Popular Post Johnseye Posted September 13, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 13, 2022 Saw Eric Clapton last night. Jimmie Vaughan opened. Great show. Electric and acoustic. AnotherSpin and Superdad 2 Audio System Link to comment
watercourse Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Brown Calculus with Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble tomorrow at Polaris Hall... never been there so it will be good to check out local artists at a new (to me) spot. Theon Cross at Jack London Revue on 10/26. Late 2012 Mac Mini > Audirvana+3 > iFi Zen Stream > Heimdall 2 USB > iFi iDSD Micro BL > Pass Labs INT-30A > DeVore The Nines! + REL Strata III Well-Tempered Amadeus Benz ACE SL > Pass Labs XOno "Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land." - Luna Leopold Link to comment
botrytis Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Have tickets for singer/songwriter Vienna Teng at the City Winery in December. Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
Jud Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 1 hour ago, watercourse said: Theon Cross at Jack London Revue on 10/26. ❤️ One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
jcbenten Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Goose The War on Drugs RCHP Pink Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats Death Cab for Cutie among others...ACL MusicFest weekend 2... Jud 1 QNAP TS453Pro w/QLMS->Netgear Switch->Netgear RAX43 Router->Ethernet (50 ft)->Netgear switch->SBTouch ->SABAJ A10d->Linn Majik-IL (preamp)->Linn 2250->Linn Keilidh; Control Points: iPeng (iPad Air & iPhone); Also: Rega P3-24 w/ DV 10x5; OPPO 103; PC Playback: Foobar2000 & JRiver; Portable: iPhone 12 ProMax & Radio Paradise or NAS streaming; Sony NWZ ZX2 w/ PHA-3; SMSL IQ, Fiio Q5, iFi Nano iDSD BL; Garage: Edifier S1000DB Active Speakers Link to comment
watercourse Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Geez totally skipped over Louis Cole Big Band and Makaya McCraven on 10/21 at Revolution Hall... yeah boyeee!!! Late 2012 Mac Mini > Audirvana+3 > iFi Zen Stream > Heimdall 2 USB > iFi iDSD Micro BL > Pass Labs INT-30A > DeVore The Nines! + REL Strata III Well-Tempered Amadeus Benz ACE SL > Pass Labs XOno "Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land." - Luna Leopold Link to comment
botrytis Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Just got tickets for Curtis Stigers on Nov. 27th at a theatre called Space in Evanston, ILL. It is based on tables, and we will be one table back from the stage for 35.00 USD a ticket. So, the better half and I will be seeing 4 concerts in less than a month going towards Christmas. I was already told to expect a Christmas concert also. I was out of town, last year, when Jose James came to the City Winery here with his Christmas show. I was in LA. Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
WAM Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 W've seen and heard Jazz Sabbath Thursday evening. Great show, evening well spent. Link to comment
Popular Post botrytis Posted October 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2022 In Feb 2023, going to see Buddy Guy as this is supposed last concert tour. AudioDoctor, DuckToller, Jud and 1 other 1 3 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Morgan James as well as The Red Hot Sardines are coming to Minneapolis in December and I have plans to see both. No electron left behind. Link to comment
DuckToller Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 1 hour ago, AudioDoctor said: Morgan James as well as The Red Hot Sardines are coming to Minneapolis in December and I have plans to see both. AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 2 hours ago, DuckToller said: She started that tour here for a reason. ;-) No electron left behind. Link to comment
Popular Post botrytis Posted October 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2022 So, this is my 1 month of concerts starting on Nov 27th: Curtis Stigers - Nov 27th Los Lobos - Dec 12th Vienna Tang - Dec 15th Kurt Elling - Dec 18th Superdad and Jud 1 1 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
austinpop Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Nov 11 - Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra, Mahler 3rd. My Audio Setup Link to comment
ecwl Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, austinpop said: Nov 11 - Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra, Mahler 3rd. Haha... Me too. Maybe I'll see you there. austinpop 1 Link to comment
Always.Learning Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 My first post in this thread. I already sent the following in an email to friends and it was easy enough to copy and paste here so why not: We are spending five days in NYC visiting our son, who is in grad school here, and partaking of the city. It’s an extended Indian summer here with temps ranging from the mid-60s to mid-70s. Spent yesterday morning at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Great time of year to go: not too busy and gorgeous fall colors. We eventually made our way to Manhattan yesterday, where our first stop was Julliard, the famed music/dance/drama school. Every year the school has a piano concerto competition that any piano student can enter. Three finalists each played the full Brahms first concerto with partner pianists playing an “orchestral reduction” (i.e., the orchestra part of the concerto transcribed for piano). The finals were open to the public (free) and took place in Paul Recital hall, a 275 seat space that is optimized for recitals and chamber music. The sound was excellent. All three finalists were Asian or of Asian descent. We watched the first finalist and were completely gobsmacked at this young woman’s poise, technique, musicality, and presence. We grabbed dinner afterwards and couldn’t stop talking about how insanely great she was. It turns out that she won the competition and will perform with the Julliard orchestra in about a month. Next stop: Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for a NY Phil performance. From the perspective of welcoming ticket holders (or just the general public) and inviting you into a relaxing atmosphere where it is just fun to hang out on comfortable furniture, grab some food or a glass of wine, and socialize before the concert, Geffen’s makeover is a total success. The first half of the concert featured Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 with Yefim Bronfman and Jaap van Zweden leading the orchestra. The performance was pretty straightforward, beautiful in a surface kind of way but, to my mind, not plumbing too many depths. After the orchestra tuned up before the first note, I turned to my wife and said it sounds better already (than the old Avery Fisher Hall). And indeed it does. With this Mozart, what really stood out was the overall clarity of the sound, especially the winds. The sound is warm, natural, clear, and balanced. The whole experience is way more intimate, psychologically and musically, than the old cavernous hall where great distances seemed to separate you from the stage (like looking through the wrong end of a telescope, as Bernstein once said). The second half of the program featured Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony. This is a big Romantic symphony that will test any orchestra and conductor. I’m still acquiring a taste for Bruckner but this concert went a long way towards convincing me that he wrote some masterpieces. Before departing for NYC, I listened to four or five different performances of this work, and that definitely helped (I particularly liked Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden). But a live performance of something with this scale is just a completely different experience. Van Zweden was in full command of this virtuoso orchestra and they gave a dynamic, powerful, passionate account of the music. The sound was very good. If I had any complaints, I would ask for a little more resonance and air when the whole orchestra is performing, and I would like the strings, especially cellos and violas, to be more audible when they are called on to sing over the rest of the orchestra. The hall really captures wind sound beautifully, especially in the softest passages, where the clarity and timbre of the instruments was breathtaking. And when the orchestra was in full cry, the sound could be almost unbelievably loud, and thrillingly so. As a former horn player, I thrilled to the sound of the full brass section, augmented in this symphony by four Wagner tubas. The low brass (trombones and tuba) just kicked butt in this concert. Our seats were in the second balcony, on the side, about midway back. Next May we will hear Dudamel conduct the NY Phil in Mahler 9 in this same hall and we will sit behind the orchestra, practically within reading distance of the percussionists’ music. Looking forward to that. Tonight, for something completely different, we will see Rhiannon Giddens and some of her banjo-playing friends at Carnegie Hall. orresearch 1 Link to comment
Jud Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Always.Learning said: Tonight, for something completely different, we will see Rhiannon Giddens and some of her banjo-playing friends at Carnegie Hall. 👍 One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
botrytis Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Anyone who lives near Cincinnati, OH, I suggest they look into the Music School at the University of Cincinnati. It is one of the few schools that offers classic guitar. They offer free recitals. https://ccm.uc.edu/onstage.html I suggest people look at other Universities like this. Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
Popular Post orresearch Posted November 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2022 Anne-Sophie Mutter in San Francisco JOHN WILLIAMS AND ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER JOIN THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY IN A PROGRAM OF WILLIAMS’ CONCERT AND FILM MUSIC, FEBRUARY 14, 2023 Jud and watercourse 1 1 Link to comment
botrytis Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 Tonight - Ana Popovic at the City Winery in Chicago. Saturday - Buddy Guy at the Rialto Theatre in Joliet. This will be his last tour ever, so let's go and support him. Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
DuckToller Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 1 minute ago, botrytis said: Tonight - Ana Popovic at the City Winery in Chicago. Saturday - Buddy Guy at the Rialto Theatre in Joliet. This will be his last tour ever, so let's go and support him. Enjoy the winery - and the performance! Please say goodbye to Buddy Guy! Link to comment
botrytis Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 34 minutes ago, DuckToller said: Enjoy the winery - and the performance! Please say goodbye to Buddy Guy! I know - he is on a world Tour. Ana Popovic's new song.. Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
Johnseye Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 50 minutes ago, botrytis said: Tonight - Ana Popovic at the City Winery in Chicago. Saturday - Buddy Guy at the Rialto Theatre in Joliet. This will be his last tour ever, so let's go and support him. I saw Buddy last year at the Rialto. Great show and venue. He's such an amazing performer. I used to live a block away from Legends back in the '90s so saw him there many times. Sat at the bar and chatted with him one night. Something I'll never forget. Audio System Link to comment
botrytis Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 orresearch 1 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
botrytis Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Buddy Guy is supposed to have guests with him on this tour. It will be interesting to see who it is. When I saw Buddy Guy in Ann Arbor, MI at the Michigan Theatre, Ana Popovic opened for him. orresearch 1 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
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