simonmoon
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| Songs of debauchery and excess A song about heroin addiction by prog band, IQ. "The Enemy Smacks" The Enemy Smacks | |
| Music for 2022- Is It Just Me Or?.. Not for me! For the genres I listen to (various subgenres of prog, jazz, modern classical), 2022 was a pretty good year. Not as good as some, but still good. This is probably about 25% of my purchases of new, not reissues or archive material, in... | |
| Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there? I think it has to do with the natural tone from wood, why is it most musical instrument are made from wood and sound so great. Wood used for musical instruments, and wood used for speaker enclosures serve a completely different purpose. Wit... | |
| How far and wide? NSMT speaker placement My room is not very big, 14’ x 16’. My speakers are on the short wall, about 3.5 feet out, about 9 feet apart slightly towed in, I am about 8 feet back. I have acoustic panels in the critical spots in the room. My speakers are Jeff Bagby’s "Kair... | |
| Changing melody and tempo songs Almost my entire music collection, and the various genres I listen to, have regular shifting tempos, melodies, time signatures, chord progressions, etc, etc. I listen to various subgenres of prog, jazz, and classical, all of which are well known ... | |
| What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)? Here's a few more very recent CD purchases. Elliott Carter - Two Controversies and a Conversation for piano, percussion, and chamber orchestra (2011) - Carter composed this at the age of 102, and does not show any lack of creativity or artistic a... | |
| What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)? My tastes tend toward the progressive and avant-garde, so, as far as being used for recommendations, YMMV. I was thinking of getting rid of my CD’s, but once I removed them and their inserts from the jewel cases, put them into specifically design... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? There is no soundstage image height or image at all. It's just your brain trying to make sense of what it's perceiving its a trick an illusion. @johnk Then how do you explain Northwestern's LEDR recording, already mentioned several times on t... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? In response to the OP, no. Not sure why a mid 20th century pop producer has to be invoked in order to differentiate between orchestral and chamber music? The differences have been around for much longer than mid century pop. From my view, as a f... | |
| Tyler Timekeepers I have not had a chance to hear the Timekeepers yet, but I have heard several other Tyler Acoustics speakers. And without question, they outperform comparably priced speakers. | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @bdp24 I worked at the Sherman Oaks and the Canoga Park stores. I worked with Kip for quite a while. Good guy. Not sure I'd call his band punk though, more power pop. 2 other guys I worked with, Bob Say and Tom Gracyk, have a great store just ... | |
| Recommendation on speakers for listening to live music I was at a live orchestra performance and it dawned on me: Hey, this sounds just like my Klipsch Heresy IV speakers! That's the fun thing about audio, different people can have much the same live listening experience, and get completely opposit... | |
| New In 2022 All new, no reissues or archive releases. There's way to much great new music, for me to waste time with yet more reissyes... Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis / Jazz guitarist, Mary Halvorson, really hit her stride with this release. While not quite ... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? I think the claim that the 80's were fueled by the need to move away from prog, was vastly overstated. I think it was more to do with bands like Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, etc. Prog bands like Van Der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammi... | |
| What Power Cords for Rel S510 Subs? As one who has heard, in blind tests, the difference between PCs, I am more than a bit dubious as to how a much better PC would make a difference on subs. The reason why I say this, is because ALL the differences I've heard in PCs, is with subtle... |