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| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... For great SOUNDING recordings of female voice, you gotta hear the Acony Records LP’s of Gillian Welch. They also fulfill your request for "mainly acoustic", non-"loud electronic" music. | |
| Keys/Piano - Funkiest Solo Most anything Dr. John (Mac Rebennack), Stevie Wonder, or Terry Adams (NRBQ) plays on. For Dr. John "Such A Night", for Stevie "Superstition", and for Terry "Want You To Feel Good Too". | |
| Can't remember the name of a band. Sheesh, what a grouch. Buddy Holly: "Jazz is strictly for the stay-at-homes." I love Buddy Holly, don’t care for Chicago (corny music made by squares, no matter how "good" they are. Just my opinion, of course.). But that’s just me. I also love T... | |
| To truly enjoy this hobby, I need to learn electronics. Any book recs? For a few years before his tragic passing in 2019, Roger Modjeski of Music Reference was teaching a class on audio electronics in Berkeley/Oakland. If I was living in the Bay Area then I would definitely have enrolled. For an introduction to his ... | |
| Which arms share the Rega Geometry? Why not just suffer along with the Rega arm until the new table is ready? How long's the wait? | |
| Great classical pianists Glenn Gould. | |
| My Major System Upgrades in 2022 and Impact of Each Now, spend at least as much on recordings as you have on equipment, and it will have been money well spent. | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @simonmoon and @edcyn: Which Moby Disc? I lived a few blocks from the one on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks. In the mid-80’s Lucinda Williams worked there for awhile. I’d go in and there she was, standing behind the register, staring off into space... | |
| Does your "esoteric" taste in audio also exist in other "things" you own/consume? Yes. Puffies ;-) . | |
| Can't remember the name of a band. Old expression: "Those who can, do. Those who can’t teach." Don’t blame me, I didn’t coin it ;-) . Cold Blood were.....hot. All the Bay Area musicians loved ’em. For a male-fronted band with horns, it was The Sons Of Champlin and Sly & The Fa... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... On the Striking It Rich album by Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks (produced by Tommy LiPuma---nominated for 33 Grammys, 5 of which he won, engineered by Bruce Botnick---best known for the Doors albums---at Sunset Sound in L.A.), Maryann price sings the... | |
| Which arms share the Rega Geometry? You're willing to spend money on a new arm, but balk at the price of a new armboard?! I took the arm mounting plate for my VPI Aries into a good plastics supply house/fabrication shop, and had them make a new one to the stock one's exact specs. P... | |
| To truly enjoy this hobby, I need to learn electronics. Any book recs? Contact Ralph Karsten at Atma-Sphere. I'm sure he can recommend some books on electronic theory, circuit design, etc. Forget about books aimed at audiophiles, like the one by Robert Harley; that's not technical information, it's hi-fi consumer adv... | |
| Rant against the industry with hopes for discussion on positive change High end audio---or even hi-fi on any level---has ALWAYS been a niche market. Out of, say, a hundred young people I knew when I was in my 20's (in the 1970's), only two other than myself cared enough about having a good system to actually be willi... | |
| New In 2022 Mavis Staples: We'll Never Turn Back LP---15th Anniversary Edition (Anti Records), produced by Ry Cooder. |