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Closing Open Talk was a mistake. Clearly there is a need here for audio minded individuals to release their inner beast. Rather label it as The Loonie Bin or The Sandpit and let them have at each other. Also bring an ignore facility so that one can choose which posters to read or not. For...

Have to agree - too many old entrenched values.

Sehr gut :)

Hmm, and yet everyone is having a bad reaction. Unfair to blame just one person. If he has offended you then a simple ignore and carry on would have sufficed. The historic mentality still prevails here. Sad all round.

As an old guy living off SASSA at this time I cannot afford a subscription. This discussion I have had with a moderator here. The follow on is would I think it money well spent to be a subscriber? I have my doubts. Given that there are interesting people and intellects here I find it on balance...

@AlleyCat Based on your post I have obtained a flac of "Gal Costa Live at Blue Note". Will give it a spin after adding to the library this weekend. Also got this "Caetano Veloso - Gal Costa - Gilberto Gil - Ao Vivo Na Bahia" and a discography of this "Harold Budd" wth 26 albums! Busy weekend and...

That is a good categorization. And can it apply to equipment? Which might allow for a graphic quantification where good music meets good sound system and result in a quantifiable/definable result. There would have to be some consensual standard of good. Equally a mismatch of standards would...

It's the way of the past.

Perhaps the recording should have a label detailing the method and equipment used to make the recording - an informed purchase could then follow. Some old lp's did include such data albeit very briefly.

I really like your presentation. It makes a lot of sense to me. The system which set me off on the hifi road to hell was a Citation/B&O 4000/Tannoy set up n 1972 at a chemist in PE who also sold hifi. It blew me away cos I saw the performers in front of me, whether Pentangle or a symphony...

And where does promoting it lie? Gotta get it to market or even create a market. Big bucks spend on that.

I have followed this forum on and off through the years. I did not always have a good impression of some of the members with grand titles and high message counts - more into their ego's and verbal sparring than music and equipment. Some of that still remains especially some who seem to like to...

Bet that melted the icicle...

In that vein, when I was a kid, we had a really poor quality recordng of Amelita Galli-Curci - before the rinderpest as I tormented my parents - singing Song of India. Sounded like one of those horn wind up gramophones with the dog's head stuck in it. But what a voice and she came through the...

@AlleyCat Permit one small correction, please. I did not question the hearing ability - and never will for what I hear is not what you hear etc - but rather the absurdity of a live performance being stated as more real than a recording of same. It just tickled my humor cells. And what is this...

Sadly, the lie always drowns out the facts.

And right on cue! Perhaps the political pics discussion should be on a pay per minute basis...

@AlleyCat No just excessively diverted that a real performance sounded more real than a recorded one. Who'd a thunk? But where would we be without a journalist to point this out to us - where's the Monty Python crew when you need them?

For real?