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How would you describe that 'family sound'?
Bald is good - some heads just get more perfect with age.I would be a long hair but unfortunately I am balding... Haha
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I'm looking at the Emotiva T1 speakers with great interest. Does anyone have any experience with them?
I purchased the Airmotiv T2s right after they were introduced. I'm very happy with them and imagine the T1s have a similar family sound. The tweeter is the same as I recall. I've got a single Vidar running them from my MJ2 preout.
Can anyone really describe a sound for another??? From my experience speakers manufacturers often build a line like the Emotiva Airmotiv series to share some intangibles. While I can listen to my T2s and comment on how they please me I can't do the necessary comparisons that speaker shopping requires.How would you describe that 'family sound'?
Bald is good - some heads just get more perfect with age.
Baldr is better.....
My Gumby finally has a gen 5 input card. I live in Singapore, and cost of factory installation would have been prohibitive, so it's a diy job. I have to admit the LEDs are not in their tiny sockets, but i can live with it for now.
Sound? I started with USB direct, then used a Breeze Audio Xmos interface in between (better imaging, maybe better clarity). With gen 5 the evolution of sound seems to have continued - even less glare and more like what i recall analogue sounded like. I'm not "hearing things I never heard before", but it feels as if I'll be able to listen a lot more without fatigue. Just more composed and flowing.
It's not a night and day transformation, just as the first step using the Xmos interface was not a huge step, but for the price - amazing!
One of my first classical favorites was Bahn Frei Polka by Strauss at the start of every Jean Shepherd show. Sheer lunacy.For some reason I can't listen to Richard Strauss. To me, it is always very busy, but also very empty music (contrary to Mahler, who's music I love). According to a friend of mine who is very deep into art, this emptiness is on purpose, it is to show how empty our existence is. I don't know if I remember his explanation correctly. Maybe I will one time reach the maturity to like Richard Strauss, but up till now, I resist it with a passion.
In Jason's thread we had audiophile confessions, this is my classical music confession......
One of my first classical favorites was Bahn Frei Polka by Strauss at the start of every Jean Shepherd show. Sheer lunacy.
Oops, that would be Eduard.I don't that piece, but are you sure you are talking about RICHARD Strauss?
Early pre-atonal Schoenberg would still be good for a beginner. Verklarte Nacht (either the string sextet or the fully orchestrated version) is not a difficult listen, but very intense and emotional.The context was not "favorite", it was someone expressing a desire to start listening to classical music for the first time. So, lol - no Bartok or Schoenberg !
One of my first classical favorites was Bahn Frei Polka by Strauss at the start of every Jean Shepherd show. Sheer lunacy.
Ha, at first I was amused at the thought of a polka by Richard Strauss, but it turns out he actually composed a few when he was a kid (before he was 10 years old!).I don't that piece, but are you sure you are talking about RICHARD Strauss?
Early pre-atonal Schoenberg would still be good for a beginner. Verklarte Nacht (either the string sextet or the fully orchestrated version) is not a difficult listen, but very intense and emotional.
How can one even state there's something as classical music for beginners?Early pre-atonal Schoenberg would still be good for a beginner. Verklarte Nacht (either the string sextet or the fully orchestrated version) is not a difficult listen, but very intense and emotional.