shadorne
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| The Evolution of Modern Jazz Drumming and bass evolved significantly with bebop as the high hat became time keeper and bass drum was used to comp.here are two prosWow | |
| The Evolution of Modern Jazz Cool Struttin was a high water mark in hard bop! One of my favorite albums along with Basie plays Hefti.Awesome | |
| Chicks With Guitars Eat This! | |
| Can all headphones handle HIGH Volume levels? The Sennheiser Pro HD 25-1-II are a great choice - extremely dynamic and can play at 120 db SPL. However, beware that you may find other headphones sound lifeless once you have tried them. | |
| The Animals in High Def...Anyone have any feedback Ben,Indeed I have the Deep Purple Machine Head. It is also excellent. As I mentioned, HDtracks is a great resource and I find it extremely surprising that it is not more popular with Audiogoners. After all, for me it is first and foremost about th... | |
| Speakers with wide listening window As others have suggested get a speaker with good off axis response.Think of speakers as lights. Most designs are like a spot light. A few are designed with wide even dispersion that makes the off axis match the on axis - a flood light.What to look... | |
| The Animals in High Def...Anyone have any feedback Excellent sound. The best you will find. I can confirm that this is the SACD mastering by Bob Ludwig - basically the PCM files rather than the DSD. The quality is on par with early stones stuff done by Bob.Of course the drums are recorded as drums... | |
| Best non-USB Dac for $3k, computer as source? An async DAC like Benchmark DAC1 is a solid choice with a PC (likely to be jittery on the digital out). DAC1 would perhaps be at the low end of your price range but you might be able to audition one at no cost. | |
| Help me find violin and cello related Sophie Mutter Pablo Sarasete or Joshua Bell Devils Trill or Soundtrack to Red Violin. | |
| The Animals in High Def...Anyone have any feedback I downloaded four albums tonight including Animals. I love HD tracks.Currently there is a Promo Code for 15% less, just enter sonicelectronix15....it saved me $11 bucks!Details are here | |
| Great films where music is a central theme. The Girl Can't Help it! | |
| Chicks With Guitars Nothing unusual about that at all!!!!Try starting a thread about Chicks with Drums - now that is rare!!! | |
| Which components are "stupid good"? "Stupid Good" : Standard but good quality interconnects and speaker cables, which are generally available for less than $100 and appropriately specified for the equipment in use.Plain "Stupid" : special cables and interconnects generally available... | |
| From pro to hi-fi and a little confused... The smaller designs definitely compress and also suffer from port chuffing ( non linear port effects at large excursions). John is correct that big really is better in this case, however, small near fields are practical and bring aesthetic advanta... | |
| Speaker with most dynamic PUNCH? Any ATC. All punch way above their size. As you correctly surmise, it boils down to large magnets with short coil in large gap and larger diameter voice coils that can cool effectively so that thermal compression is minimized. The other factors ar... |