simonmoon
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| What would your "perfect speaker" sound like. As one who has correctly treated my room, I can also point out the importance of the room. BUT, the speaker is also extremely important. Sorry, but no matter how good one's room is, if a speaker is lacking detail, transient response, accurate t... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mahgister i will try Elliott Carter as suggested by simonmoon... I will go slowly because it is not my "taste"... But i will LEARN something and sometimes miracles happen, and our mind open to new unsuspected possibilities... Hey! I d... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @stuartk I definitely recognize that I’m limited by my tastes -- as time goes on, I’m finding less and less music that I want to buy. As mentioned above, I’ve never enjoyed the sound of Classical Vocals. It’s not the music. It’s what I experien... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mahgister I reacted to your provocative claim about Bach being boring for YOU....If you were in pop music i would have not reacted... For sure , the music you call "thorny" is mostly boring for me... Then we are on the same subjective footin... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mahgister Music is not about tonality versus atonality... Etc... I am just stating a personal preference, I am not making any statements on the musical theory. I just know, that for me, classical music that does happen to be tonal, I find p... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @laoman No Opera, no Beethoven, Bach, Mozart? No Jethro Tull, Rick Wakeman.? I really do not like your list much. There might be 5 or 6 on your list I would want. I am not sure who this is meant for, but I will assume it was for me, since ... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mofimadness Thanks! There are quite a few avant-garde prog albums bands, avant-garde jazz, and atonal and dissonant classical in those lists. Not always an easy listen. So, YMMV with a large part of my list, especially the classical. | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie My list will be made up of some pretty obscure recordings, comprised of: prog, jazz, and classical (mostly from the mid 20th century up through the present era). My numbering got screwed up, but I believe there are 100. Problem with list like th... | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? As others have already said, low efficiency does not translate to lack of dynamic range. Dynamic range in lower efficiency speaker, given high power, high current amps, can, and does equal the dynamic range of high efficiency speakers. And for ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Earlier today. Ernst Krenek - Static and Ecstatic (1972) Vinyl An underappreciated serial piece, by an underappreciated composer. Expertly preformed by the LA Phil chamber orchestra. One of the best recordings for evaluating soundstage size, a... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Setna - Guérison (2013) CD French band doing top quality, Magma influenced music, that straddles the line between prog and fusion. World class chops by all members. | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @tonydennison An Audiophile is a lover of Audio. The music they use is to facilitate the search for perfect sound. A lover of music is a Melomaniac. So, if you love music but audio purity is neither your passion nor goal, then you are not an A... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often I never quite could figure out the knock against speaker manufacturers that use off the shelf drivers? Driver manufacturers such as: Scan-Speak, SB Acoustics, RAAL, Accuton, Purifi Audio, SEAS, Fontec, etc, etc, have done all the R&D, have al... | |
| Crossing Left and Right Speakers I am a bit dumbfounded by some people’s experiences. I recently reorganized my system on my rack, and I accidentally connected my mono amps to the wrong channels of my pre. And all that happened, was I heard orchestral violins come from the righ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos I would say that lots of my jazz records that I bought first were from 70’s jazz, music that somewhat sounded (to me anyway at the time) like ’rock’ music of that era. As I have continued to listen jazz, I started more and more to ap... |