bdp24
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| WTH TAS?! Geez, is there nothing a person can say that someone else won't take issue with? ;-) Sure, before Bill Johnson formed The Audio Research Corporation, there had been the QUAD ESL, the KLH 9 ESL, the Klipschorn, the Marantz Model 7 tube pre-amp and... | |
| New In 2022 @larsman: Before Cornell put together The Mondo Hotpants Orchestra, he and MHO bassist Frank Roeber had a 3-pc group named The Ragg Brothers. The 3rd member was lead guitarist Kim Muscatel (Cornell played rhythm on an acoustic guitar, like Dan Hic... | |
| New In 2022 Oops, above I meant to say The South Bay Swing Band, not Blues Band. Tenor and baritone saxes, acoustic piano (try lugging one of those around in a van ;-), one guitar (a fat-bodied Gibson), electric bass, 4-pc drumset, and singer(s). Fun band! We... | |
| Speakers known for great midrange. The original QUAD ESL is considered the standard for midrange reproduction, but does not sound syrupy; for years it was also the standard for transparency. For smooth and somewhat soft sound (a mild form of syrupy?), how about one of the old Vande... | |
| New In 2022 @larsman: Small world! I remember Kevin’s name, but can’t picture his face (I’m sure we’ve met, but the 70’s are somewhat of a blur ;-). Donut’s guitarist Paul Skelton was in Hurd’s Mondo Hotpants Orchestra, whom I first saw live at De Anza Colleg... | |
| WTH TAS?! The Absolute Sound doesn’t publish technical reviews. And with little technical knowledge, the purely subjective reviewer may not understand why he is hearing what he is hearing. When Harry Pearson told Bill Johnson the pre-amp ARC had sent him wa... | |
| MOFI announces new partnership and PRESSING PLANT!!! I thought MoFi and Music Direct already had their own pressing plant in RTI. I guess they don't own RTI, they just have them make all their LP's. MoFi and Music Direct having their own plant will be just like Analogue Productions/Acoustic Sounds o... | |
| WTH TAS?! @jw994ts: I anticipated someone might make your argument, which is imo not quite "right". But first, allow me to point out that I was not "dismissing HP’s ears." Go ahead, re-read my post; what I just stated will prove to be true. I did, however, ... | |
| WTH TAS?! @dinov: Shorting plugs inserted into the input jacks of a pre-amp results in the output of that jack being sent to ground, preventing noise from getting into the circuitry. Shorting plugs inserted into the OUTPUT jacks of a pre-amp, on the other h... | |
| New In 2022 @larsman: The gig with The Groovies was when I was in The Donuts, a 5-piece band with 3 guitarists. The main songwriter and lead singer was Chris Hauptman, whose voice is somewhat similar to that of Elvis Costello. He is a very good Pop/Rock songw... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Excellent Steve! I got to see Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks live in a converted movie theater right by San Jose City College, in '73 I believe it was. Fantastic! Dan had added a drummer by that point in time, a jazz player who was fantastic. Years... | |
| 80 years old - Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson Likewise @nonoise. Though after the Amoeba store on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood opened, Tower seemed kinda lame. Except for the Classical department in all the Towers (the Tower on Sunset.had a separate Classical annex), the best Classical inventory... | |
| 80 years old - Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson @nonoise: I really liked Jeff in Crazy Heart, and have the soundtrack. I’ve been meaning to pick up his subsequent album. I didn’t know about the Old Man series, I’ll check it out, thanks. @bwguy: Is your screen name Brian Wilson Guy abbreviated?... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @loomisjohnson: I rate those first three Twilley albums in the same order as do you. I didn't see Twilley live until after Phil Seymour had left the group, so Dwight was doing all the lead singing (his bassist Jim Lewis---who later had one solo al... | |
| 80 years old - Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson I wish Brian would hang it up. The last time I saw & heard him live I was left depressed for days. It was a pathetic spectacle. As for McCartney: I’m curious who his current audience is. Nobody I know. But he still appears to be making qualit... |