[Ableza]

Tia Sprocket.

Well damn, I thought I knew a lot about music and I've never heard of Tia Sprocket. Thanks, Mike!

 

[hearditontheX]

https://www.baratza.com/get-excited-270wi/ This might take precedence over Yggy—I may leave the smart grinder pro at the weekend pad for pour overs and keep the espresso rig at the weekday.

I have the 270 and it is fantastic.

 

[jacal01]

I guess if it's good it's going to get covered.

Good argument. About a month before Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, I had the good fortune to lay in the soundtrack CD to I'm Not There, the movie of his life. The movie soundtrack is a series of covers of his songs, all rendered by top musical artists and groups of our day. Amazingly well done as a project effort, and a most fitting tribute to Dylan's music and poetry as it were. I thought it an appropriate and timely find. I was particularly taken by Antony and the Johnsons' (now Anohni) haunting cover of Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door.



But country Nirvana?? C'mon...

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

My daughter texted me just the other day while in the car to a pool party with her daughters complaining of trying to sing along to a bluegrass rendition of Dark Side of the Moon. This for an album that made the top 100 list for over 10 years in a row, if not falling under the category "Is nothing sacred?", may well be indicative of a growing trend.

Poor man's wipsie "Dark side of Moonshine"
It's a fine album indeed.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

I find that the balcony sound is softer than the grand tier, more round and smooth, less aggressive.

I still prefer the grand tier.

 

[ScubaMan2017]

Boy do I look forward to you being proven wrong on that.

With pictures.

Pictures of headphones and Schiit in Antarctica.

[I recommend the Lyr 2. My favorite hand warmer.]

...apparently, Schiit products are near the Arctic Circle...

 

[Rensek]

I have been researching using spikes or rubber feet, or something else to rest my towers on, and it has taken me to a number of audio sites. The signature of one fellow struck me as appropriate for this thread.

"We should no more let numbers define audio quality than we should let chemical analysis be the arbiter of fine wines." Nelson Pass

 

[Mike-WI]

I have been researching using spikes or rubber feet, or something else to rest my towers on, and it has taken me to a number of audio sites. The signature of one fellow struck me as appropriate for this thread.

"We should no more let numbers define audio quality than we should let chemical analysis be the arbiter of fine wines." Nelson Pass

"Latest ideas show that music probably came before language, which in turn led to our culture. In many ways, music is what being human is all about. We have a primordial need to make, receive, and share music. Without it, we are incomplete."
- Neal Young
(in Stereophile June 2015 p.137)

 

[wink]

Latest ideas are always replaced with later ideas which contradict the previous ideas......

 

[audio philestine]

My daughter texted me just the other day while in the car to a pool party with her daughters complaining of trying to sing along to a bluegrass rendition of Dark Side of the Moon. This for an album that made the top 100 list for over 10 years in a row, if not falling under the category "Is nothing sacred?", may well be indicative of a growing trend.

Are you sure it was bluegrass? The Chesky catalog has a "Jazz Side of the Moon" on it.

I'm more a fan of the Easy Stars All Stars' "Dub Side of the Moon". But that's just this phillistine's opinion

EDIT: I see PCT has identified the bluegrass version. Nice find.

 

[audio philestine]

Good argument. About a month before Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, I had the good fortune to lay in the soundtrack CD to I'm Not There, the movie of his life. The movie soundtrack is a series of covers of his songs, all rendered by top musical artists and groups of our day. Amazingly well done as a project effort, and a most fitting tribute to Dylan's music and poetry as it were. I thought it an appropriate and timely find. I was particularly taken by Antony and the Johnsons' (now Anohni) haunting cover of Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door.

Thanks! I didn't know about that one. That just went on this week's buy list, soon to be part of my collection.

 

[EricDH]

God, Boris Godunov was a snooze fest. I was there for three and a half hours, and heard maybe a half hour of interesting music.

Because of the composer or because of the performance?

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Because of the composer or because of the performance?

Because he fell asleep.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Composer, lol.

 

[garbulky]

Are you sure it was bluegrass? The Chesky catalog has a "Jazz Side of the Moon" on it.

I'm more a fan of the Easy Stars All Stars' "Dub Side of the Moon". But that's just this phillistine's opinion

EDIT: I see PCT has identified the bluegrass version. Nice find.

Dolly Parton did a country/bluegrass version of stairway to heaven. It was pretty great!