Stuff You Tried To Love

@stuartk 

Thanks. I've never been one conform just to please others. Indeed others may not like what I like but it doesn't make them bad or inferior. Just different tastes.

Phillips SACD 1000.  Back in 2001, it was all the rage.  Made the cover of Stereophile, lots of hyperbole.  It originally sold for $2k, but all of a sudden I saw prices at $400, so had to do it.  Well, turns out it suffered from a known flaw with the cd transport that Phillips couldn’t, or wouldn’t fix.  I mean, this was a gorgeous piece of gear: heavy, beautiful, minimalist.  But even before my transport gave out, I didn’t really hear it as the game-changer I was hoping for.  There were almost no SACDs around, and I had a pretty nice, modified Nakamichi changer.  I was able to get my money back, but it did involve a little conflict with the dealer.

Never understood the concept of bashing someone else's preference in music. Personally, I have nothing against classical music, but I wouldn't listen to it even if I could use someone else's ears to do so. It's not good or bad, it's just not what I like. I also never audition my system for others because I didn't build it to please others. I built it to please me, and it does that admirably. 

For sure you are right!

Be it Miles Davis and any other great musicians or Bach or Ali Akbar Khan, we cannot impose our values and tastes... We can only communicate them politely...

Anyway all great musicians are in a world of their own and are uncomparable and all necessary for humankind ...

Even those i will not name whom i like less...😊

Never understood the concept of bashing someone else’s preference in music. Personally, I have nothing against classical music, but I wouldn’t listen to it even if I could use someone else’s ears to do so. It’s not good or bad, it’s just not what I like. I also never audition my system for others because I didn’t build it to please others. I built it to please me, and it does that admirably.

I listen to jazz probably 40% of the time (otherwise classic rock - only classical is that part of Days of Future Passed), mainly late fifties to mid 60's with a little progressive stuff in there from the 80's and beyond.

Of course Coltrane is heavily in the mix. I just can't stand A Love Supreme and it is always rated highly among his records. Same goes for a few other very highly rated jazz choices that are I guess a little too "out there" for my taste like Eric Dolphy and Wayne Shorter's The All Seeing Eye.. 

If you don't like Miles you don't like jazz, and that's OK. Kind of Blue is a masterpiece, highly influenced by the great Bill Evans. This is the only album of Miles' he plays on. BTW, I only like Miles' records from the late 50's to early 60's, and I know Bitches Brew is always named among his best, but that is also in the Love Supreme category. I just don't get it.