stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| Specifications VS Sound Quality orpheus:Looks like you've answered the question I'd posed to millercarbon.The "crux of the biscuit", as F. Zappa might say, appears to be this: "Now that high end salons are no longer an option, I'll be relying heavily on past knowledge of "sonic ... | |
| Specifications VS Sound Quality mapman:Understood. In fact, I'm fairly obsessive when it comes to researching when I feel an upgrade cycle approaching.orpheus:Price is the first thing I look at, because I don't have huge amounts of cash to spend. This has the effect of dramatic... | |
| Is your heart filled with a love of music, or something else? frogman:"Re: “frictions that arise”: I also agree, but would temper that sentiment with the idea that it is not always inappropriate to know and be confident in being right on a particular topic or issue. Being confident in being right is not nece... | |
| Specifications VS Sound Quality mapman:Sorry-- I naively assumed no-one would buy gear they couldn't try out first in their room, either borrowed or bought with a return policy! ! ! Limiting my choices to only those brands I can demo at home (and return if need be) does cut dow... | |
| Specifications VS Sound Quality mapman:"The main value of specifications to someone who knows how to interpret them properly is objectively deciding which components to try ie which components are likely to work best in a specific system with others"The above makes sense to me... | |
| Specifications VS Sound Quality millercarbon:As someone whose eyes start to glaze over whenever technical specs become the topic of discussion, I'm reassured by your post, given your knowledge and experience I've always depended upon my ears and so far, they've served me well.... | |
| Is your heart filled with a love of music, or something else? boxer12I was reflecting on the frictions that arise here and on other forums and how they are often less about the topic at hand and more about unconsci-ous ego-driven impulses, such as "the need to feel or be seen as right", "the need to feel be ... | |
| Is your heart filled with a love of music, or something else? The human ego is always seeking ways to justify its agenda. | |
| Seeking advice on power conditioners/regenerators Like anything else, you need to try one in your system. A friend who's also a dealer (audio, that is) once brought over one of the more expensive PSA regeneration units and it had no effect, whatsoever. I'd second the suggestion to try one from an... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. The "brown album" has long been one of my desert island dics (somehow I never warmed to MFBP) along with "Europe'72". Songs such as "Tennessee Jed", "Brown Eyed Women", "Ramblin' Rose" and "Jack Straw" seem to me to be cut from the same cloth as ... | |
| The Grateful Dead tune that would still make for a great James Bond Theme Song "Loser" | |
| Jazz for aficionados rok2id:Am I erroneously attributing this quote to you? Could be I'm mistaken and it originated with a different poster-- my now 65 year old brain certainly doesn't work like it used to!I'm not the type to spend my time on the Forum fighting with ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some of my "must have Jazz"..."The Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968" box set"My Funny Valentine" by the same group with George Coleman instead of W. ShorterW. Shorter's Blue Note recordingsAndrew Hill's Blue Note recordingsBobby Hutcherson's Blue Not... | |
| Jazz for aficionados rok2id:"I wish I could like the current stuff. The technology is better. That should result in better recordings. But what's missing is the essence of Jazz music. They improvise, but they are not improvising over the blues. They are trying to be t... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection bdp24;Not sure what you mean by your assertion that Americana "rejected the hippie ethos". . . There are striking parallels between the music of The Band and early 70's Dead, for example. |