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| Whats playing on your system today? The Band covering Dylan's, "Blind Willie McTell. Sets an appropriate tone given the recent departure..."Well, I heard the hoot-owl singingAs they were taking down the tentsThe stars above all the barren treesWere his only audience...."https://www... | |
| Full MQA music list. @dlcockrum "Many of the MQA selections on the "Masters" tab make me wonder why someone would care about the sound quality of that "media" at all."Great point. I had to laugh when I saw early albums by the Faces (Rod Stewart, Ron Wood et al) avail... | |
| Good Bass Recordings on CD for Subwoofer Testing Bela Fleck’s - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (bass courtesy of Victor Wooten). Title track in particular.Radar Men From The Moon - Intergalactic Dada & Space Trombones. Track 2 - The Wire.Tony Levin’s work with Andy Summers (Last Dance of Mr. X) ... | |
| walter becker Rest in Peace Wow. This one hits hard. Earthbound to Walter, YOU will be missed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmauYERLTgoNY Times obit...https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/arts/music/walter-becker-dead-steely-dan.html?mcubz=1 | |
| Best Drum Solos bdp - Thank you very much for that analysis. I enjoy learning the details behind a great music performance. I spent a lot of hours in my youth with Signore Clementi (for better or worse), so can appreciate some of the concepts. I think Gadd’s broa... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Brand X - Morrocan RollI missed these guys first time around. Some great music and sound even though recorded 40 years ago. | |
| Best Drum Solos Very pleased you liked it, bdp. We can put aside our differences about Ginger and agree on Gadd. He seems on another plane altogether. I’m not a drummer but would say there is something about Gadd’s style that is very nuanced and almost delicate y... | |
| Best Drum Solos Too many great ones to call this "best", but certainly very, very good from Mr. Gadd:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vrLAK_CZrYIf you get impatient, skip ahead to ~7:30 | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hope you get through it quickly O and without discomfort or complication. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Good stuff, Trans. They just got too good figuring out how to squeeze money out of art and in the process squeezed all the life out of it. Early on, a little "squeez" was okay. Great HST quote, btw. Further commentary on the topic from Joe Jackson... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Interesting points in what appears to be an informed post by transaudio. I still don’t want to spend time with Lady Gag-me but appreciate the insight about her from Brad. This bemoaning current music is nothing new. My parents growing up with Sina... | |
| Finally!! a mid priced (affordable) MQA DAC Check out Underwood HiFi. He had a good range of Project gear. I haven’t checked on the Project Box DAC specifically. I had been interested in the Project Box Preamp but ended up with a Schiit Freya instead. There had been a pretty active Project ... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Chick Corea - Three QuartetsAnd now this. Insanely good. All of these...more music per second. Mo’ and betta’...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vrLAK_CZrY | |
| jolida 502b manual bias adjustment http://www.jolida.comHave you tried contacting JoLida in Maryland about a manual (also your tube placement question)?However, from the image here, the 12AX7s are on the inside.http://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649259448-fs-jolida-502-brc-integrat... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hey there, Frogman. Now that you are back (vacationing?) maybe I can get someone else to join in appreciating this lesser known Chick Corea recording. Chick Corea Quartet, actually. Recall, if you will, comments made a few months back about not... |