like to hear views from anyone listening to brass bands,and hi fi gear they use
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Location: Belfast, N Ireland
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I'm Norman.
brass bands
like to hear views from anyone listening to brass bands,and hi fi gear they use
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Err....
Shian7
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Hi there NormMC, and welcome...
Brass is a pretty stretching sound, I know what you mean. I've been really disappointed with how some of the brass stuff I've got on vinyl sounded on my old turntable and am working to get a better TT system to handle it, and other stuff I've got of course (I'm not personally a massive brass fan). It's easy for things to sound shrill and edgy though. Hopefully someone else here might be able to help!
Don McCorleone
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I'd say that if your system can reproduce brass bands well,then it must be pretty sorted! A difficult thing to reproduce well IMHO.
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Any tracks that you guys can recommend I listen to? I haven't tried my DAC out on brass bands, but it seems to be worth doing so.
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At least Normmc has had a more friendly response here than on another forum. I suggested to him that this was a more friendly forum . Thanks guys for not letting me down much,shian 7 you have let me down,a bit. I know brass isn't for everyone and I am not a fan myself but lets be kind. I know Normmc and he is going to bring some of his music round and I will get to hear how my kit fares with what is a very system testing genre. I will report on how it does. I remember years ago before I had good kit certain things would up set my gear, I hope my set up passes this test.
Regards D S D L
Last edited by Spectral Morn; 29-12-2008 at 09:13.
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My apolpogies....Originally Posted by D Louth
I was mainly trying to convey the difficulty in reproducing such a challenging instrument....
Shian7
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Kudakutemo
kudakutemo
ari mizu-no tsuki
Though it be be broken -
broken again - still it's there:
the moon on the water.
- Choshu.
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Don't worry about Mike - he just likes using that biscuit-face gif wherever and whenever he can!
Don McCorleone
Location: Galashiels
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I'm inthescottishmafia.
Don't have any recordings myself,but I'd be interested in hearing some.I think a good recording of a brass band would be quite an experience on the right system.
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Hi D,
I think Mike was just taken aback by Normmc's rather unusual first post - he certainly wouldn't have meant any disrespect. Mike's not like that
Anyway, welcome Normmc - you discuss whatever you want, my friend. You won't get any problems here
I also agree that big band music is very hard for a hi-fi system to reproduce accurately!
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