stuartk
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| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. @jacobsdad2000 While you may view it as "both", the fact is, you chose to frame the topic as an "either or". Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker | |
| Jazz for aficionados Can we broaden the scope a bit? Dexter Gordon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mQQ-tB9X38 Art Pepper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoN3s1KlXEo Al Cohn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrz5JcJxg08 Zoot Sims: https://www.youtube.com/watc... | |
| Weiss 501 DAC @jimmy2615 The Music Room is a Weiss dealer. They have a return policy. You would have to pay shipping and restock fee but if you are seriously interested, it might be a good way to confirm or deny whether it's the right DAC for your system. | |
| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. @hilde45 My thought, exactly! | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim I’m a big fan of Chick Corea’s acoustic and Fender Rhodes playing, but as is also the case with Herbie Hancock, I do not enjoy his synth recordings. It’s not Corea -- it’s the instrument, which I’ve never warmed to, overall. There ar... | |
| ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS? I think you’ll encounter this is any field of endeavor. it’s a very human weakness. More often than not, what I've found is that "true experts" have little to prove and therefore tend not to behave in this way. Of course, there are always excepti... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Joey D. + Pat Martino + J. Scofield, Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2c6-Uo4KI | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister Tastes differ. Why apologize? Not sure this qualifies as Jazz but there’s nothing to be gained through nitpicking. Personally, if I’m going to listen to the likes of "Ballad of a Thin Man", I’d rather listen to Dylan’s original vers... | |
| Is there miracles in audio experience ? @cleeds Speaking of his early work, Dylan has said "I don’t know who wrote those songs", implying he, in effect, channeled but did not actually create, them. I can’t say whether he’d describe this as a major or minor miracle or indeed, any kin... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister I cannot stop listening music... You must be doing something right with your embedding! And this one is no less good : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh6JpSt9Yko&list=PLBJenJIJrq0zaurEPd-ssmOXR43HyQx6J Smulyan is very g... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @ho249 I had the good fortune to hear Gary Smulyan live with the Dave Holland big band a few years ago. He had maybe 4 solos during the show, all well done. I also heard him with Holland. He plays on the live Holland Octet’s "Pathways" which ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Sent PM, so as to not distract from this thread's focus on Jazz... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim What I’ve read consistently is that the H390 is warmer. This would disincline me from moving up but perhaps you’d find the 590 more appealing. Jay from Jay’s Inagi recently reviewed the H600 and described its tonality as midway betwe... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim That video confused me. In my experience, moving from a 150 watts @ 8 ohm Wells Majestic integrated to a 250 watts @ 8 ohm Hegel H390 impacted more than the system’s ability to play loud. In fact, when I first hooked up the Hegel, I... | |
| Loki Max analog improvement @wolf_garcia Thanks so much for taking the time to provide more detail. I was trying to convince myself I didn’t need one but that's become a lot harder! |