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Stuff You Tried To Love

I know we talk a lot about confirmation bias- we buy something and then convince ourselves we like it. Or something like that. But did you ever buy something you wanted to love and just couldn’t make it work? For me, Esoteric X-05 SACD/CD player. Bought from a local who was upgrading to the X-03. Big, beautiful piece of gear, but I couldn’t get used to the sound after 6 months of trying. Sold it to another local- I insisted he listen before he bought and I believe he sold it soon after as well. Totem Forest and Hawk. I loved the whole concept. Slim, easy to live with. Couldn’t get them to work in my room. The Model Ones were much better. I had a couple of other pieces, but this is long enough. BTW, these were bought used without audition.

chayro
sokogear
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Me too @stuartk (as far as my jazz preferences-tilted toward blues). I guess I was thinking progressive as jazz fusion or jazz funk, really 70's-80's stuff. @knock1  - I'm not talking about audiophile labeling at all. Not sure why you mentioned me about punching someone's audiophile card.

Music preferences do not define audiophiles. And audiophile doesn't compose any specific music preferences. Any type of music along with an audiophile designation represent 2 overlapping circles in a Venn diagram. Or "audiophile" can be a large circle in the middle with each type of music having a circle overlapping it to some degree in the diagram. Some overlap more than others....

sokogear
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BTW @stuartk  - are you saying you don't own Kind of Blue? That certainly is post bop.

stuartk
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@sokogear 

I would classify "Kind of Blue" as Modal, rather than Post Bop. Yes, I own it but it's been years since I've listened to it with any regularity. I was introduced to it in 1976, at a point when I was first getting into Jazz  by listening to the most well-known Jazz recordings. A few years later, I took a college survey course in Jazz appreciation, in the interest of furthering my familiarity with the genre. It took awhile to get a sense of which artists and recordings particularly resonated with me. The Penguin Guide to Jazz was very helpful in this regard. It listed recordings you won't find mentioned in lists of "greatest Jazz records" or such. Just as with Visual Art, Poetry or any other esthetic field of expression, I trust and follow my own inclinations. 

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mdalton
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@stuartk 

Please do me the following favor:  put on “Bye Bye Blackbird” from “Round About Midnight”, listen to it with fresh ears, and please let us know what you think.  

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mahgister
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People who cannot fathom the fact that we dont like the same styles or genres that they idolize have no idea what music is...

Music adress us where we are ...

Thinking that we are in a contest or a race about what is the best is complete delusion...

listen to this and do me a favor, i think that this man is one of the great musician on this century as Yehudi Menuhin thought also , is it not better than Bye bye Blackbird ? 😊

As you can see we are not from the same mold... ( i like Miles and Chet by the way ) but this dude walk on another planet ... 😁

 

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