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My friend that was majoring in music use to listen to tapes, often live recordings of not so high quality, through a portible stereo. I asked him how he get stand to listen to it, and he replied he was more into the quality of the players then the quality of the recording. He could always get over a poor recording if he could feel what the players were doing at the time. |
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In the purest sense of the word, an audiophile is someone who loves audio for its own sake and not necessarily for musical or aesthetic reasons. This technically does not describe most of us who just want to get as close as possible to the performances of our favorite artists.
As for who that is, I have very broad tastes, ranging from Bach to Brubeck to the Beastie Boys to Black Sabbath (and that's just under "B"). Jazz from the mid-'60s is probably closest to my heart. My favorite band is probably Miles' second quintet featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, etc. While Miles was signed to Columbia, his sidemen had many recordings separately and exploring their Blue Note output was pretty much the pinnacle of my musical enjoyment--especially Shorter's run of Blue Note titles. |
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I Like Femele voice singer mostly. I Like a lot of post 90 stuff. I'am a huge Cranberries Fan, my goal is to own all their vinyl one day (i got 1).
I like Metal too, mostly Metallica, Guns. Rock too but mostly Def Leppard 80's stuff because that the stuff i listen in school. I like Sarah Mclacklan (wrong spelling here), Dido, Nellly etc and for a weird reason i like DragonForce, never been in Speed Metal that much, but i don't know. I bought their latest album on Vinyl and it sound great. I have the previous one in CD and it sound like crap so i had low expectation. But that production seemed better |
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I also listen to a lot of other jazz, including a lot of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and Cannonball Adderly. I listen to many different types of music though, including rock, pop, R&B, and classical as well. If you want a few good non-jazz/classical SACDs, which are few and far between, I'd recommend the following: Norah Jones - Come Away with Me Keane - Hopes and Fears Snow Patrol - Final Straw Billy Joel - The Stranger Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood Eric Clapton - Slowhand Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick Road Dire Straights - Brothers in Arms and of course Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon |
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I'm certainly not an audiophile....... so I'm listening to some good ol' fashioned poly-ethnic-slam-grass (Leftover Salmon) and just GETTIN' DOWN right now
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Well, you can certianly count me as an audiophile.
I care more for the sound than the picture, and bought my DVD-Audio player the moment it was manufactured. There are some truely awesome multichannel DVD-Audio discs such a BBKing & Eric Clapton, Riding with the King. Modern music gets a whole new perspective too, the 'Staind' DVD-Audio disc really shows up limitations of other formats except SACD of course. |
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Interesting Subject,
My Dad certainly was an audiophile when I was growing up; he seems to have a lot less interest in that hobby nowadays. His brother also was of that ilk and even hosted a classical roadio show in Montreal for many many years. Their tastes certainly ranged from the very popular to the frankly obscure. I learned a lot from the both of them I thought I'd give my perspective as one who is a professional musician (I'm a "classical" performer, but I also do some commercial writing). I have bought some reasonable equipment over the last few years, and have started to buy a few Audio DVD's and even some SACD's, but the equipment I bought is really for Home Theatre use, because it's something my wife and my two teenage boys enjoy. The Truth is: I should be an audiophile, but in the end I'm not really. My wife is also a musician are we are both insanely busy (as my low posting count can attest). The time we can devote to purely recreational listening is extremely limited and sometimes can feel like work anyway. Lately, I've been hired to write a couple of scores for documentaries (I hadn't done film before) and I even find myself listen to film soundtracks rather than paying attention to the movie! Oddly enough, we actually rely on iTunes a great deal because when preparing performances, it's very easy to get to or three recordings of Sibelius Symphony no. "X" upon demand which we can then listen to while practicing or in the car etc ... Despite the rate of compression (those mp3's sure sound terrible on my home theatre), we have a large collection of mp3 due the practical aspect of it. In some ways, it echoes JDC115's message that great performances tend to be more valuable to us than great recordings, but boy is it ever great to have both! Sadly, I have a concert this weekend, another on Tuesday, and must finish 10 full orchestra charts for a C&W artist for a SYmphony Pops concert this coming December and will have very little for myself. SOme of the free time will be taken to watch a great flick in our basement with my whole family, which is more valuable to me - hopefully, I won't be trying to analyze the soundtrack ... Someone wrote about Alison Krauss; I wrote a full orchestra show for an excellent Blugrass band once. It quite quite successful and really got me interested in that music. Now: writing for Alison Krauss - that would be great fun! One day maybe ... |
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Gopsel (live prefered - all genures - jazz,traditional, urban, rap), Jazz (Studio and live), and classical - that's what I listen to. I also direct choirs, compose, and mix. I don't consider myself an audiophile but I like good sound and well recorded music - even a "mistake" can add character to recording. Very interesting listening.
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Personally I like great music recorded well. I am about to stir up some dust here. I believe that two channel recordings no matter how good, are always a bad distortion of a live event. It is spatially impossible to capture a live event with just two channels, so I have never believed that it is the best way to listen to music regardless of the price of the system. We hear binaurally, so surround is really the only way to capture and playback an event accurately. While most audiophiles revere vinyl, I celebrated the day when SACD and DVD-A arrived. |
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Sir Terrence....Please post some pic's of your awesome theater set-up.....
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I am not the biggest fan of multichannel music - I mostly see it as a work in progress. Also, there is a bunch of historical recordings that will never be available in that format. |
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While you are correct about any recording being a distortion, your goal when recording is create as few distortions of that event as you can. That would mean kicking two channel recording to the curb in my opinion right from the start. Quote:
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The question of live is moot unless you have a time machine and can go back to watch Heifetz play Beethoven's violin concerto in D and Mendelssohn's violin concerto in E minor. Until time travel is developed I strongly suggest you get the SACD, as that may be as close as you get to the original 3-channel recording. |
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