simonmoon
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| Would your familiarity with the music played effect your test performance? With regards to most studio rock recordings, I would say, for the most part yes. Mostly because of familiarity.But with classical and acoustic jazz, not so much. I am pretty much only a fan of modern, avant-garde and contemporary classical music (... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. A great many musicians and bands among all the various subgenres of prog (avant-prog, Zeuhl, prog-metal, etc) have conservatory musical training. Rick Wakeman of YES was a student at the Royal Academy of Music, but left to go into rock.Christian V... | |
| The truth about why modern music is so awful. Music is NOT getting worse. To repeat, music is NOT getting worse!Mainstream forms of POP music are getting worse.If all one does, is compare mainstream popular forms of music of today, vs from the past, then we agree. But there is so much truly g... | |
| How do you listen? The vast majority of my listening is in what you refer to as "proper audiophilism", but that has as much to do with the types of music I listen to, as much as wanting to hear it from the best position.Pretty much the types of music I listen to, re... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system Return to Forever - Romantic WarriorGreat for testing dynamics, BUT ONLY the 1976 original vinyl. Every CD version I have heard is compressed to death. Just horrible...The opening track, Medieval Overture, is a good place to start, especially Lenn... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? I used to manage one of the highest end car audio store in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, to be exact). We used to do custom sub enclosures, custom enclosures for mids and tweets in doors, custom amp racks, etc, etc.For cars, we had some really good s... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Peter HammillFrom solo album, "In Camera"The Comet, the Course, and the Tail(existentialism, free will)They say we are endowed with Free Will--at least that justifies our need for indecision.But between our insticts and the lust to killWe bow our ... | |
| Does Heavy Metal music benefit from a high end audio system? Not to dig at the genre although I’m not a fan, does Heavy Metal music benefit from an higher resolution systems? I’m not talking about comparing to a cheap box store system, rather, would one benefit moving from an audiophile quality $5-10k to a ... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Let me add a couple to the above list.My discovery of fusion, lead me to post bop, avant-garde, chamber, and other progressive forms of jazz.My discovery of the 1st album by Swedish band, Anglagard, in the mid 90's, led me to the knowledge, that p... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Dear God - XTC Dear god, hope you get the letter andI pray you can make it better down hereI don't mean a big reduction in the price of beerBut all the people that you made in your imageSee them starving on their feetCause they don't get enough t... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Nice idea for a thread!I will list bands, not just albums.Very early on:Sgt Pepper’s - informed me that rock could be a bit more than 3 minute, 3 chord, songs.Next:Deep Purple - In Rock, Black Sabbath- 1st, Uriah Heep - Very Humble, and others - i... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings Terrific ! This thread is greatly enhanced by your participation. Thanks!I will continue to post more, even if not too many people are interested.It is still fun! | |
| What's your dream speaker? The Von Schweikert Ultra 11 are right at the top if my list of dream speakers.They were at 2 audio shows here in LA, and each time I heard them, they floored me.I haven't heard them yet, but the top of the line Borresen Z5 are a top choice. I have... | |
| Vintage speaker suggestions One of the great exceptions to the typical bad design of 70's Japanese mid-fi speakers, are the Kenwood SB-7000. Good quality drivers, correctly aligned vertically and horizontally, correctly time aligned, sophisticated crossovers, and better th... | |
| Vintage speaker suggestions Pioneer CS 99-As and 2 pairs of Original Large Advents, neither sounded bad, but I think I could do better. Trying to spend around 1000 or less and keep it from the same era more or less. The vast majority of those 70's speakers from Japanes... |