learsfool
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| Ultimate Classical Speaker. Magico Q5, Rockport... For many classical musicians, the two halves of the equation are a) horn speakers b) driven by tube electronics. There are many good choices within those parameters. Key reasons are the dynamics, on the soft end as well as the loud; the resolution... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, the Oscar Peterson at the Concertgebouw album is a good one, if you are not familiar with it already. I would definitely second that recommendation. Frogman definitely answered your orchestral questions very nicely. I would agree with his spe... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Django Reinhardt is most definitely considered a jazz guitarist, and a great many jazz musicians have great respect for him, including a couple of very good friends of mine. Personally, I tend to dislike any form of electronic music, so the electr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi guys, been away from this board for a few days. Frogman, that was a very interesting Ornette Coleman clip, never seen that before. Rok - you recently reviewed perhaps my favorite Ella album - the 40th Birthday Concert. If anyone out there readi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman - I was actually pleasantly surprised at Teagarden's technical ability. Over this three album set (48 tunes in all!) he didn't do that much that was very technically difficult, however there were several times when he suddenly, though unob... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, love your BS comment. I agree wholeheartedly that there is too much PC going on in the music world, especially in jazz, but also in classical. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hey guys - I finally got a chance to listen to half of the box set I had picked up of Jack Teagarden. It is a really fun set - great lyrics to the songs, great dixieland style band. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Ooh, Mapman, gonna have to disagree with you when you say in your last post - "Has nothing to do with getting the soul though." It has EVERYTHING to do with that, especially in large scale orchestral music, where there is such a HUGE range of diff... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Atmasphere, thanks very much indeed for your usual clarity of explanation. You have a gift for it; I have learned a great deal from you on this board - Al as well. | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Hi Mapman - if I may, Frogman's post of 10-22 explains quite well what professional musicians are missing when they listen to systems that do not have low level detail. It may be a very quiet system, but there is still information missing - some o... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Thanks Atmasphere for the comments - definitely jives with what I hear, and I would also urge you to continue your explanation you spoke of! I also agree 100% with Frogman's comments on the "black background" thing. You have put into words somethi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi guys - thanks for the comments. I did not get a chance to listen to that set today after all, too busy. So I probably won't get to it until Saturday now. A friend of mine told me that he was also a good singer, and is indeed a legend on the tro... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, speaking of comments that have more truth in them than people realize, or are willing to admit: ****Music like this often walks a fine line between art and bullshit; the individual listener decides****Love it. Still wondering if any of yo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Yesterday I picked up a box set of recordings of Jack Teagarden, a trombonist I was not familiar with. Haven't had a chance to listen to any of it yet, hope to tomorrow some. Are any of you familiar with him? | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? Dover, you and Frogman are right on. I especially agree with the last part of Frogman's post: "The differences in sound between an oboe and an English Horn are obvious even over the crappy speaker in the elevator. Yet, that "component XYZ made tho... |