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| HEAVY Platters. Metal or Plastic? Your personal Experiences VPI has offered platters made of aluminum, aluminum damped with lead, lead-damped aluminum with a top layer of Delrin (yes Delrin, not Acrylic ;-), stainless steel with a top layer of Delrin, a 3-layer Delrin/stainless steel/Delrin sandwich, and f... | |
| The Good Stuff Healing Tide by The War And Treaty. TWAT (oh my ;-) are actually Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter, a Gospel duo. This wonderful 2018 album was produced by another Christian, the great Buddy Miller. They will be performing at the upcoming Wat... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? Oh yeah @cey, I've been in a coupla bands with a bassist who owned the Ampeg SVT. Both the head and the speaker cabinet were back-breakers. When I was 20-21 I was playing with an organist whose Hammond B3 and Leslie cabinet were the same. But the ... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings I don't know in what numbers Robert Fulton (speaker and amplifier designer of Fulton Musical Industries---FMI, as well as recording engineer) pressed his ARK label LP's, but they are very special. Minimalist mic'ed, recorded in local Minnesota chu... | |
| Di I really need to clean my LP's? Here's an idea: Listen to a handful of LP's. Then clean them and listen again. You may then decide for yourself, not ask others what you should do. If you DO decide cleaner records sound better than non-cleaned ones, you can get your LP's far cl... | |
| Beware poor sounding media No offense intended @rvpiano, but I always wince when I see or hear musical recordings referred to as "media". Am I alone? | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? Tallest and heaviest are stacked QUAD’s (7’ 10" tall frames that I built myself with three sheets of 3/4" MDF glued together), followed by the 6’ tall Magneplanar Tympani T-IVa, which are the widest (each 51", or 4’ 3". They require a wide room ;-... | |
| Mixed Brand Pre-Amp Power Amp Pairings that Work Even in the relatively small world of high end audio there are of course different schools of engineers. Two like-minded engineers were (both are recently deceased) Roger Modjeski of Music Reference (and RAM Tube Works) and Tim de Paravicini of EA... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw: It was actually Jack Nance in David Lynch's Eraserhead. ;-) | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. @tablejockey: "Down Down Down" is a classic, done by a lot of people (including Jeff Beck in a not-so-hot version. Not because of Jeff’s playing, but that of his band and singer.). I have Don Nixes 1971 album on Elektra Records (Living By The Days... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @mammothguy54: Blues for Elvis is the Fantasy Records-era reissue of the Stax Records album that was originally entitled King, Does The King's Things. Vinyl Me Please did a far superior reissue (with original title and cover) not too long ago. Che... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Wow @tablejockey: Great song selection, Carl Radle and Duck Dunn on bass, Al Jackson, Chuck Blackwell, and Jim Gordon on drums, Leon Russell on piano and organ. I gotta get myself a copy! I managed to see Albert King live (fantastic!), but not Fre... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. @tablejockey: Nice! I’ve been looking for a copy of Jesse’s Keep Me Comin’ LP for quite some time. My mates and I were very into his playing back in the late-60’s (first heard on Taj Mahal’s debut) and early-70’s, but for some reason I never bough... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Used LP’s brought home a coupla day ago, all found at a favorite shop, the name and location of which I am for the time being keeping to myself :-) : - The dB’s: Like This (Bearsville Records). The dB’s were a 1980’s New York group whose member i... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? @mijostyn: Good point about the Dust Bug not being conductive; that had not occurred to me. It's been a long time, but I seem to recall the Bug traversing an LP side at about the same rate as the arm on my AR turntable (this was in 1969, before so... |