shubertmaniac
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| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder Fontella Bass "Rescue Me"Little Eva "Locomotion"Two fun songs from the early sixties | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Look at the theoretical frequency response curves vs critical dampness. Look at the frequency response curves that were recorded in Stereophile reviews and it looks like they are critically damped at or higher than 0.7. If you go to R. Harley's bo... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder Has anyone mentioned the greatest garage band song ever:GLORIA by either Them, which had a couple of charters, but not many or definitely one hit wonders the Shadows of Knight. | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder Thank You Jrd351 for the correction. On the UK charts they had even more.So many memories.Quick Joey Small- Kasenatz Katz Orchestral Band??? The penultimate bubblegum song. Bruckner-same symphony played 9 times( actually 11, if you count 0 and 00 ... | |
| What other obsessions do you have? Personally, I see nothing wrong with fast boats, fast cars and fast women, if they have more meaning to you than their exchange value. If you use them as a means to something of user value, that is something more than as a commodity or as a posit ... | |
| Are your systems more Plato or Aristotle? Viggen: Dialectics would state that it is a two way street, art comes to you as much as you come to art in a mediated manner. When I am in that "zone", say, listening to Schubert's last string quartet, I can sense the musical forms engulfing me, t... | |
| Are your systems more Plato or Aristotle? Viggen: It is the German philosophers like Kant, and Hegel in their Idealist philosophy who decribe nature as timeless. Adorno, who is not a true Hegelian dialectic philosopher, but a dialectical Marxist. It is Adorno, through Benjamin through Mar... | |
| Are your systems more Plato or Aristotle? Subaruguru: Historicity is not in the sense of sucessive events through time. But rather as a means in which within a specific tradition (ie Romanticism) an occurrence of the qualitatively new transpires; it is not a movement through time in which... | |
| Are your systems more Plato or Aristotle? My system is a Hegelian dialectic between the subject, the listener and the object the audio system. The subject and object are mediated by the music reproduced by the system.The subject is also in an another dialectical process between the listen... | |
| Avalon, Vandersteen... which to move to? Whoa there! Man, everyone says that the Avalons are lean, no bass, no dynamics, or very little of these traits. I have not a clue how anyone could come up with that. Maybe, they heard them with a bad setup or lousy electronics or both. I have hear... | |
| "Taking Sides" , Furtwangler and Systemic Evil For the musical recording of Beethoven's Fifth, Barenboim recreated the Music Hall, the tempo markings, and exact orchestra of the Berlin Philharmonic for an exacting recreation of Furtwangler's 1943-44 Fifth. I believe the soundtrack is out now.B... | |
| Sound Lab Millennium 1 spl ability? I agree with Albert, although I have "only" Acoustat 2+2s. You think to yourself "it is not loud at all", then you try to say something to someone, and ohmygod you need a megaphone to say anything that is audible. Electrostats are low noise trandu... | |
| Help this budding Classical audiophile Dear Budding Classical Music Listener:Of course, one of the easiest to "understand" and is very enjoyable to listen is Franz Schubert's violin sonatas on the Naxos label, the violinist's name escapes me at this moment. Very lyrical melodies with s... | |
| Any experience with Van Slyke Engineering? Everyone: Van Slyke is one of THE highest quality machining companies on this planet!!!!! Believe me if you are an amateur or even a professional astronomer, and you are doing astrophotography, somewhere in your setup you will have some kind of Va... | |
| Audiophiles & music-have you got it wrong? Right now, there is so much new music that is so good, albeit, contemporary classical music. I cannot keep up. I am averaging around 10CDs a week( sorry about the LP, but there is definitely a lack of interest from the majority of classical labels... |