simonmoon
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| Are Merlin TSM speakers buried with their owners? A fine speaker. Been a while since I've heard them though. I just searched HiFi Shark and there are 5 or 6 pair for sake. So obviously people do move on. | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @faustuss Interestingly, you have to keep a supply of ionized gas around which in effect acts as the diaphragm as the plasma excites the atoms of whatever gas it is producing sound. When the gas floats away or is dissipated though, no more s... | |
| Genesis I’m a huge fan of everything from Trespass up through Wind and Wuthering. Everything after that is pretty bad, or worse, IMO. It is also my opinion that they lost a lot more, musically speaking, when Steve Hackett left the band, than when Gabrie... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound @frogman His and my aunt’s house in Studio City was kind of the gathering place for my extended family while growing up. I used to spend hours listening to him do arrangements in his studio. He worked with many well known people: Rosemary Cl... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound I will recommend some big band jazz albums. But please note, despite having an uncle that played in a famous, traditional big band, I am not really a fan. Therefore, my recommendations will be contemporary, progressive, and maybe a bit avant-ga... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound @slaw Harry James and his Orchestra My uncle, Al Lerner, was the pianist in the Harry James orchestra during their heyday! If you want to read a fun book about his experiences with Harry James, and others, check out "Vamp 'Til Ready". | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound I would definitely look for a pair of Acapella Audio Arts speakers. One of the best horn speakers available. They use a plasma driver for the tweeter, which could be the best tweeter available. There is nothing with better transient response t... | |
| authentic space recordings The jazz label, ECM is known for their natural, spacious soundstage reproduction, although, I don't think many of their recordings are done with the "purity" of classical recordings. Also, ECM was very respected during their vinyl era for sound ... | |
| authentic space recordings The vast majority of classical music is recorded in such a way that captures the original acoustic space the musicians were playing in. The microphone configurations used in classical recordings are designed with that as a major goal, i.e., Blum... | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? While lyrics don't make or break music for me (I listen to a lot of instrumental music, and music in different languages), great lyrics are a nice plus. Genesis - The Lamia The scent grows richer, he knows he must be near, He finds a long passa... | |
| What are your thoughts on Raidho? I've always really liked the various models I've heard in show environments. Really top notch soundstage and imaging. | |
| Favorite rock/pop male voices Prog Greg Lake - ELP, King Crimson John Wettin - King Crimson, U.K. Francesco Di Giacomo - Banco del Mutuo Socorrso (Italian prog band) / 5 octave range, beautifully expressive. Dimetreo Stratus - Area (Italian prog band) / 5 octave voice, ... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? @philosurfer Lots of these made my list, and some that didn’t, easily could have. Short list: Leszek Mozdzer Keith Jarrett & Bobo Stenson Allan Holdsworth Mike Stern Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech Paco de Lucia Ralph Towner Bill Evans... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? Way to many to list... These and many others, hold up for me, extremely well for repeated listenings. Although, some of them I don't listen to as often as I used to, since keeping up with new, great music in these genres keeps me plenty busy. P... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? WAY too many to list... My tastes in music tend toward to the progressive and avant-garde. I am not at all interested in music that does not meet the criteria I love in music. Those criteria are, in no particular order: very high levels of musi... |