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| How much faster of a sub is the REL T5X vs SVS SB12-NSD My recommendation: Go onto YouTube and do a search for GR Research. Click on the GRR icon and scroll over to the Tech Talk 6/Fast Bass video. You will find the answers to all your questions, from an expert loudspeaker/subwoofer designer. After t... | |
| Old CDs and records I'll take 'em off your hands. ;-) | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? Phase can be a somewhat complex matter, but in the case of subs it is not. The phase switch on most subs gives only two options: either the signal is left as received, or it is rotated 180 degrees (the phase is flipped, i.e. reversed). The phase ... | |
| First Watt SIT3 vs Dynakit ST35 Roger Modjeski used the EL84 in his Music Reference RM-10 amplifier, an amplifier with a cult following. It was Roger's favorite of his push-pull designs (he also did single-ended and OTL). | |
| Politics and Music Actually, Frank Zappa himself got very involved in politics in 1987, when he went up against Tipper Gore over warning labels on albums, even testifying before Congress. I know a fair number of musicians who identify as Libertarians, the interesti... | |
| Best microphone for recording home system Not to be argumentative, but the SM57 and 58 have midrange boosts built into their frequency responses, to make vocals more intelligible on PA systems. The SM57 is the industry standard for recording snare drums, as it makes them POP! For accurac... | |
| Hot Rats Zappa is notorious amongst drummers for his brutal auditions. He wrote parts for the applicants to play, parts intentionally extremely difficult to play. Some found him to be a sadist who enjoyed humiliating other musicians. One drummer Zappa was ... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? @larsman: The Smithereens’ songs had some great hooky riffs, didn’t they?! @mitchagain: Jellyfish were astounding, just as good live as on record. The Wondermints were very well known around L.A. before they hooked up with Brian Wilson, and thei... | |
| Politics and Music Johnny Cash was an early fan of Bob Dylan, but Johnny's cause was the plight of Native Americans. He did an album dedicated to the subject (Bitter Tears: Ballads Of The American Indian). Merle Haggard is most well known by the general population ... | |
| Politics and Music Did ya’ll know that Neil Young was for a time a "Reagan Democrat"? Disappointing. For years I greatly admired Joan Baez as an "activist" (I don’t care for the term, as it feels to me somewhat pejorative), but didn’t care for her artistically (too... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Excellent recommendation @mitchagain! Poptopia includes "Starry Eyes" by The Records, a song written by drummer Will Birch and John Wicks, the latter of whom I had the pleasure of working with live. Also included is "Rock ’n’ Roll Girl" by The Bea... | |
| Hot Rats @mahler123: It was not I who compared Popular Musicians with Classical Composers, but rather Pat Metheny. In my opinion both have to be judged as farmers in their own fields, not at all the same crops. Sorry for the silly metaphors ;-) . I love, ... | |
| Hot Rats @pfeiffer and @baylinor : I can’t fault ya’ll for taking the conflating of Zappa and Trump in the wrong sense (though I can for not at least suspecting the attempt at humour ;-). I was speaking only of their propensity for thinking very highly of ... | |
| Please Support Music Education When I was in elementary school in the early-60’s, even we had a school orchestra (where I learned to read music, and played snare drum). Music was considered as much a part of a well-rounded education as were math, science, and history (as well a... | |
| Politics and Music Conservatives tend to oppose things like---in the case of Reagan---Stem Cell research (’cause fetuses have their rights too). That is, of course, until such research will benefit them personally (after Reagan’s illness was diagnosed, Mrs. Reagan g... |