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| Magnepan .7 vs 1.7 tech question? No @rankaudio, of the current Magnepans only the 3.7i, 20.7i, and 30.7 have ribbon tweeters. My Magneplanar Tympani T-IVa does as well, but has not been in production for decades. A lot of people---including Steve Guttenberg in his LRS review---in... | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? @edcyn: Licorice Pizza! I knew the manager of their store on Sunset (very near the Tower store), and the bassist in my Pop group worked in the store on Topanga Canyon Blvd. That manager eventually got busted for dealing coke out of his office. | |
| How to fuse bypass in Magnepan 1.7i The beauty of bypassing the fuse block is that it requires no permanent, irreversible mods (at least it didn't on my Tympani T-IVa). Just move the internal wires. Even if you very slightly enlarge the binding post holes to fit Cardas posts, the st... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Milk Carton Kids were for me one of the highlights of the New Basement Tapes (along with Marcus Mumford). I do wish they were a little more like The Everly Brothers than Simon & Garfunkel, but then I’m more of a 50’s than a 60’s guy, and m... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears "Hallelujah", written by Leonard Cohen. Any version, though I'm partial to that of Jeff Buckley. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Don’t know Jim, I haven’t heard the MoFi. In fact, I don’t think I knew about it! My attitude used to be that MoFi issues of many of their album choices were a waste of time and money. If a recording isn’t really, really good to begin with, why bo... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601: Me too! Rock Of Ages is I believe my favorite live Rock ’n’ Roll album, along with their collaboration with Dylan on Before The Flood (I have a Capitol original, waiting for the MoFi repress). Until then, do you know about the expanded ... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears Speaking of Lucinda, I adore her song "West", which ends the album of the same title. Another of hers that chokes me up is on the same album: "Are You Alright?". Lucinda is the queen of melancholia. Have to remind everyone of Ray Davies' masterpi... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears The nomination of "Our Town" by @waltersalas is a great one. I’ll add her devastating song "No Time To Cry" (also done by Merle Haggard). Then there is Brian Wilson’s "God Only Knows", as good as songwriting gets, with wonderful singing by his bro... | |
| How to fuse bypass in Magnepan 1.7i The problem with jumpers---no matter how good---is that the signal still passes through steel parts and junk wire. | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? I just watched the David Leaf film Beautiful Dreamer-Brian Wilson And The Story Of Smile. To establish the context for the creation of the amazing Smile album (a subject for another time), Leaf covers Pet Sounds, the album that proceeded Smile. Qu... | |
| Two of the most powerful words ever - "You're fired" - "Wanna bl*wj*b?" | |
| How to fuse bypass in Magnepan 1.7i The Magnepan fuse block contains ferrous (steel!) parts, a terrible idea. Maggies can absorb a lot of power with little chance of damage, except for their fantastic ribbon tweeter (found in the current MG3.7a, 20.7a, and 30.7). I just by-passed t... | |
| Most highly anticipated LP reissues on 2022? Excellent point @bigtwin. I was late to the Prine party, but John immediately saw in Iris what we (including Merle Haggard, from whom I learned of Iris) all did. I’ve seen Iris live thrice (gettin’ above my raisin’ here ;-), amongst my most cheri... | |
| Most highly anticipated LP reissues on 2022? I don't begrudge Garth Brooks (or Shania Twain for that matter) his (and her) success; good for him (and her). But knowing how the music business works, and as a music consumer and serious lover of Hard Country, the success of entertainers like Ga... |