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Re: Water Lily Acoustics
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2014, 08:20:24 AM »
Quote from: knerian on December 28, 2014, 07:30:41 AM
Is that where they filter out ambient noise like street noise, traffic, a/c? 

Yup, and filters out the music too.
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Re: Water Lily Acoustics
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2015, 04:38:59 AM »
Quote from: Kunlun on December 27, 2014, 04:15:26 AM
Hell yes, I have a number of Water Lily Acoustics. Those are my reference recordings for testing earphones. The Indian classical recordings were done in a little church with excellent acoustic properties.

I recommend Ajmer with Ustad Imrat Khan playing surbahar and sitar with his youngest son, who is a fine tabla player, accompanying the sitar.

Tabla Rasa is one of the few world fusion albums I'd say is really done right with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Bela Fleck and a few others. Well worth checking out as the musicians really play beautifully.

So far, all the WLA albums I've gotten have been good.

Is this what you're talking about? 

Ustad Imrat Khan — Ajmer — The foremost exponent of the surbahar plays rag Alhaiya Bilaval on surbahar and rag Imratkauns on sitar. On rag Imratkauns, Ustad Imrat Khan is accompanied on tabla by his son, Shafaatullah Khan.
(WLA-ES-17-CD)


You've piqued my interest, but it's $50 used on Amazon and only $15 new from WaterLily, but Water Lily, which is in California, can't sell to CA residents because they have given that territory to Amazon!!
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Re: Water Lily Acoustics
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2015, 02:58:13 PM »
Quote from: knerian on January 31, 2015, 04:38:59 AM
Is this what you're talking about? 

Ustad Imrat Khan — Ajmer — The foremost exponent of the surbahar plays rag Alhaiya Bilaval on surbahar and rag Imratkauns on sitar. On rag Imratkauns, Ustad Imrat Khan is accompanied on tabla by his son, Shafaatullah Khan.
(WLA-ES-17-CD)


You've piqued my interest, but it's $50 used on Amazon and only $15 new from WaterLily, but Water Lily, which is in California, can't sell to CA residents because they have given that territory to Amazon!!

That's the one! Worse comes to worse, I can make a copy of mine and sent it to you or put it up on a rapidshare clone.
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Re: Water Lily Acoustics
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2015, 04:55:25 PM »
Quote from: Kunlun on January 31, 2015, 02:58:13 PM
That's the one! Worse comes to worse, I can make a copy of mine and sent it to you or put it up on a rapidshare clone.


Thanks, but I emailed Water Lily yesterday about the issue, hopefully they'll make an exception and just sell me directly.  It's only 15 on their site, very reasonable for a CD.  In the meantime I can just look on youtube, I have no familiarity with Indian classical music.
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Re: Water Lily Acoustics
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2015, 05:02:04 PM »
Kavi Alexander is the man behind WLA. About once every two years or so, he gives me a call to ask about headphones.  He first contacted me WAY back in the early days of HeadRoom.  It's always a treat to chat with him. He gets it.
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Re: Water Lily Acoustics
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2015, 05:59:50 PM »
Hmm, time to start an Indian Classical thread! In a few days I'll have something up.
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Re: Water Lily Acoustics
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2015, 10:12:06 PM »
Quote from: Kunlun on January 31, 2015, 02:58:13 PM
That's the one! Worse comes to worse, I can make a copy of mine and sent it to you or put it up on a rapidshare clone.


I have this one on vinyl.  World class, stunning, you are there session!
Also have Indian Architexture which I have signed from Kavi Alexander himself :)
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