simonmoon
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| Mental and auditory acuity, and aging I am 67, with hearing that sits in the upper percentile for my age. But, even with the inevitable loss of some high frequency hearing that comes with age, there is so much more that I don’t think diminishes. Dynamics, soundstage, imaging, the re... | |
| Mental and auditory acuity, and aging @jmnextime1 I know this topic is geared towards the elderly (I'm 71) but after reading this thread, are there any audiophiles under the age of 50? While we are at it, any women? If so, speak up. From what I can tell, this stereotype of th... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? As long as this zombie thread has been revived 8 months after it's demise, I might as well post again, also. As my previous posts have made clear, I dislike rap and hip-hop, based purely on what I perceive, musically speaking, as simplistic, lack... | |
| Stenheim Alumine 3 vs. Sonus Faber Amati G5 I've spent quite a bit if time with the Steinheims, and besides a small bit of 'bloom' in the mids (giving the a touch of warmth in that region), they are quite natural sounding. They seemed to be very neutral in all areas (excepting the above no... | |
| Music that has a hold of me beyond understanding There is so much music that has this effect on me. Music that has a hold on me, transports me, alters my mental state, on different levels, for differing reasons, describes the vast majority of my music collection. If it didn’t, I would not have ... | |
| Being alone with your music I almost always listen to music in solitude. There are several reasons: I am able to get more deeply into the music if I am alone. I feel more free to change what I am listening to on a whim. But mostly, because my tastes tends toward the prog... | |
| What would your "perfect speaker" sound like. As one who has correctly treated my room, I can also point out the importance of the room. BUT, the speaker is also extremely important. Sorry, but no matter how good one's room is, if a speaker is lacking detail, transient response, accurate t... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mahgister i will try Elliott Carter as suggested by simonmoon... I will go slowly because it is not my "taste"... But i will LEARN something and sometimes miracles happen, and our mind open to new unsuspected possibilities... Hey! I d... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @stuartk I definitely recognize that I’m limited by my tastes -- as time goes on, I’m finding less and less music that I want to buy. As mentioned above, I’ve never enjoyed the sound of Classical Vocals. It’s not the music. It’s what I experien... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mahgister I reacted to your provocative claim about Bach being boring for YOU....If you were in pop music i would have not reacted... For sure , the music you call "thorny" is mostly boring for me... Then we are on the same subjective footin... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mahgister Music is not about tonality versus atonality... Etc... I am just stating a personal preference, I am not making any statements on the musical theory. I just know, that for me, classical music that does happen to be tonal, I find p... | |
| 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 ... |