What is the first piece of music you would play on your dream system?
Posted by: erik scothron on 02 January 2006
You come home and find that your wife has bought you a CD555/552/500x3 active/DBLs and run off with the milkman - in your supreme happines what is the first piece of music you would play to celebrate your new gains?
Posted on: 04 January 2006 by Sloop John B
Neil Young - Cortez the Killer from Zuma
Posted on: 05 January 2006 by Merto
John Martyn - Solid Air, the whole album. Incredible to think that half of this stuff was written on the fly and was recorded over about 4 days. Its just a raw, spontaneous, spine tingling jam session and Danny Thompsons bass playing is nothing short of amazing.
Posted on: 05 January 2006 by willem
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Originally posted by Sloop John B:
Neil Young - Cortez the Killer from Zuma
Yeah, right, or 'On the Beach', or 'Down by the River' or 'Powderfinger', or...
CD555/552/500x3 active/DBLs not my fav system though. Too big. And I want to keep my wife
Willem
Posted on: 05 January 2006 by HR
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Originally posted by willem:
CD555/552/500x3 active/DBLs not my fav system though. Too big. And I want to keep my wife
Willem
Willem,
I am with you. The average sane wife, on seeing the bill for all those fives (555 & 552 & 500), will immediately demand to be compensated with diamonds and furs, and if we accomodate her how on earth are we going to be able to afford our next urgent upgrade?
I believe in keeping life simple, so I stick with the NAIT.
Regards,
Haim
Posted on: 05 January 2006 by erik scothron
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Originally posted by HR:
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Originally posted by willem:
CD555/552/500x3 active/DBLs not my fav system though. Too big. And I want to keep my wife
Willem
Willem,
I am with you. The average sane wife, on seeing the bill for all those fives (555 & 552 & 500), will immediately demand to be compensated with diamonds and furs, and if we accomodate her how on earth are we going to be able to afford our next urgent upgrade?
I believe in keeping life simple, so I stick with the NAIT.
Regards,
I recently asked a NAIM employee why all their 'boxes' looked the same, he replied it was so 'wives don't know we have upgraded'. I think this is a very good reason to buy NAIM.
Haim
Posted on: 05 January 2006 by erik scothron
I recently asked a NAIM employee why all their 'boxes' looked the same, he replied it was so 'wives don't know we have upgraded'. I think this is a very good reason to buy NAIM.
Posted on: 05 January 2006 by HR
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
I recently asked a NAIM employee why all their 'boxes' looked the same, he replied it was so 'wives don't know we have upgraded'. I think this is a very good reason to buy NAIM.
Erik,
I agree with you. It is a double-edge sword. On one hand they do not bother to put on their identical boxes even a model number, to let you know that as long as it is a NAIM you are O.K., but if on the other hand, you feel like upgrading , they provide you with the perfect camouflaged way to do it.
I wish that they would supply us also with wives who cannot count boxes. Then life would be easier and sound better.
Regards,
Haim
Posted on: 07 January 2006 by Voltaire
I'm kindda of with JeremyD on this, I think I would play something which I didnt like in the hope that dream Naim system could imbue it with some positive qualities...I would choose the muscial equalivent of a dan brown novel, say a brass band as I intensly dislike brass bands ( too many whit fridays forced to listen to them )
maybe I'm confusing dream with miracle...
if it was an active system, i might even see if Naim could inject some PRAT into Coldplay...whats that? there's enough PRAT in Coldplay...come on boyz and girlz..tut tut..
Posted on: 07 January 2006 by Nime
Almost anything with Nigel Kennedy.
Probably Elgar or Vaughan Williams.
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by Wolf
I think I'd go for something I was really familiar with so I'll pick either the Beatles' White album or Abbey Road.
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by u5227470736789439
Saint Matthew Passion. If I am moved to cry before the end, the system is working. Otherwise, I would stick with what I have.
Fredrik
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by Stephen Tate
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
I recently asked a NAIM employee why all their 'boxes' looked the same, he replied it was so 'wives don't know we have upgraded'. I think this is a very good reason to buy NAIM.
Excellent!
Most may disagree but, Black sabbath - paranoid.
Just to warm the system up before more serious listening genres commence.
cheers
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by arf005
Miles Davis - Kind of blue for me.......
Cheers,
Ali
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by bazz
Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel.
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by thirty three and a third
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Originally posted by Sloop John B:
Neil Young - Cortez the Killer from Zuma
This is a fantastic choice, on vinyl, of course! I would be remiss if I didn't play some of this first though...
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by Earwicker
Hammerklavier, Brendel (live)
Posted on: 15 January 2006 by Earwicker
Oh, and definitely this:
Posted on: 16 January 2006 by u5227470736789439
Dear EW,
You are SOOOOO serious! How about some Gilbert and Sullivan? Fredrik
Posted on: 16 January 2006 by NaimDropper
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Most may disagree but, Black sabbath - paranoid.
Just to warm the system up before more serious listening genres commence.
"Rat Salad" and "Fairies Wear Boots" ... YES!
Would take me back to being a 12-year-old again... A LONG time ago!
David
Posted on: 19 January 2006 by Wolf
Not my dream system yet but I just bought a 300 S/H and had 2 days to warm up so I had my first critical listening last night starting around 4pm until 9 when I went to bed exhausted but quite happy. That 300 is some amp, such detail, precision in highs and mids and punch to the bass. First as I was running around I put on Sting's Ten Summuner's Tales a friend gave me, not my favorite but it made that sound so understandable. Then I wanted to try out some good bass parts so out came Beatles Let it Be...Naked. Paul really had some interesting bass lines and the whole thing sounded wonderful. Peter Gabriel with Salsbury Hill, on vinyl. Great studio recording. Lyle Lovett, Joshua Judges Ruth, some good country soul and gospel in that recording, one of my favs. Some classical piano Stravinsky's Rite of Spring on vinyl, and from Naxos Szymnovsky piano pieces and then to end the night Joni Mitchell's Hissing of Summer Lawns.
Tonight early Steely Dan, JJ Cale and who knows what else. I feel a vinyl evening coming on. I'll be down with my parents this weekend so I should get a good listen in before my trip.
Posted on: 19 January 2006 by erik scothron
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Earwicker:
Oh, and definitely this
Hmm sublime.
Posted on: 20 January 2006 by Earwicker
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
Hmm sublime.
It certainly is.
EW
Posted on: 21 January 2006 by ClaudeP
Posted on: 22 January 2006 by Ken Brady
Easy: Pink Floyd Dark side of the Moon. Then Supertramp crime of the century. Then Emmerson Lake and Palmer. After that it will be Natalie Merchant then Loreena Mckinnet and finnish with some pop like Toni Braxton and round it off with Dave brubeck new quartet direct to disk. This could take a while better not disturb while listening.
Now I'm all excited and I can't listen because I am at work!
Ken
Posted on: 24 January 2006 by Shayman
Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs - Brian & Michael
