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| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s For those who balk at the price of the Townshend Platforms: imo the individual Seismic Pods can work just as well, and are considerably lower in price. If your loudspeakers have outrigger bases, the Pods (or the IsoAcoustics GAIA) can be installed... | |
| Led Zeppelin 11 Better Records’ Tom Port obscures the pressing info contained in the run out groove of the LP’s he sells by adding his own scratches (not cool, imo), in order to make identifying a white hot stamper (as defined by him. When I visited his apartment... | |
| 180g new vs. NM used Classic Records reissued the Led Zeppelin albums in the first decade of this century (all analogue of course, on 200g "flat-profile"---no raised outer "lip"---discs I believe), and in a couple of different configurations, including single-sided 45... | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae I saw/heard Jack Bruce live twice, and his tone was, by far, the worst I’ve ever heard. And then there’s his playing; far too busy for my taste (my musician friends refer to his style of playing as "lead bass" ;-), but to each his own. Now Jack C... | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers Loudspeakers are the opposite of women---to be heard, not seen ;-) . | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? The Music Reference RM-200 has been in the Stereophile Recommended Component List for over 20 years, with one model/design change in all that time (from original to Mk.2). Compare that with the amps of ARC ;-) . Unfortunately designer/builder Roge... | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae Fun topic! | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae Not a ranking, listed in alphabetical order: - Rick Danko (The Hawks, The Band, Dylan). He and his musical brother drummer Levon Helm showed everyone how to build a great Rock 'n' Roll, uh Band. Their playing on the "brown" album is as good... | |
| 180g new vs. NM used Speaking of Led Zeppelin: Avoid the LP reissues Jimmy Page did recently; in this case the source WAS digital. Also The 2010 (I think it was) Beatles stereo boxset used digitized sources. The mono boxset was originally set to be released in 2012, b... | |
| Best Rock Drummers Bobby Whitlock (organist/singer/songwriter in Derek & The Dominos, organist/singer on George Harrison’s All Thinks Must Pass album, member of Delany & Bonnie and Friends) states unequivocally that the best Rock ’n’ Roll drummer of all-time... | |
| 180g new vs. NM used I buy both originals and reissues, and on some titles have both. The statement above that reads "Most new reissues are made from digital files" is one you hear often, and the people saying it never divulge the source of the information upon which ... | |
| wide baffles and baffle step @ladrillo: That's exactly what John Bau did in his Spica loudspeakers. | |
| Forgotten heavy bands from late 60's to early 70's @larsman: You may already know, but Man's drummer Terry Williams was later in the UK super-group Rockpile, and is also heard on the late-70/80's solo albums of Rockpile members Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe. After that he joined Dire Straits, and is ... | |
| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? For audiophiles, Fritz Reiner stands out from most of the "historical" conductors, whose recorded sound is often not the best. Reiner had the "serious" temperament of the 19th century-born Europeans, and lead the CSO in a rather "severe" manner. T... | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp Roger Modjeski (Music Reference, RAM Tubes) had a thread dedicated to fuses in his AudioCircle Forum. In it Modjeski disclosed what he had discovered during his investigation into some of the audiophile fuses, and how they compared to the Littlefu... |