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What an unusual outcome.

I'd wager a guess that 99% of people in the world think this is not acceptable. edit: I accept that people are willing to spend...

The implication here being that the creative process ends - or should end - at this point? That playback should be a passive experience...

Interesting. ... Same venue, same band, same session sounded different to me when played directly from YouTube. Until I compared short...

Humans are predominantly visual creatures, and visual stimulus often skews auditory perception. This is why I often listen to both live...

I stumbled across a short article on the Stereophile website today concerned with the psychoacoustic perception of recording quality...

OMG! I've got the Kenwood version of that thing (KC-6060A) stuffed away in storage. Surprised to see those are going for between one and...

My sincere thanks to everyone who participated. Observing the distribution of presumptions and internalizations to what I tossed out as...

Let's have a little fun today ... Assertion: The background noise level of a typical home listening environment is at least 40 dB SPL...

I never said that improvisation was exclusive to jazz, only that it is the thread that ties all forms of jazz together. There's a...

It's difficult for anyone to define exactly what jazz is due to the incredibly broad spectrum of music that is classified as Jazz. By...

I've been thinkin this over, but I'm likely still wrong. Why we like jazz is kinda like why we like humor. Both set us up with a...

I think I can see the entire Modern Jazz Quartet rolling in their graves in response to that allegation. For most of its history the MJQ...

Yes, quite. /full stop/

A recording does not do art; the art is what the recording holds. So any improvisation the artist did is still presented in the...