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| Sound quality of Roon After a decade or so of budget experimenting with computer audio and using low end devices (Olive, NativVita and laptops) along with a couple of DAC’s that still see use, I purchased a Nucleus (which comes with a year of Roon- which delays the ine... | |
| Music lover or audiophile? Neil Young put it best- sound matters. And to what degree one chases the gear to get to the quality being sought- well it's a matter of taste and priorities. To end, it's a blessing when as another wise old musician said-you get what you need! | |
| Why does most new music suck? I get the feeling "most of the music" from any particular time won't stand the test of time. We tend to forget much of the flat out crap or stuff that has not aged well from- name your decade. We have much more choices now- internet radio, spottil... | |
| Best Rock Song Of ALL TIME? Hendrix- "All Along the Watchtower". Just an incredible grandeur.Beach Boys-"Wouldn't It be Nice". As I get older, becomes more poignant.And "Sympathy for the Devil" can still send a chill u[p my spine. | |
| Ray Manzarek RIP Growing up in So. Central L.A., The Doors were one of the very few non-soul/jazz bands that was considered cool. When I arrived to college, I had 7 albums and 4 of them were Doors. More than the vocals, I was drawn to their music by the keyboards.... | |
| Any information/experience with Olive ONE Thanks Mofimadness. I went ahead and plucked down my $ to the startup. I'm not an early adopter for the most part. The Olive ONE looks, however, like the 2013 version of a Squeezebox Touch, which I have and very much like for the money, but sadly ... | |
| Any information/experience with Olive ONE Then the classified ad under media servers is certainly misleading. 2 days remaining in an auction for an item not yet existent? | |
| What Songs Do You Have Several Renditions Of? "Gentle on My Mind"- 3 versions, Campbell/R.E.M./Hartford; Hartford's the best. "Wichita Lineman"-Campbell; love R.E.M.'s cover. "A Hazy Shade of Winter"- toss-up b/w S&G's original and the Bangles' cover."Galveston"- I have Glen Campbell's ve... | |
| Audiophile 'Attitude' I'll pipe in about David Weinhart. Yes, he can say inappropriate stuff- something about stuff that plumbers and teachers listen to (my wife is a teacher). But the guy spent a solid hour with us knowing that we were visiting from Oregon and the cha... | |
| Depeche Mode and R.E.M Murmur, Reckoning, Document, Fables of the Reconstruction, Up and Collapse Into Now. The albums up to and including Automatic for the People were astoundingly and consistently excellent. R.E.M. prresently stands as my favorite R&R band. | |
| Thoughts from THE Show, is $29k the new $10k? I'm so happy to be enough of a prole that I could not tell that much of a difference b/w what I have and what I heard at last year's show to even THINK about paying that kind of money. I want the equipment to do justice to the music- but $30K for ... | |
| The most haunting music you ever heard? "Snowed In At Wheeler Street" from Kate Bush's latest album is a current release that has that quality.Furtwangler's recording of Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" symphony on DG."Gentle On My Mind" as recorded by John Hartford in "Natural To Be Gone" al... | |
| Happy Record Store Day Currently listening to my finds. When I arrived at Music Millennium in Ptld OR shortly after 8AM there was about a 45min line. Once I made my selections- Fleetwood Mac, Branford Marsalis and Forever Miles, it was another 45 min to get to the cashi... | |
| Are audiophiles people of sound prejudice? I prefer to think of my behavior as discriminatory rather than prejudiced. | |
| what are your favorite movie soundtracks. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"- my introduction to Leos Janacek, Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche. "Dogfight"- 60's folk music. "Bernard Hermann-The Film Scores" Esa Pekka Salonen/LA Philharmonic- the selections from Fahrenheit 451 are my favor... |