jastralfu
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| My All Time Christmas Song Not a song per se but Handel’s Messiah. It reminds me of my childhood and hearing my parents playing it. It would come out every Christmas and get played through the entire four record set. I just came back from hearing it performed by the NSO ... | |
| How Many Times Do You Have To Listen To Understand A Piece Of Music? Once to know if I like it. To get to know it depends largely on how simple of complex the song is. There are Joni Mitchell songs that took me many listenings, 10 or more, to finally understand what was going on. | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” Accuphase has some excellent integrated amps in your price range. McIntosh has several as well, some with autoformers and others direct coupled as well as hydrid tube and SS. | |
| The Disappearing Act I get this most of the time and it puts a smile on my face every time. Instruments that float in space or sound like they are right next to my chair. Definitely dependent on the recording and the volume at which I am listening. Although I experi... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? Joni Mitchell is a good call. I really like her jazz infused albums. | |
| Dual subwoofer setup to an Esoteric Integrated Amp I have an MA8900. I used the REL videos for setting up the high level speakon connections. | |
| Dual subwoofer setup to an Esoteric Integrated Amp Only comment I have is to ask REL and or Esoteric. I have dual RELs hooked up via high level speakon with both red and yellow connected to + and black connected to - but to a McIntosh so not the same situation as yours. | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? Bob Brookmeyer and Stan Getz. I’m not a big jazz fan either but I really like these two. If you have Tidal or Qobuz you can use the related artist feature to explore others as well. | |
| ??? New Streaming Service??? What Do I Get??? Some things to consider, both Tidal and Qobuz are around $10 a month, which I find to be a reasonable deal. Both have at least cd quality and many hi-res flac files in their libraries, so much better sound quality. Pandora has at best 192kbps whic... | |
| How do you decide what to listen to? Same old stuff? If you like jazz this thread just popped up https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/which-jazz-artist-s-influenced-your-musical-taste | |
| How do you decide what to listen to? Same old stuff? AI is your friend as well if you ask for some suggestions of artists within a genre. | |
| How do you decide what to listen to? Same old stuff? +1 @immatthewj I forgot about that forum. | |
| How do you decide what to listen to? Same old stuff? When I hear a new song I like or I pick up a suggestion from this forum I listen to their catalog and use the related artist feature on Qobuz or Tidal and spend some time listening to all sorts of new artists. I also look at and listen to new alb... | |
| The end of physical media is neigh @bolong well done, that was my first thought too! | |
| The end of physical media is neigh Services like Qobuz and HDTracks still allow you to buy digital files and download them. I have quite a few but stopped buying them when streaming became so addictive, cheap and convenient. |