orpheus10
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| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? "But if you can't trust your ears, what can you trust"?How do you adjust all the parameters of a TT and listen at the same time? Let's take the easiest adjustment, which isn't too easy on my TT bacause of the arm; but tracking force for example. D... | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? When do you listen to music, or do you test by ear with music. When I test by ear, I use test frequencies. This test by ear conversation in regard to TT's sounds good but it won't fly. There's too much subjective excrement flying around. | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? I haven't posted in ages, but I couldn't resist this one, especially since I'm in the process of setting up a new cartridge.This cartridge calls for a tracking force of 1.5 grams; not 1.00 gram, not 2.00 grams, but 1.5 grams.These people have been... | |
| Speaker builder: heil tweeters vs multiple ribbons My speakers are custom built 3 way. The crossover was designed by an eccentric engineer who did nothing else. It utilizes Solen Metallized polypropylene capacitors for the woofer, and Jantzen Superior Series Z-capacitors for the midrange and tweet... | |
| Singers you like I liked the second selection better than the first. I particularly liked the instrumentation and the music. | |
| Singers you like Anita O'Day is the epitome of a jazz singer, and this is my favorite by her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGyYy4GAa14She's also got a lot of style. Here she sings a song I don't particular care for, but when she she sings it; it's boss. http://w... | |
| Singers you like Dusty Springfield "The Look Of Love". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAIsTc_zPlg | |
| Singers you like Loreena McKennitt is very musical, I can see why you like her.Only current vocalists have good audio and video, consequently I chose Sade; she makes a very appealing video, and I like this vocal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB8EUs5NFLM | |
| What is Jazz? "Banda Pequi" was posted by Chazro; although this is a young Brazilian jazz band, the music is "straight ahead American jazz". While they are a diamond in the rough, they don't need much polishing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCwBMCR-NGA | |
| How selective are you? I have a huge rack of LP's that could serve as "frizbies", for all the playing they get; which is none. When we had to buy LP's based on what we derived from the information on the cover, I made a lot of mistakes; and that includes very well known... | |
| What is Jazz? Inna, I want your opinion of this jazz. McCoy Tyner was John Coltrane's pianist, here he incorporates some eastern elements in his music; what do you think? "Sama Layuca" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBA-vwa-20M | |
| How many albums do you need ? It's the "quality", not the quantity. | |
| What is Jazz? Jazz does not carry a passport. Jazz has no national boundaries. Jazz has the combined soul of it's many founding fathers, and it is forever evolving.The incorporation of American jazz with Eastern and African music is nothing new. Dave Brubeck ma... | |
| What is Jazz? This is one of my favorite tunes by Pat Metheney, "Are You Going With Me?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55uF_GXxIWI | |
| What is Jazz? Although Pat Metheny plays guitar, he is such a fantastic musician; that I don't think of him as a guitarist, the same way I don't think of Mingus as a bassist.Pat Metheny is "very well" represented in my collection, while I don't have one, single... |