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| Turned back into a music lover @rvpiano If you can delight in the many wonderful subtleties of a performance instead of listening for audio thrills you’ve turned back into a music lover. The behemoth that is your audio system tempts you mightily. But if you can somehow evade... | |
| audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works Finally I am reading some other people singing the praises of of those Nonesuch "Spectrum: New American Music" recordings. While Nonesuch was not always known for their dead quiet vinyl, the recordings themselves are universally great. And musica... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? Thanks for all the responses to my OP, folks! I have never had a problem getting height in my images, when the material calls for it. Like in the track on Chesky's first "Ultimate Evaluation Disk", with the Mozart flute concerto, where, on a... | |
| Best progressive rock album side @ricmci Wow, this thread turned out way better than I expected it to. Some great recommendations to search for. I much more enjoy searching in record stores than ordering on line. Many mentioned, I already have. I think of those listed that I d... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? Tallest - Maggie 3.6 Heaviest (and the best) - Koss 1a These 200 pound beasts were full range electrostatics (down to low 30’s with no dynamic drivers) were also the best I’ve owned. One of the sadly forgotten speakers from the late 70’s. Any p... | |
| Best progressive rock album side @kacomess I’m not sure how "progressive rock" is defined. So, I am going to be 'that guy', and bring up the "what is prog" discussion. For me, prog, is not a style of music (it's barely a genre), in the same way country, blues, punk, etc are... | |
| Best progressive rock album side @clearthinker It’s my privilege not to enjoy much of this which is pretentious twaddle. By the way Dr Sardonicus is not prog rock and I do like it. Well, that’s great, since the vast majority of prog is not pretentious, nor is it twaddle. S... | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae The problem is, all my favorite bass players in rock, are in prog and its various subgenres, and a great many of them, are also jazz-fusion players. Or at least, have the chops to play at that level. But I will list them anyway. I will start wit... | |
| Best progressive rock album side This is mostly pretentious crap by second rate musicians. I didn't even like most of it when I was young. This thread should be changed to 'which are the most over-rated prog rock discs'. Let me start. #1 All of Genesis #2 Most of Yes ... | |
| Best progressive rock album side WAY too many great ones, among many subgenres to decide on just a few. So, I will break it down by subgenre. Also, let me state from the get go, that I am always saddened to see lists like these on various forums, with the complete lack of Itali... | |
| Let’s share the music that gives us the chills every time. Way too many to list! Mahavishnu Orchestra - Eternity's Breath (part 1 &2) The melody, the terrifying level of musicianship, the complexity... Eternity's Breath Genesis - The Lamia Steve Hackett's guitar solo gets me every time, but the e... | |
| You know you have audiophile system when... @natman I auditioned it for my wife. She listened and said "It sounds like they’re in the room with us." Now inside my head I was doing my happy dance, because that’s exactly what I was going for. Then she said "It’s creepy. I don’t like it." ... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings @tisimst It’s also interesting that you explicitly call out Deutsche Gramophone because it came up in another thread about a real sounding piano as a good example. I appreciate both perspectives. Maybe they were referring to tone, timbr... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings @edcyn Yeah, I have a piano and play it practically every day, but I still can’t give you a definitive answer as to what recording best approaches the sound I hear "live." The major problem is that my piano sits in its own special, but quite sm... | |
| Best music in 2022 Green Asphalt - Swedish band with more than a nod to prog legends, Gentle Giant. Complex, thoughtful melodies, layered vocals. Yang - Designed for Disaster - French band, with prog guitar great, Frédéric L'Épée, with their modern take on heavy p... |