much on the enhanced resolution aspect, creating an illusionary sonic envelope that feels very much real, but also quite a bit d... |