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| Wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas" I prefer we keep politics and religion to ourselves here. Just my two cents' worth.Of course, audiophilia is something of a religion in itself... | |
| The most haunting music you ever heard? Bartok, 6th string quartet, final mvt. comes to mind for me. | |
| Audiophile Staff If one does not have time to fiddle with the system, do you imagine that they take the time to frequent audiogon? | |
| Where are the female Audiophiles? Hillary is not Indira. USA is not India. Nor is it Great Britain (Thatcher) or Israel (Meir). Different places, different people.My wife was invaluable as a listener when I was auditioning speakers. She has a great set of ears. But she doesn't rea... | |
| Miles Davis The Original Mono CD's Jafant--it was obviously recorded in stereo, it's not one of those "electronically reprocessed" mixes. My question is: was not the stereo mix done at the same time and therefore does it not have as much legitimacy as the mono mix?I have no problem... | |
| Hot Rats omigod, you are right--I do confuse those two LP's--it's been way too long. My sincere apologies once again! | |
| Hot Rats Actually, Twenty Small Cigars is. But I should have paid attention to what followed Blessed Relief in your post. My bad, my apologies! | |
| Hot Rats Duane,"Blessed Relief" is on Grand Wazoo, not Hot Rats.Did you perhaps mean "Little Umbrellas?" | |
| Miles Davis The Original Mono CD's This was 1959--was there not a stereo master done at the same time? | |
| Dave Brubeck...RIP I don't think Desmond is an uncommon name in certain places.Ever hear "Desmond has a barrow in the market place...?"Or "The Israelites" by Desmond Decker and the Aces? | |
| Thanks Jim Hall "Jim Hall Live" is my favorite jazz guitar combo recording ever. He left us so much great music--it hurts to see him go. | |
| Tone Controls can be so nice. Okay, I must admit--in my teaching studio the 5-band EQ on my old JVC is handy for getting the most out of the JBL's.For higher-end stuff, though I rarely (if ever) tweak the tone knobs. | |
| classical newbie Brownsfan,thanks for your post--I would have added more suggestions but had time constraints. I plan to do so soon.Meanwhile, my favorite current quartet is the Miro Quartet. I have their early Beethoven set and have heard them live. They are just... | |
| classical newbie Doesn't anyone listen to solo or chamber music?String quartets: Guarneri, Budapest or Julliard quartets playing Beethoven, Bartok, Brahms, Ravel, Debussy, Mozart, Shostakovich, Borodin, Tchaikovsky--you almost can't go wrong with any of those comb... | |
| Stop compression of music petition via Stereophile Ptss,it's a pretty safe bet that most people reading this have good speakers. |