richardbrand
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| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Time for an update. I have just received the first vinyl music I have bought in 40 years, but is it not jazz! It is something I don’t much like, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto which really is a piano trio with orchestral backing. The four sides avera... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn ESL in Australia normally means English Second Language, and represents the quarter of the population who don't speak English at home. I try to use English as a Scientific Language with precise meaning. Seems we are from two nations ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm So it seems as if the four sub-woofers are spaced in a line with 4 feet between adjacent ones. The far left and the far right are thus separated by about 3 x 4 = 12 feet.. For the record, Quad ESL speakers, apart from the original, do no... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn According to their website, your so-called ’real’ line source speaker tries to emulate the behaviour of a virtual line source situated about 3 feet behind the panel, just as Quad ESL>63 try to emulate a point source a foot behind the ... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Cleo Laine, or Lady Dankworth as she is now known, was also an actress, singer in musicals (eg Show Boat in London which ran for 910 performances) and an opera singer (Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins). For those who think British jazz ain't ja... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @grislybutter How about Cleo Lane? She could sing ballads, swing and do scat with very pure, very rapid notes backed by ’her’ British Jazz band led by Johnny Dankworth (later Sir John Dankworth). I remember a drum solo where the drummer ended up... | |
| New Electrical Circuit @skeptikal I am with you with respect to managing noise in the mains supply. But I think most of the electrical noise affecting our components is generated by other components in our own audio chains. In particular, I have a subwoofer with a c... | |
| New Electrical Circuit You did not say what country you are in! Most of the answers assume USA, but in much of the rest of the world we use higher voltages, so much less current is drawn for the same power. My supply is nominally 240-V RMS, though it is usually 250. ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "What is a pseudo line source?" A true line source speaker does not exist, any more than a true point source speaker can actually exist. If they could, the energy they emit would have to be crammed into an infinitely small volume, a si... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital OK - I did highlight one style of jazz that I know I like, the jazz in the film Babylon. It is available on a 2-LP set, and represents a modern take on 1920s jazz with dazzling trumpet solos. Does that help? | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @miklavigne Cartridges / phono-stages should honour the RIAA equalisation curve. Most cartridges have a distinct lift in the treble, which also means the leading edges of transients are accentuated. Of course, when mastering a record from a dig... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn I do know and understand that stuff, pretty much like the back of my hand. Absolutely right, subwoofers should be put to work on long wavelengths, which often will be longer than the listening room. They will excite room resonances a... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital ... my partner, who is far more into popular genres than I am, says it was not a jazz band, just the brass section of his backing band. Pop she says! By the way, the sound was literally painful, especially in the chest. I suppose it had to be -... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @grislybutter Last big live concert I went to was Paul McCartney and he did have a jazz band with him (more accurately, halfway along the side of the stadium). It is noteworthy that his songs have to be memorable, not because they are classics,... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @lewm I could absolutely guarantee to find you some Vaughan Williams you would like, just because he wrote such an immense variety! You's have to listen more than once, though. The open-air plinths are usually based on slate or some such. Slat... |