Since I am primarily a headphone user (a trend I wish to reverse), I purchased the Slate VSX headphones. After an initial “getting to know you” period, I’ve become quite attached to them. At first, I found them phasey and disorienting, but my work on them translates very well to other audio devices. If you are on the fence, it …
When a viewer observes a painting there is a “oh, well there it is” moment when the frame is first presented – it is first taken in as a whole and then the details are discovered upon closer examination. Music is also largely in the moment – details first – and then the whole comes second if it comes at …
The basses are one of the most ill-understood instruments of the orchestra; pigeonholed to pages of footballs and rests. Yet, their orchestral origin was nearly identical in intent to the cellos – as for most of the baroque and classical era they were doubling each others parts at the octave. Now consider that modern bassists have all played and studied …
