tylermunns
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| REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY? One time I listened to a limited edition pressing of Reign in Blood by Slayer at the record store listening station. It sounded spectacular on the store’s mid-fi cartridge/TT/receiver/headphone system. Full, rich, accurate, clear, deep, powerful. ... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby For those who say they don’t understanding the issue or “the angst,” it is thus: As advantageous as high audio fidelity is, the processes by which the music lover achieves such is very often deleterious to actually loving the music. It’s hard t... | |
| Are You a Swifty? This “crusty old audiophile” line is tiresome. “When an Audiogon forum poster expresses a lack of Taylor Swift fandom, they are just a crusty old audiophile harboring an unfair bias against new music.” This is a very cheap, easy, fallacious dism... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @immatthewj Bob Dylan wasn’t, isn’t, nor ever will be a technically proficient vocalist. I feel like that should go without saying. ”Do you think Bob Dylan can’t sing?” “If someone cannot paint, can his or her paintings really be art?” If some... | |
| Are You a Swifty? There are tons of great artists that lack technical proficiency, either vocally or instrumentally. Technical proficiency in this way is by no means a pre-requisite to being a great artist. Conversely, tons of super-technically-proficient perfo... | |
| Are You a Swifty? “Her latest album is a blatant rip off of Lana Del Rey’s sound and style. So much so that it’s downright pathetic.” What exactly is Lana Del Rey’s “sound” and “style” and how may one “blatantly rip-off” such? Lana’s songs, whether one prefers one ... | |
| Music first or sound first? It’s interesting how tech advancements have gone the other way with music. Even 20 years ago, the likelihood that one would have a pair of speakers larger than the size of a baseball with a receiver and CD player was much higher than today. No... | |
| Music first or sound first? A person who’s a natural tinkerer / gear person and just likes the science / tech side of things? More power to ya. And bad mastering is just a bad, bad thing. However, it’s very sad to me to think a person couldn’t enjoy beautiful music because... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @simao He got in on that one too, eh? Good for him. | |
| Are You a Swifty? @botrytis How is that a disingenuous question? Is is not disingenuous to suggest that saying, “Taylor Swift is mediocre” is the same as saying, “(parent referring to a popular artist in 60s/‘70s) it will ‘rot your brain?’” | |
| Are You a Swifty? @botrytis Do you think 50 years from now people will regard Taylor Swift’s music the same way we regard Chuck Berry, Little Richard, James Brown, the Beatles and Bob Dylan today? 1) Going from Rosemary Clooney/Doris Day/Frankie Laine/Patti Page... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @deadhead1000 You’re right. Openmindedness certainly entails not shutting off completely an entire thing based on only a small sample size. People’s tastes change and one may be surprised trying something again how much they like it. In othe... | |
| Am I right for this forum? Al Franken indeed did Stuart Smalley. The Michael Jordan episode of “Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley” is a gem (“repeat after me…‘I don’t have to…dribble the ball fast, or…throw the ball into the basket…’”). Franken was a writer (occasion... | |
| Am I right for this forum? I find it dubious to presume any person other than themselves is best equipped to determine whether they “belong” somewhere. We go where we think we’d like to be, we determine whether that assumption was accurate, then proceed accordingly. That’... | |
| Are You a Swifty? Having a personal opinion may not necessarily be “not having an open mind.” If a person makes grand sweeping statements about stuff they haven’t exposed themselves to, well, yeah…that’s certainly not having an open mind. If a person takes the t... |