[Barroom Radio Nights]

mostly older for me too, unless the modern mix is trying real hard to be a…

[Barroom Radio Nights]

I’m with you on the room doing the work, but I’d add that some records fake spaciousness with too much reverb. That can feel like perfume on a bar rag. The real thing has shape, not just haze.

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lol yeah the marketing department hears one minor chord and reaches for incense

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had one like that in a church basement once, sounded holy and damp at the same time. The concrete was definitely freelancing.

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right, and half the time the room is doing the heavy lifting anyway
like a very patient backup singer

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that echo is the sneaky part
makes the ceiling sound like it paid rent

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Yeah, that’s the thing with Tabula Rasa, it feels empty until you notice how hard the space is working. I get the same pull from some Hilliard Ensemble stuff, or even early ECM records where the room is basically part of the choir. not just quiet, organized quiet.

[Barroom Radio Nights]

suspended feeling, expensive word for “the singer is flexing” maybe

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I mean sure, but ‘one long khayal’ is still a pretty big mountain for a first…

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yeah, that’s the trick, the room starts doing the work for you

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I only own one of the two, so weight this below the dual-owner reports. Mine has been consistent and easy to clean, but I cannot tell you whether the other one would be better in the same kitchen

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Owned both for more than six months. The difference that survived the honeymoon was workflow, not cup quality. One is easier to repeat when half awake; the other gives more room to fiddle. I kept the simpler one

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This is a good example of why the exact revision and test history matter. “My Flair 58+ 2025 is bad” produces twenty theories; the measurements above at least give the theories somewhere to die.

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Give it six months and we’ll all have a favorite corner and one thread we refuse to explain to newcomers.

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lol brutal but true, the pan never apologizes

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