77jovian
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| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? Nancy Griffiths. Her reedy, thin voice was weaker and more out of tune than I could stand. The final straw was her pathetic political finger-wagging between songs.Steve Morse gets both second and third prize. I’m a big fan, but the Steve Morse ... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Babe Ruth...First BaseIron Butterfly...Metamorphosis Chick Corea and Return to Forever...MusicmagicFools Gold...Mr. Lucky | |
| RIP Chick Corea 81 studio albums, many, many classics. Great pairings, associations, groups and bands. A towering performer and innovative composer. A very sad loss. | |
| Perfect Pop Songs What great suggestions so far.Bridge Over Troubled Water. Paul Simon could have several other entries (including Red Rubber Ball, recorded by the Cyrkle, mentioned earlier). Alternate, America.25 or 6 to 4, Chicago. They could have a half dozen... | |
| Best Live Album Ever... I still come back to this thread for the great suggestions. Here are two more very fine albums:Dan Fogelberg Live at Carnegie HallHarry Chapin Greatest Stories Live | |
| To biwire or not to biwire, that is the question Thanks, all. And Merry Christmas. | |
| Internet radio for Luddites I have a Logitech Squeezebox internet radio that I’m not using. A very inexpensive and simple solution. Contact me if you are interested. | |
| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? The ‘68 Les Paul Custom I lost in a burglary during college....still hurts.After that, I’d have to say the Thiel 3.6’s. I down-sized years ago, but I had a lot of joy thanks to Thiel. | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? Mollie O’BrienClaire LynchAllison Krausscan’t stop there...Lydia PenceEva CassidySylvia McNairHollie Cole | |
| Update on Audiogon Member Almarg Thank you, Al, for your unmatched expertise, wisdom, patience and generosity, extended selflessly even to the relatively unsophisticated and unknown 'Goners, like me. I have learned a great deal from you, only some of it related to audio.Deep pea... | |
| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question I loved the sound of my tube gear. I put up with the inefficiency, meaning the furnace-like heat. I began to wear down, though, from the cost of re-tubing and once having to ship the amp back to the manufacturer for repair when a tube blew up. ... | |
| Audio Research Sold Well, they are releasing a 50th anniversary book, the history of ARC...it is unclear whether the book will run on KT 150’s. | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming Why does poor digital audio signal cause dropouts and poor digital video signal cause pixelization but no dropouts? | |
| is this the greatest live band of all time? Deep Purple era of Made in JapanBuddy Rich Big BandDavid Grisman Quartet (original lineup)Chicago with Terry Kath | |
| Amp recommendation to drive Thiel 3.6 speakers I had 3.6’s (also from Soundings in Denver, coincidentally) paired with a Krell KSA 200 rated at 200/400/800 watts at 8/4/2 ohms. The Thiels sounded awesome with that pairing. They sounded good with a KSA 100, but great with the 200. |