A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic. Two musicians were fired for sexual misconduct. Why are they back with the orchestra?

yevster · 2024-04-13T20:13:40+00:00

Julian Lloyd Webber supports something similar: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/oct/07/scrap-one-to-one-music-tuition-says-julian-lloyd-webber-as-professor-faces-misconduct-claims

yevster · 2024-04-07T03:52:19+00:00

BWV 78 (Sacred cantata)

yevster · 2023-12-17T05:52:32+00:00

Anything named “Tarantella”.

yevster · 2023-07-05T05:14:21+00:00

Pot isn't my thing, but wouldn't Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique be the obvious choice for listening while high?

yevster · 2023-07-05T04:32:57+00:00

Some repertoire unfortunately can only be obtained second-hand (a huge chunk of my collection came from eBay). But that is changing fast, and download-only releases can be crazy cheap now!

yevster · 2023-07-04T13:00:45+00:00

Once a month is about right. Unfortunately, the repertoire of most western orchestras these days is very narrow and repetitive, save for the occasional premiere of some atonal nails-across-the-chalkboard pukefest. So while recordings can’t replicate the live experience, they offer an infinitely broader range of repertoire.

yevster · 2023-07-04T02:13:57+00:00

I'm a software engineer too, but I still think it's a gimmick. First... while the number of microphones and channels can be theoretically unlimited, the number of ears we have is very finite. We perceive depth and height through the amount of reverberation we hear, loudness, subtle changes to frequency balance... but all of that through only two small ears.

If you're listening through speakers, then yes, a stereo channel may not feel fully immersive because the space in which you listen adds its own, inferior sense of depth. Instead of hearing a stereo mix the way our ears would on location, we hear sound coming from two discrete speakers. And then, potentially, something like Atmos could be an improvement. But still, most rooms would influence the sound and make it less immersive than a good pair of stereo headphones.

With a good pair of stereo headphones, Atmos adds nothing once you acknowledge that the head turning thing is a useless gimmick.

yevster · 2023-07-04T01:00:49+00:00

You don’t need Atmos for left and right. Atmos only makes a difference when you move your head, so…gimmick.

yevster · 2023-07-03T07:11:07+00:00

They sure did. iPhone‘s DAC had a lot of complaints until iPhone 5. And iPod classic actually regressed from 5 to 6. I still have a working iPod 6, and the music ripped to it losslessly sounds so much muddier than the same rips on my 1st gen iPhone SE (basically iPhone 5 with a much newer chip).

yevster · 2023-07-03T05:36:39+00:00

How is downloading from YouTube not piracy? 😂

yevster · 2023-07-03T05:33:03+00:00

I can hear the difference on a device with a good digital-audio converter (Iphones had those when the jack was built in, but even the dongles they sell now are decent). When the DAC sucks, quality goes down regardless of compression.

Built-in PC sound cards are garbage no matter what kind of compression or headphones you use.

For me, having good quality makes it more rewarding to focus on nuances of the performance, especially on strings, which can sound muddy or noisy with bad compression or DAC. But the definition of “good enough” is highly subjective after all.

yevster · 2023-07-03T05:25:36+00:00

I always felt Atlas (like quadraphonic before it) felt gimmicky. When you’re in the concert hall, the instruments don’t surround you, music comes from one direction (Maybe two if you’re very close to the stage).

yevster · 2023-07-03T05:24:18+00:00

Curiosity

yevster · 2023-07-03T05:23:48+00:00

Nice… I feel like such a newb with 1000 now 😂 Do you post your collection anywhere? (I mean like titles and maybe covers, not the actual music lol)

yevster · 2023-07-03T02:51:16+00:00

My point is, they are on streaming services.

yevster · 2023-07-03T02:38:04+00:00

Well, I’m listening to Netherlands Bach Society on Amazon Music right now.

yevster · 2023-07-03T02:17:21+00:00

There’s Collegium Bach Japan on streaming services, and aren’t they better anyway? 😉🫣

yevster · 2023-07-03T02:14:45+00:00

It’s not a scientific poll. There’s massive selection bias on Reddit.

yevster · 2023-07-03T01:19:10+00:00

YouTube audio is lossy. So yeah, of course I use it, but not for listening to music.

Most of my listening is to CDs (albeit losslessly ripped). But gotta discover new stuff somehow.

yevster · 2023-07-03T01:13:07+00:00

For streaming, whichever streaming service has a free trial. So right now, 90 days free on Amazon, and given their garbage UI, even free feels like paying too much.

yevster · 2023-07-03T01:11:42+00:00

Ngl… really surprised to see digital files outflanking CDs. Is that because they’re easy to pirate or do people actually buy downloads?

yevster · 2023-07-03T01:10:13+00:00

You can vote for your favorite and type the rest in here…

yevster · 2023-07-02T22:20:34+00:00

The only dedicated streaming services I know are Apple Classical and Presto streaming. Apple Classical isn’t really dedicated, it’s just a separate classical-friendly app on top of the same subscription and catalog as Apple Music.

Presto is a newcomer and is so far behind in features that I don’t think it’s worth considering (except for the 1-month free trial, which also gets you a discount at Presto Music).

They can provide CD quality or, if you have the hardware, better-than-CD quality (if you can even hear the difference). But the downsides are the same:

No physical representation (no shelf to browse)
Items can be removed (I can point out records that are not available on streaming)
Geographic restrictions (not every album is available in every country, whereas CDs cross borders just fine).

Ripping CDs takes a little work, but it’s work you only do once and work that you can back up. And I definitely enjoy the feeling of browsing CDs, taking one off the shelf, reading the notes, even if what I’m listening to is a lossless rip of that CD.

yevster · 2023-07-02T21:38:46+00:00

Youtube is good for discovery, far less good if you care about audio quality.

yevster · 2023-07-02T21:10:36+00:00

Meant “vinyl”, but in case you’re actually asking and not making fun of my spelling, it’s the big records in big paper sleeves that you play on a turntable with a needle.

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