photon46
Responses from photon46
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Learsfool, I agree with your thoughts regarding the reluctance of certain types of listeners to educate themselves. It is baffling, but the longer I live, the more I am amazed at the profound differences among humans in the way we process informat... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Rok2id, I would love to hear their perspective. I work within a very large University art department with practitioners of many art forms, so I obviously have great respect for the opinions of professional musicians and educators. As educators, we... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Schubert, I think I understand your perspective, but just as relativism is the potential downfall of morality, so is absolutism of values the fossilization of aesthetic practice. In my mind, insisting that base emotions are unworthy inspirations f... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Frogman, your commentary is very insightful. We've all heard Duke's "good & bad" take on the hierarchy of musical genres and it's a good maxim to keep in the back of one's mind. It becomes a very slippery slope when we start proclaiming this o... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Well stated analysis of the differences in personal approaches to listening and learning Frogman! Music for me is an amateurs passion, visual art is where I make my living. Frogman's comments regarding people's different degrees of receptiveness t... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Rok2kid, That would be my ineloquent way of referring to the fact that as those composers evolved through late Romantic chromaticism and serial techniques, their compositional strategies were more or less guided by adherence to certain principles ... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Thanks for chiming in on that bit of critical "flat earth thinking" regarding Stravinsky Learsfool. To suggest Stravinsky lacks a place among the highest echelon of composers leaves me flabbergasted. Send me to the proverbial desert island, give m... | |
| Question about shipping damage Problem is, many original packing boxes are entirely inadequate. I think many packages are designed to be shipped palletized in a large bundle and that's a different kettle of fish from shipping a single item. Marantz, Cambridge, & PS Audio ar... | |
| Speaker Cable Rebuild - Need Help Assuming you're in North America, either PartsConnexion or SonicCraft get my vote. Both have a great selection of what you need and have given me great service. | |
| Question about shipping damage Chayro's probably right. If there's no external sign of damage, UPS is going to deny any culpability. As to the "how" of the distortion, shipping entails the amp being shaken, vibrated, and bumped constantly for the entire journey. Especially if s... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Exactly Frogman and Mapman, it's so hard to get a grip on what "underrated" means. My musically well educated colleagues roll their eyes with ennui at the mention of most composer's that the average classical listener has never heard of, so it is ... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Lesarsfool, actually, Andy didn't have to draw those over and over. He just picked a photo or drew the image once, had a photo film made, and then had had his studio assistants make silkscreens. Those were then able to be screen printed as fast as... | |
| Nation wide Quality Caring Delivery for Audio Gear The only service that fits your bill is a specialty Fine Art shipper that specializes in packing and moving very expensive, odd shaped, or heavy sculpture, paintings, etc. Someone like U.S. Art Shippers (usart.com). Our business uses them on a reg... | |
| Placing floor speakers in front of AC return vent? Putting the speaker in front of an air return will no doubt deposit more dust on it than another placement, but so what? That what feather dusters, Swifters, etc. are for. I clean my speakers every week, it's no big deal. As to blocking air flow, ... | |
| CD Players: Stop breaking down I too had nothing but problems with the two Cambridge 640 series cd player's lasers I had in the past. The Marantz SA11S1 I had also became an unrepairable boat anchor when the laser assembly failed the for SECOND time and Marantz couldn't provide... |