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29 May 2014, 8:43 pm

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Technical question time - I have all my music on my computer and also listen to it on my iPod. However, I've never been able to find good speakers for my computer - the ones that just came today sound pretty nice, but the volume doesn't go up enough to hear it across the room.

How do you guys listen? Is there a music player that I can get that plays MP3s, like radio only for mp3s or something so that I don't have to keep messing with computer speakers? OR do you have some computer speaker to recommend? I guess I could just get a speaker that plugs into my iPod if all else fails. Any ideas? Thanks.

I mostly use headphones. If you want to buy really high-quality speakers, Bose makes some great ones. I used to have some, and you could hear them all the way across a house (without it sounding overly loud up close either).

One problem with classical music on speakers is that dynamics are extremely important, and you will often have pieces that alternate between very quiet and very loud. With the way most sound systems work though, that means that you have to manually crank the volume up when its quiet, and manually crank it down when its loud. In my car I find this really annoying, particularly one symphony where it goes from almost inaudible to CRAAAASSSHHHHHH! all of a sudden lol.

Yes that's exactly my problem. I never really had a problem with speakers until the last couple of weeks when I started listening to classical music. You want to hear each of the instruments and some of them are so delicate, but then yeah some are really loud!

That's my whole problem! You'd think technology could handle that by now.

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29 May 2014, 10:23 pm

The Squid uses a media player called VLC, It allows your volume to cap at 300% as opposed to 100% on most other players. We've never had issues with volume while using it.

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30 May 2014, 12:56 am

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R. Strauss: Metamorphosen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djuM1ueLAy4
This is a very emotional work for strings that was composed towards the end of World War 2.

This is my favorite of those listed in your last post. It induces such a calm, peaceful state. I love string-heavy music on my headphones while reading.

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30 May 2014, 3:17 am

Maurice Ravel's famous Daphnis et Chloé

(Montreál Symphony Orchestra and Chorus)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHrstmOPKBQ[/youtube]

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30 May 2014, 11:07 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TjEoAXzJ9E[/youtube]

I don't know what the words mean, but it's beautiful!

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30 May 2014, 11:28 am

SquidinHostBody wrote:

The Squid uses a media player called VLC, It allows your volume to cap at 300% as opposed to 100% on most other players. We've never had issues with volume while using it.

Squid, I just downloaded it- it's full of malware. Yikes. My computer is being scanned right now.

Edit - I apparently downloaded it from the wrong site. Oy!

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30 May 2014, 12:31 pm

I was at this concert - his voice was like an electric current running through the crowd. I didn't like opera back then, but it was impossible not to be carried away. One of the more memorable experiences of my life for sure.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGKKMCohFRI[/youtube]

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30 May 2014, 1:26 pm

I'm not much of a God person, but where would the arts be without religion? This is really beautiful. However, back when I used to go to church, we never had naked women popping out of the alter. What's up with that?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YOCI2XzbM[/youtube]

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30 May 2014, 4:51 pm

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I'm not much of a God person, but where would the arts be without religion? This is really beautiful. However, back when I used to go to church, we never had naked women popping out of the alter.

What's up with that?

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging." - J. S. Bach

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7TVM8m95Y[/youtube]

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30 May 2014, 5:14 pm

Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor is another incredibly powerful composition that (along with Beethoven's Ninth) has to be experienced live at least once in your life. This is especially true with choral works, as the effect of voices is highly amplified in a concert setting.

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30 May 2014, 6:46 pm

Stargazer43 wrote:

wozeree wrote:

I'm not much of a God person, but where would the arts be without religion? This is really beautiful. However, back when I used to go to church, we never had naked women popping out of the alter.

What's up with that?

Funny, I've been listening to him this afternoon. All of them start to sound like the same thing over and over, but I guess they are, just sped up and slowed down.

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31 May 2014, 10:00 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAV4I5-Fpc[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23WjKXDe4w[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 10:27 am

I can't post Rimski-Korsakov without this!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5gzIyzmeNQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9-8PIP-w3Y[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 11:12 am

I just listened to Russian Eastern Festival Overture and loved it! Bookmarked. Continuing with your others. Meanwhile...

Here's the Vienna Philharmonic with Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic poem, Scheherazade, inspired by the old story from One Thousand and One Nights.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPtqRjirC6o[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 1:20 pm

Rimsky-Korsakov - I know I've heard that name before, I am digging him.

This one is pretty short and has a Spanish flare - I love it so much!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424cWJX-w44[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 2:04 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbzxhZT6akk[/youtube]

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