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| Do Audiophiles blow speakers? I don't swing that way but I bear no ill will toward those who do.((Sorry,someone had to say it.)) | |
| Speaker Design I don't know any of the three you mentioned,but I suspect they might say they would not restrict themselves with two constants(cabinet and drivers)and one variable(crossovers),that the three are interrelated.http://www.northcreekmusic.comhas inter... | |
| An observation about "Modern" classical music. Gabbro: Would The Minute Waltz be a proper encoure? | |
| When audiophiles visit for a listening session I'm just dying to hear your system. | |
| An observation about "Modern" classical music. Another possibility is that the audience does not like it,but once several start to applaud,others do,to compliment the players.I like 20th century harmony(Bartok,Stavinsky,Hindemith,etc) but atonality is beyond me. I'm a creature of tonic,dominan... | |
| anyone listen to marching bands? The best recordings I've heard of music a marching band might play is Frederick Fennell,conducting the Eastman Wind Ensamble. In addition to things like Souza marches,they play much of the literature you might hear a live band play at a good circus. | |
| tessitura? I've heard the word used idiomatically to refer to a range of pitches. As in cellos,trombones,tenor human voices,and bassoons share the same tessitura. | |
| Reading Vs Listening to Learn Piano Do you remember how you learned to read? Someone,probably a relative, read to you for a half hour a day,while you looked at the book,untill one day,it made sense. No one tried to explain the rules of grammar to you first.If you ever change your mi... | |
| Reading Vs Listening to Learn Piano Two books that might interest you are these:The Pianist's Problems,NewmannGuided Sight Reading,Deutch(I know,but it is a fine explanation of a sight reading approach for beginners.)A few years back,I took a jazz history survey course and had to do... | |
| This Week's "New Yorker" Either last week or the week before last,there was an article about Sonny Rollins that was a good read,also. | |
| Why don't kids nowadays know about Jazz and classi I hope you are wrong but I have no way of knowing. My guess is that every generation has said that about its offspring. Because of its complexity,because it is difficult to learn to play well,art music has never attracted more than about ten perce... | |
| Why are audiophiles perceived as being wackos? I don't know why audiophiles are perceived to be screwballs--if they are.Unable to speak for "them",I'll say that someone with a passion for something,as long as it is not socially destructive has my respect.Perhaps someone who takes the time and ... | |
| Internet Radio http://www.theclassicalstation.org | |
| what causes the sss in words like 'thisss'? There's something else to consider. Either the recordings microphones were improperly placed or the wrong style microphones were either properly or improperly placed,or both.Does the severity of the problem vary from recording to recording? Does t... | |
| Subtlety ? do any American amps do it? Please forgive me for saying so,but your post sounds polemic. I'm not calling you polemic,but that's how your post sounds to me.As technology makes the world smaller,as companies may be chartered in one county,design in another,and manufacture in ... |