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| Give Satanic Majesties A Chance I'm playing "Satanic Majesties" on Spotify as I type this just to check it out. My conclusion? I'm calling the audio police to raid your houses and confiscate your audio systems. Frank | |
| Perfect Path Total Contact no longer? If anyone is interested, there's a PPT Gate for sale here on the "Gon." Yes, it is expensive, but what it does for an audio and/or video system is amazing. And no, Geoff ... I'm not shilling. :-)Frank | |
| Your memory of Audio Marketing, esp. B.S. From one of the greatest radio commercials of al time advertising the wonderful Mister Jim's BBQ in South Central Los Angeles, circa 1955: "Yo needs no teef, to eat ma beef."Frank | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. And then, there is the great P.T. Gazell ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5zGvLJwkqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jijVFnRwKfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWZXPh89dk | |
| Your memory of Audio Marketing, esp. B.S. jetter ...It's all in the presentation. It's a sales job. That, however, doesn't mean that the product doesn't provide the improvements promised. There's an old adage in the sales business ... "Don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle." And by the ... | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. An excellent entry point to jazz is to listen to West Coast jazz. It is more melodic and easier to listen to for the beginner. Here’s some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz3mrnIBd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFRDj0z784 https://... | |
| Your memory of Audio Marketing, esp. B.S. The biggest load of BS so far ..."I hold an EE degree, and I know exactly what something sounds like, including after-market fuses, without hearing them for myself. And everyone else on the planet who has tried them and hears the improvement they ... | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. nicotico ...Thanks.By your comment, it is clear to me that you not only know how to listen, but you also know what to listen for. That, in my opinion, is what leads to the enjoyment and understanding of jazz. In trying to explain jazz to the uni... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion millercarbon ...Correcto Mundo ... The granite slabs that I tried under the speakers were 12" x 12" and were designed to go under electronic equipment. They have a constrained layer of dampening material between two layers. If you look at my syste... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion f1status1 ....I have a raised wood floor too. The solution was to buy a pair of unfinished maple platforms from Mapleshade. Spike the platforms through the carpet, then spike the speakers to the platforms. Here’s what you would be looking for: htt... | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. Kind of Blue is an interesting recording. I have multiple copies, including an original "six-eye" stereo version that is the best of the lot among the ones I have, including Japanese reissues. I found it in a thrift store back in the ’80s for fift... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion For the serious tweakers, there's a PPT Gate for sale here on A'gon. https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa1iij-perfect-path-technologies-the-gate-tweaks Frank | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. ^^^ Like a lot of jazz musicians, Kenny G.went over to the dark side to make money. You'd think he would have broke loose once in a while to appease us jazz guys. I agree ... he could really play when he turned off all of the electronics and the d... | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. ^^^ Connick Jr's. CDs are well recorded. I have several of them. He's a good jazz pianist and ballad singer. Try the one disc (I forget which one it is) where it is just his trio. Nice jazz.Frank | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. Damn. That’s brutal. Kenny still made bank, though. In my estimation, Kenny G. at best played elevator music. He had a real niche, but it wasn’t in jazz. He sold tons of recordings and made tons of money but it wasn’t from jazz fans. I have thous... |