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This is really great news.The Triumphant Return of Mike Moffat
This is really great news.The Triumphant Return of Mike Moffat
As have I. I'm eager for news and/or info regarding an Yggy 2.Excited to hear from Mike! Glad to hear he’s feeling up to it. I sent in a few questions.
I heard some Enrico Caruso (died 1921) recordings that were transcribed to CDs. I don’t remember if they were sourced from Berliner discs or some other format, but they were scratchy with a very narrow dynamic range and frequency. They were sublime and hinted at why he was the worlds most celebrated tenor in his time.
ITunes uses the Gracenote database, which is crowd-sourced. I have a lot of obscure indie CDS from the 80s, and I have submitted their metadata to gracenote. Usually I don't like doing work for free, because of course they turn around and sell what I've done for them, but in this case I have had a couple of occasions when my itune back up failed and I needed to re rip CDS. I was glad to have my work preserved somewhere out there with the correct data for my stuff.
But the quality is exactly what you would expect from randos on the web. Not Apple's fault (in this case).
Welcome, and ... Great avatar!
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This is something that I use to ( somewhat troll-ishly, I admit ) challenge audiophiles - classical historical recordings - sublime interpretations, poor sound. And surprisingly, I have found out, the result is 50-50 - yes too high, imho, but better than expected - yes, about half of the responses to the actual issue admit that they cannot get past bad sound - rather have modern sound. But again, about half indeed agree - interpretation over sound...
A recent release that has a fantastic performance is the Thelonious Monk Palo Alto concert from 1968. This was a one off concert organized by a high school student at Palo Alto HS. The concert was recorded by an amateur (the school custodian). It’s not clear what recording equipment was used - but...it’s not awesome sound quality. The tunes though...what a great performance. No problem for me getting past the sonics.
FWIW, the kid went on to become a well-known Bay Area promoter and music industry guy.
wish I could give more than 1 “like” lol.LOL! But this is more accurate:
A recent release that has a fantastic performance is the Thelonious Monk Palo Alto concert from 1968. This was a one off concert organized by a high school student at Palo Alto HS. The concert was recorded by an amateur (the school custodian). It’s not clear what recording equipment was used - but...it’s not awesome sound quality. The tunes though...what a great performance. No problem for me getting past the sonics.
FWIW, the kid went on to become a well-known Bay Area promoter and music industry guy.
I gave up and a used Vidar is inbound. With an extra Eitr and god knows what else, some kind of headphone adapter to the Vidar. What did I do?Vidars showed up, all I and Wall-E can say is "awesome" - will get 'em hooked up tmw
I was talking with a buddy outside the university building we chose to lurk around (we were both social science majors) and a woman is talking to us about gear. And she says, "you must really love music" to spend that much thought and money on gear.Why "responses to the actual issue" ? well - admitting that many get upset at the veiled "you really don't care about the music" accusation in the prompt... - I said it was troll-ish! - I know audiophiles get accused of that all the time... even by Alan Parsons!