Rough Samsons notes, completely unedited, typo filled......
Looking, searching for flaws.
amp notes
12/16 tues
Bax amp delivers supremely well packed in a solid wood cubical crate.
45 minutes to extraction. Get a Phillips bit for your drill.
Stone cold -- I mean cold -- and with no break-in I like the sound produced by these large, flatish stainless steel devices immediately. They look like gear pulled from a navy ship, built for combat duty. The Samson fascia dispells that notion and accents a very attractive utilitairian appearance.
thur 12/18
A tangible tactility, like the bite one gets from steak with perfect texture. Yes -- I feel compelled to chew on something wonderful while listening to Ann Calloway, Even more so with Rebecca Kilmore. A certain angle of attack on Acoustic steel strings elicits this response. Where's the fondue?
The leading edge of marc antoines guitarmakes s me look up and ponder. A first.
Kenny G's ubuiqity and ubctuousness induced rep is ufair. Maybe it is fair but Ritmo y Romance sounds wonderfu. Rare is the sax I can tolerate. ... Stan Getz. these Amps render usually what is tortuous SAX nasality has me seeking sax music. Impossible.
Mkaes things sound happy, Frank S, who I loathe.
no image wander, focused, layered.
no fatigue, long sessions.
Sounds like a different amp on evert song. Disappears yet grips.
"I've never heard anything like it.
HIGHLY TEXTURED, MORE COMPLETE rendering of harmonic content.
Sometimes it sounds so good it's hard to believe (< 30 HOURS)
Bass plumbs deep, midbass finesse Larry Carlton "slightly dirty bass"
Beyond lateral boundaries
had to get up and walk aroundfocus, layering, ...phile stuff secondarily considered. Just there, not wanting for more in the face of extreme listenabilty and conveyance of musical pleasure.
Looking, searching for flaws.
tonal contrast between Ann's voice and muted trumpet makes me look up.
textuing, tonality, vibration of piano stromg fully revealed, as though under a sonic electron micorscope.
Joe Pass. Rawness of sound, as though possible to parse rawness sources. Early SS consoles? Guitarets seek a certain sound and what is captured here sounds like a Pass sounnd Marred by poor ss, engineering.
Samson removes the perpetual amplification from the system equation.
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The Clarinets sound is unmistable, mellow, round, unique -- on a good system easily distinguished from Soprano Sax.
I played years ago, . There is a particular way the reed feels against the lip, the aural perspective of the intrument mounted in your grasp and jaw. It has a unique smell. It's been years since I've experienced that odor, but did today. Anat Cohen and her group. A song I've heard a dozen times. Today I smelled it. Cork grease, Ebony,
a well used moist reed.
Trish Hatley, Hans and Phil singing... . Do I see Trish swing her head, as though trying to adjust interferring hair? Vocal producing structures visible. Dick Olsher's Leslie test ... Aural MRI
