simonmoon
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| Feet One-o-0ne @russ69 Most loudspeakers are designed to work in a conventional living environment. I wonder if your room treatments caused a lot of your extra work? They may be designed to work well in conventional living environments, does not mean they ... | |
| High quality recordings any genre Obviously, if one sticks to audiophile labels, the recordings will tend to be of superior quality, But there are also plenty of labels that are not specifically considered audiophile labels that have very good sound quality. The jazz label, ECM... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? This is from last night’s listening session: Shadowfax - Watercourse Way / most people think of this band as a ’new age’ band, but their 1st release was pure intense prog. Not new age at all. They only went in the new age direction when they sign... | |
| Please recommend King Crimson albums… One of my all time favorite bands! I love them in all their various incarnations. My favorite albums happen to be the ones that @berner99 is referring to as "nasty stuff": Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red. I love angula... | |
| My favorite classical recordings I am only into 20th century classical, almost exclusively music from post WWII, to the present, which I know not everyone's cup of tea, but I will certainly take part in this thread. I'll start with the recording that really spurred my interest i... | |
| Sound Stage and Imaging Other suppliers of DIY kits: Troels Graveson Madisound CSS Rhythm audio Design | |
| Sound Stage and Imaging I love speakers who 'paint a big picture' (I am literally closing my eyes and trying to SEE a picture). Therefore I THINK I like to see IMAGING and BIG SOUND STAGE. And also like DYNAMICS. Being frugal (just not willing to spent audiophile level... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Easily my vote for the best jazz release of 2023, which has been a pretty strong year for those of us in search of new jazz. Ingrid Laubrock - The Last Quiet Place (2023) First of all, this woman has some pretty serious chops on sax. Second, her... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Universal Totem Orchestra - Mathematical Mother (2016) Seriously good Zeuhl "style" progressive music from Italy. Not quite as much jazz influence that most Zeuhl has. World class musicianship, some beautiful female vocals by Ana Torres Fraile,... | |
| Nowhere to hear speakers and amps anymore! Last time I was in San Francisco (about 4.5 years ago), visiting my fellow audiophile cousin, we spent a day going to several audiophile stores in the bay area. And it looks like they are still there. I see: Tone of Audio Music Lovers AudioVi... | |
| Female vocals I somewhat agree with the OP. When did it happen, that the use of the term, "female vocals" has almost become a genre in the audiophile world? I love female vocals, but it has become almost synonymous with a sort of 'not quite jazz', lightweight... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. I can’t even come close to picking only 1 album; even 10 would be impossible. I listen to 3 major genres, and quite a few subgenres within each genre. And within each genre and subgenre, there is music that I rate just as highly as in any other c... | |
| BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard? @cundare2 The threshold issue here is: "What do you mean by ’jazz’ "? Ellington, Mahavishnu, Wynton, Alice Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Sun Ra, Sinatra? And are you including boots? But here’s my two bits: In the 1970s & 1980s, I collected a l... | |
| BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard? @tylermunns Thanks for the heads up. I will check the show out. Only some of my list I would consider avant-garde. Maybe "progressive" would be the best description for most of my list. I got to say, though, I am constantly surprised on how fe... | |
| Margules Audio Magenta SA 2 Speakers question I am a fan of the brand. All of their products seem to offer a lot of sound quality for the $$. I owned their phono stage for a while. It was the best under $1000 phono stage I’ve ever heard. But it would only do MM, and I decided to move to MC.... |