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| Live vs. recorded Marty..."For the last couple of years I've had the same two CDs in the #3 and #4 slots of my car's CD changer:......"For two years? Do you only own four CDs or something? :) | |
| Live vs. recorded Tom - my question was relating to your comments regarding musicians that come together for the recording only, not regarding recordings that have too much polish. And as an aside, I never did find Steely Dan too polished, as others have mentioned,... | |
| Live vs. recorded I have to ask Tomcy6, what sort of music do you listen to because that's not my experience. Is it with Jazz perhaps? | |
| Live vs. recorded Weirdo! How can you not like the sound of tea? | |
| Live vs. recorded From my perspective, there are no hard and fast rules governing a live recording. For example, my favourite live album is Renaissance's "Carnegie Hall", which I prefer to all their studio albums. That's not to say I don't like the latter - on the ... | |
| Live vs. recorded Perhaps you go to a lot of live gigs? It is quite rare that a live album is well recorded, mixed and mastered. When they are, they are a real joy to listen to but I'll still prefer the studio versions when it comes to the listening experience. Hav... | |
| Playing the wifes music choices ^ Welcome to the world of internet forums :( | |
| Must have classic recordings Very good point Musicnoise. I only truly appreciated the Ninth, even though it was my "first love" of classical music, once I had got several copies. I now have 11 different versions but that's nothing - I have come across people who have over 50!... | |
| Must have classic recordings Furtwangler's 1942 Beethoven 9th, Berlin - the Hitler's birthday bash. Not because it's a great recording - far from it, it's pretty bad. It is, however, like being in the path of an oncoming runaway train and you are staring at it hurtling toward... | |
| Playing the wifes music choices My "other half" is quite confident to use the main Hi-Fi but then she has to do very little. It's permanently on so all so has to worry about are two things - the volume control and the CD player. It took her a while to negotiate the latter, it be... |