simonmoon
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| What are your top three favorite classical compositions? Three!? Seriously! I could never narrow it down to just three, even 10 wouldn't be able to cover all the classical music I rate equally highly. So, I will have to cheat. 😉 I am only into: 20th century, atonal, serial, avant-garde classical music... | |
| What was the first CD with great drums?? You might have to go a bit further with what defines good sounding recorded drums to you, though. Do you mean, the sound of drums the way they tend to be recorded on the vast majority of studio rock, pop, etc., recordings? I.e., every drum with i... | |
| Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to Seems like the OP, despite the title of this thread, cannot actually like Norah Jones. They can profess to like her, but no one can actually like someone because they are coerced to by the audiophile press, or other audiophiles. To me, while I ad... | |
| Favorite Genesis Tracks? In my opinion, they lost more from a purely musical standpoint, when Steve Hackett left the band, than when Gabriel left. Sure, their very best material was recorded with Gabriel, but Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are only small drop o... | |
| Songs of debauchery and excess A song about heroin addiction by prog band, IQ. "The Enemy Smacks" The Enemy Smacks | |
| Music for 2022- Is It Just Me Or?.. Not for me! For the genres I listen to (various subgenres of prog, jazz, modern classical), 2022 was a pretty good year. Not as good as some, but still good. This is probably about 25% of my purchases of new, not reissues or archive material, in... | |
| Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there? I think it has to do with the natural tone from wood, why is it most musical instrument are made from wood and sound so great. Wood used for musical instruments, and wood used for speaker enclosures serve a completely different purpose. Wit... | |
| How far and wide? NSMT speaker placement My room is not very big, 14’ x 16’. My speakers are on the short wall, about 3.5 feet out, about 9 feet apart slightly towed in, I am about 8 feet back. I have acoustic panels in the critical spots in the room. My speakers are Jeff Bagby’s "Kair... | |
| Changing melody and tempo songs Almost my entire music collection, and the various genres I listen to, have regular shifting tempos, melodies, time signatures, chord progressions, etc, etc. I listen to various subgenres of prog, jazz, and classical, all of which are well known ... | |
| What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)? Here's a few more very recent CD purchases. Elliott Carter - Two Controversies and a Conversation for piano, percussion, and chamber orchestra (2011) - Carter composed this at the age of 102, and does not show any lack of creativity or artistic a... | |
| What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)? My tastes tend toward the progressive and avant-garde, so, as far as being used for recommendations, YMMV. I was thinking of getting rid of my CD’s, but once I removed them and their inserts from the jewel cases, put them into specifically design... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? There is no soundstage image height or image at all. It's just your brain trying to make sense of what it's perceiving its a trick an illusion. @johnk Then how do you explain Northwestern's LEDR recording, already mentioned several times on t... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? In response to the OP, no. Not sure why a mid 20th century pop producer has to be invoked in order to differentiate between orchestral and chamber music? The differences have been around for much longer than mid century pop. From my view, as a f... | |
| Tyler Timekeepers I have not had a chance to hear the Timekeepers yet, but I have heard several other Tyler Acoustics speakers. And without question, they outperform comparably priced speakers. | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @bdp24 I worked at the Sherman Oaks and the Canoga Park stores. I worked with Kip for quite a while. Good guy. Not sure I'd call his band punk though, more power pop. 2 other guys I worked with, Bob Say and Tom Gracyk, have a great store just ... |