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Dean Martin - That's Amore.
Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. I can almost touch him. sigh It is moments like this that only tubes and horns can create...when everything is just right. Nothing can replicate the dynamics in my experience...nothing can relax like a concert experience at one's own house. Thank you John Atkinson for carrying the torch for us enlightened ones! :-) Lined up on the RL trunk: Jose Carreras - Misa Criolla Shaggy - Mr. Lover Lover (The Best of) Chuck Berry - The Chess Box Cheers, Margaret |
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![]() "Margaret von B." wrote in message ... Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. I can almost touch him. sigh It is moments like this that only tubes and horns can create...when everything is just right. Nothing can replicate the dynamics in my experience...nothing can relax like a concert experience at one's own house. Thank you John Atkinson for carrying the torch for us enlightened ones! :-) Lined up on the RL trunk: Jose Carreras - Misa Criolla Shaggy - Mr. Lover Lover (The Best of) Chuck Berry - The Chess Box Cheers, Margaret |
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![]() Margaret von B. wrote: Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. If Dean Martin is singing in it.. it isn't a music room. ScottW |
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![]() ScottW wrote: Margaret von B. wrote: Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. If Dean Martin is singing in it.. it isn't a music room. Dino was a nice guy, his music is smooth. I have riveted a lot of broads to it. So maybe it's a bedroom, maybe it's a hot tub, maybe it's a Piper Navajo in a sweltering hangar. Whatever kind of room it is, Dino is my pally. |
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![]() "ScottW" wrote in message oups.com... Margaret von B. wrote: Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. If Dean Martin is singing in it.. it isn't a music room. Hi Scott, The level of bitterness you exhibit affects adversely to your productivity. And that is bad for bonuses. Why don't you stop in TJ on your way home.... :-) Cheers, Margaret |
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![]() Bret Ludwig wrote: ScottW wrote: Margaret von B. wrote: Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. If Dean Martin is singing in it.. it isn't a music room. Dino was a nice guy, his music is smooth. I have riveted a lot of broads to it. So maybe it's a bedroom, maybe it's a hot tub, maybe it's a Piper Navajo in a sweltering hangar. Whatever kind of room it is, Dino is my pally. and Marge is your girl..... my condolences. ScottW |
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![]() "ScottW" wrote in message ups.com... Bret Ludwig wrote: ScottW wrote: Margaret von B. wrote: Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. If Dean Martin is singing in it.. it isn't a music room. Dino was a nice guy, his music is smooth. I have riveted a lot of broads to it. So maybe it's a bedroom, maybe it's a hot tub, maybe it's a Piper Navajo in a sweltering hangar. Whatever kind of room it is, Dino is my pally. and Marge is your girl..... my condolences. ScottW I'm getting tired of trying to be nice to you, Scott. Go give a BJ to Demis Roussos, short stuff. Cheers, Margaret |
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In , Margaret von B. wrote :
John Mayall - Crusade Next : Little Feat - The last record album. -- "Nobody seemes to have actaully read what i wrote. But what's new around here?" Dave Weil, Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:57:15 |
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![]() "Margaret von B." wrote in message ... "Margaret von B." wrote in message ... Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. I can almost touch him. sigh It is moments like this that only tubes and horns can create...when everything is just right. Nothing can replicate the dynamics in my experience...nothing can relax like a concert experience at one's own house. Thank you John Atkinson for carrying the torch for us enlightened ones! :-) Lined up on the RL trunk: Jose Carreras - Misa Criolla Shaggy - Mr. Lover Lover (The Best of) Chuck Berry - The Chess Box Cheers, Margaret Change of venue since my niece arrived a few hours ahead of schedule and took over as the DJ. Rammstein - Du Hast Hanoi Rocks - In My Darkest Moment Only Shaggy made the cut.... ....but I feel younger now! Cheers, Margaret |
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Rammstein - Du Hast
My son used to listen to this in his dark days, but I really liked 'Mutter' |
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Andras Schiff playing the Mozart piano concertos with the Camerata
Academica, Salzburg, the Decca set. Currently on disc 9, nos 26 and 27, again. I just can't let such fine music disappear back into storage. My friend Peter Allen of the Melbourne Audio Club and other achievements, shared wise counsel he received from a constant audiophile: don't play any of your discs more than once a month and play it no more than twice. To encourage self-control, I store my CDs in flat fruit boxes, about 250 to the boxes. The boxes are stacked eight high. It is a major musclebuilding operation to get at the box at the bottom to take out a favourite disc, so I tend to play through a box (not everything, just the favourites) before moving on to the next. But I can linger over the Mozart and Bach and Handel boxes for months each. [Smacks head] Must have more discipline! Do you have any Roy Orbison, Margaret? Andre Jute Margaret von B. wrote: "Margaret von B." wrote in message ... Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. I can almost touch him. sigh It is moments like this that only tubes and horns can create...when everything is just right. Nothing can replicate the dynamics in my experience...nothing can relax like a concert experience at one's own house. Thank you John Atkinson for carrying the torch for us enlightened ones! :-) Lined up on the RL trunk: Jose Carreras - Misa Criolla Shaggy - Mr. Lover Lover (The Best of) Chuck Berry - The Chess Box Cheers, Margaret |
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![]() "Jon Yaeger" wrote in message ... in article , Andre Jute at wrote on 12/15/05 11:16 PM: Andras Schiff playing the Mozart piano concertos with the Camerata Academica, Salzburg, the Decca set. Currently on disc 9, nos 26 and 27, again. I just can't let such fine music disappear back into storage. Does anyone give a damn what you listen to? Of course not, you over-inflated ass. C'mon Jon. That's a bit harsh. Do you know the Schiff recordings? Andre is referring to the 13CD Decca set 443 747-2. Wonderful performances - highly recommended. Iain |
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![]() Iain Churches wrote: Andre Jute at wrote on 12/15/05 11:16 PM: Andras Schiff playing the Mozart piano concertos with the Camerata Academica, Salzburg, the Decca set. Currently on disc 9, nos 26 and 27, again. I just can't let such fine music disappear back into storage. Andre is referring to the 13CD Decca set 443 747-2. Wonderful performances - highly recommended. Iain Actually, Iain, now that I go looking for the 'missing' 4 CDs, I notice my Schiff set is the 9CD Decca set 448 140-2 lacking concertos 1-3, 8, 10. I wos robbed! (Hey, Marie, I'll just remember you gave *my* complete set to Iain...) The first *complete* set of the Mozart Piano Concertos out of my boxes is my next favourite, Jeno Jando with Concentus Hungaricus under Andras Ligeti/Matias Antal, Naxos set in two boxes, Vol 1 8.505011 and Vol 2 8.506002. Do you know the work of the Polish pianist Andre Tchaikowsky? He died young but sometime in the early 1970s in a very busy festival where I was up till the early hours every night as the host of the literary side, I rose for his 10am (how effing uncivilized can the schedulers get?) performance every day for a fortnight. A couple of years later I paid Christopher Hogwood the same respect; a totally different approach. Not many can get me out of bed before noon... Andre Jute |
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![]() The garage vermin Jon Yaeger wrote: in article , Andre Jute at wrote on 12/15/05 11:16 PM: Andras Schiff playing the Mozart piano concertos with the Camerata Academica, Salzburg, the Decca set. Currently on disc 9, nos 26 and 27, again. I just can't let such fine music disappear back into storage. Andre Jute Does anyone give a damn what you listen to? Of course not, you over-inflated ass. Why, Yaeger, everyone was asked. Who do you think you are to decide who can contribute, you scummy little crook? Do you think we don't notice for a couple of years now that every time I write something, there you are in the thread dragging a trail of slime with your snide, personal, off-topic comments? Here's another provocation from you for no reason whatsoever except your sick obsession with me: Andre Jute = attention whore And another on the same day: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...6b6bdf566e0c6e Time for you to grow up and get a life, sonny, or soon I shall decide I need the exercise of riding your slack ass into compost. Andre Jute Zero tolerance for pestilential vermin at home and abroad |
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![]() "Margaret von B." wrote: Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor Unwrapping next: Keith Urban - Be Here Lee Ann Womack - There’s More Where That Came From |
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"Margaret von B." said:
Lined up : George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair Marcus Miller - Tales (a subwoofer test course) Pat Metheny - I can see your house from here Pink Floyd - Momentary lapse Of Reason (on LP) -- "Audio as a serious hobby is going down the tubes." - Howard Ferstler, 25/4/2005 |
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Kiri te Kanawa
Exulate Jubilate And since I am in the office, through a Yamaha CD changer, Revox A78 amp and AR4x speakers. Tubes are not appropriate in this environment for several reasons having mostly to do with bulk and that I am in and out all the time. Peter Wieck Wyncote, PA |
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![]() Margaret von B. wrote: "ScottW" wrote in message ups.com... Bret Ludwig wrote: ScottW wrote: Margaret von B. wrote: Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. If Dean Martin is singing in it.. it isn't a music room. Dino was a nice guy, his music is smooth. I have riveted a lot of broads to it. So maybe it's a bedroom, maybe it's a hot tub, maybe it's a Piper Navajo in a sweltering hangar. Whatever kind of room it is, Dino is my pally. and Marge is your girl..... my condolences. ScottW I'm getting tired of trying to be nice to you, Scott. Hangovers will do that to you. However it is a nice confession... most failures never admit their incapacities. ScottW |
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don't play any of your discs more than once a month and
play it no more than twice YIKES! Why? Do the bits go stale? This is a digitally encoded stamped (OK, pressed, but at the speed with which they are made, stamped describes it better) medium, covered in hard plastic, and played by a method that does not physically touch the encoded information. Unless one is dealing with a pretty wretched CD transport, and/or filthy handling habits, there is no theoretical limit to how many times they can be played within a given period.... and if they do wear out (which is starting to happen with some of the earliest-made discs), the failure is materials-related, not use-related. Someone has GOT to be kidding, likely the same person that passed the rumor that a green magic marker (or was it blue) makes CDs sound better... And on the outer rim for crissakes... when they program and play from the center out, and last I heard of a specific brand! Why/how does stuff like this get started, and who believes it when it does, and why? Does some joker have a hot-flash in the middle of a lonely night and decide how -he- will roil the audiophool world this time? Lemme see, in the last several months: Little towers for raising speaker wire. Cryogenically treated _____ (tubes, receptacles, interconnects, even wooden speaker pads) Full-range single drivers. Define "full" and "range". Orienting components to the magnetic field. Orienting components to True North. Orienting components to Magnetic fields generated in the listening room. I do know that vinyl is not at all happy with repeated and close-in-time playings, if one calculates the force of the stylus in the groove, figuring 1gm over ~0.005" by 0.00015" as an elipse, bearing on the vinyl across an area of about 0.00015 x 0.004 x 2 comes to some 1860 pounds per square inch, for round figures. And in this case we have a diamond (pretty hard) impacting on plastic anywhere from 20 to 20,000 times per second in a grove moving at an average of 12 inches per second, more or less. Some heat is generated. The diamond is just fine with the heat, it's seen worse. The vinyl is not, if repeatedly abused. But, guys and gals, the laser does not touch the substrate. And the heating/cooling issues are substantially different as are the degrade-results. Or am I completely missing something? Remember, we Americans have NO sense of humor. Peter Wieck Wyncote, PA |
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" said:
Little towers for raising speaker wire. Cryogenically treated _____ (tubes, receptacles, interconnects, even wooden speaker pads) Full-range single drivers. Define "full" and "range". Orienting components to the magnetic field. Orienting components to True North. Orienting components to Magnetic fields generated in the listening room. All kid's stuff, compared to this miracle machine: http://www.i4u.com/article2620.html -- "Audio as a serious hobby is going down the tubes." - Howard Ferstler, 25/4/2005 |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... : Kiri te Kanawa : Exulate Jubilate : : And since I am in the office, through a Yamaha CD changer, Revox A78 : amp and AR4x speakers. Tubes are not appropriate in this environment : for several reasons having mostly to do with bulk and that I am in and : out all the time. : : Peter Wieck : Wyncote, PA : now playing: Jazzkantine - Futter fuer die Seele - Benutz Mich Rudy |
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![]() "Signal" wrote in message ... : : The Fall Heads Roll (best album since the last Fall album) : Phil Gordon podcasts. : HE2005 (Remix). What, a remix ? Why didn't ya tell us, before ? got a link ? R. |
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Sander deWaal a écrit :
"Margaret von B." said: Lined up : George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair Marcus Miller - Tales (a subwoofer test course) Pat Metheny - I can see your house from here What about this one ? Pink Floyd - Momentary lapse Of Reason (on LP) -- Nobody seemes to have actaully read what i wrote. But what's new around here? Dave Weil - Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:57:15 -0500 |
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Lionel said:
What about this one ? Pink Floyd - Momentary lapse Of Reason (on LP) You don't know that one? Very nice record IMHO. Do you want me to burn it on CD for you? -- "Audio as a serious hobby is going down the tubes." - Howard Ferstler, 25/4/2005 |
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In article ,
Sander deWaal wrote: " said: Little towers for raising speaker wire. Cryogenically treated _____ (tubes, receptacles, interconnects, even wooden speaker pads) Full-range single drivers. Define "full" and "range". Orienting components to the magnetic field. Orienting components to True North. Orienting components to Magnetic fields generated in the listening room. All kid's stuff, compared to this miracle machine: http://www.i4u.com/article2620.html Does it work on DVD-R? Stephen |
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MINe 109 said:
http://www.i4u.com/article2620.html Does it work on DVD-R? It's in the name. DVD-Rewindable. -- "Audio as a serious hobby is going down the tubes." - Howard Ferstler, 25/4/2005 |
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Sander deWaal wrote: MINe 109 said: http://www.i4u.com/article2620.html Does it work on DVD-R? It's in the name. DVD-Rewindable. Of course! Shoulda noticed... :-) Stephen |
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In , Sander deWaal wrote :
Lionel said: What about this one ? Pink Floyd - Momentary lapse Of Reason (on LP) You don't know that one? Very nice record IMHO. Do you want me to burn it on CD for you? Not this one !!!! Pat Metheny. Thank you very much anyway. |
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![]() "ScottW" wrote in message oups.com... Margaret von B. wrote: "ScottW" wrote in message ups.com... Bret Ludwig wrote: ScottW wrote: Margaret von B. wrote: Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. If Dean Martin is singing in it.. it isn't a music room. Dino was a nice guy, his music is smooth. I have riveted a lot of broads to it. So maybe it's a bedroom, maybe it's a hot tub, maybe it's a Piper Navajo in a sweltering hangar. Whatever kind of room it is, Dino is my pally. and Marge is your girl..... my condolences. ScottW I'm getting tired of trying to be nice to you, Scott. Hangovers will do that to you. However it is a nice confession... most failures never admit their incapacities. ScottW Start a new thread if you want to continue displaying your personal misery. |
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Peter, you and Signal both have the wrong end of this stick. The advice
to limit one's playing of favourite discs is not based on any possible damage to the discs, it is to protect one's discrimination and broaden one's culture. Out of my 6000 discs, and stretching matters a bit to include sets or complete sets, and stretching it further to include duplicates of sets, all counted as one disc each, the core I could not live without is probably a hundred units or "discs". Doesn't matter if it is two hundred. The point is that it is a small percentage of the total. Reduced to an absurdity, I could play my box of eight test discs over and over and feel no pain, and I could play Emma Kirkby singing the songs of Hildegard over and over for days on end. The rule is to stop that sort of self-indulgence. One does actually need a wider exposure, variety and so on. Currently playing the complete Mozart Violin Concertos by Isaac Stern. Andre Jute wrote: don't play any of your discs more than once a month and play it no more than twice YIKES! Why? Do the bits go stale? This is a digitally encoded stamped (OK, pressed, but at the speed with which they are made, stamped describes it better) medium, covered in hard plastic, and played by a method that does not physically touch the encoded information. Unless one is dealing with a pretty wretched CD transport, and/or filthy handling habits, there is no theoretical limit to how many times they can be played within a given period.... and if they do wear out (which is starting to happen with some of the earliest-made discs), the failure is materials-related, not use-related. Someone has GOT to be kidding, likely the same person that passed the rumor that a green magic marker (or was it blue) makes CDs sound better... And on the outer rim for crissakes... when they program and play from the center out, and last I heard of a specific brand! Why/how does stuff like this get started, and who believes it when it does, and why? Does some joker have a hot-flash in the middle of a lonely night and decide how -he- will roil the audiophool world this time? Lemme see, in the last several months: Little towers for raising speaker wire. Cryogenically treated _____ (tubes, receptacles, interconnects, even wooden speaker pads) Full-range single drivers. Define "full" and "range". Orienting components to the magnetic field. Orienting components to True North. Orienting components to Magnetic fields generated in the listening room. I do know that vinyl is not at all happy with repeated and close-in-time playings, if one calculates the force of the stylus in the groove, figuring 1gm over ~0.005" by 0.00015" as an elipse, bearing on the vinyl across an area of about 0.00015 x 0.004 x 2 comes to some 1860 pounds per square inch, for round figures. And in this case we have a diamond (pretty hard) impacting on plastic anywhere from 20 to 20,000 times per second in a grove moving at an average of 12 inches per second, more or less. Some heat is generated. The diamond is just fine with the heat, it's seen worse. The vinyl is not, if repeatedly abused. But, guys and gals, the laser does not touch the substrate. And the heating/cooling issues are substantially different as are the degrade-results. Or am I completely missing something? Remember, we Americans have NO sense of humor. Peter Wieck Wyncote, PA |
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Mpfffff... OK. Sorry for misunderstanding.
But, and as one who has lived within a _completely_ different culture than my home (and enjoyed every bit of it until it got a bit too hot), I find that broadening culture is an attitude from within rather than a muscle that needs exercise. If all work is honorable, and all honestly held beliefs demand respect, and every human has value until proven otherwise, grasping at artificial measures is unnecessary. When I am driving (I do, a lot as part of the job), the same 20 or so CDs get the job done. And that they range from Emmylou Harris to Vivaldi's Gloria to The Chieftains is no one's business but my own... not in a selfish sense, please do not misunderstand that statement. But in the sense that they are stimulating, demand attention (so I stay awake) and are a 'good noise'. I put no intellectual stock in music, much as work, all music is honorable. That I do not understand some segments of it is as likely my failing, not necessarily a failing of the music. That I generally prefer Mozart to Led Zeppelin has nothing to do with education, achievement, or anything else other than what I like and what I prefer. I am no masochist. When it comes to food, drink, music and culture, I will try about anything once. But if I dislike the experience, I feel no intellectual need to try it again. I am long past the stage where I have anything to prove and pretty much at the stage where my professional and personal reputation is made, there being no need to make any statements, sound trumpets or put pointers to prove anything to a stranger. That they judge by my actions and by the results I cause, no more, is enough. There are perhaps four people (my family) on this earth who have any actual power whatsoever over my life and my happiness. Friends, acquaintances and colleagues are wonderful, important, and to be cherished and/or respected depending on where they fall in that range. But they have no real power over me or how I choose to live. You might think about this before you put yourself in a maze where your turnings and progress are measured by 'rules' and perceived 'protections' of your intellectual powers. If they are so insubstantial as they need that sort of thing, NOTHING imposed will preserve them. Following the advice of another on how to enjoy your life is a fool's game. Putting limits on how you live your life and make such minute decisions as the choice of 'good noise' is terribly sad. I truly hope that I am understanding what you said as poorly as the first time, but if my understanding is at all accurate, it certainly explains a great deal. Peter Wieck Wyncote, PA |
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There you go, Peter. You've misunderstood again. Nobody tells me what
to do; my god is curiosity. I share information, I offer trivia equally with pearls of wisdom; I respect your intelligence to do with them what you will but I don't actually care what you think until you prove useful or entertaining. On the other hand, I don't pass moral judgements until someone puts himself in my face and tries to prescribe for me; I leave that sort of pointless moralizing to leftwingers and Americans, who both seem to derive some spurious comfort of superioty from it. -- AJ wrote: Mpfffff... OK. Sorry for misunderstanding. But, and as one who has lived within a _completely_ different culture than my home (and enjoyed every bit of it until it got a bit too hot), I find that broadening culture is an attitude from within rather than a muscle that needs exercise. If all work is honorable, and all honestly held beliefs demand respect, and every human has value until proven otherwise, grasping at artificial measures is unnecessary. When I am driving (I do, a lot as part of the job), the same 20 or so CDs get the job done. And that they range from Emmylou Harris to Vivaldi's Gloria to The Chieftains is no one's business but my own... not in a selfish sense, please do not misunderstand that statement. But in the sense that they are stimulating, demand attention (so I stay awake) and are a 'good noise'. I put no intellectual stock in music, much as work, all music is honorable. That I do not understand some segments of it is as likely my failing, not necessarily a failing of the music. That I generally prefer Mozart to Led Zeppelin has nothing to do with education, achievement, or anything else other than what I like and what I prefer. I am no masochist. When it comes to food, drink, music and culture, I will try about anything once. But if I dislike the experience, I feel no intellectual need to try it again. I am long past the stage where I have anything to prove and pretty much at the stage where my professional and personal reputation is made, there being no need to make any statements, sound trumpets or put pointers to prove anything to a stranger. That they judge by my actions and by the results I cause, no more, is enough. There are perhaps four people (my family) on this earth who have any actual power whatsoever over my life and my happiness. Friends, acquaintances and colleagues are wonderful, important, and to be cherished and/or respected depending on where they fall in that range. But they have no real power over me or how I choose to live. You might think about this before you put yourself in a maze where your turnings and progress are measured by 'rules' and perceived 'protections' of your intellectual powers. If they are so insubstantial as they need that sort of thing, NOTHING imposed will preserve them. Following the advice of another on how to enjoy your life is a fool's game. Putting limits on how you live your life and make such minute decisions as the choice of 'good noise' is terribly sad. I truly hope that I am understanding what you said as poorly as the first time, but if my understanding is at all accurate, it certainly explains a great deal. Peter Wieck Wyncote, PA |
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![]() "Margaret von B." wrote: "Margaret von B." wrote in message ... Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. I can almost touch him. sigh It is moments like this that only tubes and horns can create...when everything is just right. Nothing can replicate the dynamics in my experience...nothing can relax like a concert experience at one's own house. Thank you John Atkinson for carrying the torch for us enlightened ones! :-) Lined up on the RL trunk: Jose Carreras - Misa Criolla Shaggy - Mr. Lover Lover (The Best of) Chuck Berry - The Chess Box The Sisters of Mercy - A Slight Case of Overbombing U2 - The Joshua Tree Graham |
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![]() " wrote: don't play any of your discs more than once a month and play it no more than twice YIKES! Why? Do the bits go stale? This is a digitally encoded stamped...... Oh ! I never imagined the advice was to do with technical reasons ( obviously an insane concept ). I thought he meant don't play it too often or you may tire of it and it will lose its appeal. Graham |
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![]() "Pooh Bear" wrote in message ... "Margaret von B." wrote: "Margaret von B." wrote in message ... Dean Martin - That's Amore. Denon all format player Nagra tube amps Avantgarde horns = Heaven. Dean Martin IS singing in my music room. I can almost touch him. sigh It is moments like this that only tubes and horns can create...when everything is just right. Nothing can replicate the dynamics in my experience...nothing can relax like a concert experience at one's own house. Thank you John Atkinson for carrying the torch for us enlightened ones! :-) Lined up on the RL trunk: Jose Carreras - Misa Criolla Shaggy - Mr. Lover Lover (The Best of) Chuck Berry - The Chess Box The Sisters of Mercy - A Slight Case of Overbombing Sounds familiar. This Corrosion was an anthem in my youth in Boston. I think their communism was a rather silly marketing trick. But I did like the music. U2 - The Joshua Tree Graham I'm spinning Lonely and Blue. Thanks Andre for reminding I had Roy Orbison! Lined up: Chris Rea - Auberge. Cheers, Margaret |
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![]() Andre Jute wrote: There you go, Peter What's with all this top-posting ? Have to get your words in first ? Graham |
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I thought he meant don't play it too often or you may tire of it and it
will lose its appeal. I would have thought that except for the way the stricture was stated, and that it was given as 'received wisdom'. A rigid time period and a rigid quantity within that period. SOoooo much like other audiophoolery that it was almost indistinguishable. There is enough going on in my life that from week to week I seldom remember what I played last week and in what order. In a month... And at work, I really need only about 10 CDs, for those few times that the music passes from background to foreground and imprints on memory. Even then, a clear female soprano voice singing Mozart will support considerable repetition. Peter Wieck Wyncote, PA |
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![]() Margaret von B. wrote: I'm spinning Lonely and Blue. Thanks Andre for reminding I had Roy Orbison! Lined up: Chris Rea - Auberge. Cheers, Margaret Hey! You inspired me to take down my pop box. Three discs of Roy Orbison, currently singing The Crowd, 48 songs altogether. Oh my God, that is genuine blue collar longing, genuine emotion, nothing fake like The Beatles, middle class boys pretending to be working class. Next out of the box, behind the three Orbison discs, I grabbed this handful, which are waiting on my side table: a Chuck Berry (1) compilation cover disc from a magazine series we designed, Fontella Bass No Ways Tired, Nat King Cole Let's Face the Music, The Bonzo Dog Band. My pop library is only about 250 discs, including recorded humour and indispensable musicals and film music, and that is a fair representation: it probably types me as an incurably old-fashioned 1950/60s rocker/romantic, zero street cred. Watch me worry, Dr Neumann. I'll also look out the Songs of the Auvergne though not by Chris Rea! Thanks for the mnemonic transference, Margaret. This is a super thread you started. Andre Jute (1) One of the great quotes of the twentieth century: "They pulled the plug in the middle of my song. That's like pulling a man off the job." -- Chuck Berry, explaining in two short sentences what rock'n'roll was really about, putting all the intellectuals in their place. |
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![]() Andre Jute wrote: Margaret von B. wrote: I'm spinning Lonely and Blue. Thanks Andre for reminding I had Roy Orbison! Lined up: Chris Rea - Auberge. Cheers, Margaret Hey! You inspired me to take down my pop box. Three discs of Roy Orbison, currently singing The Crowd, 48 songs altogether. Oh my God, that is genuine blue collar longing, genuine emotion, nothing fake like The Beatles, middle class boys pretending to be working class. Next out of the box, behind the three Orbison discs, I grabbed this handful, which are waiting on my side table: a Chuck Berry (1) compilation cover disc from a magazine series we designed, Fontella Bass No Ways Tired, Nat King Cole Let's Face the Music, The Bonzo Dog Band. Erk !!!!! I did the sound for Viv Stanshall's band once. Bloody lousy venue ( Student Union bar @ Trent Park IIRC ) with concrete beams in the ceiling aiding the feedback. It was something of a 'no-hope' gig esp. since Viv's band wanted me to mike an upright piano in those circumstances. Not often I've been in a situation where I'd have loved to simply walk away. Graham |
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