orpheus10
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| Tubes/SS Power Amps? Mapman, transistors switch on and off, as opposed to always on as is the case of Class A tubes. AB amps have two halves of a cycle that match. "Audibly", these three can sound so close to the same when the best parts are used, that "most" people c... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Cootie's music conjured up visions of Cab Calloway strutting across the stage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvxIZZUyAkI listened to Shirley Horn twist in order to absorb Wynton's solo, and it was every bit as good as you said it was. (apparentl... | |
| Tubes/SS Power Amps? Before I became an "audiophile", as opposed to someone who just listened to music, I was an electronics technician, and my belief was, "If you can't measure it, you can't hear it, and the best specifications sound the best". After I got into the "... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I don't like Wynton's music, I don't like my own music, because I can't make any. I don't like Dr. Dre's music, but I do like Harold Land's music. I was able to get top dollar for Wynton's LP's that I sold because so many other people like his mus... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Dr. Dre grossed $110. million pretax. Does that mean he's 110 times better musician than Wynton Marsalis who only made a measly 1 million or so? | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charles1dad, when you're a true jazz aficionado, as you are; you're guided by your "inner ear" and not by public opinion, consequently you will often prefer the lesser known artist.Enjoy the music. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charles1dad, All of the artists you mentioned are well represented in my collection. Harold Land is special to me because he appears on one of my favorite LP's. Clifford Brown & Max Roach; this features Harold, tenor sax; Richie Powell, piano,... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charles1dad, "What moves us is purely personal and unique, it's impossible to expect unanimous agreement on what musicians we like and don't like.The point is jazz is a extraordinary form of art and I'm just happy there are others here who love it... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charles1dad, although we don't agree on Wynton, this has been the best jazz thread ever, and I appreciate everyone's contributions, even the very few that I disagreed with. I've expanded my collection with some boss jazz. Shirley Scott is an organ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charles1dad, no one ever said Wynton couldn't play the trumpet, he just can't make music. I wouldn't disagree with someone who said he was the worlds best "trumpet player", that's different than making music. Whatever it takes, he aint got it.He c... | |
| Tubes/SS Power Amps? Atmasphere, I had an SS amp that began to run hot, so I put a fan on it. The hotter it got, the better it sounded. I put two fans on it, next it caught fire taking two new woofers with it. That was the first and only amp I've ever owned that caugh... | |
| Jazz for aficionados With a combination like Jon Hendricks, Al Jarreau, George Benson, and Bobby McFerrin doing Miles Davis's music, what's there not to like. It's on order.Less McCann "Swiss movement" is also on order.As you know by now, I'm not a "traditionalist", c... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, music with me is never isolated, I always associate the music with what was going on in my life, and everything I would see at the time that music was popular. "Boogie Woogie" was popular when I was a child, and I can even visualize the Packa... | |
| Tubes/SS Power Amps? I will never forget one of my most enjoyable afternoons at a high end emporium. It was late October and a bit chilly in the small auditioning theater, when a customer came in requesting a big CJ tube amp. That amp put out as much heat as a small f... | |
| Tubes/SS Power Amps? I noticed that no one responded to my mention of Stereophile's ratings of equipment by Class "A", "B", and "C". First and foremost, I am not pushing the magazine; however, I subscribed for years, and during that time I went to high end emporiums t... |