tylermunns
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| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? preposterous, gross generalization. “Why are 99% of audiophiles sexist and sexually unappealing to women?” There. I can do it too. | |
| Songs with excellent advice? ad·vice /ədˈvīs/ noun guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action. “Just because you've become a young man now There's still somethings that you don't understand now Before you ask some girl for her hand now Keep y... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much If a boss overhears an employee speaking to a customer in a curt manner, or any manner that could be considered even remotely rude (even under a liberal definition of ‘rude’ - but these are the rules of engagement in customer service), that employ... | |
| Harry Belafonte passed...... Mr. Belafonte’s 1963 recording of “My Old Paint” is one of the greatest sounding vocals I’ve ever heard. I can only imagine what it must have been like for Bob Ballard to sit in the control room and hear that vocal as it happened. Many years o... | |
| Ticketmaster and other enemies of artists... I’m not a Pearl Jam fan, but they really don’t get enough credit for not only being the first band to take on Ticketmaster (almost 30 years ago), but being the most earnest, committed and true combatant, by far, that any artist has ever been in th... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... The talk here about optimal seating when attending live orchestral performances is definitely fascinating and helpful for me, and I appreciate all the contributions here. Gives me something to think about next time. As the saying goes, anything wo... | |
| Songs with excellent advice? “You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd” - Roger Miller | |
| What if Jeff Beck was a drummer? So Beck idly plays a drum beat when no one’s around and Stevie walks in and creates “Superstition.” This says something about Jeff Beck…how? | |
| Big orchestral sound in pop, rock etc. @chmaiwald If Mad Dogs and Englishmen is your cup of tea, then I’m sure you’d love Tumbleweed Connection, Honky Château, and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. Very Leon Russell-esque (the bandleader, musical director and co-producer of Mad ... | |
| Jazz like this? Suggestions Unquestionably, improvisation is the defining element of jazz. These artists communicate in real time. This fluidity of expression when listening to music like late-‘40s Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker through mid-to-late-‘70s music by The A... | |
| Perfect Pop Songs My personal favorite pop song is “Two For the Road” by Henry Mancini. The instrumental version on the “RCA Legendary Performers” Mancini comp is the towering, definitive version. The song is arranged, played and recorded…well…I don’t really have w... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? @simonmoon @tylermunns How do age-related neurological changes affect one’s propensity to seek out new music? ”One of the things most people lose as they age, is the search for, and love of novel experiences. This is due to some of the chang... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? I have perceived varying levels of soundstage depth in recordings themselves and in the way the music is presented via my equipment. Much improved speakers revealed this. My response was something like, “wow, the distance between those cymbals and... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @larsman I think that is fair and you make valid points. I shouldn’t have said someone who doesn’t like Ray Charles is “either a non-human or woefully ignorant.” My apologies. | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @tonyzvault51 That CD I mentioned will not knock anyone’s socks off, sound quality-wise. I mentioned it as a CD of importance because it seems to be so rare and because it contains particular performances (of transcendent beauty) exclusive to i... |