frogman
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| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? Several Maggie owners among the Classical musicians that I know, johnto. I can’t speak to anyone else’s experience with Classical or Jazz musicians and their audio systems, but as I said previously, I know many who have systems that are far better... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Wise statement indeed. At least there is some truth in the overall comment. In a way, consistent with the mystery quote 😊. | |
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? Phil Barone makes a good point, but let’s put things in a different perspective. It may be true that MOST musicians aren’t interested in high end gear. However, after 45 years as a professional musician and having known and worked with hundreds of... | |
| The Placebo Effect sugarbooger (and I thought MY moniker was odd 😊), if you were read my post carefully you’d note that I wrote nothing about the quality of tuners, or the improvements that have been made in recent years; I assure you that I know all about it. While... | |
| The Placebo Effect “Assist” is the operative word. The electronic tuner is used primarily as a reference; usually in order tune middle C and then the middle octave. This becomes your reference. After that the technician’s ears come into play. If one relies entirely ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** It remind me of Chet Baker who does not play trumpet either but voice it to speak with it which is very different for me than playing the notes so virtuosively possible it is...****Great comparison. I understand what you mean. They both hav... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I love Curtis Fuller’s playing. Wonderful player with a very impressive discography. One of the many impressive things about this great player is the fact that he got a very late start on his instrument. He didn’t start playing trombone until his ... | |
| Lack of Female Representation It’s perfect, really. It couldn’t be more obvious. A female audiophile chimes in and after more than twenty posts following hers there is only one with any kind of acknowledgment; never mind, engagement for further thoughts from her. Welcome, theo... | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? No one said anything about “dislike”. Of course one has to like music to some degree to bother with stereo. Not a question of “dislike”, but rather the level of involvement in one pursuit vs the other. **** ......Stereo systems are not (subjective... | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? There was a time when one could look at a contributor’s profile and see, not only all of that person’s posts in the various threads, but also the tally of total number of posts according to category (“analog”, “digital”, “misc”, etc.); posts in th... | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? bkeske, fantastic performance! Barbirolli’s Adagio from the 9th is incredible. Can’t vouch for the German pressing, but it is a wonderful recording. Enjoy! | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? **** I must make one point, however.When listening to music on any source, if the musical message comes through with an acceptably high degree of sonic quality, I don’t think we should agonize over: Will it sound a little better in another format?... | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? Welcome home, rv 😊. | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? Hey, who knew? I’ve been dreaming all this time 🤫 | |
| The Placebo Effect Seems to me that we are confusing two separate things. As described above by mahler123, as concerns audio, if the perceived change is real it is obviously not due to Placebo Effect. Whether the change is an improvement or not is a subjective call ... |