WOW, you shocked me there! I thought I was reading one of the selection cards from the Wurlitzer down at the bar. It has ~1200 songs and while a few of my customers think it should be more current, most people simply love it.
The coffee room plays only blues and jazz (reel-reel) thru an old vacuum tube amp and studio monitors.
Posted Thu Dec 30, 2010, 4:26pm Subject: Re: Good music for good coffee
I listen to jazz the vast majority of the time Dan.
But I grew up with 60s and 70s rock so that stuff never gets stale for me. Truth be told my musical tastes are all over the map. I like classical, Country & Western, Soul, R&B, some Rap, and Avant Garde. Anyone who can sit through Patty Waters' rendition of "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (here it is for the musically adventurous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NSBVjRxgF4 ) or a typical Peter Brötzmann squonk-and-squeal-a-thon on tenor sax deserves a merit badge for courage. Some of the stuff I listen to can cause the paint to peel off of the walls. And the less we say about Merzbow the better. :-D
I used to have a reel-to-reel tape deck but sold it several months ago and got rid of my small collection of about 100 tapes. I wasn't using the deck all that much and decided that my audio needs were sufficiently met by vinyl, CD, SACD, and DVD-A. I'm a tube dood as well. Here's a link to a picture of my current setup:
In the rack to the right is my SOTA Star Sapphire vacuum platter turntable. It's fitted with a SME 309 magnesium tonearm and Ortofon Jubilee moving coil cartridge. I have a library of about 2,500 LPs to keep it fed. Most of my records are vintage LPs from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. But I have been buying a lot of audiophile vinyl pressings too, mostly on 180g vinyl cut at 45RPM. And mostly jazz reissues from labels such as Blue Note, Verve, Riverside, and Prestige. On the next shelf down is my preamp, a Woo Audio WA-2. The solid state amp on the next shelf is a dedicated 1000 watt amp for the four subwoofers in this rig. The two amps on the bottom are 300B mono blocks that were custom built for me by Woo Audio. In the rack on the left is a vintage ELAC Miracord 50H II idler wheel turntable that I use for playing 78RPM shellac records. I have a modest collection of about 500 jazz sides, mostly issued between 1930 and 1945. On the next shelf is a Melody I2A3 integrated tube amp that I use as a dedicated amp for my AKG K1000 headphones. On the next shelf down is an OPPO DVD Player that I seldom use for anything these days. Next down is a Slim Devices Transporter music server. All 3,500 CDs that I own are ripped to FLAC on a dedicated 2TB music drive. I definitely prefer vinyl but I really appreciate the convenience of the Transporter, and with good digital source material it sounds great. On the bottom is a Denon DVD-5930CI. It was their flagship player when I bought it. I was going to buy an Esoteric DV-50 but then a great opportunity to buy the Denon unexpectedly came along at a too-low-to-say-no-to price. The speakers are a pair of customized Planetarium Alphas from Audiokinesis. Each cabinet has an integrated down-firing 10-inch sub. There are also two additional satellite subs placed elsewhere in the room.
Posted Thu Dec 30, 2010, 5:23pm Subject: Re: Good music for good coffee
I really love music for solo piano. My favorite composers for piano are DeBussy, Chopin, Beethoven, Brahams, and Ravel.
This recording and performance of DeBussy's Images 1&2 and Children's Corner by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli is far and away my favorite. To my ears no one else interprets DeBussy and captures him quite like Michelangeli. I have to be in a certain frame of mind to get full appreciation from this music. Tonight the mood really struck me so out to the kitchen I went and made a cup of some excellent Sulawesi coffee to enjoy with this superb music.
I originally bought this on CD and then years later found it on vinyl, still sealed, at a Salvation Army Thirft Shop for $1.
I'm a little too much of a vinyl geek, Phil. I have had to slow down on buying bulk lots of vinyl considerably. Otherwise my house would be converted into a big vinyl storage facility and my wife and I would have to go find someplace else to live. For the longest time I was picking up records by the box of 50 to 100 LPs for 50 to 75 cents per record. After years of that you amass quite a library of music. So I've pretty much stopped buying vintage vinyl and I focus on the occasional audiophile jazz reissue pressings that are of some interest to me.
--Jerome
...come to think of it a few weeks ago I snagged a small lot of Robin Trower records for dirt cheap. (once a vinyl geek always a vinyl geek I suppose.) :-D
Posted Fri Dec 31, 2010, 1:07pm Subject: Re: Good music for good coffee
Hi Jerome,
It appears that you have me beat in vinyl and shellac as well, although in the view of a normal person I am probably over the top. I do have to sneak my thrift store finds into the house after my wife goes to bed. Is that a sign of addiction? I am also somewhat into Edison diamond discs and am working on a player to play cylinders.
I guess it is better than other addictions a person may have.
Phil
jsaliga Said:
I'm a little too much of a vinyl geek, Phil. I have had to slow down on buying bulk lots of vinyl considerably. Otherwise my house would be converted into a big vinyl storage facility and my wife and I would have to go find someplace else to live. For the longest time I was picking up records by the box of 50 to 100 LPs for 50 to 75 cents per record. After years of that you amass quite a library of music. So I've pretty much stopped buying vintage vinyl and I focus on the occasional audiophile jazz reissue pressings that are of some interest to me.
--Jerome
...come to think of it a few weeks ago I snagged a small lot of Robin Trower records for dirt cheap. (once a vinyl geek always a vinyl geek I suppose.) :-D
Possibly. For me I knew my record library was bit too much when my wife started asking me to get rid of all that junk in the basement. Junk??!! Well, she does have a point so I have stopped buying large bulk lots of vintage records and no longer go to yard sales.
Posted Thu Jan 27, 2011, 2:07pm Subject: Re: Good music for good coffee
Somewhere I have a DVD of that festival but I can't find it now. The part where she was climbing the stairs is longer on my video and is stunning. I seem to recall a story about her not having anything to wear for that performance so she quickly went into a thrift store or something like that and put that outfit together. It worked in my view. Oh yeah, this is supposed to be about the music. That was good too.
Phil
Edit: i did a search for the story about the dress. It may not have been a thrift store but the outfit was hastily put together. Apparently she had clothes for evening but she felt they didn't work for daytime.
"You can write down how to make the perfect cup of coffee. But to make it really good, you have to play something fictional, you have to dress up, you have to think, This is the most important thing."
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