simonmoon
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| Most amusing album or song titles The jazz fusion band, Brand X (with Phil Collins on Drums) had a few. Album title - Moroccan Roll Song titles: Why Should I Lend You Mine (When You've Broken Yours Off Already).. ...Maybe I'll Lend You Mine after All Algon (Where an Ordinary ... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo @hifiguy42 Watermelon in Easter Hay is transcendent indeed. Another Zappa face melter is at the 2:00 mark on What's New In Baltimore on Meets the Mothers of Prevention. Great picks! Here's one, for all you fusion fans. With Steve Smith... | |
| What are your favorite songs or albums for illustrating a deep soundstage? @pinwa This is probably a bit grating and avant garde but I really liked the soundstage when I listened to it on my 20.7s last night. "Ozymandias" off the "Dystonia" album. https://open.qobuz.com/track/209334759 Thanks for posting t... | |
| Anyone else feel like they are “transported” INTO the music Happens to me on a pretty constant basis. Not every listening session, but quite often. And even the listening sessions where it doesn't happen, are still extremely rewarding. The vast majority of the music I listen to*, is not conducive to casu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? And finally, I listened to, Arti e Mestieri - Tilt. This is a near brilliant piece of 70’s Italian prog! This one kind of straddles the line between prog and fusion. With terrifying chops by all members. For anyone unfamiliar, in the 70’s (and s... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? After the above mentioned Chamber Concerto, I listened to one of the great, lesser known ECM recordings. From 1976, Art Lande - Rubisa Patrol. With the great, Mark Isham on trumpet. Lande has some great feel on piano, but loads of chops too. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? This was from last night’s listening session. As with almost all of my listening sessions, they are a combination of vinyl and digital. Charles Wourinen (one of my top 5 composers)- Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Players, and Ringing Changes f... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? @terry9 Far enough. I guess that may give it a bit of credibility. 😀👍 | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? @terry9 Very difficult, unless you finesse the problem by tying your measurement to a known physical measure such as time. An anthropologist set up a boom box in a jungle and invited some villagers to come and listen. When he played Mozart,... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? @frogman Not entirely sure what you mean by “a true audiophile hierarchy” and why one would want to establish it. Having said that and since the question deals with audiophiles and “pleasure derived from music”, a simpler and more reliable t... | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? @tylermunns The only “evaluation” is whether it sounds good to you or not. If it sounds good, the evaluation is: “A”. If it doesn’t, then hopefully you can make some sound, sensible choices to improve what’s lacking (you’re in a good spot he... | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? @larsman I don't know why you'd want to evaluate a system with music other than the kind that you like. Personally, I wouldn't care how music I don't listen to sounds on my system. I listen to rock and electronic, so how classical guitar sounds... | |
| What are your favorite songs or albums for illustrating a deep soundstage? If you want to hear a natural, deep soundstage, nothing beats classical. Classical music is almost always recorded in such a way, that captures the natural soundstage width and depth of the acoustic space in which is was recorded. And the positio... | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? @mglik Each to their own. But can you really evaluate a system by listening to highly processed, electric/electronic music? How do you know what that sounds like? I like to listen to voices and acoustic music that is little processed. In... | |
| Danny Richie on loudspeaker design. As someone who has helped friends upgrade 2 pair of speakers (RP-600M and KLH Model 5), I can tell you, Danny’s upgrades improved every aspect of each. With the Klipsch, his upgrades made an unlistenable (to me) speaker, into something that was p... |