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| Jazz for aficionados Thanks all for the threads and links to "Caravan"It was written one year after I was born and for years after hardly a daywent by when I didn't hear it on the radio and be enchanted by it !I'll wager 90% of the American public was familiar with "C... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I actually like Gene Ammons myself , esp. when he dips into r&b much of what I consider folk music . Just not all day. Telling a story is the heart and soul of jazz and as any great storyteller will tell you , the only story you really have is... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rest assured Dave, I am fully aware of my own many faults and foibles. And others reactions to them .If you bothered to read what I said, that Ammons has a ton of talent but is not someone I would want to listen to all day , no reasonable person w... | |
| What sounds best: Vinyl or CDs The point is not how it sounds but how your body reacts to it. I've been a serious listener of classical music for over 60 years and during that time have owned about 6K lp's and 3K CD's .Long ago I noticed my shoulder area would tighten up after... | |
| Help with a new Tube headphone amp blowing fuses Humble Texas might well be greatest oxymoron in history ! | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10 Ammons had a ton of talent etc,etc ,but nothing I personally would care to listen to all day . | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy Best bang for buck is AudioArt and ZU .ZU off E-bay is best deal on anything in all of Audio.AudioArt is VERY good on harmonics ! | |
| Jazz for aficionados For whats its worth, I can listen longer to Turrentine , Sunny Stittt , and Elaine Elias longer than any other jazz players .Worse part of jazz is the who can play the loudest contests . | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia Beyond doubt, as much as I hate to own up to it, buckhorn has more than a grain of truth in his statement . | |
| Floor Stander with Small Footprint 7K - 15K I finally got to hear the PSB T3 yesterday in a room I'm familiar with at my uber-rich friends house .They were in his second system , Magico 5's in his main setup .For the classical music I listen to I'd rather have the T3's . | |
| Feickert Protractor - anyone use one? I use the Feickert and enjoy doing so.But IF ( a big if) I can find something on an arm that enables me to see the pivot point hunched down there a 50$ Geo Disc is just as accurate . | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Cartidge’s are priced differently all over the world on a what the market will bear basis .Sellers are well aware that Americans tend to judge on a more expensive must be better basiswhich is not the case in most places . | |
| Jazz for aficionados In Germany I was always OK with the expensive gas as I knew it fundedthe cost-free German Higher Education System and German studentshad none of the horrendous debt burden so many American students have .Also ,made me think is this trip necessary?... | |
| Looking for cartridge recommendations (after a 20 year hiatus) + ! for the Jico stylus .Grado 8mz is a good choice for symphonic music, a middle of the hall perspective . | |
| What are you listening to right now? Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto in D major op.101 |