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[ATTACH=CONFIG]3956[/ATTACH] The Modern Jazz Quartet - Pyramid (1960)

Edward Vesala - Ode to the Death of Jazz (1989)[url=http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Avant%2dGarde+Jazz/]

My blocks were fine but I still swapped them for new aluminum blocks. Looks MOER nicer now

Sofia Gubaidulina - [url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sofia_gubaidulina/bassoon_concerto__concordanza__detto_ii__lahti_chamber_ensemble__vanska_/]Bassoon Concerto; Concordanza; Detto II (Lahti Chamber Ensemble/ V

Hey Hey, PM is on the way. Music is the game, unless you disagree.

He was very popular in all parts of former USSR it seems. POCKET ORCHESTRA-KNEBNAGAUJE (1978-79-83, CD, USA) [ATTACH=CONFIG]3937[/ATTACH] US R.I.O. band, very good avant-garde stuff. Unfortunately from a very short lived band.

To me IsoMike looks to be based on Jecklin disk ideas.

Some info here that I managed to compile.

I find that most recordings made with OSS (Optimal Stereo Signal), Jecklin Disk and "Kunstkopf" (aka "artificial head") recording systems provide a lot of vertical information and image outside of the speakers projecting sounds upwards giving me a very realistic 3D picture when electronics are up to the task. I am sure they are not as realistic as HRTF recorded stuff, but did you ever try some of the better Kunstkopf albums? To me they sound really good with spacial resolution and soundstage much better than traditional studio recordings.

As far as I know the pinna and external ear that large driver engages, give us a lot of that 3D perception that create soundstage.

Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010)[url=http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Jazz%2dRock/]

Don't know what "imaging" is, but soundstage accuracy and realism is very important to me, at time even more so than bass response and dynamics. O2 creates very realistic replica of the sound space with correct instrument voice positioning on horizontal, vertical and depth planes. Focus (exact position of sounds is space and reverberations/reflations) sometimes is not as good as with speakers and the soundstage is not lifesize as with all headphones, it's a smaller version of the real thing like a diorama of the real place. Dyncamic headphones that I heard mostly fail at reproducing vertical positioning since drivers are smaller than ear they also tend to create a larger fake space, headphones like Sigma excel at placing the sound space in front of you and have very good 3D effect, but are even more diffused when it comes to focus and exact positioning. Most of the rock, classical and jazz recordings do not have a realistic soundstage, but a lot of them do especially stuff done with "Kunstkopf" (aka "artificial head") recording system. You can find some info here. I also find that some of the artificial electronic recording with sound effects (lots of IDM bands) sound very cool on O2 with all of the effects sounding very engaging.

Chris Rea - The Road to Hell (1989) This brings back distant memories of being a teen and kissing for the first time

I got the same email few days back, my phones look to be OK so far.

Back to PH this time I am hung-up on this song: Crying Wolf You turn out the lights and sit alone, trying to pretend that it’s anguish, start at the ring of a telephone, throw down all your food at the banquet, keep a close eye on all you own, while leaving it all to languish…. Is this what makes you happy? Is this what brings you joy? Your excuses are so crappy… silly boy. You take all the love and throw it aside to wallow in your sorrow, expect everyone to know how you feel inside, to forgive and forget come tomorrow; repaying all your debts with uncommon pride but denying that you ever borrowed…. Is this what makes you perfect? Is this what makes you free? Just how long did you rehearse it, or does it just come naturally? Crying wolf from the depth of your sheep’s heart, crying fire from the depth of the well in an endless parade of repeat starts, just how long will it last – can you tell? Until all your friends and lovers are simply bored with the pretence? It’ll be too late then to discover just exactly what you meant and what was true and what was false… the wolf turned into human, the killer with remorse. Crying pain as though that should be pleasure, crying anger as though that should be revenge, crying sorrow as though that were a treasure - your treasure will find you in the end. When all of your friends have gone away, unwilling to put up with the danger that lies in each spiteful word you say, you’ll be left, a greying wolf in a manger and when you’ve raised your last howl and destroyed all that you can with rotting teeth an slack jowls you’ll be left a lonely man. And when it’s nearly finished and you know the end is near with true sorrow undiminished there’ll be no-one left to hear…. Your desperate cries, they all come out as bleats: you thought you were a wolf-man, but you’re really just a sheep. I am fucking depressed...

Traditional dynamic driver has voice coils, basically an electromagnet in magnetic field. Othodynamic diaphragm has traces, they are technically not voice coils, and is suspend in between two magnets depending on the charge it flaps between them. When coils of wire are bobbing up and down in the filed generated by magnets they are dragging cones or domes along with them, when they return back to the original position they generate an electric impulse that travels back to the amp.The bigger the coil/magnet the strong the impulse, that is when cable and damping factor come into great importance. With orthos this does not happen in this way they are more like stats.

That is it. I would like it to be more flexible and to be less in the way, but it's not like AOL cable is ergonomically better...

Cables make relatively little difference with ortho headphones. Orthos present an essentially resistive load to the amp. That is, this type of headphone is nearly pure resistance, able to be driven properly by any good amp with enough power, and unaffected by the varying stray inductance and capacitance of exotic overpriced cables. There is no feedback from orthos going back to the amp as well, since there is no magnet with voice coil, just food for thought. The way I see it "great improvement" with cable change is purely change in the perception. I am yet to hear a difference when re-cabling orthos, unless the original cable was pure crap with rusted contacts.

In, last year was fun.

Weather Report - Heavy Weather (1977) The best damn smooth jazz ever

I used to work with a guy named Moy Huj. I found this to be very funny. In Russian Moy Huj (phonetically pronounced) means My Dick.

Didier Lockwood, Jannick Top, Christian Vander, Benoit Widemann - Fusion (1981) Horrible cover, but great music.

Got my LCD2 today. Gave them a listen on x-head at the office. Not bad at all. As good as any vintage ortho I heard so far not sure how it compares with my Ergo AMT and O2 out of T1S.

Listening to Peter Hammill - Over (1977) - over and over and over again. Betrayed When I began I was full of altruistic dreams, believed in princes and princesses, kings and queens - now I find they're all human inside, all bitterness and pride, so why shouldn't I be like that too? It seems that I've forgotten all I tried so hard to learn; it seems there's not an ounce of love or trust anywhere in the world. Friends - they're all harbouring knives to embed in your back out of revenge, or spite, or indifference, or lack of other things to do - in the end just who's going to be a friend for you when they kick you in the guts just as your hand holds out the pearl? It seems that there is nothing left but hatred and lust in the world. I don't give a damn anymore - I've only wound up betrayed. It's all been absolutely worthless - all the efforts I've made to be gentle and kind are repaid with contempt, degraded by sympathy and worthless kindness and love that isn't meant. I'm through with joy and company, I've done with pretty words, betrayed - there's no hiding-place anywhere in the world. I've nothing left to fight for except making my passion heard - I don't believe in anything anywhere in the world.

This is an awesome album.