stuartk
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| Happy Friday gents I envy you, I don’t know if I will be able to relax until November and then maybe not again for the following four years You’re not alone. It’s vital in such times to find activities that bring your focus into the present moment. I find writing... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I prefer my Soul and Jazz neat, rather than blended into a cocktail but agree that V. Herring is a terrific player. One of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn03wa67zKw&list=OLAK5uy_n2S-VDqt5glXBqlg6cVlLra0XN1zkYIo8&index=2 ... | |
| Denarips and Vinshine split I very much doubt that anyone who’s actually had dealings with Alvin would have anything remotely negative to say about him. I wish him all the best going forward. | |
| A nightmare regarding streaming? Getting a system to sound good is sufficiently challenging for me, without adding in the headache of worrying about whether I can even access the music I want to listen to! You guys have a far greater appetite for messing around with gear than I'... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZpnyCfIgg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iXMh05lMkw&list=PLm4I8tP6UbWaAqVuUJbiYf1pYjZTOfkuX&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0evjWTuR5I&list=PLm4I8tP6UbWaAqVuUJbiYf1pYjZTOfkuX&index=4 | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://youtu.be/0mvqYXUu9z8?si=ewMyBFTDUy2pO1CL A nice pocket bio. Clearly a player possessing incredible self-discipline. | |
| I’m confused. Please explain. But I think sounding “real” is the most basic requirement for a high end system, because I know what real sounds like, and euphonic, or pleasant to listen to, and not irritating, is a close second. You make an important distinction. The point I... | |
| I’m confused. Please explain. I own a very nice hand-built "boutique" acoustic guitar. It sounds wonderful -- the best by far of the many acoustic and electric guitars I’ve owned in 50 years of playing. So, it goes without saying that, when I’m listening music, I’m stringentl... | |
| Differences between Harbeth, Spendor, Graham, etc. ? @arafiq ...but at the end of the day, while they wowed me they did not engage me emotionally. Emotional and physical engagement are topmost priorities for me. Have you owned any of the smaller Harbeths? | |
| I’m confused. Please explain. I own a very nice hand-built acoustic guitar. It's a gorgeous sounding instrument. When I listen to my modest system, do I compare its presentation of acoustic guitars to the"live" sound of my Boucher? No. Never. Being emotionally and physica... | |
| Don't do anything! I've gotten used cables from The Cable Company's lending library and subsequently opted to buy new ones. It always takes awhile for the new ones to sound like the used ones and the sound can change quite dramatically along the way, depending upon ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Perhaps what I was thinking about was, for lack of a better word, "attitude". He's always struck me as being pretty down-to-earth and unassuming -- there's not a lot of ego or "edge" on display. He doesn't need to brag -- his playi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Do you think there's a particularly Midwestern sensibility discernible in his music? I ask, having only lived on the coasts. BTW, I was in the audience at J. Mitchell's Santa Barbara County Bowl that was released as "Shadows and Ligh... | |
| Sviatoslav Richter. Greatest pianist of the last century? Seriously, though, I see the value of GOAT questions not so much as a ranking mechanism, which can get a bit too masturbatory for me, but rather as a way of learning from colleagues about great new resources. I agree and suggest a more effectiv... | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? @larryi That's like Monsanto suing farmers when genetically modified seeds are, unbeknownst to them, transported onto their property and germinate. There's no ceiling when it comes to human greed and I expect AI will merely provide more tools f... |