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| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. Audiogon member @thecarpathian already nominated Idiocracy in this forum’s Movie/Film Suggestions thread, but it is now apropos here as well. | |
| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? Fremer was born in 1947, so he turns 78 some time this year. | |
| Jay's Audio Lab Visits GR Research's Listening Room I guess I'll have to watch the video, but I have found this Jay guy to be very annoying in the videos of his I've watched. As for the sound the system produces, I wouldn't dream of thinking that can be discerned from a video posted on YouTube.... | |
| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? @neonknight: As @lewm just posted, adding moving mass to a tone arm is simple. Do it on the headshell for maximum efficiency. The lead weights for balancing wheels work splendidly, and if you need to add mass to your arm's counterweight to now... | |
| So what series are you WATCHING now? Deadline: White House with Nicole Wallace. Free on MSNBC Monday through Friday, 4:00 Eastern time. If you've seen the movie Game Change you're familiar with Nicole; she was the woman in the movie (portrayed by an actress of course) given the t... | |
| A new book by David Leaf on the Smile saga. And here’s part two of the interview, posted on YouTube today: https://youtu.be/FzKl9nmRr_8?si=WOuE4DB2W0F0CCaW&t=1 | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse I too follow Neil’s method, now doing a pre-cleaning of used records, holding the LP above the sink while gently running a cleaning brush around it after having squirted the surface with a diluted Liquinox solution. I hold the LP above the sink... | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? I’ve seen the Straitjackets live only once, opening for Tom Petty. Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell is a fan, and arranged the gig for them. Straitjackets bassist Pete Curry is an old friend and former bandmate of mine, and he told me Mike... | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? There's a real nice VPI HW-17 for sale right now on USAM, priced at $475.00. The HW-17 weighs a ton, so shipping won't be cheap. | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? Speaking of Little Village, here they are on the Tonight Show: https://youtu.be/vw1SCbpwnwE?si=cyKupoP6owh76E8o | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? I have used a VPI HW-17 for many years. Yes it’s quite noisy, but it works splendidly. If you are looking for a vacuum machine only to remove any cleaning (or rinsing) fluid from your LPs, the Pro-Ject line of vacuum machines may be a better ch... | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? Some comments on above posts: @jasonbourne71: I shopped at Bleeker Bob’s when I briefly lived in New York (Flushing, Queens) in ’83. Quite an ornery fella! Later in the decade he opened a shop on Melrose Street in Los Angeles, and brought h... | |
| Have You Seen - 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound @ghdprentice: A marketing shot, yeah. But what kind of potential customer does PS Audio think the picture will attract? A woman? A novice audiophile? I don't think anyone new to high end audio is going to be buying a pair of PS Audio's $30,000 ... | |
| Mike's Barn. Regarding the rational for having multiple turntables: I don’t like two tonearms on the same table, especially if one is of tangential design. I also don’t like detachable head shells. Changing cartridges on an arm without a detachable head... | |
| Who has gone fully active? What speakers and preamp did you end up with? There was one active system I was very interested in, but then the designer/builder Roger Modjeski (of Music Reference of course) died, and the system with him. The system consisted of an electrostatic loudspeaker with no input transformer (al... |