mahgister
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| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? What is an audiophile? It is a fool with money who buy gear pieces one after the other or a fool with no money ready to have fun in a dedicated room whose hobby is acoustics (me)... This is my complete post and sentence which was truncated ..... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I will only add that Louis Armstrong universal recognized genius on planet earth play and sing always "rolling" never behind the beat.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA&list=PL9FC836A421FE23B0&index=2 my favorite female s... | |
| Jazz for aficionados About jazz... I read a decade ago a story of a black musician who decided to go back to Africa to study music there... He encountered a master and discussing with him, the master said listening samplings of western music and jazz, this "does no... | |
| Jazz for aficionados i learned to love Tina Turner a lot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isXLBHCDo4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isXLBHCDo4Y | |
| Jazz for aficionados Good story! thanks... My favorite female singer near this region is Abida Parveen Try her... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU9uBMPqQdE or Kishori Amonkar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJnjyN-n_zE my favorite Persian singer with his ... | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? I cannot help you here because i only used my hearing not electronic equalization of the room to tune my room and many mechanical tuned resonators that work on large band frequencies for absorption and reflection... It was not esthetical and not... | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? @mahgister you mentioned you bought a LPS for peanuts. Care to share what it is? It is very cheap but as i can judge (i am no specialist at all) well designed but without on/off button which is not really an annoyance for me... The cleaning e... | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? I apologize but i did not target anyone and certainly not you...I was speaking in general... @mahgister you are calling me "the average dude will idolize A.I."? | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? With appropriate source i can put any non sense out... A.I. is not a source of information we can trust blindly because it is "sourced"... We must think because between the wiki or A.I. definition of what "timbre" is for example and the real ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I love Keely Smith and i listened his album "spotlight on K.Smith" non stop for years... and I don’t know who else remembers Louis Prima and Keely Smith. | |
| Jazz for aficionados It is evident for me that Sinatra is a great singer... But i had no real interest for him... If i hear him i know he is more than average to say the least... But i cannot say i appreciate many singers.... The singer i like the most is a persia... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? i like your intention and attention but most people will enumerate what they dont like without explanation... I know why i like Bruckner it is less evident why i dislike some artists... The intention of the discussion was to say why any sai... | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? A real audiophile test soundtrack (no electronic spatial effects here only voices and instruments ): If you can differentiate after purchasing this album, between the singers and see when they walk around you and in your room and see their head ... | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? I concur with your opinion. + 1 I would suggest that population of what I deem as audiophiles is rather small as much of the really expensive gear is most likely purchased by individuals who buy six figure cars and are neither car enthusiast... | |
| Psychoacoustics Thanks for the video... That is one axis of psychacoustics, but there is also the axis of expectation bias, habituation, sequence, threshold of hearing, etc. Hifianonym has a highly provocative/illuminating video on YouTube: https://www.youtu... |