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by slowmotion
Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:48 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

First on tonight is Shostakovich 7th with Leningrad and Mariss Jansons. http://cdn.discogs.com/70MFjlLUXf3e6kVW5BKiCD1h_a0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-2500887-1287435186.jpeg.jpg It's on CD, because I don't have it on vinyl. I wonder if it even exist ...
by slowmotion
Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:55 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

The alternative is not an option right now.
by slowmotion
Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:46 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

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Just home from work, opened a local IPA, fired up the turntable. Life isn't so bad after all.
by slowmotion
Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:06 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Mahler 9th now. All death and gut wrenching horrible suffering. What really is the point.....
The point may be that Mahler's 9th is hauntingly beautiful music?

( is that a useful expression in the English language? "Hauntingly beautiful music"? )
by slowmotion
Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:47 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Fired up the turntable, opened a beer, this is on:

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by slowmotion
Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:11 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Mark, it was recorded live in Carnegie Hall in 1974, so it is in the middle of Miles' electric period.
Think of it as a noisy, chaotic jam session with several parts of absolute mind boggling beauty. :)
by slowmotion
Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:45 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Just finished listening to Cannonball Adderley in New York:

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And now Miles Davis : Dark Magus is on the turntable:

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by slowmotion
Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:09 pm
Forum: Valves
Topic: 212 stash ( Japan )
Replies: 9
Views: 7438

Re: 212 stash ( Japan )

Thanks! Wild and wonderful stuff!
by slowmotion
Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:35 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: Balanced GK71
Replies: 20
Views: 11321

Re: Balanced GK71

Have you pondered making an amp with highish output impedance ... ( maybe 50 ohms ) and using it with a single driver speaker?
by slowmotion
Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:42 pm
Forum: Speakers
Topic: Something stirs in the Undergrowth
Replies: 2802
Views: 1148504

The last time I tried to measure my speakers in the room I basically gave up. There was no ( or at least very little ) correlation with what I was hearing and my measurements. It probably takes - years - to learn how to measure speakers properly. Many years. Lynn has many times written about using p...
by slowmotion
Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:49 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1877478

So, just home from work, opened a bottle of IPA, fired up the system, and first record today is this one:

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Life isn't so bad!
by slowmotion
Sat Mar 21, 2015 11:28 am
Forum: Speakers
Topic: Something stirs in the Undergrowth
Replies: 2802
Views: 1148504

It's an interesting discussion , and as always, your tastes in music and in general will strongly influence your choices. I've come to appreciate the 288 for midrange with a 1" comp driver on top. I agree with what Lynn writes regarding the large format driver for midrange. There's something ve...
by slowmotion
Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:43 pm
Forum: Speakers
Topic: Something stirs in the Undergrowth
Replies: 2802
Views: 1148504

Sounds similar to my own path. I think Martin in Australia also have similar leanings ....