I’m 74 a music lover and also an avid audiophile. Now In the twilight of my life and in the light of the Covid lockdown, listening to my music has given me with a feeling of contentment and escape. I’m not a Roon user, I recently had a trial run and I felt that Roon in the present incarnation was no…

Yes, a lesson my upbringing taught me very well. I tend to avoid people who think their opinions are THE TRUTH. If one is fortunate to escape being brought up by people who knew the only truth, it’s a lesson never forgotten. Sadly there are billions who reject scientific fact in favour of opinion a…

…indeed, as we are witnessing daily during these times. As the late, great Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.”

So true. One only has to look at the world we are in to see how much evil comes from insisting opinion is what matters and nothing else. Look at what is happening in a once democratic country because the denial of science and a nutter are holding sway.

Reminds me of something I once saw Isaac Asimov say in an interview: To believe in nonsense is to limit yourself terribly, to live in fear of all sorts of things that don’t exist.

Just in case - a friendly note… …can we keep to topic and away from politics please?

An understanding of the classical music repertoire and standard musical abbreviations used in the musical field helps enormously with keeping tagging concise. Tagging my classical music has been an educational experience for me over time. I recommend “The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music” as an es…

Anon is usually used for anonymous composer, mainly for older, pre-renaissance music (all Gregorian chants for example)

My experience attending high end audio shows is that percentage is dwindling. Ten or fifteen years ago exhibits playing classical music were common, whereas now trying to get the exhibitor to play something on his beautiful $100,000 system that demonstrates its ability to reproduce acoustic instrum…

If I was a millionaire I would expect dealers to come to my house and set up systems so I could choose the best for me from the comfort of my chair.

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