simonmoon
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| 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... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? This is from last night. Despite a fairly long listening session last night, I only played one vinyl recording. A fantastic serial chamber piece by Ernst Krenek, Static and Ecstatic. Not to mention, that this recording produces an incredible s... | |
| Did I Expect too much? If they are only using $6 binding posts (probably have ferrous materials, which would go a long way to explain why the Cardas sounded better), I would be very dubious as the the quality of the crossover components used. After all, those a much l... |