Music Room

There are many ways to skin this cat. At the moment I am on the trail of one "flavor".One current subculture has a number of striking characteristics. Among these are, in order of importance, faultless rhythm and pitch, color, and a particularly...

Well, my vinyl collection has grown by about three-hundred albums ...A friend's ex-room-mate abandoned his collection and after two years she was ready to toss them.I took the remainder after some guy of kijiji took about half.There are some real...

I have a handful of The Specials, The Untouchables, The Selector, and comps.I love this music and would love to expand my collection.as always, good quality remasters are a plus.

on the topic of improvements in playing, especially in orchestras, over the past 20+ years?

Hot off the press from Steely Dan's newsletter.... Steely Dan's Rent Party '09 12-piece bandwill be enlarged by one when Donald and Walterreunite with the legendary guitarist Larry Carltonfor six special setlist showsin New York, Los Angeles, and...

ha too the naimes can same one suggest a live recording of this artist terry

You find some beauties mind, what the heck is going on here? RegardsDiccus

Wand is rather unknown, but imo one of the best Brucknerians:9th, Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6Part 7and finally:Part 8

here is an excellent 10 minute introduction to the musically important idea of intonation : http://www.jayfriedman.net/ref...n_to_temperament.php

Naim That Tune: July/August 2009The shortlist for the coveted Mercury Prize 2009 is announced on Tuesday 21st July.As opposed to the usual ‘playlist’ I thought I would compile my personal predictions on this years nominations (I’m...

Anyone ever hear them? I was strolling through the local CD store yesterday and heard it (oddly enough they didn't have the CD on the shelf) so I came home and purchased it through itunes, and I am hooked. Their new album is called Fantasies.I copied...

All The GhostsGwyneth Herbertnaimcd135 We're really excited about the release of Gwyneth's AMAZING new album on Naim Edge this week!We want to thank our forum users for their dedication to great music, so we are offering a 30% discount when using the...

Hi All,For those of you with large record collections we've come across a guy that'll capture and digitize your treasured LPs in Hi Res.As you know, there are now a lot of people trying this! There are also a good few ways of digitizing LPs but this...

Friday 24th @ 10.30 BBC4 & Live in La @11.20.

Hi,Any views on these? The general consensus seems to be that they are victims of the loudness wars. What are the best alternatives on CD?Thanks

Though it might shock some; Sham 69, The Roxy, late 1977. Phenomenal performance of real passion, great venue. I was known as "Roxy" for years afterwards, I went on about it so much.Sham 69 of those days where nothing like the pop band they ( sadly ) ...

I can thoroughly recommend www.swapacd.com as a great way of cheaply swapping CDs by mail. You get credit for CDs you post to other users, and can choose CDs to be sent to you. I have both sent and received over 30 CDs with no problems. There are...

Reports out of Boulder Colorado indicate the passing of Gordon Holt, Audio pioneer, this morning.

I discovered Thea Gilmore courtesy of NAIM - and I've been a big fan ever since! Those of you like me may be interested in checking out the subscription service /www.theagilmore.net/news.cfm?mpf=frame& Thea is promising FLAC uncompressed downloads in addition to the usual MP3. I'm pushing for 24/96 Cheers Richard

I was just sitting in the kitchen at 1.30pmand I heard this lovely pure aria coming fromthe TV in the living room. Flat mate was watching the Open Golf on BBC.Any idea who the singer was and what shewas singing?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else has ordered this box set from Amazon UK as they had it priced incorrectly should have been £200but they were selling at £157 which was the price for the stereo box set they have now rectified the ...

Otto klemperer is still famous nowadays as one of the supreme masters of Beethoven on the conductors podium. Here is an amazing youtube film in four parts of Klemperer leading the New York Philharmonic is a performance of the Fifth Symphony in C Minor...

When I was a callow teen back in the late 1970s/ early 80s I used to adore The Slits and played "Cut" endlessly. I loved their angularity, their untutored enthusiasm and the way they broke away from the constrictions of two-chord punk thrash.They also...

Hi all,Let me clarify what I mean in my thread title. I have a wide range of music - from classical (recorded in analogue and transferred to CD), to classic rock/modern rock (some recorded anaologue mastered in digital/others vice-versa), pop music,...

More4 at 22:00 has a programme recalling the real"Grizzly Man" about whom the film was made. At 00:10 more likely to be of interest to RT fans, a programme about the music for the "Grizzly Man" film soundtrack.