photon46
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| non-locking rca's for analyis plus interconnects. Just measure the diameter and see if they'll fit. The engineering drawings are available online. Here's a link: http://www.partsconnexion.com/prod_pdf/vampire_67331.pdf The link address says it's for a Vampire connector, but the drawing is obvious... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Rok2id, glad you found the link entertaining, I thought it was rather witty. I know what you mean about the difficulty of conveying the exact meaning of our thoughts in these forums, it can be difficult. If anyone has any interest in further explo... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Rok2id, I agree with you to a point. However, I do not agree that someone without knowledge of an artistic creation's historical context and means of creation enjoys a work as fully or hears music the same as someone with more informed knowledge. ... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Learsfool, I agree with your thoughts regarding the reluctance of certain types of listeners to educate themselves. It is baffling, but the longer I live, the more I am amazed at the profound differences among humans in the way we process informat... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Rok2id, I would love to hear their perspective. I work within a very large University art department with practitioners of many art forms, so I obviously have great respect for the opinions of professional musicians and educators. As educators, we... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Schubert, I think I understand your perspective, but just as relativism is the potential downfall of morality, so is absolutism of values the fossilization of aesthetic practice. In my mind, insisting that base emotions are unworthy inspirations f... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Frogman, your commentary is very insightful. We've all heard Duke's "good & bad" take on the hierarchy of musical genres and it's a good maxim to keep in the back of one's mind. It becomes a very slippery slope when we start proclaiming this o... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Well stated analysis of the differences in personal approaches to listening and learning Frogman! Music for me is an amateurs passion, visual art is where I make my living. Frogman's comments regarding people's different degrees of receptiveness t... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Rok2kid, That would be my ineloquent way of referring to the fact that as those composers evolved through late Romantic chromaticism and serial techniques, their compositional strategies were more or less guided by adherence to certain principles ... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Thanks for chiming in on that bit of critical "flat earth thinking" regarding Stravinsky Learsfool. To suggest Stravinsky lacks a place among the highest echelon of composers leaves me flabbergasted. Send me to the proverbial desert island, give m... | |
| Question about shipping damage Problem is, many original packing boxes are entirely inadequate. I think many packages are designed to be shipped palletized in a large bundle and that's a different kettle of fish from shipping a single item. Marantz, Cambridge, & PS Audio ar... | |
| Speaker Cable Rebuild - Need Help Assuming you're in North America, either PartsConnexion or SonicCraft get my vote. Both have a great selection of what you need and have given me great service. | |
| Question about shipping damage Chayro's probably right. If there's no external sign of damage, UPS is going to deny any culpability. As to the "how" of the distortion, shipping entails the amp being shaken, vibrated, and bumped constantly for the entire journey. Especially if s... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Exactly Frogman and Mapman, it's so hard to get a grip on what "underrated" means. My musically well educated colleagues roll their eyes with ennui at the mention of most composer's that the average classical listener has never heard of, so it is ... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Lesarsfool, actually, Andy didn't have to draw those over and over. He just picked a photo or drew the image once, had a photo film made, and then had had his studio assistants make silkscreens. Those were then able to be screen printed as fast as... |