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How long a hike does this involve? Do you have to stop for a water break along the way?
That really burst my bubble! Why not let me down easy?
I have too many favorites to mention, but Cesaria Evora is one that may be worth a listen if you haven't had the chance. Suggest starting with The Very best of Cesaria Evora. The recording isn't at the level of the others mentioned (PB and MG seem to pay a lot of attention to recording quality), but that doesn't matter to me as soon as she starts to sing. The connection to the emotion is immediate. She tells a story (and Patsy Cline anyone?)
Thank you, Kedar. But really, truly I have never cared for her songs or her singing style. This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. This song totally does not work for me. She sings this song way too s l o w l y -- like she took a Benadryl before she went the studio. I'm getting tired -- sleepy now -- just listening to it
Conversely, her slow, emotional, pensive, reflective, emotive style is, I think, perfect for "A Case of You."
Plus I extremely rarely prefer covers over the original song. I can count the total number of covers I prefer over the original song on three fingers.
Finally, in my idiosyncratic music preference case, the fact that I like one song by a singer or group is not at all probative of whether I will like other songs by that singer or that group. This is why I have no use for Roon.
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I believe the BJ MoFi's are quite old and reportedly not that good. I suggest checking out something of the past~10 years. In a different class.I bought around 15 MoFi and Analog Production 45's , none have really impressed me, i am using original first issue 33's instead, they sound better to my ears. Especially Bob Dylan and Billy Joels catalogue have been a huge disappointment MoFi versions are just devoid of life. I have not tried the one step version, i have no more faith in these remasters, i have learned my lesson.
Very generally speaking I found the old MoFis to be bright sounding. I sold my old MoFis and kept -- and added to -- my wonderful pop DCCs.I bought around 15 MoFi and Analog Production 45's , none have really impressed me, i am using original first issue 33's instead, they sound better to my ears. Especially Bob Dylan and Billy Joels catalogue have been a huge disappointment MoFi versions are just devoid of life. I have not tried the one step version, i have no more faith in these remasters, i have learned my lesson.
Holly Cole -Steal the night only on cd..one best live recordings i've have.
I hope someday the LP will be available....please
There’s a very fine line between a torch song and a tortured song… and some of the more highly packaged chanteuses seem to cross that line way more than others.
Though in the end music is always personally related… what resonates for people just varies.
I never make judgments on who likes what… I’m also fine with people not liking certain music.
To be honest I just like it when people play music and it nourishes them… beyond that what difference does it make.
For me music is purely personal and full of individually relatable feeling and passion... though please never torture a friend if they aren’t really into torch songs.
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‘You’ve got a secret’ is a great test track I always use. Wonderful performance from the whole band.
Good post.
I speculate that the quality of vinyl used for pressing records is somewhat tied to times of 'oil crisis'. Expensive oil means greater use of fillers, the most common of which is recycled vinyl, which picks up contaminents during the recyle process. For example, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74 (~50 years ago) spiraled oil prices upward and original issue rock albums from that era tended to be noisier.
In 2007, in an email to subscribers, Michael Hobson of Classic Records bemoaned the wide variability in the quality of lacquers used when cutting records. He noted that years earlier higher quality material from certain lacquer providers was available, then one day that quality dropped off the table as the provider of nitrocellulose acetate (the material lacquers are coated with) stopped filtering it in production.
There are only a handful of vinyl pellet providers worldwide and their formulations vary. "We have, for years" wrote Hobson "pointed out that vinyl formulas sound dramatically different. Some have more clarity in different frequency spectrums while others have better bass definition and still others sound warm and tube like but lack a little of the sense of “reality” that audiophiles so long for."
The one thing I give credit to the introduction of 'audiophile records' is the wide-spread adoption of virgin vinyl.
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I speculate that the quality of vinyl used for pressing records is somewhat tied to times of 'oil crisis'. Expensive oil means greater use of fillers, the most common of which is recycled vinyl, which picks up contaminents during the recyle process. For example, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74 (~50 years ago) spiraled oil prices upward and original issue rock albums from that era tended to be noisier.
In 2007, in an email to subscribers, Michael Hobson of Classic Records bemoaned the wide variability in the quality of lacquers used when cutting records. He noted that years earlier higher quality material from certain lacquer providers was available, then one day that quality dropped off the table as the provider of nitrocellulose acetate (the material lacquers are coated with) stopped filtering it in production.
There are only a handful of vinyl pellet providers worldwide and their formulations vary. "We have, for years" wrote Hobson "pointed out that vinyl formulas sound dramatically different. Some have more clarity in different frequency spectrums while others have better bass definition and still others sound warm and tube like but lack a little of the sense of “reality” that audiophiles so long for."
The one thing I give credit to the introduction of 'audiophile records' is the wide-spread adoption of virgin vinyl.
My Favorite "Good time Charlie & i can see clearly now(jmmy cliff cover)
I think my favorite female artist is Tori Amos, although I mainly like her earlier albums. She is tortured but her music is really great for the first 3-4 albums. Also, the music is essentially all original.
I always struggle to pin down favourites in music… there’s so much to choose from. Even which period to choose from can be quite difficult.
While there’s been amazing women singing through all periods there was a time when it was the women of jazz and women who sang in classical music that I probably listened to most often as female singers and vocalists… I must have bumped my head at some point and my love of jazz has since become almost invariably purely instrumental for the longest time.
For me its men as leads in rock, punk, post punk eras that come to mind first but clearly there have been great standouts of women vocalists in all alternative music as well.
But possibly when it comes to first to mind for me for great women singers in the post war era I’d probably most often turn to listening to those who sing soul… so maybe it might even be Aretha Franklin for me… am just really thankful though that none of us are really stuck on a desert island so small that you can only just fit the one musician on. When it comes to music having to make desert island lists is torture.
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I want all my musicians to have voices in their heads. They play better that way.
I'm a guest over at Ron's and after a swell Thankgiving feast the night before, today I begrudgingly accepted the invitation to listen to his system. Mind you I was still coming off the Tryptophan ™ high. The combination of the VTL and Jadis amplifiers driving the Clarisys speakers and Gryphon woofer towers made me forget the repast and got groovin' to the music of Joe Jackson, Grover Washington, Tom Scott, Earth Wind & Fire, Michel Polnareff, Linda Ronstadt, The Brothers Johnson, Maxime Le Forestier, Paul McCartney & Wings and the Labecque sisters having their way with George Gershwin.
Welcome to the sunny side, David! I'm looking forward to seeing you boys soon.
Thanks very much to Nuno Vitorino, Co-Founder of Innuos, for loaning me a Pulsar!
In addition to the Pulsar sounding great, the Innuos Sense app continues to be the most intuitive and user-friendly streamer controller I have found. I especially love its ability to allow each of my friends to cultivate their own playlists on my iPad!
In addition to the Pulsar sounding great, the Innuos Sense app continues to be the most intuitive and user-friendly streamer controller I have found. I especially love its ability to allow each of my friends to cultivate their own playlists on my iPad!
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The Pulsar was a breeze to set up. The Sense app handles streaming services rather well indeed.
Shortly before David arrived I set up a bi-amping configuration that is unorthodox. I've been cooking the woofers.
It took me only three decades but I have discovered the secret to my personal Holy Grail with planar dipoles. On my Studios I am driving the midrange/tweeter ribbon with Jadis JA100 (80 watts), and I am driving the woofer ribbon with VTL Siegfried II. (A line-level, in-line attenuator dials the VTL down to about 300 or 400 watts.)
Cooking the woofer ribbon relative to the midrange/tweeter ribbon ("woofer cooking") gives me below 500Hz the "body," "weight," warmth and impact I have always wanted from my planar dipoles. Dynamic driver woofers and dynamic mid-bass drivers have nothing on this system. (The Hyperbole Police have already visited me, and, after extensive questioning and their own listening, have decided not to file charges.)
For many audiophiles this might create an unbalanced frequency response. But, so far, I am loving it.
With this new configuration, I almost can't get David out of the listening room. And our mutual friend, Marc Meisner, also was enjoying it a lot ("the best sense of presence and 'corporeal body' I have heard in your system"), although I think he was a bit befuddled at the configuration.
It took me only three decades but I have discovered the secret to my personal Holy Grail with planar dipoles. On my Studios I am driving the midrange/tweeter ribbon with Jadis JA100 (80 watts), and I am driving the woofer ribbon with VTL Siegfried II. (A line-level, in-line attenuator dials the VTL down to about 300 or 400 watts.)
Cooking the woofer ribbon relative to the midrange/tweeter ribbon ("woofer cooking") gives me below 500Hz the "body," "weight," warmth and impact I have always wanted from my planar dipoles. Dynamic driver woofers and dynamic mid-bass drivers have nothing on this system. (The Hyperbole Police have already visited me, and, after extensive questioning and their own listening, have decided not to file charges.)
For many audiophiles this might create an unbalanced frequency response. But, so far, I am loving it.
With this new configuration, I almost can't get David out of the listening room. And our mutual friend, Marc Meisner, also was enjoying it a lot ("the best sense of presence and 'corporeal body' I have heard in your system"), although I think he was a bit befuddled at the configuration.
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