simonmoon
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| Favorite religious song I am not religious at all. Although I am not averse to religious music, per se, the only sort of religious music I can listen to, for purely musical reasons, are Indian devotionals, called Bhajan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bttszaG-fZU | |
| You know you have audiophile system when... I hate the tag Audiophile. Who coined the phrase? It’s all about musical entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. @bobpyle The term was coined in 1951, and I think it is a perfectly fine term. Sure it is all about the music first. But tha... | |
| You know you have audiophile system when... A music lover uses audio equipment to listen to his recordings. An audiophile uses recordings to listen to his audio equipment! @whitefishpoint1175 This is a quote from Allan Parsons, and he was wrong when he originally said it, and the quote... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? Let me add, that there are very many modern, contemporary, atonal, and avant-garde classical pieces that I consider near perfect, but on recording, they are often paired up with music that I do not. I consider quite a few pieces by: Elliott Carte... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? I am not sure I consider any record perfect. But there are certainly many that I consider vanishingly close to perfect. How am I supposed to know if some incredibly great recording, could have been even better? Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Br... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @onhwy61 Expensive systems in well designed listening room do scale type things better. They can go louder, sound bigger, thunder in the bass and shimmer the highs. But does that really correlate with listening to music better? Sometimes yes, s... | |
| For all you Bose 901 Haters! I used to work at a mid-fi store that carried Bose in LA during the height of their popularity. They sucked then, they always sucked, no amount of modern mods can polish those turds. Lack of detail, flabby bass, and zero imaging and soundstage. ... | |
| King Crimson I am a long time fan of all their incarnations. Their best are: Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red. These 3 are their most progressive and musically adventurous. But all of their releases have something of interest. | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer As others have said, the only parameter that you can get to match, is frequency response. But there are so many other parameters to take into consideration. Just one example: different drivers have differences in: resonances, transient responses... | |
| Supper's Ready @shredsled I've seen Musical Box every time they've been to LA. I saw Genesis do the Lamb at the Shrine Auditorium back in 1975, and the Musical Box performance was a pretty good reproduction. So were their other shows of other albums. My prob... | |
| Supper's Ready As I previously mentioned, prog had a huge revival starting in the early mid 90’s. Bands in the 80’s, Marillion, IQ, Twelfth Night, Pendragon, and all the "neo prog" bands, were good. But to me, they were kind of watered down. They tended to have... | |
| Supper's Ready @larsman Yes, I know "Strange Days". Back in the mid to late 70's in LA, there was a 2 hour radio show on Sunday nights, on one of the major rock stations. It was called, "Over There", and they specialized in prog from all over the world, It w... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? @cakyol The difference = a lot of money for about 2-5% improvement in sound..... The curve of diminishing returns. As I said earlier, while this curve does exist, it is highly subjective, and is different, sometimes drastically so, for every... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? Yeah, with regards to audio, I really don’t believe there is an objective point of diminishing returns. It is up to each individual to decide where that point is for each of us. My rich cousin recently upgraded his previous speakers, Magico M3 (... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? There are certainly differences, in every aspect of sound quality. But if one is expecting the differences to have some sort of 1:1 (for every $ more I spend, I will get exactly that much more improvement) correlation, that will not happen. Th... |