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1: Classical Court, It's a Yamaha (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2020-04-15, 16:59:53 (74.73.166.168)
Yamaha seems to have a near monopoly on decent sounding uprights. This piano looks like a new Yamaha, maybe a YUS-1. The model number has tape over it, so I'm guessing that Lord Vinheteiro has a piano .......
2: Classical Court, RE: What's a good recording to start with? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2019-07-11, 11:56:45 (71.183.52.58)
I like Mark Andre Hamelin's recording and Kapustin's original recordings. I found some Russian LPs that sounded decent. His relationship to Oscar Peterson's music is interesting. He took the time to e .......
3: Jazz Alley, Of Course (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2019-01-16, 20:15:31 (104.162.180.175)
An amazing player. On his "Century of Jazz Piano" (5 CDs plus 1 DVD) he plays in the style of about 100 jazz piano greats. One hundred!!! And most of the tracks are credible performances. Unbelievable .......
4: Classical Court, Utterly Spiffing Guide to Light Music (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2018-06-11, 11:21:04 (67.151.135.122)
Music theory with a twist: View YouTube Video .......
5: Classical Court, RE: "Has anyone read this book by John Eliot Gardiner?" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2018-02-19, 11:25:37 (104.162.180.175)
Yes, I was hoping to hear an unbiased view from someone. I'm sure that Chris jumped on this one. I would like to read a good book on Bach. I made it half way through Wolff's "The Learned Musician", bu .......
6: Classical Court, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2018-02-17, 20:14:31 (104.162.180.175)
Has anyone read this book by John Eliot Gardiner? The video linked below makes think that Gardiner might tell a good story. The comments below the video make me wonder who watches these things. ::: T .......
7: Classical Court, Faded babe (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2018-01-28, 16:06:18 (104.162.180.175)
From Daily Telegraph interview: "It took years to understand that it is not enough to play the piano - it is a task for a lifetime, to understand how music really works." "After a career of more than .......
8: Classical Court, In the sixties... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-12-10, 09:13:16 (104.162.180.175)
classical music brought to mind organ music in Dracula's castle. Now it is associated with over priced watches and cars. The earlier association was simply a more direct expression of the nature of ca .......
9: Jazz Alley, RE: Maybe so, but obviously there's nothing particularly Russian in any of these links. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-12-06, 08:10:25 (67.151.135.122)
Igor Butman is Bill Clinton's favorite sax player. Now if you could find who Trump's favorite is, you might have something that is more authentically Russian. .......
10: Classical Court, Sweetening (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-11-18, 20:28:19 (104.162.180.175)
Something that used to be done unapologetically, but it ain't Beethoven. View YouTube Video .......
11: Jazz Alley, It was like Woodstock without the bad acid... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-11-11, 10:01:58 (104.162.180.175)
...and free love, and mud, and live births, and what else what else went on there? .......
12: Jazz Alley, Just Basie... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-11-10, 20:22:12 (104.162.180.175)
...and people of all ages. .......
13: Jazz Alley, ditto (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-11-10, 05:01:45 (104.162.180.175)
Saw the Basie band in New Haven in 1983 on the New Haven Green. I generally don't go in for submersive crowd experience, but this was like Woodstock. The green was absolutely packed for Basie. ::: TO .......
14: Jazz Alley, I guess the stupid hats are like the goatees and berets of yore... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-11-05, 10:25:31 (104.162.180.175)
...but the steps look more like Motown than jazz, and the music...fuhgettaboutit. .......
15: Classical Court, Pollock Made Decoration??? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-11-02, 10:14:27 (67.151.135.122)
He was doing something much headier than that. .......
16: General Asylum, Wow! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-30, 20:26:34 (104.162.180.175)
That is really unbelievable. .......
17: Classical Court, Gershwin as a pianist always left me cold... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-30, 11:05:29 (67.151.135.122)
...but like other composers, he needs a good interpreter to sound his best. Ella's Gershwin Songbook is very good, as are many other recordings of his songs by jazz people. The concert pieces are OK, .......
18: Jazz Alley, 2017 - 1972 = 45 (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-18, 19:38:26 (104.162.180.175)
The most recent bands listed were playing in 1972. If someone asked who the best, or most influential jazz quatet was in 1972, the answer would probably not stop at the Wolverines and Hot Fives (not Q .......
19: Classical Court, Good music. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-16, 10:04:09 (67.151.135.122)
Cheesy video. .......
20: Jazz Alley, I wonder what Lang Lang would have to say (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-10, 06:33:05 (104.162.180.175)
View YouTube Video .......
21: Jazz Alley, Eddie Higgins... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-07, 06:38:27 (104.162.180.175)
...though only occaisionally in a quartet. Not cosidered one of the greats, but number one in my book. .......
22: Vinyl Asylum, Vinyl from Sony Music (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-06, 19:12:19 (104.162.180.175)
Fred Hersch is releasing a new album on Sony Music Canada on CD and vinyl. The LP is going for $15.00 at Amazon. Does anyone know if the quality of Sony's vinyl any good, or will the CD end up being b .......
23: Classical Court, I went to the same concert in New York. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-10-06, 18:31:25 (104.162.180.175)
It was on a weeknight and the Times critic said that its length and intensity "mixed generosity with a sprinkle of sadism", but he still liked it, if not unreservedly. I was reasonably enthralled, but .......
24: Speaker Asylum, The 2.4s should be fine (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-30, 08:03:50 (104.162.180.175)
The lower frequencies that the 3.6s reach have wavelengths that are larger than your room. 40 hz wavelength (CS2.4) = 28 feet. So at the lower limits of the CS2.4, the effect of the room will be more .......
25: Jazz Alley, Half your age plus seven (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-29, 04:48:22 (104.162.180.175)
You're still in the running. .......
26: Jazz Alley, What was that line about sound and fury? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-25, 03:55:31 (104.162.180.175)
All style and no substance from where I sit. .......
27: Jazz Alley, RE: "too consistent an outlook..." (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-23, 22:32:21 (104.162.180.175)
Thanks for taking the time to elaborate what I was only alluding to. .......
28: Jazz Alley, Sure I can. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-23, 17:59:02 (104.162.180.175)
And I do see some great acts. But the scene, such as I know it, has changed. The young lions seem to come from better-off families than when I was a young kitten and their training seems to be much be .......
29: Jazz Alley, RE: Well, I went to "conservatory"... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-23, 10:01:46 (104.162.180.175)
This is just based on my observations in clubs. And the rule usually holds. .......
30: Jazz Alley, "King of the Tenors" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-23, 09:50:42 (104.162.180.175)
Ben Webster with the Oscar Peterson trio (1953) .......
31: Jazz Alley, What the conservatories say: (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-23, 09:42:23 (104.162.180.175)
Despite the required exposure to jazz history in the first semester, jazz begins with Charlie Parker. If you play the piano, it starts with Bud Powell. Song structure is prescribed as follows: Play th .......
32: Jazz Alley, Yes it's a great disc (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-13, 20:30:09 (104.162.180.175)
Half of the tracks have explicit riffs off of classical composers--Ravel, Debussy, Bach--and done with more quite a bit more finesse than John Lewis's excursions. He had a vision of what modern improv .......
33: Jazz Alley, Ken sings to Barbie (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-03, 14:58:29 (104.162.180.175)
Truly ghastly video. If this is how Irving Berlin will be resuscitated, is it worth it? View YouTube Video .......
34: Jazz Alley, RE: a dilemma with too many artists and musicians (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-09-02, 22:09:41 (104.162.180.175)
Yes. Do you remember how scary some of the people in the arts crowd in school could be? Not too unlike this guy. .......
35: Jazz Alley, The ECM Sound (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-31, 19:30:02 (104.162.180.175)
From a review of Paul Motian's "Garden of Eden": The term "Euro-Jazz" is used pejoratively in the United States. It means "they don't swing," and it's a euphemism for "white." In Europe, the phrase .......
36: Jazz Alley, Didn't go to the Howard... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-28, 15:51:51 (104.162.180.175)
...but I did lidten to Barry Richards in his stoner guise as "The Heavy Head". But I didn't listen to "The Boss with the Hot Sauce" or any of his other bizarre manifestations. In answer to your questi .......
37: Jazz Alley, Stan Getz and #4 reeds (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-18, 22:49:07 (104.162.180.175)
Bob Mover tells about meeting Stan Getz when he was thirteen and getting his reed. Bob's a good story teller, in the traditional sense and with his horn. .......
38: Classical Court, RE: "effortless scales! arpeggios dispatched with aplomb!" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-17, 10:55:01 (67.151.135.122)
Yes, I suppose if a passage is planned, there's no need to explore the music while it's being played. I thought his playing was glib--maybe the result of having all aspects of the piece down cold. ::: .......
39: Classical Court, RE: Sudbin's recent output (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-16, 11:38:39 (67.151.135.122)
I was a big fan of Sudbin's Scriabin and Scarlatti discs of yesteryear. He was intense, intellectual, uncompromising, and when I saw him live he was even more so. Recently he came out with another Sca .......
40: Classical Court, Discussions about good music... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-07, 19:35:53 (104.162.180.175)
...for those who can tell the difference* *Note: pictures of pretty girls will be re-directed to Jazz Alley .......
41: Classical Court, Jazz isn't much different (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-06, 04:46:21 (104.162.180.175)
"Dead musicians fan club. From Armstrong to Bird to Coltrane." Not much attention gets paid to the composers, but most of them are dead too. Of course there are some differences. Not too much talk abo .......
42: Vinyl Asylum, RE: A waste of money... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-05, 16:24:19 (104.162.180.175)
Only a waste of money if the electronics can't reveal their strengths. With low priced components, expensive cartridges are a waste of money. As are expensive cables and other tweaks. .......
43: Tweakers' Asylum, Electraglide Power Cords (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-08-03, 10:42:26 (67.151.135.122)
Electraglide Power Cords didn't connect the ground because they thought it sounded better. I use all electraglide cords and think they sound terrific. One of their old cords did connect the ground, bu .......
44: Music Lane, Which forum do they belong in? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-27, 17:07:43 (104.162.180.175)
Hmm. .......
45: Music Lane, Absolutely (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-27, 16:21:57 (104.162.180.175)
Great Cruisin' Music: .......
46: Music Lane, No (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-25, 05:55:13 (104.162.180.175)
... .......
47: Music Lane, RE: Nope (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-23, 20:08:02 (104.162.180.175)
Agree about a second forum marginilizing jazz, although I have enough interest in both to lurk in both. .......
48: Music Lane, Unfortunately, Music Lane has become a very small club. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-22, 06:08:20 (104.162.180.175)
nt .......
49: Music Lane, Moi? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-19, 18:53:24 (104.162.180.175)
I buy many recordings of composers who I admire, and also of composers who are problematic to me. So I have many Liszt records. I've tried to see the greatness in him, and at one time, thought that Cz .......
50: Music Lane, Poor Clara. Poor Johannes. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-19, 04:28:30 (104.162.180.175)
So little appreciation for the finer things. . . . "like a fine wine..." .......
51: Music Lane, RE: Currenly Streaming... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-18, 10:39:45 (67.151.135.122)
By the time Beethoven wrote op. 101, he was walking the streets in a ripped overcoat mumbling to himself. The neighborhood urchins threw rocks at him. I wonder what Ingrid has to say about late Beetho .......
52: Music Lane, RE: Classical EMI sale (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-12, 09:55:16 (67.151.135.122)
I agree with PAR--you need to find your own way, and that probably means traveling up a few blind alleys. The standard beginner's recommendations--Pines of Rome, Bolero, and God knows what else, are g .......
53: Music Lane, RE: Lola-Astanova (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-05, 04:28:32 (104.162.181.176)
I wonder what repertoire would be appropriate for a shallow exhibitionistic libertine. Of course! She was born to play Liszt. .......
54: Music Lane, RE: Lola-Astanova (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-07-03, 14:31:18 (104.162.181.176)
I wonder what repertoire would be appropriate for a shallow exhibitionistic libertine. Of course! She was born to play Liszt. .......
55: Music Lane, The way it was meant to be played (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-06-30, 18:12:00 (104.162.181.176)
Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code .......
56: Speaker Asylum, My Thiels took about 600 hours (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-06-28, 17:46:31 (104.162.181.176)
When I bought them they sounded terrible. Now they sound great. For weeks, I thought I would need to buy a subwoofer; the bass is very strong now. The soundstage went from pretty lousy to pretty terri .......
57: Music Lane, Full of sound and fury... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-06-22, 06:17:14 (74.73.26.212)
...and not for me. .......
58: Inmate Central, Lunchtime in the Everglades (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-06-11, 12:02:03 (74.73.26.212)
. .......
59: Tweakers' Asylum, Cardas (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-06-06, 10:11:55 (67.151.135.122)
Cardas wire and connectors should give you the sound characteristics you are looking for. Oyaide tends to be fast and analytical. Gold is their least aggressive metal, but their outlets tend to be to .......
60: Music Lane, I know what you mean. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-06-06, 04:35:43 (74.73.26.212)
I've debated playing publicly in sox for a long time. They're awfully young to be committing to the shoeless philosophy. .......
61: Music Lane, Domus? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-05-31, 09:50:00 (67.151.135.122)
I like the performances by Domus. Not hi-rez, but good sounding digital from 1993. .......
62: Music Lane, Grade Inflation (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-05-12, 19:00:38 (74.73.26.212)
Artistic Quality: 7. Presumably this means that the interpretation is well above average. The review ends with "Why waste your time with it when Monteux is readily available and you can still enjoy t .......
63: Digital Drive, I hate to say it... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-05-06, 04:51:35 (74.73.26.212)
...but as useless as your answer was, it was the only one that pointed in the right direction. I was hoping that there was a tool made for out-of-spec CD holes. .......
64: Digital Drive, Enlarging CD holes? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-05-04, 04:59:35 (74.73.26.212)
My CD player's center post is a bit too precisely sized. Some CDs barely fit on it. Is there away of slightly enlarging th CD's hole? .......
65: Music Lane, Jacques Coursil? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-26, 09:53:14 (67.151.135.122)
. .......
66: Music Lane, I do miss his posts...still. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-20, 10:35:38 (67.151.135.122)
dim echoes of Florestan. .......
67: Music Lane, They've decided to add pictures to their reviews. (y) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-16, 15:27:52 (74.73.26.212)
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68: Music Lane, I haven't heard her, but I'd say she's a lot more than just OK! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-14, 11:44:51 (74.73.26.212)
I mean what's delicacy or precision when you have have such obvious gifts? .......
69: Music Lane, Klemperer... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-13, 06:05:49 (74.73.26.212)
...does it for me. He imparts a sense of grandeur that when you hear it, sounds like the only way to play it. Although, of course there are other ways. But Walter just doesn't do it for me. ::: TOPIC: .......
70: Music Lane, She's just the latest in a line... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-11, 17:08:29 (74.73.26.212)
...of shamelessly exhibitionist pianists .......
71: Music Lane, RE: "What kind of genteel world you live in" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-08, 22:33:17 (74.73.26.212)
Not the one you imagine it to be, but maybe one with more shades of grey than you're accustomed to. .......
72: Music Lane, Agree---NT (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-04-08, 09:54:51 (74.73.26.212)
. .......
73: Music Lane, So would you say that she's an 8? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-03-29, 13:38:20 (67.151.135.122)
or maybe a 9? Incidentally, I always got Playboy for the articles. .......
74: Music Lane, Female Vocals (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-03-16, 05:13:06 (74.73.26.212)
Sort of weird as a genre. .......
75: Music Lane, Interptreters of the sublime (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-02-16, 18:46:47 (74.73.26.212)
Can a picture reveal anything about a musician's interpretive predilections? .......
76: Music Lane, The comparison with Liszt was apt. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-02-16, 05:56:33 (74.73.26.212)
Two shameless showboats paddling along in the same emotional shallows. .......
77: Music Lane, picky, picky (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-01-31, 05:59:10 (74.73.26.212)
(nt) .......
78: Music Lane, I guess I'm still stuck on the classic performances (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-01-30, 20:03:01 (74.73.26.212)
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79: Music Lane, RE: Paul Henry Lang and Toscanini (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-01-30, 01:52:28 (74.73.26.212)
When I first heard Toscanini, (a long time ago), I thought that the different sections of the orchestra were pitted against eachother and by doing this, were getting the music wrong. I was using Szell .......
80: Music Lane, I have the same set and am quite fond of it. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-01-29, 17:04:07 (74.73.26.212)
The third synphony has an inevitability about it that can be overwhelming. I'm also a fan of Szell's set, so I'm curious, what did Paul Henry Lang have to say about Toscanini's Beethoven? .......
81: Music Lane, linky (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-01-22, 18:42:20 (74.73.26.212)
link: .......
82: Music Lane, Bambi? How is the old goat? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-01-22, 16:18:58 (74.73.26.212)
The last I heard, he was bemoaning the lack of civilized automobiles in the colonies, but I do miss his civilized banter. RE Yeol Eum Son: I can't claim to be an in-the-know-pianophile, but this video .......
83: Music Lane, It's nice to see a Miles sucks post... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2017-01-02, 20:31:10 (74.73.26.212)
It maintains an Asylum tradition of believing in what you believe in and talking about it. It also keeps alive a moribund tradition of talking about jazz. I'm probably imagining this, but there don't .......
84: General Asylum, RE: What would you want for Christmas money no object. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-12-12, 18:59:37 (74.73.26.212)
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85: Music Lane, Manley Footwear (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-11-14, 09:50:31 (67.151.135.122)
a.k.a. B.J. Cole: English country western musician .......
86: Music Lane, See Mars Attacks! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-11-14, 09:42:13 (67.151.135.122)
It saved America from the Martians, but it did look dangerous. .......
87: Music Lane, It's an art. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-10-02, 19:24:55 (104.162.166.150)
The correct timing must take years to perfect. .......
88: Music Lane, Applause between movements should be required in HIP performances... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-10-02, 14:17:37 (104.162.166.150)
...because it was the norm before the twentieth century. What we have substituted is coughing between movements. When a composer ends a movement with a climax that clearly is meant to draw applause, t .......
89: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Just my thinking (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-09-16, 11:22:48 (67.151.135.122)
Factory that uses E.P. power conditioners pictured above. Thinking is no substitute for experience. But if you want some scientific papers on power conditioning, Environmental Potentials has a number .......
90: Music Lane, what (and whom) I was talking about. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-08-29, 05:36:59 (104.162.166.150)
the assembly line products, of course. .......
91: Music Lane, Yes he is. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-08-21, 13:20:17 (104.162.166.150)
Meryl Streep puts in a great performance as FFJ. As the movie progresses, all of the characters become more three dimensional and stmpathetic. .......
92: Music Lane, Not really contemporary (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-07-17, 09:32:40 (104.162.166.150)
but Eric Dolphy was a real turn-on for me when I barely knoew anything about jazz. .......
93: Music Lane, Eddie Daniels and Ken Peplowski (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-07-17, 09:20:02 (104.162.166.150)
Here are good albums from each of them: https://www.amazon.com/Higgins-Quartet-Featuring-Hamilton-Peplowski/dp/B0029NYFJ8/ref=sr_1_18?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1468772325&sr=1-18&keywords=Ken+Peplowski http .......
94: Music Lane, If that's true, you don't need to give them any thought. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-07-05, 09:56:10 (67.151.135.122)
But when you respond to every post, some of them must be getting through to you. .......
95: Music Lane, Babe violinist? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-07-04, 10:45:47 (67.151.135.122)
She's not competing with the gurgling torrent of babe violinists, or for that matter, creating a new sensation with stud muffin conductors. .......
96: Music Lane, But can she cook? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-06-26, 00:50:24 (104.162.166.150)
(nt) .......
97: Music Lane, RE: I'm a Gilbert and Sullivan guy myself... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-06-17, 18:31:28 (104.162.166.150)
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, / And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, / And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, / And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium... .......
98: Music Lane, RE: Motives vs objectives.... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-05-10, 13:43:06 (67.151.135.122)
Yes, I guess that's right, but "composer's objectives" sound too much like a hill to be taken. Writing music seems more like a journey into the unknown, involving discoveries rather than pursuing a kn .......
99: Music Lane, Trheadgill, Coleman & Marsalis--weird (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-04-20, 09:35:39 (67.151.135.122)
Two of them looking into the abyss, one looking into private equity funds. .......
100: Music Lane, Why not. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-04-06, 08:35:46 (104.162.166.150)
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101: Tweakers' Asylum, A Gingko Cloud... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-04-04, 12:30:20 (67.151.135.122)
...improved the sound of my turntable. It got a good review so I bit. .......
102: Music Lane, Quatuor Mosaiques made some very good Mozart and Haydn discs (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-03-23, 10:48:14 (67.151.135.122)
More excellent HIP playing from Coin and Hobarth. .......
103: Music Lane, "lately?" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-02-26, 03:15:55 (104.162.166.150)
As informative as many of your posts are, this is hardly new. .......
104: Music Lane, Scarlatti sonatas played by Evgeny Sudbin (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-02-03, 09:53:09 (67.151.135.122)
If you don't mind Scarlatti being Italian and Sudbin being Russian, his piano sounds like a guitar playing Spanish folk music--in surprisingly idiomatic playing. He wrote the album notes in English an .......
105: Music Lane, Yeah, but he had rhe Art racket figured out. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2016-01-13, 04:35:48 (104.162.166.150)
He could package pop tunes as something with much more weight than they actually possessed. "Ground Control to Major Tom" and the nonsense that followed is a strikingly banal literary production. The .......
106: Music Lane, Another Hendrix cover (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-12-21, 02:34:45 (104.162.166.150)
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107: Music Lane, They wrote decent songs. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-12-20, 06:03:09 (104.162.166.150)
Most rockers are limited to three chord wonders. .......
108: Tweakers' Asylum, Farraday Cage? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-12-13, 18:43:41 (104.162.166.150)
I thought that the static charge on the chassis might act as a Farraday cage and create a field that repels RFI. .......
109: Music Lane, Things have changed. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-12-04, 17:01:59 (104.162.166.150)
It used to be a much livelier place. .......
110: Music Lane, Not much has changed. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-11-10, 01:50:06 (104.162.166.150)
In the nineteenth century they used to market superficial pretty boys with great technical chops. .......
111: Tweakers' Asylum, ditto (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-11-05, 09:58:47 (64.205.104.102)
ARC LS16 preamp with 6922 tubes. Some tubes have given me problems with microphonics, but the tube dampers always deadened the sound. Crystals near the tubes have been very effective, I have tube topp .......
112: Music Lane, Well, not in his eighties... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-10-03, 12:18:49 (104.162.166.150)
...but Les leiber is 103 and still playing. I saw him a few years ago and he's still got it, or at least some of it. Here he is when he was younger: .......
113: Music Lane, RE: Beatles "Revolver" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-09-27, 17:14:38 (104.162.166.150)
I have the Parlophone record (from the 1978 British "Blue Box") and like it. What do the Japanese and original recordings sound like? .......
114: Music Lane, The vacant stare of a super model should have been a hint... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-09-01, 04:42:27 (64.205.104.102)
...that the contents wouldn't be very filling. .......
115: Music Lane, Two jazzed up Chopin discs (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-08-24, 10:27:26 (64.205.104.102)
Metamorphosis - Chopin / Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio (2004) Impressions on Chopin / Leszek Możdżer (1999) I think that Mozdzer's is the better one, but Jagodzinski is also worth listening to. He is more .......
116: Tweakers' Asylum, Use a spade and attach it to th chassis. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-08-19, 16:34:47 (104.162.166.150)
And you've got it made in the shade. Everything looks good except for the bypass cap. Mine are much smaller--they fit between the electrolytic terminals. The ones pictured here are from the Bypass .......
117: Tweakers' Asylum, the center pin is unconnected. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-08-18, 17:39:04 (104.162.166.150)
Connect the encircling outer contact to the battery's negative and the electrolytic's negative. .......
118: Tweakers' Asylum, That's pretty much what I did (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-08-05, 09:56:37 (64.205.104.102)
The battery is 9 volts The large capacitor is 10,000 uf the bypass capacitor is an EPCOS/TDK Polyester film capacitor, 1.0uf 100V DC, as reported here: .......
119: Tweakers' Asylum, Talent borrows; genius steals. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-08-01, 04:26:28 (104.162.166.150)
Or as Tom Lehrer said, Don't shade your eyes, plagiarise. Only be sure to call it research. .......
120: Tweakers' Asylum, Great results with battery ground tweak (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-07-31, 19:51:56 (104.162.166.150)
The damned thing really works and I'm impressed. I've put battery/capacitor/bypass cap combos on my amp pre-amp and phono pre. I wonder if the battery charges the chassis, and the charge repells stray .......
121: Tweakers' Asylum, Movie featuring Marc Weinert (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-07-03, 20:21:18 (104.162.166.150)
A short movie called "Mott Music" came out at the same time as the book. It features the piano voicer, who you could argue is the star of the book. It used to be available on YouTube, but isn't free a .......
122: Music Lane, She gets a lot of mileage as a classical musician who can improvise... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-06-19, 23:05:55 (74.73.252.52)
...but her ability as an improviser isn't at the level of some jazz musicians who have done similar things, like Rossano Sportiello: . . or Leszek Modzer: .......
123: Tweakers' Asylum, If you like rubber stoppers, ebony and brass may sound too analytical. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-06-17, 12:59:02 (64.205.104.102)
Herbie's Big Black Dots work well on my speakers. They are more precise than rubber, but are good at de-coupling. .......
124: Music Lane, GMAFB (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-05-14, 09:45:35 (74.64.36.232)
Words fail me. .......
125: Music Lane, Agree about Paul Lewis (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-03-22, 16:25:09 (74.73.252.52)
They speak more directly than other performances. .......
126: Music Lane, I like how you think... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-02-21, 15:03:42 (74.64.36.232)
...but I have to disagree with you about G. .......
127: Tweakers' Asylum, OK Here's anothor one (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-02-14, 08:17:53 (74.73.252.52)
A few people, myself included, have noticed that the Mad Scientist Audio Black Discii take some of the edge off of high frequencies. They also help out the soundstage and fine details, so they might w .......
128: Tweakers' Asylum, Cardas Headphone Cable (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-02-13, 18:09:11 (74.73.252.52)
The Cardas Cross wire should warm up the sound, but you might want to try one of their more expensive cables if you want more resolution. .......
129: Tweakers' Asylum, Here are two (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-02-05, 09:32:04 (74.64.36.232)
I've dealt with THL Audio and had no problems. They carry a fair range of chassis and other goodies: https://www.thlaudio.com/indexE.htm VT4C Audio has a confusing web site, but they carry chassis and .......
130: Music Lane, You bet! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-01-30, 03:22:09 (74.73.252.52)
Maybe my fave. .......
131: Music Lane, That's been my reaction too. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-01-19, 08:47:23 (173.52.0.88)
It struck me a training piece for what was to follow. I'll check out the Kubelik. .......
132: Music Lane, Oscar Peterson "In Russia Live"... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-01-12, 12:17:14 (74.64.36.75)
...is probably my all-time favorite O.P. album. The audience contributes to the overall energy and the stylistic range is quite something. It's worth getting the original Pablo LP, because (A) it's go .......
133: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Application of crystals on tubes. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2015-01-07, 18:24:46 (74.73.252.52)
I attached most of my crystals to the circuit board with silicone. It seems to work pretty well. Nothing has broken loose yet. I put a piece of green tourmaline between each pair of tubes. Other piece .......
134: Music Lane, That's it. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-12-27, 13:36:38 (74.73.252.52)
nt .......
135: Music Lane, Cortot: Chopin Etudes on Naxos (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-12-26, 09:59:47 (74.73.252.52)
Great remastering. Absolutely wonderful playing. Who carers about the mistakes? He leaves today's note-perfect youngsters in the shade; where they belong. .......
136: Music Lane, "Turn on your heaadlights and sound your horn if people get in the way" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-12-21, 16:21:18 (74.73.252.52)
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137: Music Lane, It's pretty awful. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-12-09, 20:19:37 (74.73.252.52)
One of America's greatest singers interpreted by one of... .......
138: Tweakers' Asylum, no system, no info, no email (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-12-01, 10:05:31 (74.64.36.75)
...Insists on complete transparency. .......
139: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Topaz crystals: What type/color (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-11-13, 12:32:17 (74.64.36.75)
I found topaz to be a good all-around crystal that worked in most locations. Like you, I had problems with quartz. In some situations it would make the sound too tubby, or it might introduce some dist .......
140: Music Lane, Great flick. Thanks (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-10-26, 17:00:23 (74.73.252.52)
nt .......
141: Tweakers' Asylum, Herbie's Big Fat Dots (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-10-25, 11:31:27 (74.73.252.52)
For a while I used sorbothane feet under my speakers to decouple them from the wood floor. The speakers caused the floor to vibrate which reinforced the bass and made the sound boom somewhat. The feet .......
142: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: An easy way to reduce RFI... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-10-18, 06:02:23 (74.73.252.52)
Pretty much anywhere can work, but areas where the radiation is highest work best. RFI travels along AC lines, so anything connected with power supplies is beneficial--near power transformers, rectifi .......
143: Tweakers' Asylum, An easy way to reduce RFI... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-10-17, 20:18:19 (74.73.252.52)
...is to place piezoelectric crystals on or near your speakers. Rough cut topaz is cheap and works well. The effects of quartz vary greatly from one stone to another, so I usually stick with topaz. Aq .......
144: Music Lane, I like that (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-09-04, 09:47:00 (173.52.3.205)
A nice description of the "music industry", best suited for industrial music I suppose. .......
145: Music Lane, RE: Ok, my apologies if I was wrong. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-09-01, 17:58:32 (67.244.86.129)
I don't follow much of it, and most of the more recent composers I do follow are too dead to qualify--although in some respects they do qualify for inclusion in the "music of, by, and for academics"-- .......
146: Music Lane, Actually I didn't say or imply any of that. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-08-31, 12:59:44 (67.244.86.129)
There is some recent stuff that I do like. You were looking for replies from new music boosters only? GMAFB. .......
147: Music Lane, In days of yore, composers realised they were writing for an "audience". (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-08-31, 12:28:58 (67.244.86.129)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the audience for most current "serious" work is PhD committees...or worse. By the way, Yanni made it to the Wikipedia list, so there may be a larger audience for serious m .......
148: Music Lane, Stravinsky or Zappa? You be the Judge (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-08-23, 11:00:08 (67.244.86.129)
Zappa conducting his "Strictly Genteel" Stravinsky conducting the same: .......
149: Music Lane, Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-08-08, 15:57:00 (67.244.86.129)
Promo Image. .......
150: Music Lane, Wow! Thanks. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-08-06, 16:50:42 (67.244.86.129)
A better answer than I could have hoped for. .......
151: Music Lane, Must Have Well Tempered Clavier (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-08-05, 19:54:15 (67.244.86.129)
I already have a number of WTC recordings--seven or eight I think. Can I live without Horszowski's version? .......
152: Music Lane, Interesting about Boulez and Ives. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-07-28, 19:20:41 (67.244.86.129)
I never thought Boulez would appeal to me conducting Mahler, but in his version of the Seventh, he dissects its structure and shows it in a very different light than anyone else. I would have liked to .......
153: Music Lane, Hear hear (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-07-25, 05:03:39 (67.244.86.129)
I've been tempted to listen to her more than I already have, but that review sums up why I haven't. I don't how a black vinyl miniskirt and spiked heels can go together with introspective playing. ::: .......
154: Music Lane, RE: Fred Hirsch Trio recommendations? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-07-11, 21:56:12 (67.244.86.129)
Here are three: In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis The French Collection Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk ...and a video: .......
155: Tweakers' Asylum, I love mine too. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-06-28, 21:07:20 (67.244.86.129)
I was prepared to struggle to hear the difference it made, but the change was quite obvious. Other tweaks that have caused similar improvements have been crystals--cheap and quite effective when you u .......
156: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: High quality copper jumper strap (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-06-25, 11:47:13 (173.52.3.205)
Good idea, but I'm reconsidering using copper. I was going to replace the binding posts with Cardas all copper ones, but it turns out that they recommend cleaning them every few months because of the .......
157: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: High quality copper jumper strap (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-06-24, 04:25:16 (67.244.86.129)
Unfortunately, my Thiels have the posts on the bottom and getting anything to stay attached to them is difficult. The Cardas jumpers were almost impossible to manipulate to the right shape, and the st .......
158: Tweakers' Asylum, High quality copper jumper strap (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-06-22, 13:18:17 (67.244.86.129)
I want to make a copper jumper strap that connects the bi-wire posts on my speakers. Does anyone know where I find small quantities of high quality copper (high purity, long strand, whatever) 16 gauge .......
159: Tweakers' Asylum, However... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-05-20, 10:08:07 (173.52.3.205)
Some old insulation is so brittle, that it will fall off the wire if you disrupt it. If your apartment has been rewired in the last fifty years, you probably don't have to worry about this. ::: TOPIC: .......
160: Music Lane, Three Jazz Essentials (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-04-25, 23:27:29 (74.72.158.163)
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" has been re-mastered over and over again because it is, of course, the perfect jazz album. "KOB" has become a minor audiophile discipline in itself. I don't know what the be .......
161: Music Lane, Kids don't read books anymore from what I've heard/ (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-04-17, 17:24:53 (74.72.158.163)
Culture in general seems to be out of fashion. Maybe it's all of those years glued to the tube going Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs. .......
162: Music Lane, It's a late middle age thing. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-04-14, 04:37:12 (74.72.158.163)
Like buying a Mustang or using hair dye. You were expecting this had something to do with music? Incidentally, Mustang's were always second rate cars, and hair dye? Read Death in Venice. .......
163: Music Lane, Ha-che-wah-wah! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-04-02, 18:24:10 (74.72.158.163)
No skeletons on a tin roof there. .......
164: Music Lane, So who cares what Miss November has to say about anything? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-04-02, 16:28:15 (74.72.158.163)
On the other hand, Wanda on a bearskin makes me think of Angelica Huston asking Jack if he wants to do it on the oriental. .......
165: Music Lane, It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-03-11, 06:44:38 (74.72.158.163)
I just started listening to Johnny Costa, Mr. Rogers' pianist, and my goodness, can he play. He was known as "The White Art Tatum" because of his fabulous technique and because he borrowed some of Tat .......
166: Tweakers' Asylum, What a gorgeous machine. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-03-08, 19:43:43 (74.72.158.163)
Who makes it? .......
167: General Asylum, here it is (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-02-09, 21:23:24 (74.72.158.163)
Mr. Kei Ikeda .......
168: General Asylum, Sub-floor bass horn (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-02-09, 18:28:54 (74.72.158.163)
This is a little different. .......
169: General Asylum, RE: There is an iconic B&W photo of a large… (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-02-09, 18:23:58 (74.72.158.163)
You mean this one? .......
170: Music Lane, Tubby the Tuba (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-01-29, 05:05:04 (74.72.158.163)
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171: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Furutech GTX-D Gold vs. Rhodium (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2014-01-22, 15:03:34 (64.211.192.54)
I was in the same situation that you were and had some of the same stuff that you have--Golden Cross Speaker cables and interconnects and Maestro outlets. I tried a number of other outlets, and they t .......
172: Tweakers' Asylum, Uri Caine: "Wagner E Venezia" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-12-29, 18:14:13 (74.72.158.163)
This album was recorded in the Piazza San Marco and the soundstaging on it is truly extraordinary. The music is too. .......
173: Music Lane, Lots of Babe Violinists! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-12-24, 16:23:29 (74.72.158.163)
Rod the Mod accompanied by the Rising Gorge Orchestra. .......
174: Music Lane, I'm not sure that it was the lack of story telling that bothered me... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-12-13, 11:14:06 (64.211.192.54)
...but something about her presentation turned me off. She seemed to be too self-consciously cool, as did her pianist, and her glasses too. Striking a pose pretty much ensures that emotional depth wil .......
175: Music Lane, The piano playing is too didactic and prim for me. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-12-04, 20:35:33 (74.72.158.163)
I hear a life filled with gold stars and presents, but very little passion. .......
176: General Asylum, A Traitor! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-12-03, 17:31:33 (74.72.158.163)
Say it ain't so. .......
177: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Environmental Potential (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-12-03, 11:10:14 (64.211.192.54)
The name is Environmental Potential, and the model that I have is the EP2000. Highly recommended. Aside from protecting your house from voltage spikes, it also has a substantial impact on your stereo' .......
178: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Vanilla flavored-lo fi (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-11-30, 20:53:06 (74.72.158.163)
I don't know your whether your equipment is lo-fi, mid-fi, or hi-fi, but my experience with tweaks has been that they are more noticeable on better, more resolving, equipment. The down-side to resolvi .......
179: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Oh my... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-11-11, 17:28:19 (74.72.158.163)
The effect was immediately apparent and very strong. I don't know if there is a particular synergy between this stuff and my Schumann generator, but disconnecting the Schumann generator made a big dif .......
180: Tweakers' Asylum, Me too. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-11-10, 12:15:05 (74.72.158.163)
But I paid for some of the bigger ones. I put one large one inside of my breaker box, right next to the Environmental Potentials 2050 in my breaker box and my-oh-my! What a difference. At the same tim .......
181: Music Lane, Yoffee seems to have found his voice... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-11-10, 06:23:45 (74.72.158.163)
...at least partially. The others sound like they're playing through the changes--competently, but without communicating much. .......
182: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: I like the photo at the bottom of the Earthcalm website (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-11-04, 10:15:19 (64.211.192.54)
Yeah, the "theory" is more than a little suspect. The description of earthcalm's cell phone protection is particularly enlightening: "Utilizing Living Earth Technology, the Quantum Cell doesn’t simply .......
183: Tweakers' Asylum, It doesn't drive a woofer (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-11-02, 14:41:48 (74.72.158.163)
The waves are airborne electromagnetic waves, and most of these devices have antennae which transmit the wave into space--like a low-powered radio transmitter. I'm assuming that the primary effect is .......
184: Tweakers' Asylum, Don't worry about the hypothesis. It works. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-10-31, 10:37:01 (64.211.192.54)
Here are some facts that might make Schumann generators seem a little less flakey: Lightning throughout the world energize the atmosphere with a fluctuating charge. It sets up standing waves around th .......
185: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Congestion (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-10-27, 09:58:19 (74.72.158.163)
I heard some congestion too, but I need more time to experiment. I noticed a similar problem with crystals. Too many crystals produced distortion, so my final crystal tweak was to remove about half of .......
186: Tweakers' Asylum, You really need to experiment. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-09-29, 20:43:17 (74.72.158.163)
My experience with Herbie's has generally been bad--not with his service, but with the sound of his footers. He let me try out a collection of devices and I ended up returning all of them, but who els .......
187: Tweakers' Asylum, Education... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-09-22, 11:18:15 (74.72.158.163)
...seems to work this way, if it's "successful". .......
188: Music Lane, I bought some CD shelves from Gothic Cabinet craft... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-09-20, 18:59:09 (74.72.158.163)
...and built them into the wall. They are made of solid pine and are quite sturdy. .......
189: Music Lane, RE: Jenny Lin on Hanssler (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-08-31, 20:17:19 (74.72.158.163)
Yes, I have that album and like it quite well. I'm afraid that I also like the Keith Jarrett disc, so my good opinion of Jenny Lin may not be worth too much. .......
190: Music Lane, Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-08-22, 18:07:52 (74.72.158.163)
Germaine Thyssens-Valentin has three CDs on Testament. The two that I have are gorgeous. I'll also put in a vote for Domus doing the Quartets and Quintets. .......
191: Music Lane, I don't get it either. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-07-07, 07:52:27 (74.72.158.163)
I'm pretty dumb and I like him a lot. .......
192: Music Lane, Whether they "work" or not... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-07-05, 09:59:08 (64.211.192.54)
...they cater to a mentality that isn't particularly artistic: music as sporting event, musician as athlete of the small muscles. What happened to musician as poet? I wonder what it would be like to w .......
193: Music Lane, Dick Hyman? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-06-30, 04:19:55 (74.72.158.163)
Dick Hyman's "Alfred the King of Disco" may not rank as one of the best, but it's one of the more interesting: .......
194: Tweakers' Asylum, You bet (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-06-14, 12:37:01 (64.211.192.54)
My floor--oak flooring on wood joists--resonates, and this reinforced my speakers' bass frequencies, i.e. made them boom. I put them on a plywood platform supported by #5 vibrapods. This cut down on t .......
195: General Asylum, just listen (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-06-06, 12:23:48 (64.211.192.54)
After a while the differences between the two are obvious. .......
196: General Asylum, Burn-in is real (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-05-28, 11:32:08 (64.211.192.54)
This question is not. .......
197: Music Lane, And there's the Oxford lecture... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-05-27, 08:35:30 (74.72.158.163)
...if you want to go into more depth: .......
198: Music Lane, Improvising Mozart with Robert Levin (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-05-27, 05:19:28 (74.72.158.163)
I've been interested in improvising outside of the jazz tradition, and I'm not talking about Rock. Robert Levin is speaking my mind about this. He also makes points about the stultifying effect of tur .......
199: Tweakers' Asylum, Get Him Stu! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-05-16, 17:27:31 (74.72.158.163)
But the obfuscator in chief will scurry for the nearest dark corner when the light of reason his shined in his direction. .......
200: Music Lane, Yo Yo's a good cellist , but he's always been a publicity hound. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-05-10, 03:47:52 (74.72.158.163)
"Quiet dignity" doesn't quite describe his approach to music. If something in the classical world appears on TV, Yo Yo's smiling face is likely to be there--always smiling--and effusing to Charlie Ros .......
201: Music Lane, Her hair's moving. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-05-02, 14:02:33 (74.72.158.163)
She still could be lip syncing, but with a weird attention to detail. .......
202: General Asylum, You'll get over it... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-04-19, 21:43:04 (74.72.158.163)
...and then just listen to music that you like. When you find that some of the best recordings ever made were done before World War II, you may even stop being bothered by the older technology. Some o .......
203: Music Lane, The Greeks celebrate Christmas... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-04-19, 21:34:47 (74.72.158.163)
...with Star Trek of course. It's surprises me that they take this so seriously, but they play well so I'm not complaining. The festivities include candle-bearing sacrificial virgins and shadowy compa .......
204: Music Lane, I guess I should have added a smiley or two. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-03-11, 10:07:55 (65.170.57.34)
I wonder how Charles Rosen would have reviewed the show. .......
205: Music Lane, Short article on Rosen (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-03-10, 19:58:15 (74.72.158.163)
A few nuggets along with a little dross. .......
206: Music Lane, I found it very entertaining. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-03-10, 19:56:01 (74.72.158.163)
In fact it was the most entertaining thing that I saw all day. .......
207: Music Lane, Amazing Talent on PBS (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-03-09, 15:19:31 (74.72.158.163)
O turned on the tube and was struck by the amazing talent on display. I just had to share this: .......
208: Music Lane, I don't think that you're being far-fetched... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-03-06, 09:21:17 (65.170.57.34)
But I think that the motive has to do with being made to sit still for twenty minutes listening to something that you don't really like. I know that I cough sometimes when something makes me uncomfort .......
209: Music Lane, RE: sharper high notes and flatter low notes (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-02-27, 20:03:44 (74.72.158.163)
You're talking about stretch tuning, but it's about physics and not people's preferences. The overtones of the string create "scales" on a single note and as you go higher in frequency, the overtones .......
210: Music Lane, RE: New Concert Hall at Stanford - Small is beautiful? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-01-15, 04:13:17 (74.72.158.163)
From an architecture firm that I have mixed feelings about. Their work is usually high on concept and low on execution. This looks like another design with big design moves that somehow looks de-clawe .......
211: Music Lane, RE: "Many people don't want to be intellectually challenged" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2013-01-05, 10:48:07 (74.72.158.163)
I don't suppose it's possible to have a legitimate difference of opinion. After all, defending Wayne Shorter is about as controversial as being a fundamentalist in Alabama. .......
212: Music Lane, Una Furtiva Lagrima (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-27, 16:11:25 (74.72.158.163)
Caruso never sounded better: .......
213: Music Lane, Refunding the price of the CD? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-23, 19:20:28 (74.72.158.163)
I've held on to all of mine. She was my favorite pianist for a while. When you can find her CDs they've gotten pretty expensive. .......
214: Music Lane, New Yorker write-up on Charles Rosen. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-21, 04:23:34 (74.72.158.163)
One of my favorite writers on music. .......
215: Music Lane, Agree (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-20, 13:25:00 (108.41.34.59)
Sudbin makes the connection with spanish guitar playing very convincingly. Horowitz isn't up to his standard at all. Agree with you about Pletnev too. .......
216: Music Lane, Sir Adrian gets into the act. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-01, 22:44:54 (74.72.158.163)
An album cover that reflects the seriousness of its subject. .......
217: Music Lane, Phil Scaap? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-01, 12:57:51 (74.72.158.163)
I'm not sure he would be talking about things that interest me. I'm not terribly concerned with who played trombone on the eighth out-take of a Charlie Parker recording session. .......
218: Music Lane, Jazz history /theory classes in NYC? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-01, 10:24:11 (74.72.158.163)
I'd like to take a jazz history class that focuses on music analysis. Maybe what I'm really looking for is a jazz theory class, but the important thing is being able to listen to music to illustrate a .......
219: Music Lane, The term is belittling. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-12-01, 08:32:20 (74.72.158.163)
Hunks in Great Literature. Maybe lord Byron, but really, You'd expect to buy a title like that in an airport lobby. So what's wrong with "Babes in Classical Music"? IT lacks class, and in the arts, th .......
220: Music Lane, Klemperer (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-11-30, 03:53:16 (74.72.158.163)
It's the one. .......
221: Music Lane, Liszt has been a challenge for me. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-11-24, 05:27:16 (74.72.158.163)
Occasionally I hear what sounds like beautiful spiritually enlightened music coming "from his pen", but more often I hear Hanon exercises presented as music. Big octaves! Big arpeggios! Big scales! (b .......
222: Music Lane, "They all love my octaves." (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-11-23, 15:04:29 (74.72.158.163)
Who was it who said that? .......
223: Music Lane, I'm not sure I'd classify Sophie as a babe. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-11-23, 07:58:31 (74.72.158.163)
She's good looking, but too thoughtful and intelligent to be pigeon-holed as a babe. Vanessa, on the other hand looks like she's more at home with a compact and rouge than with James Joyce or Hegel. I .......
224: Music Lane, She has nice tits. What are you complaining about? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-11-17, 10:08:59 (108.41.34.59)
nt. .......
225: Outside Asylum, Fox Business News explains election demographics (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-11-12, 09:00:10 (74.72.158.163)
The figures were reported on Fox Business News. (Right Here): http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/10/15/americas-best-and-worst-educated-states/ .......
226: Music Lane, Bang Bang appears in the Times Magazine (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-11-04, 12:58:31 (74.72.158.163)
It would make sense to me if his assault on the piano was a result of his upbringing. Here's a snip from an article about bringing up child prodigies: I once told Lang Lang, a prodigy par excellence a .......
227: Music Lane, I should have read your post before I posted my follow-up below. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-10-31, 19:16:53 (74.72.158.163)
I was making the same point and used Stella by Starlight to make it. I'm already a fan of Brad Mehldau, and there are other current musicians who I admire. Compared to fifty years ago, I think that th .......
228: Music Lane, RE: The title is a little weird but I think that the point is legitimate... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-10-31, 16:57:11 (74.72.158.163)
What I find surreal about the jam sessions is that: -their improvisatory techniques are pretty much identical to what was being done in the seventies, just more polished. -their aesthetic is moribund .......
229: Music Lane, The title is a little weird but I think that the point is legitimate... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-10-30, 15:05:31 (74.72.158.163)
...and Gioia makes it in the introduction: almost all of the songs that jazz musicians are in the habit of playing today were written more than fifty years ago. I bought the book and have found it use .......
230: Tweakers' Asylum, You bet. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-09-27, 17:58:34 (74.72.158.163)
Electraglide power cords don't connect the ground terminals because they sound better ungrounded. They don't tell you this though, but in my system lifted grounds are really necessary. I have many sou .......
231: Music Lane, Glenn Gould and Annie Fischer come to mind (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-09-22, 19:03:03 (74.72.158.163)
nt .......
232: Music Lane, None of the above. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-09-22, 05:33:42 (74.72.158.163)
Audiences inspire better performances. .......
233: Music Lane, New release: more mediocre music from Diana Krall (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-09-19, 11:16:08 (74.72.158.163)
I don't suppose this should come as much of a surprise, but she seems to be going down hill from what was already a rather low point. She's still relying on her more obvious attributes, as she always .......
234: Music Lane, Faure (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-09-18, 18:52:17 (74.72.158.163)
Germaine Thyssens-Valentin has a few Testament Faure CDs that are worth getting: really excellent playing. Domus: Faure Piano Quartets and Quintets (two separate CDs): wonderful performances by the Fl .......
235: Music Lane, Another Chopin gender bender (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-31, 18:37:27 (74.72.158.163)
Leszek Mozdzer recorded "Impressions on Chopin" in 1999. In it, he was more musically adventurous than the Rossano Sportiello striding Chopin. But I don't want to minimize what Sportiello has done. I .......
236: Music Lane, RE: astounding execution of a common idea (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-30, 10:36:08 (74.72.158.163)
I agree with you there. I wish he had blurred the borders between the "classical" segements and the stride segments more. The delineation between them is stricter than I would like it to be. I find Ge .......
237: Music Lane, RE: Jazz time vs Classical time (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-29, 21:20:17 (74.72.158.163)
Most jazz musicians started out taking classical lessons and some kept their feet in both worlds. George Shearing's "The Shearing Piano" has pieces in the styles of maybe seven or eight different clas .......
238: Music Lane, Jazz time vs Classical time (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-29, 15:42:31 (74.72.158.163)
Schumann and Chopin played straight and not-so-straight. Enjoy the ride. .......
239: Music Lane, RE: Sometimes, they aren't mutually exclusive. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-27, 04:17:48 (74.72.158.163)
Attractive, popular, athletic, well liked. Sounds like the perfect Beethoven interpreter, or Tchaikovsky interpreter, or interpreter of one of the other bright lights of yesteryear. It can't be a coin .......
240: Music Lane, Q: Are there any plain looking women on television news? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-26, 06:01:55 (74.72.158.163)
Probably not, and it's not because the chicks who have succeeded were at the top of their journalism class. Priority #1 on a news show is to keep the greatest number of troglodytes from hitting the re .......
241: Music Lane, You probably know about Tatum and Horowitz (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-23, 16:46:57 (74.72.158.163)
Tatum's playing led many jazz players to despair of their ever being able to accomplish anything. Les Paul gave up the piano to play the guitar. Oscar Peterson was traumatized and almost gave up the p .......
242: Music Lane, "Jazz is a conspiracy to keep black musicians underpaid." -Mingus (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-23, 14:57:20 (74.72.158.163)
The quote is approximate. His point was that when black bands played music it was called jazz, and pretty much by definition, marginalized financially. .......
243: Music Lane, What can I say? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-23, 10:42:41 (74.72.158.163)
He who knows does not speak. He who speaks doesn't know. I guess neither one of us knows doodley, but damn Sam, you sure as hell don't know much about jazz. .......
244: Music Lane, I'm perfectly willing to accept Yuja's interpretation on its own terms... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-23, 06:30:38 (74.72.158.163)
...even if I'm being too generous in doing so. She doesn't swing. So what?. The Kronos Quartet did some interesting things with Bill Evans and Monk, even though they felt the need of bringing in a jaz .......
245: Music Lane, If you have to ask... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-22, 19:01:18 (74.72.158.163)
I don't know if all of the notes were transcribed correctly, but as you know very well, the score can only hint at the what is in music. It's also pretty clear that Yuja never developed an ear for the .......
246: Music Lane, If she'd run it by a jazz musician first, she might have realized how far off her playing was. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-22, 15:09:46 (74.72.158.163)
And then she might have realized how many years it takes to develop a subtle sensitivity to jazz rhythm. It's not easy. .......
247: Music Lane, You need to ask? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-22, 13:14:37 (74.72.158.163)
Yuja's playing is really pretty awful, don't you think? .......
248: Music Lane, Yikes! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-22, 08:42:40 (74.72.158.163)
Ignoring the silly rhythm, which I know is hard to ignore, but judged as music alone--not as jazz--it sounds like a junior high recital by a star pupil, a pampered star pupil. It seems condescending, .......
249: Music Lane, Quite... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-18, 12:04:31 (74.72.158.163)
...and what makes it so much worse is that no one can agree on what the best performances are. .......
250: General Asylum, You think he's joking? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-16, 14:22:41 (74.72.158.163)
It's been done. .......
251: Music Lane, I'm sure there are more attractive alternatives... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-14, 13:26:07 (74.72.158.163)
... and occasionally one of them gives the great ones a run for their money. .......
252: Music Lane, Woops. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-13, 12:19:28 (74.72.158.163)
That's Gielen, but truth be told, I think that the eighth tries to do too many things and ends up being confused, so I probably shouldn't be recommending anything. I did hear it Lorin Maazel do it liv .......
253: Music Lane, Well, no one has said it yet, but... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-13, 08:25:00 (74.72.158.163)
...no one conductor does all of the symphonies equally well. Mahler seems to be particularly sensitive to interpretation so choosing interpretations for individual symphonies is the way to go. I have .......
254: General Asylum, You deserve them. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-11, 05:29:22 (74.72.158.163)
(and that's no lie) .......
255: Music Lane, The musical stud-muffins would go along with that. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-08-05, 18:58:12 (72.225.192.81)
Herbie von K totally rocks! .......
256: Music Lane, What other profession is referred to as an industry? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-07-30, 19:41:28 (72.225.192.81)
I've heard some terrific musicians in the last few years but maybe it's because I try to steer clear of industrial music. .......
257: Music Lane, RE: Jean Sibelius? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-07-14, 21:04:14 (72.225.192.81)
Colin Davis recorded the symphonies twice. I think that the more recent "LSO Live" set is the better of the two. But I still like the animated version of the Valse Triste from "Alegro Non Tropo" by Br .......
258: Music Lane, I'm afraid that I've never warmed up to the Emersons. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-07-10, 08:49:23 (72.225.192.81)
Their recordings are always polished, but with a cold clinical perfection that does very little for me. The picture above seems to capture the spirit of the group--stylish, and I mean that in the wors .......
259: Music Lane, Culcha Shmultcha. I know what I like. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-07-08, 17:45:29 (72.225.192.81)
If a guy wants to make a fast buck, I don't care how he does it. But don't you think a musician's sense of values has a nasty habit of sneaking into his playing? I guess not. .......
260: Music Lane, If music isn't about culture, it isn't about anything. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-07-08, 10:40:16 (72.225.192.81)
So what does this video say about the soul behind the performance? Words like "repulsive" come to mind. .......
261: Music Lane, Do you think that Liberace helped the cause of classical music? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-07-06, 07:23:03 (72.225.192.81)
The Gay Count Dracula I don't. Even though I find him interesting, and not incidentally, a lot more interesting than Lang Lang. Who else could have brought together the low-brow mistrust of European .......
262: General Asylum, Newbie what? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-06-30, 06:33:26 (72.225.192.81)
New driver? I'd get a Blaupunkt, but I'd be sure to get a car with low wind noise to go along with it. Add $150 for the car and you should be able to make out pretty well. .......
263: Music Lane, RE: Harshness in treble (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-06-28, 20:02:18 (72.225.192.81)
I've been able to eliminate most of the high frequency nastiness in my system by reducing high frequency interference from RFI/EMI. The cheapest and easiest way to make a dent in this noise is to plac .......
264: Music Lane, RE: Zbigniew Preisner & Leszek Mozdzer (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-06-08, 21:56:30 (72.229.38.209)
Leszek Mozdzer is a pianist who has done a few albums of Preisner's music. I haven't heard them, but he did a great album of improvisations on Chopin pieces. The album cover pictured here has been sup .......
265: Music Lane, Bambi's reaction to Disney Hall (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-05-31, 17:37:26 (72.229.248.15)
Before Bambi left in a screech of Bentley and roar of Jaguar, he weighed in on the Disney Hall. He commented on the tiny seats, confusing circulation, sculptural oddities and the sound. Unlike you, he .......
266: Music Lane, Video about Panonica Rothschild (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-05-13, 14:13:03 (72.229.248.15)
The baroness who took Charlie Parker in when he died and who looked after Thelonious Monk at the end of his life. The movie was made by her niece who she just finished a book on the same subject. Ther .......
267: Music Lane, You've got to be joking. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-05-11, 20:55:44 (72.229.248.15)
Brian Wilson was minor sixties tune smith. In the first half of the century America had some really good poplar song writers. Most of what followed was second rate. .......
268: Tweakers' Asylum, These are what Mapelshade used to sell as Isoblock footers. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-05-05, 15:02:37 (72.229.248.15)
Now they sell double-deckers, so Mapleshade thinks that they are good as equipment footers. They are compliant, so they will tend to take the edge off of the sound, and if that's what you need, they w .......
269: Music Lane, Session player for Anthony Braxton? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-05-01, 04:16:46 (72.229.248.15)
Weird concept. .......
270: Music Lane, Horowitz 1965 Carnegie Hall Concert (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-28, 05:21:12 (72.229.248.15)
Horowitz' performing career interrupted by his aversion to playing in public. Overcoming his personal demons and then re-emerging is heroism of a more personal kind, but no less heroic than Scott trud .......
271: Music Lane, I'm of two minds about Frankie (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-14, 10:26:24 (72.229.248.15)
I think he's terrific up until about 1958, but after that he leaves me pretty cold. I'm less concerned with his voice's decline than his sensibility's demise. Mr. ring-a-ding-ding just doesn't do it f .......
272: General Asylum, I hadn't seen it (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-11, 18:40:32 (72.229.248.15)
I haven't been here in a while. Jeez, I would have had to scour the last three weeks of posts to be sure I hadn't been scooped, but thank you for being so observant. .......
273: General Asylum, Down-side to accoustically dead rooms (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-11, 09:00:42 (72.229.248.15)
Too much of a good thing: .......
274: Music Lane, No, he just likes kiddie music. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-05, 14:39:01 (72.229.248.15)
Yes his system is a piece of crap, but it suits the junk he listens to. .......
275: Music Lane, I'm waiting. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-05, 07:08:51 (72.229.248.15)
How will you choose to outrage us next? Oh by the way: The Beatles suck. Rock and Roll isn't music. Bob Dylan is a fraud. Beethoven is over rated. Hendrix couldn't play the guitar. Bill Evans is bor .......
276: Tweakers' Asylum, Welcome? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-01, 08:47:35 (72.229.248.15)
If you're new to this place, you probably should know a little about its history. The Tweaker's Forum has been a valuable place for many of us and the discussions have led me to improve my system from .......
277: Tweakers' Asylum, After years of tweaking, I've decided to leave well enough alone. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-01, 07:45:46 (72.229.248.15)
I've taken a lot from this forum, but my age of exploration is largely over. It's probably time for a new generation to take over. .......
278: Tweakers' Asylum, And you base your insights on experience with? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-01, 07:39:45 (72.229.248.15)
some theoretical wonder system? I'm betting on walkman through a clock radio. With Dynamicaps in the power supply. .......
279: Tweakers' Asylum, Typical uninformed "objectivist" bullshit (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-01, 07:31:54 (72.229.248.15)
from another troll who owns a rebuilt Dynaco. .......
280: Tweakers' Asylum, Don't be a dope. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-01, 07:14:22 (72.229.248.15)
I never said that coupling caps can be found in the power supply. RE Dynamicaps: Not so hot for me, but it may be because they don't complement my electronics as well as V-Caps and Cardas. The Cardas .......
281: Tweakers' Asylum, But thankfully there are some clear thinkers in this hobby. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-04-01, 05:01:52 (72.229.248.15)
And there are also a few shortcuts that can help to sort out the people who know nothing about audio, but who say a great deal: 1) They never list their own systems. (never) 2) They rarely talk in sp .......
282: Music Lane, I disagree. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-31, 09:33:33 (72.229.248.15)
In the previous Clara Haskil picture, I think that you can see a sympathy with the deer that is reciprocated by the animal. Both respond to eachother's delicate frame of mind. It's quite interesting t .......
283: Music Lane, What would Glenn say? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-31, 08:29:46 (72.229.248.15)
and how many of his musical quirks can be blamed on his unnatural relations with animals? ...and what did he look like in a bathing suit? .......
284: Music Lane, RE: Hot pianist with even stranger attraction to animals (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-30, 18:51:12 (72.229.248.15)
How can anyone compete with Wolf Girl? .......
285: Music Lane, Hot pianist with strange attraction to animals (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-30, 18:47:48 (72.229.248.15)
Doesn't beat Wolf Girl, but pretty interesting nonetheless. .......
286: General Asylum, I'll take what she's having. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-28, 11:01:04 (72.229.248.15)
I guess you already did. .......
287: Music Lane, There's good looks and then there's glamor (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-26, 18:53:11 (72.229.248.15)
I have no problem with the former, but the latter is devoted to concealing that which art illuminates. Or put differently, anyone who wears that much makeup must have something to hide. .......
288: Music Lane, I'd rather listen to a plain Jane. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-26, 14:07:27 (72.229.248.15)
These glamor-pusses look like they're paying too much attention to their makeup. With so much attention to the surface of things, I wonder how much time they have to look beyond appearances. Herbert t .......
289: Tweakers' Asylum, Isolating ceilings and walls (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-21, 05:42:35 (72.229.248.15)
One of the most effective ways to cut down sound transmission is to isolate the two sides of a wall or a ceiling/floor assembly. You can isolate wall surfaces with staggered double stud walls: two row .......
290: Music Lane, RE: texture, phrasing, and interpretive choices (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-20, 08:12:37 (72.229.248.15)
I agree. even though Pollini can play incredibly fast, he uses speed to reinforce musical ideas. Perhaps the problem with Hamelin's playing is that the dynamics are too uniform making his interpretati .......
291: Music Lane, RE: Hamelin (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-20, 06:21:40 (72.229.248.15)
I've only listened to one Hamelin disc where the music wasn't smothered by his virtuosity, and that's his Nikolai Kapustin disc. Kapustin's music was largely virtuosic, so I suppose Hamelin would be a .......
292: Music Lane, It looks like he has started a Schumann complete piano music series. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-19, 19:44:01 (72.229.248.15)
So far he's issued volumes one and three, but the Fantasie isn't on either. The first volume got a good review from Gramophone so I bought it and it's one of my favorite Schumann piano recordings. I h .......
293: Music Lane, Some pianists make a connection, others less so. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-18, 19:24:46 (72.229.248.15)
Have you listened to Finghin Collins double CD of Schumann piano pieces? .......
294: Tweakers' Asylum, Not Daisy-Chaining... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-12, 11:58:46 (72.229.248.15)
But using multiple power conditioner type things. The champ of all of my power conditioners is my Environmental Potentials EP2050. I also have two of Alan Maher's gizmos, a Richard Gray Power Station, .......
295: Tweakers' Asylum, THL has a good selection of power strip chassis (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-03-02, 06:18:55 (72.229.248.15)
I bought one for under $100 that was made out of 1/4" thick aluminum. Look for their "Odio Power Box/Stip/Plate" listings .......
296: Music Lane, Thumbs down from me. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-27, 12:34:18 (72.229.248.15)
I listened to some samples and she just seems too pleased with herself. .......
297: Music Lane, Art's easy. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-27, 08:44:04 (72.229.248.15)
You just open up you heart and bleed. And some do it better than others. I learned the standards from Ella's Songbook albums. .......
298: Music Lane, Thanks for posting this. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-26, 16:00:22 (72.229.248.15)
I found his animation of the Grosse Fugue last year and found that it helped clarify the structure for me. The Ninth is pretty overwhelming though. I did a little research and found the site for .......
299: Tweakers' Asylum, THL Audio has a bunch of interesting things. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-25, 17:55:30 (72.229.248.15)
Ordering from them is a bit convoluted, but they're honest and reliable. .......
300: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Iso platform (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-18, 07:47:34 (72.229.248.15)
The company is Gingko Audio and the device is their cloud platform. I have one on my Scout Master and it works well. I replaced the raquet balls with sorbothane and it took the life out of the sound, .......
301: Tweakers' Asylum, Thanks for the advice. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-12, 18:47:26 (72.229.248.15)
I was going to take the bells off of the racks and place them individually around the room. Since the bells come in different sizes, I can experiment with that variable. I could also determine the bel .......
302: Tweakers' Asylum, Cheap Acoustic Art Knock-Off (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-11, 10:16:51 (72.229.248.15)
I thought that these bells might work as stand-ins for the Acoustic Art system. Of course, they're not engineered, but there are twelve bells and it looks like there are six different sizes. I just .......
303: Music Lane, Good to know there's an answer. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-11, 09:47:10 (72.229.248.15)
P_A .......
304: Music Lane, How can any one cake win a baking contest? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-11, 05:11:39 (72.229.248.15)
I have no problem with competing cooks. Why should a piano race be any different? Even so, cutting contests are artistically problematic even if the results are clear enough. I can't see Ivan Moravec .......
305: Music Lane, "Unforgetable Moments of Love On Ice" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-09, 16:28:52 (72.229.248.15)
Fans of Kenny G will have an experience to cherish forever...Tonight! Here's the description from the Event's web site: This love themed show features Ilia Kulik, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Joannie Rochette, .......
306: Music Lane, Connoisseur Society (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-05, 05:41:55 (72.229.248.15)
I have two of Moravec's Connoisseur Society LPs. Someone (John Marks?) said that they were some of the best records ever made. They are great interpretations with great engineering. But I also have bo .......
307: Music Lane, When I was ten, I liked Stravinsky's "Soldier's Tale" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-02-02, 05:47:58 (72.229.248.15)
It was one of my mother's records that I played over and over. I also liked Alan Sherman's "My Son the Folksinger" and "She's Got a Nose Job"--a cardboard record that was inserted into Mad Magazine. I .......
308: Vinyl Asylum, Soundsmith Cartridges (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-24, 16:36:22 (72.229.248.15)
Peter Lederman, the owner of Soundsmith, is meticulous in everything he does. He sells cartridges of his own design, Denon cartridges that he's modified, and stock Denon cartridges. I would imagine th .......
309: General Asylum, Interesting product. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-24, 04:26:38 (72.229.248.15)
Does it sound any good? .......
310: General Asylum, RE: NOS tube rolling (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-21, 11:11:09 (72.229.248.15)
I have an ARC phonostage that is very sensitive to different tube varieties. My current cartridge is a Dynavector. It is very fast and the treble can be too much if you don't pay attention to system s .......
311: General Asylum, RE: Catchy name for classifieds. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-20, 13:55:21 (65.85.130.130)
Romy's List? .......
312: Music Lane, I'm looking for recordings of popular dances that were adapted by classical composers. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-19, 19:56:18 (72.229.248.15)
I think that my understanding of Chauconnes, Bourees, Gavottes, etc. would be helped if I knew what the original dances sounded like. Can anyone recommend recordings of these tunes and maybe, hopefull .......
313: Music Lane, very interesting on a number of fronts (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-14, 15:05:05 (72.229.248.15)
It's not how I imagined him to be at all. Thanks for the link. .......
314: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Tuner (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-12, 07:47:14 (65.85.130.130)
Good point. I just put my giant lithium niobate crystal on top of my tuner and got good results. .......
315: Music Lane, Porto Rico Importers (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-12, 04:58:26 (72.229.248.15)
This place has about 100 varieties of loose tea. One of the flavors I like is Sweet Mandarin Orange (pictured above). It tastes something like Bigelow's Constant Comment and costs $11 a pound--less th .......
316: Tweakers' Asylum, Tourmaline has powerful piezoelectric properties without being heated. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-09, 10:41:22 (65.85.130.130)
Just putting pieces of tourmaline (most, but not all varieties) near electronics will have a positive effect. Another good place is to put them is inside of a breaker box. SnakeOil R Us will gouge you .......
317: Tweakers' Asylum, I tried a tourmaline hair dryer and it worked very well. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-08, 11:04:07 (72.229.248.15)
I irradiated CDs with a tourmaline hair dryer and the soundstage got better, microdynamics clearer, etc. The routine just seemed too much of a pain. I also tried blasting the chassis of my electronic .......
318: Music Lane, It's interesting how some interpretations just sound right... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-06, 16:18:17 (72.229.248.15)
...and you feel that you are really hearing the music played as it was intended. But when you hear another interpretation of the same piece that also sounds inevitable, but is substantially different .......
319: General Asylum, ...but he's really just waiting for another thrilling sudz post. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-05, 18:15:06 (72.229.248.15)
as am I. .......
320: Tweakers' Asylum, And it looks like it's been successful. It's already trapped a bass. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-02, 18:05:15 (72.229.248.15)
They look like they will have a substantial impact on the room's sound. I gather that one of the biggest improvements that bass traps can make is to smooth out room node resonances. I've put in three .......
321: General Asylum, Which meter do you have? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2012-01-02, 10:05:10 (72.229.248.15)
Did it come with any directions? .......
322: General Asylum, The main active ingredient in Shakti Stones is quartz. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-29, 11:51:24 (72.229.248.15)
If you try quartz crystals, or tourmaline, or topaz you should find that they have a similar effect--but you need to experiment. I started out with quartz from a jewelry store--a cheap jewelry store-- .......
323: Tweakers' Asylum, Haven't tried the Testaplex. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-26, 13:20:29 (72.229.248.15)
If you like the Maestro, you'll like the Hubbell, but if you're looking for more high frequency or speed, you won't get it from the Hubbell. I just looked at some old threads comparing R1 and Testaple .......
324: Tweakers' Asylum, You're definitely not the only one. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-26, 07:15:25 (72.229.248.15)
but the Furutechs also sounded too tilted up and "hi-fi" in my system. I've been happy with the Porter Port version of the Hubbel outlets and the Maestro outlets. It's definitely about system synergy .......
325: Music Lane, And I'd be interested in what you think of Horenstein. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-22, 17:06:00 (72.229.248.15)
Despite the positive reviews, I didn't find it involving at all. But maybe that's just me. Your recommendation of Bychkov got me interested, but the Music Web article pushed me over the edge, so I've .......
326: General Asylum, When you've spent some time with an instrument... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-21, 10:24:28 (72.229.248.15)
...you know exactly what willkayak is talking about. I won't say that I'm completely over the "look at me" trap, but whenever I get pulled into it, the music goes down the toilet. .......
327: General Asylum, My humidifier maintains about 30% RH and keeps static under control. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-13, 16:34:40 (72.229.248.15)
I use an Air Washer that also removes dust from the air--a lot of dust in fact. Less dust and less static are good for my turntable. .......
328: Tweakers' Asylum, Military Surplus tuning forks? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-09, 14:04:06 (72.229.248.15)
Was the army planning to invade the Berlin Philharmonic? .......
329: Music Lane, That must have been him. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-09, 11:07:03 (72.229.248.15)
The guy who I remember parked himself on an street corner that next to the Midtown Tunnel exit. He usually made left wing commentary about the news, the state of society, morality, or whatever. He did .......
330: Music Lane, Did he hang out on 36th Street in 1979? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-09, 07:05:31 (72.229.248.15)
I used to walk by this guy who would pontificate on just about anything whose place of business was near 36th Street and 2nd Avenue. If I'd been a little older, I would have stopped and listened. ::: .......
331: Music Lane, I'd never heard the eminent professor before. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-08, 19:52:13 (72.229.248.15)
Thanks for the video. .......
332: Music Lane, Interesting. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-06, 16:45:59 (72.229.248.15)
I saw a phenomenal piano player last week whose musical accomplishments inspire my envy if not my absolute despair. I am, however, consoled by the fact that he likes Stevie Wonder. He's young and I'm .......
333: Music Lane, Ernie Kovacs: heir to Dada. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-12-01, 13:15:01 (72.229.248.15)
precursor of Monty Python. .......
334: General Asylum, Not all of us have been trained as electrical engineers... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-28, 06:39:10 (72.229.248.15)
...and would rather not attempt to replace the power supplies in all of our equipment. But let's get back to reality for a minute. The "vast sums" that you mention (you really should try to avoid such .......
335: General Asylum, The flywheels of our culture are indispensible for many... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-22, 17:13:33 (72.229.248.15)
...but oppressive for some of us. Thanks for the post. .......
336: General Asylum, That sounds right to me. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-22, 16:41:01 (72.229.248.15)
Chokes cut off AC below a given frequency, so if a transformer can pass 60 hz, it will also pass higher frequencies which, as I understand it, are the "AC grunge" that is responsible for messing up au .......
337: General Asylum, Some of it's really tricky... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-21, 18:13:57 (72.229.248.15)
...and not every Joe Lunchbox in the world can groove to it. Some of them get pissed. .......
338: Music Lane, She's definitely an extreme personality. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-21, 18:00:09 (72.229.248.15)
I'd imagine that she would do some very interesting things with Mahler, being an extreme person himself. .......
339: Music Lane, agreed (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-20, 10:43:36 (72.229.248.15)
That earlier post inspired me to get some Hofmann recordings too. I got a vinyl copy of the "Golden Jubilee" performance and it really is an extraordinary thing. Whether or not it is truer to Chopin's .......
340: Music Lane, I found the biggest distraction at a Joshua Bell concert was his gyrating torso. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-18, 07:29:03 (72.229.248.15)
I mean Jeez! He plays well enough, but I had to stare at the floor to listen to what he was playing rather than watch what he was doing. Elvis hits the classical stage--no thank you! .......
341: General Asylum, You still don't know what the high end is about. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-17, 14:35:31 (72.229.248.15)
It's not about being 5% better than an Onkyo receiver from Best Buy. A good high end system is a completely different beast. Whether you think it is a worthwhile pursuit is another thing. .......
342: General Asylum, Tubes could help (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-13, 16:30:18 (72.229.248.15)
I'm guessing that the first tube in the signal chain would have the biggest impact on the sound. That would mean that the 12AX7 is the tube to replace and they aren't that scarce so the price is reaso .......
343: General Asylum, It's not getting meaner. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-09, 17:52:06 (72.229.248.15)
Some of us old timers can see trouble coming down the line and try to spare ourselves the aggravation of exposing a troll. The pattern is predictable as is the outcome. Being tolerant is pointless. Re .......
344: General Asylum, That's definitely a good 'un. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-09, 15:59:31 (72.229.248.15)
.......
345: General Asylum, You may have noticed that he doesn't list his system. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-03, 13:22:41 (72.229.248.15)
I mistrust reports of hypothetical components auditioned on theoretical equipment. .......
346: General Asylum, Yes. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-02, 21:12:13 (72.229.248.15)
When the components in my system could best be described as mid-fi. After I splurged for high end components, the impact of tweaks was larger than I expected. .......
347: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Low profile power conditioner (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-02, 15:26:59 (72.229.248.15)
You might want to try an Environmental Potentials EP-2050. It goes inside of your breaker box and protects your entire home from voltage surges and RFI. It is attenuates spurious waves as high as one .......
348: Music Lane, Stravinsky said that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto six hundred times... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-11-02, 15:03:20 (72.229.248.15)
...but I think he's worth more attention than just one piece. Rachel Podger's recordings are worth listening to. .......
349: Music Lane, RE: Symphony Tonight (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-31, 13:21:11 (65.85.130.130)
I have to agree with you. Schumann's music speaks directly to me, but for some reason he's easy to mess up. I would guess that this is because his emotional life, as revealed in his music, is quite in .......
350: Tweakers' Asylum, I use Maestros too and like them quite a bit. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-30, 13:57:39 (72.229.248.15)
I also tried the XXX outlets and found them too zippy and definitely artificial sounding. I've balanced out my system with power cords, interconnects speaker wires, tubes and footers. Power conditione .......
351: General Asylum, Quieting computers (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-28, 04:12:39 (72.229.248.15)
I spent quite a bit of time cutting out the noise in my PC. I've used large cpu heat sinks with large, slow fans, like the one pictured above. I also put it on soft rubber feet, and the hard drives ar .......
352: Music Lane, Whew! I'm glad that got cleared up. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-24, 14:38:40 (65.85.130.130)
It sounded vaguely smutty and I was too shy to look at the original post. .......
353: General Asylum, Now it's time to scatter crystals in various approved locations. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-24, 09:51:53 (65.85.130.130)
You might be surprised at the results. They absorb EMI/RFI just as some power conditioners do. .......
354: General Asylum, A VPI Synchronous Drive System substantially improved the sound of my TT. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-22, 21:10:55 (72.229.248.15)
I think that its benefits come from delivering absolutely accurate AC power to the motor. On the other hand, the power conditioners on my electronics seem to deliver most of their improvementgs by rem .......
355: General Asylum, I've had the same experience. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-20, 17:39:06 (72.229.248.15)
When I first put an Elrod power cord on my amp, the music jumped out of the speakers and into my lap. For a while, a very short while, it was quite exciting. Then I found a power cord with better syne .......
356: Whiner's Woad, Gee Let's See how many replies you ge to this post. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-19, 16:29:40 (72.229.248.15)
I can hardly wait. .......
357: Music Lane, One that's played well. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-18, 05:11:20 (72.229.248.15)
and that's all there is to it. .......
358: General Asylum, In audio the placebo dffect is most often invoked... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-06, 04:44:08 (72.229.248.15)
...by people seeking to justify their inexpensive systems, limited listening experience, or poor taste in music. For some reason, people who have had good results with their systems rarely resort to t .......
359: General Asylum, Actually, that's true. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-05, 19:17:16 (72.229.248.15)
If your system can't register the difference between a good recording and a mediocre one, you won't be able to hear the difference a power conditioner can make. With a crappy system, a power condition .......
360: Whiner's Woad, No, I don't think Sudz is a troll. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-02, 09:55:02 (72.229.248.15)
nt .......
361: Music Lane, I've always liked "Magic" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-02, 06:30:47 (72.229.248.15)
It's a double LP with cuts that have been released on a number of CD compilations, but the vinyl is much better than the remasters and the selection of tunes is fabulous. .......
362: General Asylum, And then there's Frostie! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-10-02, 04:56:51 (72.229.248.15)
.......
363: General Asylum, RE: Why don't you stop talking and start listening? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-30, 16:38:01 (72.229.248.15)
There is a lot to be learned here. By the way, do you have any interest in improving the sound of your system? What is your system? Do you know what the phrase "big box" means when it is applied to au .......
364: Water Cooler, Nice try... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-29, 17:18:20 (72.229.248.15)
...but I still don't buy it. .......
365: General Asylum, Core Audio Design makes some nice looking furniture. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-27, 09:52:03 (65.85.130.130)
.......
366: Music Lane, RE: Discography of recording engineer's work ??? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-26, 13:34:11 (65.85.130.130)
Here's his discography: .......
367: Amp/Preamp Asylum, This is true, and power cords can help too... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-24, 20:38:08 (72.229.248.15)
...but not so much on preamps. The entire system's cabling--speaker cables and power cords to other equipment--amplifier and CD player in particular can transform a system's sound. I have an older ARC .......
368: Whiner's Woad, You too huh? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-24, 12:54:27 (72.229.248.15)
I thought it was only me. .......
369: General Asylum, Have you ever thought of buying a stereo so you could really participate here? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-21, 12:07:00 (65.85.130.130)
It doesn't need to be anything fancy. When most people start thinking about getting into hi-fi they think of Bose. It's not a bad start. .......
370: General Asylum, Research (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-19, 10:29:10 (65.85.130.130)
All we know about reclamasite (according to his inmate info) is that he is an Audiophile from the USA who registered yesterday. reclamasite's ip address is from Romania. Audioxx.com's ip address is fr .......
371: Music Lane, Well I'm generally with you on Barenboim. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-17, 04:49:26 (72.229.248.15)
I saw him play the Well Tempered Clavier live and I can't think of a sloppier more willful performance. But in the Schumann he really nailed it. .......
372: Music Lane, I think I would have warmed up to Mahler's hubris when it came to scores. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-16, 21:17:56 (72.229.248.15)
But he was conducting at a time when performers saw themselves as co-creators rather than reliable conduits of the composer's vision. I wonder whether someone who witholds his own vision can claim to .......
373: Music Lane, If you have to ask... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-16, 17:47:19 (72.229.248.15)
A more compelling performance? Interpretations that create a musical world that you didn't know existed in these pieces? I'm afraid I can't tell you anything about his tempos, or whether that would ma .......
374: Music Lane, Barenboim, believe it or not (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-16, 16:29:36 (72.229.248.15)
Szell was my favorite in the Schumann Symphonies until Barenboim's set came out in 2004. I thought it was quite a bit better than Szell's set. .......
375: Tweakers' Asylum, Follow-up, for anyone who's interested. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-10, 19:07:41 (72.229.248.15)
Six days after playing the Ayre disc, I played it again at about twice the prior volume. After this, I didn't notice any improvement in sound. I'll give it another shot in a month and see what happens .......
376: Tweakers' Asylum, Ayre "Irrational, But Efficacious!" CD (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-06, 19:53:36 (72.229.248.15)
I just ran the 5 minute glide-tone track and the results are really really good: bigger soundstage, more clarity and detail. Wowza! I played the track at a fairly low volume level, but whatever it's u .......
377: Tweakers' Asylum, Some Helmholtz resonator links (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-03, 10:03:41 (72.229.248.15)
http://www.audioholics.com/education/acoustics-principles/helmholtz-resonant-absorber http://www.mh-audio.nl/user/acoustic%20calculator.asp http://www.lautsprechershop.de/tools/index_en.htm?/tools/t_h .......
378: General Asylum, ditto. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-02, 21:18:25 (72.229.248.15)
I have a "pro" rack with wheels. The loaded down rack has enough inertia to keep it from rolling without a ggod push. .......
379: Music Lane, It looks like it owes a large debt to the Berlin Concert Hall by Hans Scharoon (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-01, 11:15:19 (65.85.130.130)
In big halls, the side walls are usually too far from each other. Halls over ninety feet wide lack a sense of intimacy that the side wall reflections provide. In the Berlin hall, the side walls' contr .......
380: General Asylum, There's nothing wrong with a good sounding system. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-09-01, 04:58:05 (72.229.248.15)
If you have the time and inclination to make it sound better, you might connecct with the music better, but that's certainly no guarantee. Ten years ago, I bought a preamp from someone who was upgradi .......
381: Music Lane, Don't listen to these guys (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-30, 20:18:48 (72.229.248.15)
What you like is a very personal thing, at least it is for me, so here are some records that I like, but you may not. Dick Hyman: In Recital Don Byron: Bug Music Thelonius Monk: Genius of Modern Music .......
382: Music Lane, RE: repetitive stress injury (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-17, 04:42:38 (72.229.248.15)
I have had problems with my hands from piano playing. Two things made an big difference: 1) Raising my piano bench so my arms were parallel to the floor. 2) Learning the Alexander Technique. It teache .......
383: General Asylum, RE: Help recommend which stereo system components are more important to upgrade (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-16, 18:20:29 (72.229.248.15)
Your speakers are not well regarded by them that's in the know. I would replace them with something that rolls off the treble somewhat. Speakers that are "accurate" or "revealing" will reveal all of t .......
384: Tweakers' Asylum, Hijacking another thread? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-12, 04:11:34 (72.229.248.15)
Your contributions to this forum are always so helpful. .......
385: Tweakers' Asylum, But needless to say, you haven't tried this out. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-09, 18:23:39 (72.229.248.15)
Science without verification is so much fun. .......
386: General Asylum, I can only recommend what I know (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-06, 05:59:48 (72.229.248.15)
And the combination of Thiel speakers with Audio Research electronics sounds great, at least when it's set up well. Thiel's CS7 coupled with a DS225, Audio Research's new solid state amp, should sound .......
387: General Asylum, Sir, getting "ripped" is not a solution to eliminating trolls. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-04, 19:09:39 (72.229.248.15)
Indeed, high alertness is called for in this vital endeavor. There are causes worth fighting for and causes best ignored. Troll elimination is, or at least should be, a cause worth fighting for, and a .......
388: Music Lane, RE: How much do you trust a mover with your audio gear and music (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-03, 18:23:55 (72.229.248.15)
I don't think that I'd worry too much about the CDs. If you pack them so they don't spill out of their jewel cases, that should be OK. Even if they do, re-assembling them shouldn't take too much time. .......
389: General Asylum, This sounds serious. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-03, 17:28:31 (72.229.248.15)
That's what my father said to me when I borrowed his golf clubs without asking. .......
390: Music Lane, Snob. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-08-02, 17:30:54 (72.229.248.15)
nt .......
391: Vinyl Asylum, If you place an order from the best in the business... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-29, 17:03:45 (72.229.248.15)
...you might want to think about why you ordered from him in the first place. I got a terrific cartridge re-build from Peter that took a couple of months to arrive. I wouldn't have been interested in .......
392: General Asylum, I agree--they're so damned gullible. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-29, 15:19:22 (72.229.248.15)
I find it hard to fathom their stupidity. .......
393: General Asylum, Are you any good? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-27, 09:33:52 (65.85.130.130)
I wonder how many good musicians are bad audiophiles, or visa versa. .......
394: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Big Fat Dots (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-24, 11:27:43 (72.229.248.15)
I tried to decouple my speakers from a suspended wood floor using a plywood platform with #5 vibrapods. They decoupled the speakers well enough, but the slight movement of the speakers when they react .......
395: General Asylum, No one in the foreground seemed to notice anything unusual was going on. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-15, 16:17:46 (72.229.248.15)
I'm guessing that this was all done in post production. .......
396: Music Lane, Bob Dylan annoying? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-14, 09:54:19 (72.229.248.15)
I thought he was an artist (who don't look back)--someone who aspired to be the poet laureat of the working class, but ended up being the idol of ivy league english majors who aspired to be working cl .......
397: Music Lane, "he has no idea what a development section is" (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-13, 16:49:10 (72.229.248.15)
It sounds that way in most of the performances that I've listened to. The repetition ends up sounding like bombast and after the twentieth repeat I usually end up hitting the stop button. But with Fur .......
398: Music Lane, Furtwangler (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-13, 03:25:12 (72.229.248.15)
In Jim Svejda's "Record Shelf Guide" he claims that you have never heard Bruckner until you have heard Furtwangler conduct him. I agree. After listening to, what seemed like one monotonous performance .......
399: Music Lane, Bob Dylan is, and always has been, a phony and a sell-out. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-08, 18:29:57 (72.229.248.15)
If I heard that he was selling tickets to a bestiality bar in Tijuana it wouldn't surprise me. .......
400: Music Lane, I'm not a singer, but I play the piano and I think I can help. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-07-07, 19:16:28 (72.229.248.15)
First of all, you're right: she can't sing. But technique isn't all that important when you think of music's primary function, which is emotional communication. When I listen to Ellie Goulding I can a .......
401: General Asylum, Actually, you're wrong. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-29, 17:04:13 (72.229.248.15)
Ben is very talented in an area that attracts people who are merely competent. "Audio repairmen" aren't in his league. If you treat him like someone who replaces tires on your car, he will treat you p .......
402: General Asylum, Ben's great. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-29, 13:50:46 (65.85.130.130)
At least he was for me. He did terrific work in a reasonable amount of time. .......
403: General Asylum, That's so unrefined. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-28, 04:12:42 (72.229.248.15)
On the other hand, these dogs aren't: .......
404: Music Lane, And then there's Larry Adler. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-25, 12:51:10 (72.229.248.15)
I first saw him in the movie "St. Martin's Lane". When Vivien Leigh hears him she says something like, "Wow, he's really good." .......
405: Tweakers' Asylum, Don't Do It! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-24, 04:01:26 (72.229.248.15)
This is just another hoax from the High End Audio Snake Oil Industry. Don't let them separate you from your hard earned money! .......
406: General Asylum, But Mozart was really really smart. Why would he want to play such simple music? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-22, 17:12:33 (72.229.248.15)
nope. nuthin in here. .......
407: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Hmm... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-21, 14:23:43 (65.85.130.130)
I have a very low output mm cartridge which needs a lot of amplification. High amplification like this invites hum, and I have a bit. Like you, I've been able to reduce it so it is inaudible from my l .......
408: Music Lane, You're right, Renee Rosnes isn't a Babe (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-13, 10:44:25 (65.85.130.130)
She's a Godess. .......
409: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Question about the crystal tweaks (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-10, 16:49:06 (72.229.248.15)
I started playing with crystals when I bought Acoustic Revive QR-8s and after I heard the impact that they made, I was a believer. Wherever I put them they seemed to enlarge the soundstage and reveal .......
410: Tweakers' Asylum, You know it's no good for you... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-08, 18:55:28 (72.229.248.15)
...but sometimes it seems to clarify issues that are bothering you. I still haven't decided whether alcohol reveals the truth or creates a reasonable simalcrum which is a good enough compromise. ::: T .......
411: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: More crystal tomfoolery: Alan Maher Infinity and Ion CBF placement (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-08, 18:49:02 (72.229.248.15)
Alan, Somehow becoming a "friend" and compromising my public identity seems like an amateurish way of running a business. I might have bought one of your crystal formulations if I didn't have to becom .......
412: General Asylum, I had an Arcam Alpha 10 with a phono board. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-07, 17:47:02 (72.229.248.15)
The board was a $100 extra and it had an MM/MC switch. When I bought an ARC PH3, and ran it through an Alpha 10 line input, the ARC was substantially better than the Arcam. The list price was twenty t .......
413: General Asylum, If you've been away that long, you may have missed out on the Crystal Hysteria. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-06, 03:54:28 (72.229.248.15)
Check out the Tweakers archives. You've got a lot of catching up to do. .......
414: General Asylum, Norman Foster is the sort of architect that they would feel compelled to hire. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-05, 19:32:05 (72.229.248.15)
He designed the new Reichstag and other buildings that are expected to be "iconic". He also recently finished one of New York's ugliest buildings--and just a few blocks from Lincoln Center. You would .......
415: General Asylum, The ARC PH3 is a high-gain MM phono preamp... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-05, 16:36:04 (72.229.248.15)
...that would give you the right gain for a 2.5 mv cartridge. It will give you much better sound than the NAD. I used mine with a 1.75 mv cartridge and it was just a bit lower in level than my CD play .......
416: Music Lane, It's not just the chicks, and it's not just the 21st century. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-04, 06:02:50 (72.229.248.15)
The 2011 Lisztomania festival is under way in Burgenland. .......
417: General Asylum, RE: Well recorded/mastered symphony orchestra (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-03, 17:03:21 (72.229.248.15)
Stravinsky's Firebird conducted by Antal Dorati: the vinyl is terrific. Don't know about the CD transfers. Ravel: "Complete Orchestral Works" conducted by Cluytens: the vinyl is terrific. Don't know a .......
418: Music Lane, RE: No babe marketing blitz. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-06-03, 10:52:38 (65.85.130.130)
I can't imagine anyone with a publicity photo like this agreeing to market herself as a babe, assuming she was capable of it, which I seriously doubt. Evgeny Sudbin is another Scriabin player whose .......
419: General Asylum, How do you measure paleontology? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-31, 18:15:04 (72.229.248.15)
I've participated in controlled tests where neither I, nor any of my buddies, could tell it apart from oligochaetology despite its greater prestige and higher polling numbers. .......
420: General Asylum, Doctor Science speaks! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-30, 14:09:52 (72.229.248.15)
Heed his words. .......
421: General Asylum, Hitler's Dog (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-29, 05:50:16 (72.229.248.15)
Drawn by the Fuehrer: Also by Adolf: Apparently he got a few bad reviews. .......
422: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: No. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-23, 09:31:12 (65.85.130.130)
The evidence suggests that it's the electronics. In this case, I would think about power conditioning before I worried about the room--excepting an uncarpeted floor and nearby glass. The cheapest solu .......
423: General Asylum, Style is cool. Art is something else entirely. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-23, 03:57:19 (72.229.248.15)
Sunglasses and a three day beard don't make a cultural statement in my book. Life is short. Art ain't. .......
424: Tweakers' Asylum, No. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-22, 13:24:08 (72.229.248.15)
Although I agree that the room should be damped with carpeting, and having a glass door at the first reflection point would be a problem, no amount of room treatment or speaker positioning will keep g .......
425: General Asylum, As a friend of mine once said, "I'm too old to have a lifestyle". (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-22, 09:35:18 (72.229.248.15)
I'll leave the retro cabinets to the youngsters who think that analogue is "hip" but really don't know anything about hi-fi. This isn't how you set up speakers for optimal listening, and I doubt the p .......
426: General Asylum, It looks good if you want to spend your money on furniture. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-22, 06:42:24 (72.229.248.15)
But I would imagine that you could get a really good stereo for the money that they charge for their "vintage look". It seems to be geared towards people who want to make a fashion statement with thei .......
427: Tweakers' Asylum, Elizabeth probably has it nailed. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-22, 04:22:22 (72.229.248.15)
The magnepans are letting you hear what you really have. To address the problem directly, you should probably upgrade your other equipment. Of course this isn't a trivial task, and you could end up wi .......
428: Tweakers' Asylum, Racks change the sound of your system... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-21, 14:51:01 (72.229.248.15)
...and hardwood and spikes will give you a fairly forward sound. I know. I tried butcher block with spikes and it livened my system up so much that I had to remove them. You might want to play around .......
429: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Will you tell us where you have found they work best? nt (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-20, 08:22:14 (72.229.248.15)
These, and the QR8s, were the first crystals that worked well for me. I liked the discs better than the QR8s so I used them anywhere that I thought they would help--near all of my electronics, on top .......
430: Tweakers' Asylum, I'm glad they worked well for you too. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-19, 17:39:20 (72.229.248.15)
Fused quartz is apparently not piezo-electric so it calls into question the piezo-electric theory of just what it is that these crystals are doing. However I'm inclined to think that these discs do ab .......
431: General Asylum, Actually, Steve Eddy uses the forums to drive potential customers away. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-19, 03:58:01 (72.229.248.15)
You see he really doesn't operate a business. .......
432: General Asylum, I had the same experience: replaced a perfectly good fridge with a noiser new model. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-17, 19:17:29 (72.229.248.15)
I got the noise of the new one back to the level of the old one by putting a piece of 1" thick by 24" high 6 p.c.f. fiberglass insulation behind it. I think that the old one had some fiberglass built .......
433: Water Cooler, I'd grind him into sausage and sell it on Ebay. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-16, 04:06:41 (72.229.248.15)
So what do you say guys? .......
434: General Asylum, To see if some of the problem is due to grounding... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-14, 16:25:31 (72.229.248.15)
...try touching a wire to some metal on the turntable and touch the other end to your receiver's chassis. If that helps, look around for binding posts--thumbscrews or a terminal labeled GND on both of .......
435: General Asylum, That's what Tony Faulkner says. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-14, 15:19:58 (72.229.248.15)
He thinks that the differences between formats are secondary. .......
436: Water Cooler, I'll let you in on a dirty little secret. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-08, 11:10:23 (72.229.248.15)
Ryan is relying on voter studpidity to get his "plan" passed. .......
437: Tweakers' Asylum, So many questions. So few answers. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-08, 10:03:49 (72.229.248.15)
The explanations from the Acoustic Revive web site are so garbled that I'm trying to guess about how this thing works, because it really does (work). With your advanced degree in wormhole telepathy, I .......
438: Tweakers' Asylum, Sorry about the mix-up. I was thinking of their negative ion generator. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-08, 09:55:49 (72.229.248.15)
As far as how the Schumann generator works, the vendors claim that the Schumann frequency protects electronics from unwanted EMI. Maybe yes, maybe no. .......
439: Tweakers' Asylum, It could (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-08, 09:01:17 (72.229.248.15)
Then my Faraday cage theory would be wrong. When I plugged the ion generator in while sitting in my listening spot, I heard the soundstage gradually widen for about a minute. I attributed this to the .......
440: Tweakers' Asylum, I don't think so. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-08, 07:11:29 (72.229.248.15)
I bought an ionic tourmaline hair dryer and blasted some CDs and got positive results but decided the routine of irradiating CDs before I played them was too much of a hassle. In this case, I think th .......
441: Music Lane, Thanks for the tip. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-08, 05:36:03 (72.229.248.15)
It's also available at CD Baby and I just ordered it. I've never heard of Serge Forte before, but he sounds interesting, so I also ordered his album "Jazz'in Chopin". .......
442: Music Lane, Is there an album available for this fabulous performance? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-05, 17:57:42 (72.229.248.15)
... .......
443: Tweakers' Asylum, You just said the magic words, and abracadabra: (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-01, 19:08:29 (72.229.248.15)
Mr. Unsavory appears as if by Magic! .......
444: Tweakers' Asylum, That's what I do. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-05-01, 16:14:46 (72.229.248.15)
I aim the thing at my amplifier chassis from about 5" away. My theory of how it works is that the ions create a charge on the chassis. This (alleged) field repels airborne electromagnetic fields at wh .......
445: Tweakers' Asylum, No. My ionic experience sarted with a tourmaline hair dryer. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-30, 19:33:33 (72.229.248.15)
I aimed it at CDs and the sound improved but, the effect was reported to last for only twenty minutes or so. I tried aiming the hair dryer at the CD player and that also seemed to work. Dousing the am .......
446: Tweakers' Asylum, I use an "Ionic Lifestyle" generator and... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-30, 08:18:49 (72.229.248.15)
...the manufacturer claim that it doen't create any ozone. It's stuck behind my amplifier and hard to see, but after two years, I haven't noticed any dirt accumulation. It's a powerful tweak though. I .......
447: Tweakers' Asylum, But that doesn't change the fact that your gear isn't refined enough to hear tweaks. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-29, 05:22:01 (72.229.248.15)
Elizabeth just showed how an improvement, whether because of tweaks or the quality of the components, becomes noticeable when the system's resolution is improved. If you can't hear differences after ( .......
448: Tweakers' Asylum, My own modest refrigerator tweak. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-27, 17:10:30 (72.229.248.15)
One day, on a stroll from my bedroom, past the servants' quarters, to my dedicated listening room, I envisioned a way of reducing the noise emanating from my refrigerator--well actually it's the help' .......
449: Tweakers' Asylum, Break-in is real... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-26, 14:38:29 (72.229.248.15)
...but if the P&S sounds that bad right now, I'm guessing that you still won't like it in a month. You might want to try something else. I'm a big fan of "Porter Ports"--cryoed Hubbell outlets that do .......
450: Tweakers' Asylum, A really good tweak doesn't take any skill to hear. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-26, 04:13:35 (72.229.248.15)
As Stereophile endlessly repeats about the improvements wrought by Brand X, "the differences were not subtle". If you are struggling to hear the effect of crystals in your system, then they aren't wor .......
451: Music Lane, Listen. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-25, 17:42:22 (72.229.248.15)
Then read, if you're interested, but I wouldn't put much faith in a book's ability to enlighten if you haven't already put in a fair amount of listening time. .......
452: Tweakers' Asylum, All tubes are somewhat microphonic. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-24, 11:34:47 (72.229.248.15)
Some are a lot more so than others. I put Herbie's Tube Dampers on some extremely microphonic tubes in my preamp and still preferred the tubes undamped. The tube dampers made the sound dull, flat, uni .......
453: Music Lane, Rick W's list from 2004 (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-22, 20:18:34 (72.229.248.15)
His response to a query like yours. .......
454: Tweakers' Asylum, I'll try to be a little more helpful than our resident genius... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-21, 18:12:45 (72.229.248.15)
...and report on my own experience with cones. They definitely change the sound of components, but whether you like the change or not is another issue. Hard footers like cones tend to add immediacy to .......
455: Water Cooler, Since NPR has been forced to prove its worth in the "marketplace" of ideas... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-20, 04:18:37 (72.229.248.15)
...they have abandoned classical music. Their advertisers, or patrons, or whatever NPR likes to call them now, aren't willing to support it. They seem to have settled on "Prairie Home Companion" and " .......
456: Tweakers' Asylum, I'm not taking the bait. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-18, 09:59:51 (65.85.130.130)
You'll have to go fishing somewhere else. .......
457: Tweakers' Asylum, Not wanting to state the obvious, but... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-18, 02:47:12 (72.229.248.15)
Don't Feed the Troll! .......
458: General Asylum, "if I had to limit myself to only a single device..." (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-17, 16:53:19 (72.229.248.15)
ditto. .......
459: Tweakers' Asylum, Pictures? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-17, 14:26:46 (72.229.248.15)
I want to try this out but I'm not sure how this is set up. A picture would be nice. .......
460: Tweakers' Asylum, You got a lot a stones to post this. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-17, 10:55:41 (72.229.248.15)
or at least I assume you do. .......
461: Music Lane, Just keep listening and it should take eventually. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-16, 18:49:04 (72.229.248.15)
But try to find good performances; they make all the difference in the world. I'd shop around too. You may find Ravel's music for piano really does it for you even if Beethoven's doesn't. .......
462: General Asylum, RE: Any Environmental Potentials EP-2050 users out there? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-16, 16:20:06 (72.229.248.15)
When I hooked my 2050 up it brought tears to my eyes. No kidding, just like John Boehner! I was expecting a slight improvement, but the sound was so much better than it had been before that I, well, I .......
463: Music Lane, Quite right. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-14, 19:02:49 (72.229.248.15)
I was listening to The Doors (involuntarily) and was struck by how banal the music and lyrics were: "Mother I want to Fuvuck yeah!!!" Freud for the masses. The sooner it's forgotten the better. ::: .......
464: Tweakers' Asylum, Thoughts about Schumann generators. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-13, 18:04:32 (72.229.248.15)
I used a Schumann resonator for a few years and it undoubtedly enhanced my spatial perception of the music--it produced a larger soundstage and a greater sense of immediacy--but it also made me tingle .......
465: General Asylum, I've always liked the Yamaha digital pianos. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-11, 03:03:56 (72.229.248.15)
The Clavinova series has a built in amplifier and has a very nice tone and feel. I switched to an unamplified Yamaha and haven't owned a Clavinova for quite a while but I would imagine that they've go .......
466: Tweakers' Asylum, George Cardas distinguishes between cable burn-in and settling in. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-10, 10:19:47 (72.229.248.15)
Burn-in can take months but settling in only takes a few days. The settling in is due to the physical stresses in the wire working themselves out in their new position. I've noticed this with thorough .......
467: General Asylum, true, but... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-10, 08:44:07 (72.229.248.15)
...everyone has limits. .......
468: Tweakers' Asylum, I thought that you were going to enter into the discussion... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-09, 08:35:35 (72.229.248.15)
...instead of talking down to the rest of us without offering any useful explanations--as is your usual practice. I've used QR8s on wall surfaces and they do seem to work there, although not with as m .......
469: Music Lane, What a great site for jazz videos. Thanks. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-09, 06:33:16 (72.229.248.15)
nt .......
470: Tweakers' Asylum, So here's what I've read. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-09, 04:53:20 (72.229.248.15)
As bartc said, piezoelecricity is a two-way street: a mechanical deformation can produce an electric current or an electric field can create a mechanical deformation. In a radio crystal, an electric c .......
471: Tweakers' Asylum, I think NASCAR gave cryogenics the credibility it needs with the Objectivist crowd. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-07, 17:15:45 (72.229.248.15)
They would probably be less impressed by the brass players' endorsement, even though the theory is simple enough so even I can understand it. .......
472: Tweakers' Asylum, If this forum is all about "True Belief" why do you bother posting here? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-07, 17:07:46 (72.229.248.15)
There is another forum made just for you and your friends. They like it rough over there. .......
473: Whiner's Woad, RE: Moderation on AA (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-06, 19:14:18 (72.229.248.15)
The moderation has generally been very light on AA and I think that this is the best way of dealing with contentious threads. Contention is allowed to take its course, and you don't need to worry abou .......
474: Tweakers' Asylum, You may be right, but... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-06, 04:22:24 (72.229.248.15)
...here's an article that talks about fused quartz with piezoelectric properties. The quartz that I used is cut from ingots of GE 124 fused quartz. The sonic effects of these crystals are obvious to m .......
475: Music Lane, Yo dude, Gunther rocks! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-05, 18:57:36 (72.229.248.15)
Meatloaf & Martha Graham rolled into one. .......
476: Tweakers' Asylum, Here's a company that sells piezo-electric crystals... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-05, 18:43:15 (72.229.248.15)
...for God knows what. They sell fused quartz for oscillators and they're called "Piezo Enterprises". I'm no rocket scientist, but here is a company that sells gizmos that are both piezo-electric and .......
477: Tweakers' Asylum, The discs really did have a strong effect. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-05, 17:26:58 (72.229.248.15)
I bought them at the beginning of my crystal journey because they the were same size as the Acoustic Revive RIQ5010 "quartz insulators". While I was waiting for them to arrive I went to as bead shop a .......
478: Tweakers' Asylum, Don't feed the trolls (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-04, 20:05:36 (72.229.248.15)
Their only reason for being here is to annoy you. .......
479: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: What is wrong with poking fun at silly things? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-04, 16:40:35 (72.229.248.15)
It poisons the atmosphere here. .......
480: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: You're Point? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-04, 15:19:33 (65.85.130.130)
I believe the point is that crystals have uses not exclusively tied to New Age superstition. Anyone who assumes that crystals are only used by crackpots is ignoring their legitimate scientific uses. I .......
481: Tweakers' Asylum, Don't be stupid. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-04, 11:05:42 (65.85.130.130)
I've detailed my experience below which is briefly: I tried tweaking a decidedly mid-fi system and heard very little difference from tweaks that made a major difference in my good system. The good sys .......
482: Tweakers' Asylum, A well thought out system is good, and probably what I would have done... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-03, 14:02:28 (72.229.248.15)
...if I knew then what I know now, because I've really spent more than I can afford on this beast, but that's water over the dam. I have a highly resolving system which reveals a great deal about the .......
483: Tweakers' Asylum, If you've got a cheap system you probably won't hear any difference. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-03, 11:04:50 (65.85.130.130)
If you've got a decent setup the difference can be substantial. .......
484: Tweakers' Asylum, Perhaps you've never heard of the Placebo Effect. Let me enlighten you. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-02, 15:21:25 (72.229.248.15)
You are imagining all of this. How do I know? I know. Believe me, I know. It's kind of like when you have a ring in your bathtub but can't see it. Sometime it helps to have an objective outside viewer .......
485: Tweakers' Asylum, Geoff, I just can't understand your unwillingness to learn from the evidence. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-04-01, 04:16:08 (72.229.248.15)
When the simplest and most plausible explanation for crystals' effects is RFI mitigation, you try to attribute the changes to vibration damping. Of course piezelectric effects go back and forth from p .......
486: Music Lane, I saw him a few weeks ago with Ken Peplowski... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-31, 04:04:43 (72.229.248.15)
...at the Kitano Hotel. Great show in a great place. It really is amazing how versatile he is. His playing verged on the avant garde for most of the set. When an obnoxious audience member asked for Ho .......
487: Tweakers' Asylum, Baloney. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-30, 17:09:59 (72.229.248.15)
I didn't know that I had denied anything. I was just complimenting you on finally trying to offer an explanation for a tweak. It may be the first that I've heard from you. Just remember that this sort .......
488: Tweakers' Asylum, Baloney. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-30, 04:38:49 (72.229.248.15)
But at least you've started to think about why they work. .......
489: Tweakers' Asylum, I do too. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-29, 19:20:06 (72.229.248.15)
I've placed tourmaline next to tube sockets and have gotten substantial benefits from doing so. I think that this is due to the crystals absorbing EMI and improving the sound because of the cleaner en .......
490: Tweakers' Asylum, I haven't had much luck with larger crystals. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-27, 12:23:03 (72.229.248.15)
But the smaller ones work well in all sorts of places. Here are some locations that have worked well for me: -in the breaker box -on top of electronic components (try moving them around and listen for .......
491: Music Lane, What are you complaining about? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-27, 11:50:33 (72.229.248.15)
There was an editorial in the Times today calling for an increase in the minimum raise. I'm sure that jazz musicians will be stepping right up to the gravy train once that goes through. .......
492: Music Lane, Omnivores and Highbrows in Decline! (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-25, 17:56:09 (72.229.248.15)
Everything we feared turns out to be true. Most of the audience for classical music and jazz is composed of omnivorous consumers of culture, and the more selective highbrows. "The percentage of popula .......
493: Tweakers' Asylum, Try pouring some into your fuse box. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-24, 17:15:10 (72.229.248.15)
It worked for me. .......
494: Tweakers' Asylum, Now that the cat's out of the bag, are you going to have a fire sale on your mysterious Bags o' Rox? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-23, 16:28:17 (72.229.248.15)
Of course if they rely on quantum worm-hole gravity, they must not be piezoelectric crystals. Perhaps imports from another world. .......
495: Tweakers' Asylum, I didn't doubt what you heard. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-23, 04:24:46 (72.229.248.15)
It got me to prowl the internet for more information. The different crystals I have tried out all had somewhat different sounds and the translucent tourmalines were amongst the most uncolored and powe .......
496: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: High Piezoelecticity of Black Tourmaline. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-22, 19:10:42 (72.229.248.15)
It seems to depend on the source. I tried black tourmaline in my system and heard no difference. Here's a snip from an article about tourmaline: "Tourmaline's electrical properties have been found to .......
497: Music Lane, do you have some recommendations for places in brooklyn? (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-22, 17:45:29 (72.229.248.15)
I barely get out of Manhattan to hear jazz. .......
498: Tweakers' Asylum, But you don't want to try any of these things out. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-19, 08:52:53 (72.229.248.15)
So what special insights do you have that exempts you from the need for observation? Prejudice generally not recognised by the scientific community as a method of thought or experiment. Put out the bi .......
499: Tweakers' Asylum, Hey Picture Guy. Instead of recreating high school science demonstrations to prove your point... (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-19, 05:10:48 (72.229.248.15)
Why don't you buy some of these stupid crystals and see if if they do anything? If a single-minded rant is your idea of science, I'll take voodoo any day. .......
500: Tweakers' Asylum, The "objectivists" will never forgive you. (0.00)
Posted by Paul_A on 2011-03-18, 14:46:33 (72.229.248.15)
Can you PROVE that you took took the measuremet? .......
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