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| HZ.....How low for full range music??? The lowest fundamental tone a string bass plays is at 41hz per second.The treatment of overtones is not relevant to your question but remember the difference tones. A difference tone could be called an "undertone". A fundadmental of 41 will genera... | |
| Best system for jazz? Budrew,I appreciate that you asked what we enjoy instead of asking us to dictate our tastes to you.As a listener to jazz and classical music,I value the interplay of instrumental lines and the timbres of the instruments(including voices)in orchest... | |
| Capturing the MUSIC; a furtive cause? What R We... Given that live music and recorded music are two different things,given that no two reproduction systems will sound exactly alike,I offer this suggestion:Let the musicians control as much of the process as they can. Write it into the contracts tha... | |
| Jazz Crossovers to the Pop Charts/Timeless Classic These two examples come to mind:Duke Ellington used two minute thirty second hits like Satin Doll and Take the A Train to,in effect,subsidize more entended works that did not get air play.Nat Cole was an excellent jazz pianist who had hits singing... | |
| What music would you like at your funeral? "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" | |
| Headphones versus speakers It's an apples and lemons comparision. If I'm following a score,I use the Grado cans. If I'm just listening,I use the Maggies. | |
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| what speakers for 4k or less new or used I'm in the minority here,being agnostic about Maggies needing tons of power. That said,I don't know how much current the Rogue unit delivers or how loud you listen.I prefer panels to boxes,but that is just me.Over Easter weekend, I heard a pair of... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? This is not a pipe.(The picture says,wanting to convey that it is a picture of a pipe.) If it makes you hallucinate the aroma of tobacco, if it gives you a nicotine-like rush,it's a good picture(maybe),but it's still not a pipe.Music is a time art... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Since you are right that going from a live performance to a recorded performance degrades the performance,even with an excellent recording,it follows that you compare speakers using the same music. At least the degradation will be equal from speak... | |
| For Magnepans try the "Rooze" comfiguration Rooze:I'm curious.Are both walls drywall? I'm guessing you reversed the left-right wiring? | |
| For Magnepans try the "Rooze" comfiguration ((chuckles at Nrenter's response)) | |
| For Magnepans try the "Rooze" comfiguration Yes! Colorless reverberation is amazing. I don't understand it but know it when I hear it.Several years ago,I heard a speaker from Cambridge Soundworks that had dual tweeter and midrange drivers firing front and back.Henry Kloss got where he got w... | |
| Anyone else feel left out? --Magnepan 1.6 qr or MG12,used--one generation old Adcom 200 watt amp,not the last word in finesse but strong as an ox,used--Morrison ELAD,used--Scott Nixon dac--Circuit City loss leader disk player with a digital out--Marantx ST-17 tuner,used--Ra... | |
| Downloading music-suggestions http://www.classicalarchives.com/Will let you download and listen to midi files free.For twenty five dollars a year,you can download MP-3 files;you can record them as 44.1 WAV files,but they are still MP-3, with the compressed dynamic range proble... |