simonmoon
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| Chinese fake cables How fake, how good? As long as this old thread has been brought back from the dead, I might as well pitch in my feelings. I have no problems buying Chinese cable "clones", because I am not taking any money out of the pockets of the real companies. As much as I spend... | |
| Audiophile virtues I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that music and the love of sound don’t have to be mutually exclusive. But the music MUST COME FIRST. After that the sound can be thoroughly enjoyed for what it is. i DONT believe (as some evidently do) that ... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. I think some of you miss the point. No one has claimed that being a virtuoso guarantees that they will produce memorable music. The point is simply that having a larger, more diverse musical arsenal opens up a lot more musical possibilities to th... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? For those who don’t believe that pre-year 2000 popular music represents the pinnacle of the genre and that nothing of value has been produced since, here are just a few of the great and unsurpassed chart toppers from the 60’s-90’s: Yes, but th... | |
| Audiophile virtues Let me preface this, with saying, that I am a music first audiophile. It is my love of music, that got me into audio in the first place. During my serious, music listening sessions, I pay no attention to the gear. With that being said, that does... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. My overall feeling about this, but this may be pejudiced by the types of music I listen to, is that, an advanced musical education, in both technique and theory, is much more likely to help, rather than harm the resulting music. If a musician or ... | |
| What are your top 5 Windham Hill recordings? The only ones that hold up for me, are he Shadofax releases. First of all, they have more complexity and band interplay than most of the others I have heard, and since they originally came from the prog genre, they still retain quite a bit of the... | |
| Pat Martino Joyous Lake is another good one. He always seems to get passed over when many people talk about great fusion guitarists.Holdsworth, McLaughlin, Di Meola, Gambale, Metheny, Henderson, Coryell, all of abut the same generation of players, seem to get... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? I get so frustrated every time I see this subject come up on music forums. Listen, I am in my 60's, but the main problem I have with new music, is keeping up with all the great new stuff coming out, in several genres, from all over the world.I the... | |
| Would your familiarity with the music played effect your test performance? With regards to most studio rock recordings, I would say, for the most part yes. Mostly because of familiarity.But with classical and acoustic jazz, not so much. I am pretty much only a fan of modern, avant-garde and contemporary classical music (... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. A great many musicians and bands among all the various subgenres of prog (avant-prog, Zeuhl, prog-metal, etc) have conservatory musical training. Rick Wakeman of YES was a student at the Royal Academy of Music, but left to go into rock.Christian V... | |
| The truth about why modern music is so awful. Music is NOT getting worse. To repeat, music is NOT getting worse!Mainstream forms of POP music are getting worse.If all one does, is compare mainstream popular forms of music of today, vs from the past, then we agree. But there is so much truly g... | |
| How do you listen? The vast majority of my listening is in what you refer to as "proper audiophilism", but that has as much to do with the types of music I listen to, as much as wanting to hear it from the best position.Pretty much the types of music I listen to, re... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system Return to Forever - Romantic WarriorGreat for testing dynamics, BUT ONLY the 1976 original vinyl. Every CD version I have heard is compressed to death. Just horrible...The opening track, Medieval Overture, is a good place to start, especially Lenn... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? I used to manage one of the highest end car audio store in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, to be exact). We used to do custom sub enclosures, custom enclosures for mids and tweets in doors, custom amp racks, etc, etc.For cars, we had some really good s... |