grimace
Responses from grimace
| Why can't all/most recordings be this good? For jazz, I've been having really good luck with the Highnote label. their recordings are excellent. Some are recorded in the Van Gelder studio, which - I'm happy to report - seems to have a new piano. | |
| Death of the Tech 12 Still lots of conflicting news out there. Panasonic is saying they are not killing the Technics brand, but they haven't made any statements about the 1200 series. I'd be curious to see something firm on this. | |
| Will mother move your speakers at Thanksgiving? Anyone who sets their drink on top of a speaker this year get killed. | |
| Bass Clarinet Recordings Anouar Brahem, The Astounding Eyes of Rita on ECM is a new recording with an aud (lute/guitar)player as leader, but the whole record features bass clarinet and music excellent, if not straight ahead jazz. The recording quality is stunning. | |
| This makes no sense, but yet.... I fixed this by putting in a set of KCI Silkworms. They dust the Blue Heavens right out of the box. | |
| record stores in Chicago I always send my wife up to the miracle mile for a couple of hours while I frolic in the Jazz Record Mart. Hard not spend a couple of hundred dollars. I think they also have some affiliation with the Delmark jazz label. Last time I was up there I ... | |
| Bass Clarinet Recordings The new Stephon Harris CD, Urbanus, has a lot of nice BC work on it. Unexpected, but really good. | |
| Looking for Wagner recommendations you should get the one where the fat lady sings. | |
| This makes no sense, but yet.... Well, I was unable to duplicate the tizz and now have the old cables back in and they sound fine. However, I did move the speakers about two feet further apart, toes in to cross axis just in front of my chair. That seemed to help with the brightne... | |
| Sounds better at home "No good recording engineer ever sets up anything the same way every time - there are far too many variables."Someone should mention this to Rudy Van Gelder. | |
| This makes no sense, but yet.... No, the ones with the spring clips were the harsh ones. I haven't had a chance to swap them out again since I started this post. That's interesting about the direction of the arrows though. I'll have to try it and see. | |
| This makes no sense, but yet.... They're all used. I believe I had the other pair in with the arrows pointing the right way, but I didn't look. This pair sounds a world better though. I can swap them in and out to see if I can duplicate the tizz. Good simple fix though if thats t... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Musically if not sonically. | |
| Sounds better at home I guess I'm not alone. The problem with this particular venue isn't that they amp everything really loud, in fact that's not the case at all. They're actually pretty restrained with it. However, the sound quality from the two speakers is mediocre ... | |
| Audiophile music on Amazon You'd be better served by identifying record labels that have a good reputation for their recording quality and then pcking albums based on that than by searching for "audiophile". What kind of music does that get you? I listen to a lot of jazz an... |