stuartk
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| 1K range phones that will work well with Schiit Jotunheim? @freediver:Thanks for your response. I've never heard of iBasso. The Sundaras are indeed widely praised but reviews have said they are bass-shy. That is the only thing that's kept me from buying them. I'm curious-- what didn't you like about the C... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @mijostyn:Thank you for your response. What you assert is certainly consistent with my experience. I started out with a really (in my room) edgy combo-- B&W's with Rotel and Creek components. After that my knee-jerk response was to go too far ... | |
| What 3 recordings from different genres do you and your wife/partner appreciate equally? And a great idea for a thread on your part, dayglow! Interesting what you suggest about most audiophiles' taste not being consistent with that of their wives. . . I will say that although our musical tastes are very similar, mine does not share m... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? "It "moves" you or it doesn't ".+1This is what I go by but clearly it's not the credo for many posting here. I can't help but suspect it makes a difference if you actually play an instrument. | |
| What 3 recordings from different genres do you and your wife/partner appreciate equally? Actually, we have pretty similar tastes. Being a guitar player, I do tend to enjoy Rock and electric Blues somewhat more than she does. I never play Led Zep when she's at home! Picking just three titles for each genre is kind of ridiculous but he... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @kijanki: "One might prefer to look at the paintings thru yellow glasses. There is nothing wrong with it, but he doesn't see what artist painted". Yes... BUT we are not robots with identical identical sound perception software installed! We ... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio @daydream816:There are those who will only play music that sounds optimal on their systems. Perhaps those salespeople you encountered were of this persuasion-- preferring to let the tail wag the dog?I say, if you can't play the music you like and ... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @noske:"@stuartk perhaps you speak of musicianship? I'm not even sure that's a word. I am inclined to mostly agree with you"Musicianship is mastery of expressive means. That is half the equation. The other half is having something valuable to e... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @mijostyn:"The best systems make everything sound better, everything. When confronted with a system capable of the absolute sound everyone will think it sounds great. Everyone knows what "right" is when they hear it."I'm curious: what percentage o... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @marlkings:OK-- sorry for misunderstanding you. When you said you 1) didn't like improv and 2) that you "like order and structure and purpose and overall sense of a composition", I thought you were saying that you don't enjoy improv BECAUSE IT LAC... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? RE: not mutually exclusive, it seems to me that, with all due respect to those whom have much more knowledge and experience than I possess, terms such as musicality and resolution are frequently bandied about here as though we all define such term... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @wolfgarcia:Took my 65-year-old brain a while to recall the name...The group was The Cookers.You've been warned! :o) | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @wolf_garcia:The last Jazz show I attended was an all-star group that included, among others, Billy Harper and Eddie Henderson-- two giants. Altogether, there were four or five horns and reeds, piano, bass and drums. Everything was mic'd. This was... | |
| Sonnet Morpheus MK II DAC Decided not to go in this direction, so it's just as well no-one responded. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @yuviarora:There is no way for me to verify whether what you assert is true or not.It could be labelled a conspiracy theory but again, I have no way to authoritatively disprove it.I find there are plenty of challenges in life that are undeniably r... |