mahgister
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| Best Chet Baker Sings Recordings I like all of them, even when his voice is broken totally. The best are the one in his golden years. Nobody sing like him as natural as we speak with no artificiality and no pretense to sing... He sing like he play. No pretense to demonstrate, bu... | |
| Critical listening and altered states What I mean to to ask was whether you view "sweetness of tone" as inherent to the violin and regard any stridency as an artifact of poor audio performance or whether you have deliberately configured your headphone system to present a "sweeter" to... | |
| Critical listening and altered states I had it for years and did not read him yet... Thanks to remind me i must die soon and then must read it sooner... I am just beginning to read Oliver Sack's book Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain. I bet it would interest many par... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I discovered it on youtube... Sorry.... I had the files for years... i like philippe Catherine a lot... Thanks @mahgister Thanks for sharing! That's awesome. After giving it a listen, I looked for a CD release. Alas, it doesn't exi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I did not appreciate many female jazz voices as i appreciate instruments. But Shirley Horn is magnificent here . Thanks frogman for your expert choices... https://youtu.be/4YmnLvwfCtk https://youtu.be/Y1n2hBn8TrU | |
| Critical listening and altered states I know stuartk it seems a ridiculous set of metaphors, especially out of his context, but it was what i felt listening to it when my optimization process was completed. Remember that i never enjoyed the high frequencies on any of my ... | |
| Critical listening and altered states You quoted me wrong sns.. This is my text : The gear pieces design quality and synergy cannot be replaced but only compensated by acoustics controls, mechanical one mainly in my case and also equalization and tone control. But on the other ha... | |
| Critical listening and altered states THC is not ,music as ASC, which is not acoustics... If we kept all these conflated and confused we will go nowhere.. We will reach only one simplistic conclusion : Pot and beers are great and solve all problems (after a new audio upgrade) ... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Music experience is a perpetual ASC : as a trance hypnosis, or a spiritual awakenings... What we listen to affect us and our body and it is not just a matter of taste but a matter of education about music and about knowledge... The way to suppre... | |
| Mid level listening Sound is to music what a woman is to a man... They make love and birth meaning... Meaning in music is related to the way we evaluate timbre information as in the speech act... It is proven that our body decipher timbre information and music in... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Music is already an ASC and cannot be unheard going deep in us... Playing with sound parameters in a room imply an ASC... Do you know the Barabar site in India ? Nobody knows who did it, the precision is impossible to replicate today, and t... | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear The only reasons i bought vintage is i am old, i owned the Tannot dual concentric till few years ago , i bought them 55 years ago... The other reason i bought a vintage Sansui alpha from 35 years ago is for the price, to beat it will cost a lot..... | |
| Jazz for aficionados One of my favorite jazz album because the atmosphere is irresistible, magical and i discovered it because i admired Tom Harrell to begin with...But the whole is more than the sum of his parts here... 1H45 of pure joy... I learned to love J... | |
| Where to start upgrading? This is my advice too for speakers : As far as two channel in listening goes, I’d look into acoustic treatments before upgrading components. | |
| Where to start upgrading? i think ghdprentice is right. The synergy headphone /amplifier was very hard to reach for my K340... I dont doubt his choice for driving headphone picking the last model of Woo... It is out of my budget as are High end known headphone... ... |