rok2id
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| Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists? Orpheus10:These videos can become habit forming very quickly. I really enjoyed the ones you sent. I have held an erroneous opinion of the youtube music.Tina Brooks, I didn't realize he was so well known. I thought I had him all to my self. The one... | |
| Please help me understand Man: 20Hz-20kHzDog: 40Hz-40kHz Same number of octaves (10) Based on your data, you agree with me. Since Dogs don't listen to loud rock music or use headphones, or work around loud high pitched machinery, etc.... they can probably hear from 40-40k ... | |
| guitar solos where less is more "is it something inherent in rock music that prevents rock guitar players from producing "less is more" solos of the type that players in jazz and blues are able to produce?"This is the correct answer. of course there has to be at least one except... | |
| Please help me understand "In the mean while we have ears to rely on. Rok2id I`ll assume when you audition and decide to purchase your'audio' components you listened to them rather then just read the measurements and buy based on that criteria alone. "actually, that is exa... | |
| Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists? "There you go again, speaking as if your OPINIONS are actually FACTS!"There is nothing that says an opinion cannot also be factual. And how does one speak as if what they say is not factual? Should I used the 'IMO' every other word? I assume MOST ... | |
| the meaning of the word "better" "The re-sale prices of many pieces of vintage gear would seem to contradict that statement."I get your point. I would agree that vintage gear was built more substantially. Built to last. This was pre the (I have to change amps every week) era. Des... | |
| Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists? Orpheus10I like almost all of your youtube posts.I am not into video as such. I have a dvd of "a great day in harlem' and a few blue note dvds, but I have never played them, because I don't have a high quality play back video system. I will correc... | |
| Please help me understand "The human ear is more sensitive than any measuring tool."My post was primarily in response to the statement above. It should be self-evident that human senses, among the animal kingdom, SUCK!! we build machines all the time, to see, hear, smell, ... | |
| Please help me understand Why not just believe what you wish, but when you try to justify your beliefs it gets kind of silly. It's obvious that all the so-called analogies are not applicable. To try and discredit science in order to say one amp sounds BETTER than another, ... | |
| Please help me understand "The human ear is more sensitive than any measuring tool."You sure you don't want to rethink this statement? | |
| IC Failure There is a lesson here. | |
| the meaning of the word "better" Of course on a macro level, everything is probably better than components were decades ago. But at, and within each step, on this journey, it's not so simple to tell what is better.Peace | |
| Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists? Duanegoosen BTW, do you agree of disagree with the idea that culture has to be defended. Otherwise we will have no culture.I don't think a person can get together with a few friends and start a group, make some sounds, declared the sounds their Fi... | |
| Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists? Duanegoosen:"Words like Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant Garde and Fusion don't really have much descriptive value and often get used by the weak minded to reinforce preconceptions and prejudices." Whew!! Talk about dodging a bullet! That lets me off the ho... | |
| Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists? "Rok2id, who said Jean Luc Ponty was a jazz great?"No one did. I just stated that he was not a Jazz great. Given the direction and subject of the thread, confusion on this point would have been understandable.Peace. |