simonmoon
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| Whats playing on your system today? Unsuk Chin - Violin concerto No. 1 (2001) Could be the best violin concerto of the 21st century, so far. Contemporary, yet still quite approachable. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Ingrid Laubrock - The Last Quiet Place (2023) The best jazz recording of 2023! Progressive, complex, great interplay and playing by all musicians. Sextet with Mazz Swift (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello), Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Michael Formanek... | |
| What are your top 10 records Are you looing for top 10 lists for LP’s that are musically the best, or sonically the best? Sometimes the 2 attributes overlap. But it is often the case, that recordings that are musically the best are not sonically top 10 material. From a pure... | |
| New In 2024 Here’s a couple of new discoveries for me. As with my earlier posts, all new music composed and recorded in 2024. Here’s some more new and notable new music from 2024. Greco Bastián - With a Little Hell from MORE friends / Bastian is Mexican... | |
| ???YOUR Personal Favorite???Why??? I think the BØRRESEN Z1 are pretty impressive. Huge, detailed, layered soundstage. Amazing attack/decay. Natural timber. $12,000.00 | |
| Best music in 2024 @pinwa Thank you for your thoughtful posts here. Lots of great, off the beaten track music to discover in your lists. Thanks for the shoutout! Here's some more new and notable new music from 2024. Greco Bastián - With a Little Hell fro... | |
| A brief review of GR Research Bully While I don't own any GR Research products, I am a fan of Danny's work. I have helped upgrade several pair of speakers using his upgrade kits, and everyone has been a fairly appreciable improvement. Some of the Danny haters on YT tend to make co... | |
| Proac Response 3.8 stereo imaging is not centered I think @yogiboy above, is referring to relative phase, not absolute phase. As in, one speaker is wired with the negative cable going to positive terminal, while the other is correctly. This will cause the image to be offset, or diffuse, and not... | |
| Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To This could be TL:DNR, but here goes... Almost my entire music listening history is loaded with: albums, musicians, bands, composers and even entire genres and subgenres, that took many listens and time to get into. Mostly because they pushed the ... | |
| Upgrade speakers or DAC Speakers will give you the most obvious difference, but in the long run, I think source is more important. Better speakers will get you a more accurate representation of the source signal you currently have, a more accurate source will give you ... | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! Given the same budget for speakers, 2 speakers will sound better than multiple speakers. There is no free lunch. If one has a budget, let's say, $10K for speakers, and they spend on 4+ speakers instead of 2, the quality and engineering on every... | |
| Orchestrated Rock...Uriah Heep and others I’ll post more that might be of interest. Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone (2015) / Swedish band that stated off sounding a bit in the King Crimson vein, then got a bit more ambient in their middle releases, but their latest is pure symp... | |
| Another Matteo Mancuso rant Sure, he is great. My only problem is, there are other modern fusion guitarists, that are just as good, if not better, that seem to remain in relative obscurity. Not sure why he is all that is being talked about as the "next coming" of fusion gu... | |
| Orchestrated Rock...Uriah Heep and others There is so much brilliant music that I believe falls within what you are describing. Obviously, a very high percentage of prog from all eras fits. And of course, the use of Mellotron by a high percentage of prog bands also lends that orchestral ... | |
| Speakers that disappear GR Research's NX Studio disappear amazingly well. Open baffle planar tweeters are the magic. They are kits, but they come with finished baffles, and flat packs are available (so you don't have to do any wood cutting). The end results are a spe... |