mahgister

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AliExpress order issues
Thanks  my friend... It was the only expanse i could thought about after recuperating my SPS NOS dac for the Sansui alpha and the K340... My headphone listening is now my main  attentive and more focussedlistening  as my small speakers are for r... 
AliExpress order issues
I decided to beat the odds and order from aliexpress an Odin Nordost  golden cable for serving my Sansui alpha driving my headphone K340...( My actual one is a cheap one so to speak)  It is my birthday gift from me to me ... Perhaps i will be mo... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
One of the greatest musician i ever heard (recorded privately because he had never done any concert he play privately with few disciples only to pray ) who i discovered after hearing that the great violonist Yehudi menuhin who hear him say that th... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
One of the greatest modern composer after Scriabin i love very much (after Weil and Glass and Sorabji and Feinberg) is a pupil of Bruckner : Robert Simpson. I read his book on Bruckner...   He is an astonishingly interesting composer . 11 symph... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
One of my best piece of Michael Nyman with great Indian musicians : Part 1 https://youtu.be/KM21rkt09Wc Part2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGXWprHynaM&list=RDiGXWprHynaM&start_radio=1 part 3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vfoJE... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
Tripti Mukherjee album free : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQJqXAjrsCM&list=RDbQJqXAjrsCM&start_radio=1&t=182s Elena Frolova singing poetry :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3aTn_BrpPI&list=RDc3aTn_BrpPI&start_radio=1 ... 
My Favorite Tweaks, What is yours?
My last tweaks is not homemade. I bought very low cost Chinese linear supply and buffer +filters for them.. Great upgrade for three bags of peanuts...    
"I Trust My Ears"
The following article by noted audio engineer Ethan Winer offers a cogent explanation for why we believe what we hear. As Winer explains, two people each claiming to hear different things can actually both be right: Why We Believe     A very... 
20 Vintage Amps That Prove They Really Don’t Make Them Like They Used To
I owned two of them in my life and they were good... My actual Sansui alpha is not the same as illustrated here but posterior of few years and the peak of Sansui tech.,.. He drives my headphone from the headphone out better than the best tube  h... 
"I Trust My Ears"
Crocodiles had tastes and we cannot convince them their tastes are bad habits... A part of our brain is a crocodile... A higher part need concept to appreciate higher meaning... Our physical hearing is biased physically and physiologically, but... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
For sure you had the right to your opinion as i have and we are different and as frogman says there is no best only "our own best" informed by our own journey... In your post you spoke a lot about the personal life  of these two artists and their... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
I cannot understand any poet failing to love Dylan or Cohen... I like them and dislike most popular music... And English is not my language... In French the only singer i listened to is Léo Ferré... A poet too ... I like  old french songs  and... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
@mahgister  That 5 minute video was very interesting. Looks like a channel I’d enjoy exploring further, although I suspect much of it is above my head.  I’m curious: what would your top recommendations be for recordings of Scriabin solo piano o... 
"I Trust My Ears"
ghdprentice said it well... We must train our hearing by tuning our brain with thinking concepts and setting experiments in a system/room with different musical styles.. Tastes are nothing except a starting point from the animal in us to the ang... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
I discovered "musical time" listening Bruckner symphonies non stop for 6 months...   Then i discovered Scriabin... Scriabin music and theories exhibit a synesthetic perspective.This is why it is easier "to see" the late music of Scriabin than t...