martykl
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| Phasing out of Compact Disc CD sales peaked at about a billion units in 2000. The last data I saw (2013) showed that it was the latest of a dozen straight years of declining sales, bottoming out at +/- 200 million units. Since 2010, the avg annual decline has been small, so ... | |
| omnidirectional sound The Ohms are excellent speakers IMO, and they're substantially omnidirectional, so they'd be a good choice if you want one set of speakers to "fill the house". MBL, HHR, Duevel, and Mirage are well known alternatives, but your budget and your requ... | |
| Daryls House - some great takes on familar songs Notec,Daryl Hall has done some very interesting music, including War Babies with John Oates and his collaborations with Robert Fripp. He is also IMO one of the better male pop singers of the last 50 years. If the blue eyed soul thing doesn't move ... | |
| Best recorded rock song ? I agree with Dayglow re: 70s and 80s R&B. Even tho it has nothing to do with audiophile style "realistic/natural" sonics, lots of those records were lavish productions. The theme from Shaft is IMO a production tour de force. As is "Sunshower" ... | |
| Songs that Inspire or Move you Sometimes it's as much the singer as the song.Warren Zevon's take on "Knocking' on Heaven's Door" as he was dying from brain cancer is pretty moving.Even tho her voice is largely gone, hearing Stevie Nicks sing Landslide is always a moving experie... | |
| Daryls House - some great takes on familar songs Daryl is an amazing singer and I love the series. I'm also a big Rundgren fan and particularly love the episodes that pair those two. They share a certain musical sensibility when TR goes into his R&B mode. Both guys are from Philadelphia. I g... | |
| R.I.P. John Renbourn J_evegeThere are lots of great choices. To some extent, Renbourn's tendency to wander through widely differing styles will dictate which records work best for any given listener. His earliest material is pretty much straight folk, then there was a... | |
| R.I.P. John Renbourn That sucks in a huge way. What a tremendous guitar player he was. Bert Jansch got more pub, but Renbourn was IMO every bit as compelling a guitarist. I remember playing a Rebourn CD for my guitar teacher and asking him how to replicate some of Ren... | |
| Rolling Stones Tour 2015 I haven't seen them in a loong time, and aging rockers can look silly, but... I'll give them another shot if the local concert timing works for me. I'd agree that the songwriting hasn't been great for +/-40 years, but, for me, that misses the poin... | |
| OS question re: Beats Music Cerrot,Thanks, I'll look into the idea. | |
| Six Finger Satellite/Pete Phillips LJ and ZD,Thanks for the feedback.ZD I found that Pete Phillips played that lead part by following some links on Matthew Sweet's Wikipedia page - so that was my first stop.Turns out that....So far, the Six Finger material I've found isn't really m... | |
| Best beer Albert,Not a porter on your list? | |
| OS question re: Beats Music Thanks for the responses, but....Beats worked fine with Safari before I swapped speakers (and cord), which is the weird part. | |
| Sonos or Mac as Source? My Sonos system goes back so far that it pre-dates the company's records. I have zones everywhere in my home/yard and absolutely love the ergonomics, while enjoying sound that is good enough for distributed listening. Serious listening sessions ha... | |
| Analogue Productions Duke Ellington's Masterpieces IMO, Masterpieces is unquestionably one of the all-time greats, so now I'll head off to the AP website and order the reissue. Thanks for the heads up. |