learsfool
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| Jazz for aficionados I would like to add one thing about musicians and money - the vast majority of musicians do not make very much at all from album sales. Only the very top artists who sell millions of albums make good money from sales - the record labels kept just... | |
| Fed up with people making noise at classical shows Hi brownsfan, schubert and al - I must agree with al here. I would say mid-hall is the closest one should ever consider sitting to the stage, for almost any type of concert. The only reason a student sits up close sometimes would be to watch the... | |
| Fed up with people making noise at classical shows Schubert, I have to ask - why on earth do you sit in the first row?? This is about the worst place in the hall to sit to take in the overall sound of the ensemble!! Are you a fan of watching the soloists up very close, or something that? You a... | |
| In a lot of these threads people say without the room being treated I would agree with Alan here. I suppose if you had a dedicated listening room that was never used for anything else, then it might be worth exploring some treatment. But for most of us, our systems are in our living rooms. Usually, just playing... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, I really don't see anything negative in my comments, other than the fact that they are responding to the negativity from Rok and yourself. I certainly did not intend for them to be negative - I was merely trying to say what frogman was sayi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Just finally caught up on reading the last week and a half of this thread. Wow. Most of what I would add has already been said by Frogman, Schubert, and Alexatpos. To Rok - the differences here are NOT "irreconcilable." The reason you think t... | |
| Problem with my computer audio Nope, still no sound. Hew, what buffer settings are you speaking of? I am on a Macbook Pro using iTunes. Ghost house, I do not see a keyboard icon at all?? I did go into the settings of both iTunes and of my audio utilities to make sure that t... | |
| Problem with my computer audio Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I just de-installed Audirvana and Pure Music, so I will see now if that did the trick. | |
| Problem with my computer audio Sorry - I should also have added that the files DO play properly on the internal computer speakers, but I would much rather listen to them through my Cornwalls, of course. | |
| For the Primaluna amp owners .... Hi - for me, it is really up to the recording you happen to be listening to at the time. Since you can switch back and forth between the two modes at the touch of a button, you can decide for each recording which mode you think it sounds best in.... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only OK Rushton - I'm a professional horn player, and I have NEVER heard of either Maw or the work you mention, a sonata for strings and two horns?? Since it was recorded by Alan Civil, I see, it can't be a really recent work, either. What do you k... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only Hi Rushton - many people do say that Copland is the most American of composers. He is certainly the most popular, and his music is the most accessible, and he helped define how much American music sounded afterwards, especially in the realm of fi... | |
| Primaluna - Rolling pre tubes question... I don't know about yours, tswisla, but my integrated has 2 ax7's, and 2 au7's for the preamp part of the amp. So Kevin means that you can change just one of those pairs, and it will make a significant difference to the sound. | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only Hi kmccarty and schubert - I cannot resist commenting that when a musician talks about a performance of a concerto, or finding the same, usually the conductor is not even mentioned. Any concerto recording will be much easier to find with referenc... | |
| Jazz for aficionados No problem, Orpheus. As both the Frogman and I have said before, it is often difficult for musicians to discuss these types of things with non-musicians and be understood. I wish I could write as clearly as Frogman does about them; he is defini... |