High Water High

High Water High

As I entered Jeffrey Catalano's High Water Sound exhibit, I was immediately taken by the beauty of Herbie Hancock's <I>Watermelon Man</I> (Cisco LP re-issue). Listening to a recording of the music of Heinrich Biber further underscored the beauty of this system's midrange. Heard were the turntable owned by the First Chair violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic, the TW Acustic BlackNight ($40,000) with TW 10.5 tonearm ($5500) and Dynavector XV1T cartridge ($9000), TW Acustic Raven phonostage ($9000), Th&#246;ress linestage ($8000), Th&#246;ress 300B 6W monoblocks ($10,000), Horning Aristotle 98dB-sensitive loudspeakers ($15,000) with Zigma Ultimate Plus Lowther DX65 drive-units, Stealth cables, and Silent Running Audio Equipment rack ($12,000).

Now Listening

A list of stuff I've been listening to lately, at home and at work:

James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game
John Fahey: Voice of the Turtle
Julianna Barwick (my new music crush): Florine
LA Vampires/Psychic Reality: 12" split
Noveller: Red Rainbows
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me

TRs "5 star" recording master list...

So these are all the albums that have had a profound effect on me..combination of great sonics, killer songwriting..

I keep them separated from the rest on a special shelf my Dad and I built. Truly Desert island discs!

joshua judges ruth- lyle lovett

wilco- a ghost is born and YHF and Mermaid Ave VI

joe henry=blood from the stars

Pedro The Lion - Control

Iron And Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

Slowreader on Fueled by Ramen Records

Neutral Milk Hotel-in an airplane over the sea

Sheby Lynne's "Suit Yourself"

Mumbo-Jumbo?

I stumbled over this weird plugin. Sounds like pure idiocy to me. "...and the silence has a great vintage roundness to it that I haven't heard in a long time. Kudos for taking silence to the next level of quietness."

What a load of crap. If there's silence there's silence. You can't add more quietness to silence. This must be a pull-my-finger-plug-in.

http://www.sonicfinger.com/DeadQuietenator.html

DIY basstraps

I am experimenting with these DIY basstraps, one in each corner behind the speakers. They do have some kind of influence on the LF, but in what area, I have no clue. The deeper bass seems to wander less back and forth in my listening room though. It's more dry in a way, like the majority of the pressure waves are less noticeable. I have made them with both inner and outer membranes, in order to increase their effectiveness.

A Farewell To Verbal Arms!

I have decided to spend my free time devoting my energy toward my family and community. These forums seem to bring out the worst in everyone and very infrequently enlighten. The world is what we make of it, and I will try to make it a better place for my children and for all those souls that have yet to enter this world. They will inoccently expect freedom, personal rights of expression, thought and religion. They will wish to be able to pursue their dreams unhindered, and not to live under the oppressive atmosphere of an elitist "Nanny State".

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