simonmoon
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| Share MYSTICAL, HAUNTING songs Italian prog band, Eris Pluvia made a great one in the mid 90's called, "Rings of Earthly Light", that is haunting from open to close. Rings of Earthly Light | |
| Share MYSTICAL, HAUNTING songs Lots of stuff by Mike Oldfield. Especially: Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, and Ommadawn. Ommadawn Almost anything by Loreena McKennitt. Lots of stuff by Irish band, Clanad. | |
| Share MYSTICAL, HAUNTING songs You want mysterious, mystical and haunting?: Dead Can Dance. Nuff said. First thing to entered my mind. Most recorded very well, too. | |
| Best speakers around $130k? Wow! So much wrong headed thinking here. Sure, a $130,000 speaker may be more of a negative impact on the environment than a $30,000 or $3,000 speaker would be. But seriously, the percentage of $130,000 produced is a fraction of $3,000 speakers,... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? most of the worst speakers ive heard was horns. when horns sounds coloured, nothing else in the audio world is so unbearable to my ears This has also been my experience. I can tolerate a colored sounding non horn speaker much easier. But to ... | |
| Evaluating Classical Music Albums Being a fan of mostly classical music (modernism, serialism, avant-garde, etc) from the mid 20th century up through the present, it is often a fact that I do not have too many recordings to choose from. Many times I only have one recording of a p... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears Yeah, I know, most people think of angular, dark progressive music when they think of King Crimson. But they have more than their share of beautiful pieces. Here are just 2: King Crimson - Exiles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD0DBGqk6_A Kin... | |
| What Recordings Of Yours Did Not Age Well? Overall, I haven't had too many recordings that haven't aged well. At least since I discovered prog, and all its subgenres (avant-prog, Zeuhl, Canterbury, symph, technical-metal, prog-meal, etc). Since I tend to only enjoy music with the follo... | |
| What Recordings Of Yours Did Not Age Well? Hocus Pocus by Focus. I agree. But then, I always thought, even though it is a fun track, was the weakest track on "Moving Waves". The side long "Eruption" is close to brilliant, and the beauty of songs like "Le Clochard", "Moving Waves", "Fo... | |
| Do I need a subwoofer? There is a lot of information in the bottom octaves that are related to soundstage and ambience, and other spatial cues. As decently low as those B&W,s go on their own, adding good quality subs, will create a more open, larger soundstage, tha... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio I believe I’m becoming cured of my audiophile tendencies. No reason to be ’cured’, remission is good enough for me. The vast majority of my listening is done with very little regard to the gear, other than it is bringing me the music I love. ... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio I am a "music first" audiophile. The music comes before the gear. I listen to plenty of mediocre recordings, because the music is so good. But, lucky for me, a lot of my musical tastes seem to coincide with relatively good recordings. Also, ju... | |
| Two way Satori TW29R-B & Satori WO24P-8 9.5" Egyptian Papyrus Cone Woofer - 8 ohm Both great drivers! But it would be very hard, if not impossible to get them to mate as a 2 way. Seems that no matter where you cross them over, there would be problems. either the tweet would have to be crossed over too low, which would help th... | |
| Great Classical Recordings I have many classical recordings, including full sized orchestras, with very good imaging. But, when you have between 70-100 members of an orchestra, it is hard to differentiate between each individual violinist of 16-18, for example. But they are... | |
| High Fidelity Sound Speaker I’ve heard plenty of full range speakers. Voxativ, Cube Audio, Lowther, and plenty more. And yes, they do some things very well. But they trade off way too much to be completely satisfying, for me. Maybe if I had enough money to have a second sy... |