mahgister
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| Jazz for aficionados Many ordinary musicians can play classical and enjoy playing jazz. But playing in a band of many versus with two or three or four with a "timing" born from the unwritten play versus a "timing" imposed by the written play ask for a different time... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life Interesting story! Bare minimum audiophilia for survivalist in hard reality... It remind me of my actual bliss under the blanket at 13 years old with the first small transistor radio... Music quiet my fears... I like your last paragraph espe... | |
| Jazz for aficionados i am here to be educated in jazz... I did not always answer but i take note... Each story is a novel... @mahgister Growing up, all I had was the radio and top 40 music. I’d sleep with it on and before long, I knew every tune, every word.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I grew with sacred Choral music and folklore songs since birth... Then i had gone my younger years with classical choral before Bach.... Anything else was like inferior to me... or He takes me decade to go further than Bach (thanks to Bruckne... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks frogman for Joe Farrel recommendation... A new player for me ... I trust all your recommendation... Glad to see the great Joe Farrel get some love. Fabulous player. One of my very favorite saxophone players and arguably the best Jaz... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Just curious, when you said "no moving jazz element" re: the Stones, did you mean it didn’t "move you" emotionally, or did you mean something else? He does not moves me at all... But later i recognized the blues element present in the Ston... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Then i understand you... I moved to Leo Ferré.... If i had known him i would have bought a Marvin Gaye album instead of Rolling Stone... I did not want to disparage Rolling Stone they were talented but with no moving "jazz" element for me nor "... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I was 14 when i bought my only one Rolling Stone album... Good showmanship, great musical talents...I listened to it perhaps 2 times from one song to the last... I regretted buying this perfect album designed for a certain crowd ( wanted to be... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life a very important observation: If we divide audio for the sake of my argument in three categories(without specifying a price because it is not my goal to start a useless arguing here): ----Low-fi or very low cost products, ----Mid-fi ---... | |
| New vs uses in your current setup My K340 are vintage and used... I doubt that there exist something really better on all count at any price anyway... And if it exist i paid it less than 100 bucks... my Sansui alpha is a TOP vintage Sansui... But it is way easier to beat it... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life If somebody has never been able to create at low cost a RELATIVELY good system/room , i am pretty sure he will not be able to optimize any costlier system too... Why ? Because the three working dimensions to optimize are the same for any system... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life Another fact: We live an era of luck for audiophile... We can afford very low cost gear with a minimal satisfaction acoustic threshold. My actual system is very good for his peanuts price ... All low cost chinese, save one vintage from ja... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life To be clear i will repeat this : There is no relation between a piece of gear or a system/room before and after his optimal mechanical,electrical and acoustical installation. None. This does not means that my 150 bucks dac will rival a ma... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life This is pretty basic stuff. The OP wants to convince everybody that you can buy a $500 amp but put a $10 worth of isolation feet on it, it will perform like the $60,000 amp. You know this isn’t possible. I presume you are a remote viewer of a p... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life So, I guess I trust my ears in the end, but I don't trust them without some skeptical testing and re-listening. I act the same... |