Thanks for the link. I'll take a look. Please keep the hate out of the thread though. I know I'm guilty too, but it seems like every thread on Audiogon ends up with meaningless hateful bickering. I'd like to keep this one focused on music appreciation. Thanks.
Here's my favorite quote about the importance of music and its relevance to every human on the planet, regardless of race, class, or musical preferences:
Here's my favorite quote about the importance of music and its relevance to every human on the planet, regardless of race, class, or musical preferences:
Perhaps the safest thing to do [in contacting alien life] at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. — Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)