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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1442910680' post='2870353'] If Howe plays anything 'fast', it generally sounds scrappy as f***. It has it's own personality, though, whereas Al Di Meola can sound overly clinical. [/quote] Fully agree. There's a good example with Steve Morse playing one of Howe's acoustical songs to perfection, and it lacks the character, IMO of course. I disliked Howe's timing before hearing the Morse version, but don't do that anymore, even though it often makes me cringe.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1442751354' post='2869188'] If you want a Porsche buy something other than a Fender. [/quote] More specifically: if you want a Porsche, buy a Bongo. Personally, and I'm not giving an opinion here but just an observation, I know myself to not be able to enter a studio with a Fender without feelings of shame. The sheer "you-have-to-have-a-Fender" tendency in this world is sooo mindnumbingly unintelligent and uninformed that if I ever buy a Fender, it will be after a long stern look at myself and in the secure knowledge that I bought it despite - not because of - what idiots say. FWIW, I own two '51 Ps and a 60s J, all three of them with a proud "Squier" on the headstock.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1442508433' post='2867467'] If so I wonder what the cut off point is where the cable is no longer an improvement over the standard but just becomes a status symbol purchase? [/quote] Listen to Nordost g'demmit! They make the stuff. They should know! Here's what they say: - "The V2 cable is state of the art, bettered only by the mighty Odin", so if my experienced sound quality radar is correct, this means that the mighty Odin contain tons of heavy-duty lightweight balsa tree, which is documented to interline the frequency response phase shift to its very limits. But to answer in a more serious fashion, I do not know, and from my experience it will be very hard to get [b]any[/b] group of people to agree even when they agree with your point itself. Technical tests have had a sad tendency to quantify one parameter or very few parameters only, with limited scope, which IMO is a serious drawback, whilst groups of Hi-Fi listeners are all completely right (in their own heads) whilst at the same time all having heard something different. I'm not even talking about the Hi-Fi nuts here. (I've told it before, but I gave up working in Hi-Fi after a large blinded test my firm organised (equipment behind thin veil plus lighting that made any view on the equipment impossible) and that of course went awry.)

[quote name='jacko' timestamp='1442489404' post='2867287'] Tonight's the night. Even gives me the chance to use the tram for the first time. [/quote] Have fun then! You're in for a treat. If the forefront of art ever meets the more mundane needs of the general audience, it's here. I also hope you'll like the KC concert.

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1442329725' post='2866085'] It has arrived! [/quote] Wow! I never trusted these Nigerian e-mails before, but now I must say they're starting to gain my respect, them sending you a whole bass 'n' stuff. Just to be on the safe side though, best to open the control cavity and look for a Trojan horse or two. One never knows! Congrats again!

Thanks for sharing! This sounds luvverly. I'll have to investigate further who these guys are and what they've released before. An extra plus for them touring with Sally Minnear (Gentle Giant's keyboardist Kerry Minnear's daughter). She seems to have a great voice indeed.

Can't offer an explanation either, but I've long wondered about a similar thing when playing music on my Android phone using Bluetooth headphones. Have no idea whether it's - a technical issue (I can imagine several possible causes, like the lack of a synch clock in hardware that has too little processing power for the data stream at hand when it's preoccupied with other OS jobs for example), - a psychoacoustical issue (cahnges in frequency response or dynamics incl. compression being heard as pitch change) or even - a psychological issue (I'm nuts and distrust my cheap headphones), but it's detracting from the joy of listening.

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1442137616' post='2864551'] MMmmm Mmmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies [/quote] Oh! Great call! Fantastic song. I've also heard Focus' "Hocus Pocus" being called a novelty song several times. Don't really know what constitutes a novelty song, but here it is: http://youtu.be/NGaVUApDVuY

[quote name='doctorbass' timestamp='1441876162' post='2862453'] XTC - Go2 [/quote] I'll admit I didn't see that one coming, so it's probably a very good one for this thread. I'd always assumed "White Music" and "Go 2" were just the preparation for "Drums and Wires". But you did it: I'll give it another few spins right now.

Congrats! This seems very legit indeed. Personally I'm not versed enough to be able to check headers on my mobile platforms, but all mobile e-mail clients are set to not delete the mail from the server so I can always easily check the header on my pc instead (in my case: right-click the mail line in the inbox --> Properties --> Details --> Message Source). Maybe an idea for somebody.

Got very, very bored of bursts decades ago, It got worse and worse. Then this happened: [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/1IMG_0059_zpsd698151a.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/1IMG_0059_zpsd698151a.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

What can I say? I wasn't there and I didn't [s]receive[/s] get it.

Ha! This thread surprised me as I'd never had the clairvoyance of seeing such a track as somehow special. But of course it is. I hope good examples come in abundance. Bill Bruford's "Five Per Cent for Nothing" probably ain't good enough a fit for your question.

Love the sound design/orchestration/production on this track. Luvverly. Sadly it wasn't on iTunes.

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1441036150' post='2855531'] California by Mr Bungle. [/quote] Hey! I was gonna say that! The nerve... OK, I'll find another one then: Cynic: "Focus".

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1440786408' post='2853919'] One of the great pleasures of this thread has been a broadening of the usual debate to include not only a more detailed assessment of the Beatles' music but also some well considered refutations of the initial contention. Another pleasure has been the polite serenity with which the OP has made his argument, sometimes in the face of idiotically chippy personal ad-homs which would have many of us reaching for our profanisaurus. The thread has gone far beyond the Beatles and serves now more as a record of what happens when an oppressively vocal minority fail to impose their will on an individual. The conclusion posterity may draw is that it is inadvisable to stamp one's foot at the same time one is sh*tting one's pants. [/quote] Applause!

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1440716388' post='2853332'] I think all forms of music are sh*t! [/quote] Bah! This was a perfectly nice little thread until you had to come in with your facts and science and stuff like that.

Absolutely hated that. The cuts were just way too [b]short[/b]. Chops are two things: losers use them to show off; musicians use them as a musical tool, and in this vid, IMHO at least many used them as a tool. Kudos! Not everyone with chops is not a musician.

Gotta mention the fantastic Dave Stewart (keys) and Pip Pyle (drums) too. These guys are almost never mentioned, but easily perform on the levels of oft mentioned guys like Keith Emerson and Bill Bruford. Since I'm on now, also very much worth listening to are the bands Egg and National Health, IMS with some of the same musicians. Dave Stewart was also great in the band Bruford. IMHO etc.

So we've been having a great time for nothing then? Well, thank you!

Ah! It's reassuring that I'm only 18 months out of date. BTW, last time I recorded myself, a few years back, I still used my Fostex 250. Nice 4000D, BTW2. I used a similar one 30 years ago, actively using the delay in the Sound On Sound as a compositional tool. Great days.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1440074436' post='2848051'] Maybe he's still using the Atari ST version? [/quote] Hey! Careful, you! If the Atari ST version is out of date, then[b][i] I [/i][/b]am out of date!!!! . . Oh...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1439839033' post='2846182'] I find a sentence containing the words 'large parts', 'organ' and 'thirty years ago' quite depressing. [/quote] ...and that's after I rephrased before posting, specifically so as to make it slightly more demanding for you to comment - something you of course did with ease anyway. Kudos!

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1439710380' post='2845079'] This no doubt is to cover the cache issue Mornats mentioned. [/quote] This isn't related to cache in the way we normally talk about cache, but about you being charged in their currency, and the real exchange rate being retrieved [b]after[/b] you have confirmed your order. IOW all the numbers you see in your own currency are guidelines, normally including the very last numbers you see. This would also mean that if the goods are not in stock, and dramatic changes occur in the exchange rates, you could be charged a considerably different amount in your own currency when your card is charged when the goods are sent - - something you normally either have accepted as part of their sales policy, and/or they have software in place to warn you in case it gets to be more expensive, and they give you a new chance to decide.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1439627378' post='2844440'] "Animals" - you've heard the music, now eat the stars. [/quote] What a terribly misanthropic thing to write. I'm appalled! It would have been a lot more philanthropic had you eaten The Animals before they recorded their first song.