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| Jazz for aficionados I have not heard (seen) the Abbado/Berlin, but I have not heard anything by Abbado that I have not liked; he is brilliant.Two others to consider if the music is of top priority: Karajan/Berlin. There is something about Karajan's treatment of Beeth... | |
| PSB or stick with vintage ADS I would be careful about giving up on your ADS speakers. They are very good sounding, and while its true that there are very good sounding current offerings in this price range, I would be surprised if you are able to accomplish much more than a s... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks for the links, Chris. Very nice! Great to hear the Gliere; love that piece. I couldn't find artist info on the site. Is it there? | |
| Budget LOMC preamp recommendations needed Nice to see you posting again, Nandric. Greg7 I would take Nandric's recommendation very seriously. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Welcome, Justin. Ah, Charlie Mariano! One of my very favorite alto players. Here he is on one of my very favorite records:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJ75vcmVKY&feature=plpp&p=ALGLx1orRGw4W8XHYz9KFo_OtzUPthUNch | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****Is it that, they can't get what's in their head to come out of the instrument****Exactly. They don't feel they have the technical mastery of their instrument (yet) to express the musical concepts that they "hear" in their heads; to translate t... | |
| Budget LOMC preamp recommendations needed The Jolida is amazing for the money, but while "laid back" means different things to different sets of ears, that is not how I would describe its sound. Compared to my EAR phono stage I found it to be VERY energetic and aggressive sounding. In tha... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners ****My thinking is it therefore makes sense to have the trough paddle attached to the end bearing cap as designed.****Chris, interesting consideration, but I am not so sure that is always the "best" location. I use the trough as intended out of co... | |
| Jazz for aficionados http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iIjKV1M8kqM# | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Dover, by loosening the screw the bass range gained clarity and speed. The bass is not necessarily stronger, but instead of some bass notes sounding simply like amorphous low frequency energy there is air around the notes, much better pitch recogn... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, we really have NO substantive disagreement, and I admire your passion for the music. Our main area of disagreement is in the absolutism of a comment that you have made several times to the effect that the "public decides who is great". If tha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I can feel that this is going down a treacherous road (for an Internet discussion).****That would be easy to do. There are not that many players that 'must be' mentioned in a history or comprehensivbe discussion of Jazz. A small percentage.**... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, thanks for the sentiment; the feeling is mutual.While I completely agree with you that music is subjective (well, more accurately, one's reaction to music is subjective) I don't know on what you base the comment that jazz is more subjective ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados A few comments about some recent clips and mentions:Rok, Benny "At Carnegie Hall" was my very first jazz record. I don't know how obvious it's been based on past posts, but I love Benny and that style of music in general. Personally, I don't under... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Dave,Prior to my buying the magnesium arm wand I used the regular aluminum wand with various MC cartridges including some that were much more "aggressive" than the Shelter including the Spectral, VDH Grasshopper and others, with no issues that I c... |