![]() ![]() Moreover if your amplifiers do not lose their grip and keep pushing during the nasty “Derezzed” passages, then you probably have a hefty filtering capacitance bank and well-designed power supply. If you can resolve this on a proper volume, say 95-100dBs at listening position with distinct identification of each instrument and synthesizer, then you will definitely have no problem even with the most demanding passages of just about any given musical style and composition. My ATC speakers love it! The interposition of tunes is so tight that makes of a great intermodulation test for your equipment. The frequency spectrum is as wide as it gets, bass is especially deep and rhythm goes from ambiance all the way to machine gun devastating. The album was recorded in the notorious Air Lyndhurst Studios in London, and features an 85-piece orchestra mixed with headbanging electronic music from the frenetic French duo, Daft Punk (Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter). ![]() Well, guess what, Disney finally decided to reprint it and is now available for $29.98! Now, why would I prescribe a 5 years old album? The problem with this particular OST was that Disney released a very limited first pressing and the price for the double LP skyrocketed within days, reaching $300 or more on eBay and Discogs. The first prescription is Tron: Legacy, the 2010 soundtrack of Disney’s sequel to the 1982 classic science fiction film Tron. And just for Scot, I won’t limit myself to an all-classical music diet. Some of the recordings that may follow over time could be available on high-resolution downloads or on vinyl, many on both formats, but my promise to Scot is that none of the prescriptions will be unobtainium, or even silly expensive in point of fact, they have or probably will appear in one of my reviews - and for good reason. Why is that? Because this is your Doctor telling you to, and you know you have to trust your Doctor, right? Also, because I really think this is “worth it”, in terms of musical content, interpretation, recording and engineering. What does all this have to do with you? Well, I am about to hand you your first musical prescription. My problem is time I don’t have much as my day job is keeping me rather busy I work as a doctor, where my field of specialization is ophthalmology. Also, I’ll rely on suggestions from a friend, or forum discussions, and the various top 10-20-whatever Best Of that can be found on the net. Other great sources for shopping new material are soundtracks, both those compiled or originally composed. Every now and then, I use Shazam to search for those tracks, download them to my NAS (now containing something like 4TB of hi-res music), or if something is available on vinyl, I order it through the usual channels. After all, I profess to have an open mind, and when something interesting airs on the radio, I Shazam it, which serves as a portable agenda. Which is another story … but truth be told, I too like mixing up a bit of rock and jazz when trying to express the emotions a certain piece of equipment may have generated during a review. On one thing he is right though, classical music is not for everybody, and not all gear is made for it. He’s promised to look into it, but as you can see, he ended up using the Star Wars OST in a recent review as a “classical reference”. In a certain way, this is Scot’s problem and not mine, after all, he is the one with less than a dozen meters of classic music records lying around in the cave. Scot, for his part, was trying to suggest that I use more conventional tracks for my reviews, which was somewhat funny if you ask me I was actually using all “mainstream” music, at least by my own standards. The best way to spend a weekend? Going in thrift stores in search of an unknown gem, maybe something played on piano by someone who made that recording and not much else. Bach and John Cage, and everyone else in between. The rest (few thousands of LPs), range from baroque to avant-garde, and come from composers like J.S. You want to know how much of that is not classic music nowadays? Probably less than a meter. How predominant? I have a decent collection of vinyl, which I measure in meters. Fast forward through the university years, and classical music was becoming my predominant thing. Hidden, at least from everyone in high school, were my new friends Vivaldi and Beethoven. I remember hanging out with the rock guys, but I’ll admit that the old-school rap was also doing it for me. As a teenager, my musical preferences were Rock with a slice of quality Pop, Hip Hop, and a twist of classical music. ![]()
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