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Maybe you’ve just led a sheltered life.
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Even if a historic monument stirs your cultural pride, should it remain if it misrepresents or distorts actual history?
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Another one of my oldies - Paul Horn, “Inside the Great Pyramid” Solo flute improvisations recorded within the chambers of the Great Pyramid. Vintage New Age (how’s that for a genre?) and very cool recording with ancient acoustics.
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I run Cornwall IIs at home and Forte IIs at our other property and there’s a lot of music between the bottom end of the Forte II (32Hz) and the Cornwall II (38Hz). I abided by the old mantra that subs are for HT effects but for music, “ya don’t need no stinkin’ sub with Fortes or Khorns.” So, I have no idea what music lurks beneath the floor of my ol’ Fortes. I think my next 2-ch system related purchase will have to be a sub.
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Another from my long forgotten dabbling effort to acquire class. I bought this one simply because the actress on the cover reminded of my high school sweetie and I thought it was about time to pick up some Mozart anyway. I eventually saw “Elvira Madigan” (the quintessential schmaltzy romantic chick flick) at a foreign film festival with another girlfriend who commented on how beautiful she thought the actress was. After the movie, we went back to my humble college abode (a tiny stone cabin holdover from the early Model T touring days) and I played the album as we downed a bottle of Auslese from Flintstone juice glasses by candle light......yada yada. These old albums do contain some nice memories, I’m glad that I hung on to them.
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Going through some of my oldest records. This is the first album that I ever bought. I wanted to start a DG recording collection in my teens but not start with the usual Bach or Beethoven and the cover looked so classy on this one. I thought by my age now that I’d have have a wall full of black an yellow labels but I think I only have about a dozen and those are mostly in boxes. This is a very nice recording and still sounds clean after 45 years of being lugged around the world.
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You might like the article posted in this thread.
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What's your favorite song to play a little louder
sputnik replied to Could sound better's topic in Lounge
Enya and Tangerine Dream are good choices as well for good high volume play. Of course, if you really want to shake the house, there’s always the classic digital cannons on the Telarc 1812 Overture https://www.stereophile.com/content/recording-october-1979-telarc-1812-overture -
What's your favorite song to play a little louder
sputnik replied to Could sound better's topic in Lounge
Try these (but you’ll want to have good speakers 😜) Speedway at Nazareth - Mark Knopfler, Sailing to Philadelphia album (my top choice, explodes around the 3 minute mark) Money for Nothing (long version) - Dire Straits, Best of - Private Investigations DSOTM - Pink Floyd (entire album) Underture - The Who, Tommy Jammin - Bob Marley, Legend Best of - added: As long as you’re going to find the MQA version of the Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over album on Tidal, listen to Take it Easy really loud too. -
Agree, it’s not just music or equipment. There’s also the quality of the source that can make magic. But then, it takes good equipment (and hopefully good music) to appreciate that too. A lot is mood dependent also - I can be blown away by fuzzy AM reception of an old familiar (not necessarily good) piece of music on a long stretch of lonely highway.
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Just finished listening to Milt Jackson and put the jazz away for a while and playing an old Flairck album (Variations on a Lady) to wake up, keep the vibes theme going, and return to the earlier Dutch band theme at the same time.
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I have this one on right now. Cool label design too.
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Listening to some more of my new-2-me jazz collection.
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Here are a few of the 45s. I’d like to give them a listen but I’ll have to get one of those adapter thingies.
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Ha, I have a bunch that are even older than me.
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Well, I did get them all. Maybe around 500 albums more or less and some 45s that I haven’t really gone through. This will be an enjoyable chore. I will need to pick up new sleeves, thanks for the lead. Here are few samples and they’re amazingly “quiet” for old vinyl.
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Still going through vintage jazz, here’s the last and maybe best one for the evening.
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Lots of good characters in that film. I loved the beautiful and haughty marine biologist with webbed toes.
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Having some fun going through these.
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Here are a few more.
