bonze wrote: > I thought all audiophiles loved jazz and the more obscure the better, > preferably on the original vinyl.
Well I am and have been a jazz fan for over 40 years and I do have plenty of jazz on vinyl however most of the jazz on vinyl that I own is not original vinyl since by the time I started buying it in the 1970s most of it was either reissue or remastered or repackaged. Once CDs and downloads came along I left all that behind. And while I own my fair share of jazz vocals I much prefer instrumental jazz. I also do not go for the make believe jazz that audiophiles seem to enjoy and would rather listen to Duke Ellington, Count Basie or Louie Armstrong in poorly recorded mono than well recorded "fake" jazz. The funny thing is that there plenty of very nicely recorded jazz available that is completely under the audiophile radar. For example "Country Cooking" by Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath is one of the most dynamic and best recorded big band jazz recording you will ever hear. Thankfully this treasure never made it onto to one of HP's "Super Disc" lists, aka recordings to be avoided at all costs. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103980 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
