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| New In 2023 On November 3rd of this year, the new Van Morrison album entitled Accentuate The Positive will be released. What makes this album so interesting is the songs chosen. Amongst them are: - "When Will I Be Loved". Written by Phil Everly, a hit ... | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier The EAR-Yoshino 912 is worth looking into. In his review of it, Art Dudley said it was the first pre-amp he heard that rivaled his Shindo. | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Good one @tylermunns. Yeah, Rock music can just be considered one branch of Pop music. How about Blues? My focus on Pop songs started in the late-60’s, when the album format replaced the 45 RPM single as the dominant format for Pop music. I heard... | |
| Mental and auditory acuity, and aging Most of the guys my age I’ve known who have already died did so as a result of smoking cigarettes or over-indulging in drink. The others just got unlucky, dying of various cancers not caused by personal choices. Sure are a lot of guys in their 70... | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? mulveling: The Herron VTPH-1mm produces 44dB of gain when fitted with four 12AX7’s (plus one 12AT7 for non-gain functions), and 42dB with two 12AT7’s substituted for two of the 12AX7’s. The 12AX7’s and 12AT7’s are user interchangeable; Keith sent ... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. I agree, "What is Pop music?" is an interesting question, one perhaps without a definitive answer. It originally referred to songs written in the classic two verses, chorus, bridge (middle 8 in England), third verse, chorus, out form. Or a close ... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. How about "Pretty Ballerina" by The Left Banke, written by Michael Brown? Also their "Walk Away Renee", done in a great version by The Four Tops as well. | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music Geez, it’s been only one day, and I have to recommend this video about Jim Gordon in place of the one above. Please do yourself a HUGE favour and watch it, it is truly incredible. It is an interview with Joel Selvin, longtime music writer for T... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @tylermunns: Does your copy of the Song Cycle LP have the beautiful gold Warner Brothers center paper label? Both my copies (one has the rear cover with lyrics, the other without them but full musician credits) have the later ugly green WB label. ... | |
| Acoustic advice re: building a room (in wall or on wall) treatments Look into the wall construction products made by ASC. I have heard a room constructed with them, and the structure of the room---especially the walls---was the least resonant I have ever heard, by a considerable margin. Rapped with one’s knuckl... | |
| Five feet from the front wall @dsper: Yes, measurements are always made from the baffle the loudspeaker drivers are mounted onto. The 5' figure is especially apropos for dipole planar loudspeakers. 5' allows the speaker's front wave to be heard 10ms before the rear wave (sound... | |
| Please help me to define diagnosis of the following illness. I too often focus on one artist or composer at a time, listening to nothing else for maybe a week at a time. That makes for a deep dive into what it is the artist/composer was all about. | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? 40dB of gain was the standard back in the pre-moving coil days, and very few phono stages DON'T provide that amount of gain for moving magnet and moving iron pickups. The Herron VTPH phono amps (both the VTPH-1mm and VTPH-2) provide 42 or 44dB of... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @tylermunns: A songwriter/bandmate and I discovered Randy Newman’s first album through Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. Because of Van’s work with Brian on the Smile recordings (I discovered the Smiley Smile album in early-’68, and turned him on t... | |
| Tune of the Day "The Way" by Fastball. Power Pop to the max! |