simonmoon
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| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @laoman No Opera, no Beethoven, Bach, Mozart? No Jethro Tull, Rick Wakeman.? I really do not like your list much. There might be 5 or 6 on your list I would want. I am not sure who this is meant for, but I will assume it was for me, since ... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mofimadness Thanks! There are quite a few avant-garde prog albums bands, avant-garde jazz, and atonal and dissonant classical in those lists. Not always an easy listen. So, YMMV with a large part of my list, especially the classical. | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie My list will be made up of some pretty obscure recordings, comprised of: prog, jazz, and classical (mostly from the mid 20th century up through the present era). My numbering got screwed up, but I believe there are 100. Problem with list like th... | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? As others have already said, low efficiency does not translate to lack of dynamic range. Dynamic range in lower efficiency speaker, given high power, high current amps, can, and does equal the dynamic range of high efficiency speakers. And for ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Earlier today. Ernst Krenek - Static and Ecstatic (1972) Vinyl An underappreciated serial piece, by an underappreciated composer. Expertly preformed by the LA Phil chamber orchestra. One of the best recordings for evaluating soundstage size, a... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Setna - Guérison (2013) CD French band doing top quality, Magma influenced music, that straddles the line between prog and fusion. World class chops by all members. | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @tonydennison An Audiophile is a lover of Audio. The music they use is to facilitate the search for perfect sound. A lover of music is a Melomaniac. So, if you love music but audio purity is neither your passion nor goal, then you are not an A... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often I never quite could figure out the knock against speaker manufacturers that use off the shelf drivers? Driver manufacturers such as: Scan-Speak, SB Acoustics, RAAL, Accuton, Purifi Audio, SEAS, Fontec, etc, etc, have done all the R&D, have al... | |
| Crossing Left and Right Speakers I am a bit dumbfounded by some people’s experiences. I recently reorganized my system on my rack, and I accidentally connected my mono amps to the wrong channels of my pre. And all that happened, was I heard orchestral violins come from the righ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos I would say that lots of my jazz records that I bought first were from 70’s jazz, music that somewhat sounded (to me anyway at the time) like ’rock’ music of that era. As I have continued to listen jazz, I started more and more to ap... | |
| Headphones vs speakers…. Despite having, and enjoying my pretty high end headphone and amp system (Grado GS3000, Astell and Kern amp, about $3500 combined), they will never, to me, sound as good as my full system. They lack the visceral impact of my full system, which is... | |
| Klipsch RP-600M II @lanx0003 Relatively speaking, RP 600M Mk I has certain limitations despite of rave reviews from HR. The high ends are bright, edgy and forward and the bass is a bit bloated. The unbalanced, overly presence of highs and lows covers up the midra... | |
| The best looking speakers I am purely in the "form should follow function" camp of audio design. This usually leads me to love the looks of quite a few speakers that many find not so aesthetically pleasing. AvantGarde Acoustics, Tidal, Aries Cerat, Acapella, and others. ... | |
| So you just took a gummie...What song is on the menu? I haven’t partaken in any cannabis for decades, but if I did take that gummy, it certainly wouldn’t be just one song on my menu. It lasts for hours, after all... So, I would have full buffet of songs lined up. Among my choices would be: Yes - ... | |
| List some of your favorite live Jazz recordings Here’s mine. Mostly fusion and avant-garde. Don’t get me wrong, I love most of the post-bop recordings most of you are listing, too. I just didn’t want to be redundant listing them again. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity ... |