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| 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. | |
| Planar speaker characteristics @russ69: Yeah, I didn't notice the date of the op until after I posted, and then thought "What the heck, may as well leave it up for anyone who might find it useful." | |
| Planar speaker characteristics @dprincipato: As a long-time owner/listener of planars (both magnetic-planars and electrostatics), I think you should know that the number one rule for owning them is that if you are not able to place them 5’ or more away from the wall behind them... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... I have been thinking to myself "Why are people recommending non-Jazz female singers?" I just realized the request was for female singers in general, not just Jazz. Duh! Some of my faves have already been mentioned (Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harri... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones, both on Blue Note Records (and in audiophile pressings by Analogue Productions). | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? I love that when in France during the 1965-6 world tour with The Hawks, Dylan hung a giant American flag on the wall behind the stage. The war in Vietnam was gaining in unpopularity in the USA by then, but was already very unpopular in the rest of... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @larsman: "Who’s to say it was wrong"? It was Clapton! Of course many of his then peers didn’t agree with Eric, and continued down the path Clapton decided to veer off of. Jimmie Page certainly didn’t agree, and his new band after The Yardbirds en... | |
| Recommendation on speakers for listening to live music As non-acoustic music is usually heard though the sound system the live music venue uses---which rarely doesn’t employ horns as it’s midrange and tweeter drivers, the advice to listen through horns at home is not without merit. But be for-warned: ... | |
| New In 2022 @slaw: Actually Steve, it wasn’t the pressing Michael Ludwig didn’t care for, it was the music. His review of the album was a stark reminder to me that Michael’s musical taste and mine overlap only peripherally. I am a singer/songwriter aficionado... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @tylermunns: One somewhat-artsy New York band I love is Television; their debut album is stunning. On the other hand, I have known a lot of musicians (and civilians) who love XTC, whom, try as I might, I just couldn’t cozy up to. Music is SO subje... | |
| Late night blues Dire Straits Blues?! ;-) Johnny Hartman, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, Ruth Brown, Billie Holiday, Lou Ann Barton. | |
| New In 2022 Yep Rock is issuing all three of the above albums on both LP and CD. The label has national distribution (my local independent stocks the label), but I don’t know about Amazon. I learned of Iris from Merle Haggard, who recorded her devastating... | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? Great post @tylermunns! As further evidence of the hypocrisy, cynicism, lust for power, and even greed (geez, sounds like many politicians ;-) of the Catholic Church, one need only remember how it conspired with the Nazis to rid the world of Jews,... |