jssmith
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| Audio Friends Don't Let Audio Friends ... @chorus I don't make that assumption. But I suppose it depends on the person. I had one audiophile friend who was excited by the music with the equipment being a hobby. I had another who seemed like his equipment was his focus and the music was... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? @jonwatches1 I gave All Falls Down a listen. My impression. OK, for a standard radio song, but still a monotonous four-chord progression. Now, I don't have a problem with some songs' musical simplicity. The Stones made a long career out of it an... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Whatever people think is music is music. But to me, rap is just a bunch of bad poetry with nothing of what I'd personally call music backing it. I sampled that Kendrick Lamar. Yep, same old monotonous programmed bass lines and percussion, unimagi... | |
| Audio Friends Don't Let Audio Friends ... You didn't say if they asked for my opinion. I have experienced this. Although nowadays I wouldn't say any change is "major". Most equipment is good. They asked. I told the truth with the caveat that some people prefer different things. But if th... | |
| Share MYSTICAL, HAUNTING songs Albums: Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale (every song) Distant Dream - It All Starts From Pieces (all songs, except Waiting for Silence) Alynn - Dawn (the first half of the album) Draconian - Sovran (warning: Beauty and the Beast... | |
| Beautiful listening rooms I saw that thread years ago and marveled at ... the acoustic nightmare most of those rooms must be. More reflective surfaces than a solar thermal farm. | |
| Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like? A couple problems with this article. Unamplified live music is affected by the room. This has just as much or more bearing on the sound then an "amplifier." Secondly, it depends on your position relative to the instrument or vocalist. As a guit... | |
| Subwoofer for music, how low? You can go to data-bass.com to find out what various subwoofers, including DIY, are capable of. | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good @dirgordoncole One sentence from that article really struck me because it reminds me of something I was thinking the last time I listened to Trapeze- Medusa. "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." E... | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good There have been many discussions on here about why audiophilia is dying. This thread is an interesting glimpse into the reason (or symptom). The average album age looks to be about 45 - 50 years. Which either means there are only us old people on ... | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good @wyoboy As I said, they each only have one album that's great all the way through. They are: Johnston - Remarkably Human Malmsteen's Rising Force (1984? - his solo debut) Batio - No Boundaries They have some other albums that are real stinke... | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good @wyoboy No need to filter lists. You like what you like and that's valid for everyone for whatever reason. Musicians will still have wildly divergent viewpoints. As far as guitarists go, I respect technicians, like Buckethead, Yngwie Malmsteen,... | |
| 2022 is almost here. Why are you here? @larshepping So you come here to complain about political posts by making a political post. 🙄 | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good @wyoboy SRV—Texas Flood (kinda surprised i didn’t see this above) As a guitar player myself, SRV is my second favorite guitarist and I own all his albums, but Tell Me is the same monotonous type of song I’ve heard in every corner blues bar an... | |
| 2022 is almost here. Why are you here? To be honest, if I didn't get a Weekly Recap email on Fridays I wouldn't be here at all. Since I don't even have to log in, it makes it easy to click on a link with a curious title, so here I am. Occasionally it's to offer feedback, but sometimes ... |