frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados Rok, with all due respect, and I blame my apparent lack of clarity, you're not getting it (my point).****Based on your argument, Maurice Andre could have been the greatest Jazz trumpet player in history. ****My argument does not suggest that in th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados No "teaching points" offered, Rok; just trying to offer a perspective that I feel will enhance the listening experience. You see, from my perspective, the problem is that you and others want to be able to make proclamations about what is "the best... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "There are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind" - Duke EllingtonI think a certain idea is getting lost in these discussions. Well, at least the idea that I tried to bring forth about the "nuts and bolts" part of music appreciation. T... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Excellent! Congrats, Dave. Let me know when you are ready and I will send you the wire loom for a straight shot from cart clips to preamp to try. I think you will find that revelatory as well. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, thanks. I can't disagree with you about anything in your post; save for the IMPLICATION that having the training and being polished precludes being able to convey emotion. Clearly there are performers that were born with "the gift" and can ge... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, thanks for expounding. We are all entitled to like what we like; simple as that. It's interesting to try and understand the reasons why (it is for me, anyway) that's all. In this case we will just have to call it a case of Mars and Venus. I f... | |
| Jazz for aficionados No it's not, it's Saturday! In Japan :-) | |
| tube amps and electrostatics ****Btw, to the point about going with one's ears. I've been switching between my amp's 4 and 8 ohm output taps. For various technical reasons that I am not going to get into, I would have surmised that the 4 ohm taps would have been the preferred... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Empty!?! Empty!?! Damn! At first I thought you were referring to the "Bebop" clip; "loud, fast and empty" was exactly my reaction. I didn't say that because... well, like my grandmother used to say.....You seemed to like the "Bebop" clip, even if ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Fabulous! It really doesn't get a whole lot better than that; thanks for the clip. Phil Woods is fantastic and Tom Harrell is without a doubt one of the unsung heroes of the trumpet; a beautiful player. Checkout his flugelhorn playing sometime; he... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great tune, Nica's Dream; aka Orpheus' W..... nah, I better not ;-). Thanks for sharing.Came across this when listening to Nica's Dream. Check out Blue Mitchell's solo; holy cow! If you want to get geeky, check out 1:26. He plays this little motif... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics Al, I don't mind; and, thanks. I think your comment "Which of those two kinds of amplifier/speaker interactions results in the most correct acoustic output from the speaker is a separate question, however." is particularly valuable and relates to ... | |
| PSB or stick with vintage ADS ****I've read where some speakers (like PSB, Wharfedale and others) claim to have high-end sound at a low cost and that speaker tech has come a long way since the 80s****Don't put too much stock in printed comments like that. As always, trust your... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics OK, George, you win; clearly, I don't know what live music sounds like.****It's not what works for me, it's fact, and electronic maths made up of Ohm's and Kirchoffs Laws, there is no voodoo involved.****I will go back to sticking pins into my tub... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics Georgelofi, thanks for the link and I am glad that you found what works for you. So did I, and it's tubes with electrostats. This is an old story in our hobby and after many years enjoying it I have learned that one of the few things that I can co... |