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| What 3 recordings from different genres do you and your wife/partner appreciate equally? Oh yeah, like I she loves NRBQ (atta girl!), Kasey Chambers (a wonderful Australian Country artist), and Los Lobos. Great taste (for a chick ;-), ay? | |
| DCM Time Windows - What Next? Randy Cooley was a DCM dealer in the 1980's (when he managed one shop in a small Southern California high end chain, the name of which escapes me at the moment). When he opened Optimal Enchantment in Santa Monica, he chose Vandersteen as his bread... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @estreams: Your view of the different strains of Jazz can lead one to this fact: amongst some musicians, the more "difficult" a music is, the more artistic it is. It’s a form of snobery, one I clearly hear in the music of, for instance, Frank Zapp... | |
| Stereophiles 2021 Recommended Components is now on line. Cool @clio09. Are the RM-200's the "standard" Mk.2 version, or with the transformer(s) personally hand-wound by Roger? | |
| Ken Micallef interviews Joe Harley. Yes indeed @slaw. | |
| Stereophiles 2021 Recommended Components is now on line. Speaking of the RC list: The October 2021 issue of Stereophile---which contains it---has yet to be left in my mailbox. Am I alone in this? | |
| Blues for Aficionados Hidden Charms by Willie Dixon (Capitol Records 90595). Produced by T Bone Burnett, songs arranged by Willie, the great Earl Palmer on drums and Red Callender on upright bass . Recorded at Ocean Way Studios (Ry Cooder’s favorite studio), mastered f... | |
| American Audio "Audio"? High end is dominated by U.S.A. brands, and always has been. Infinity, ESS, and Magnepan---all loudspeaker makers---were started in the late-60's. Richard Vandersteen---about as American as you can be---is a sterling example of how to des... | |
| Blues for Aficionados @dabel: Neither album should be too hard to acquire, though neither has to my knowledge been reissued.The Emitt Rhodes debut came out around the same time as did McCartney's, and the reviews (include those of my friends and myself) favoured Emitt'... | |
| Blues for Aficionados One of most-prized musical experiences was seeing and hearing Big Joe Turner backed by The Blasters in the mid-80's, at Club Lingerie on Sunset Blvd. In the band at that time was Lee Allen, the sax player on many of Little Richard's Specialty reco... | |
| System building; a meditation My hi-fi journey commenced in the late-60’s, when almost all loudspeakers were pretty-severely colored (see below). Colored in the sense used by J.Gordon Holt---"vowel" colorations, especially noticeable on voices. If you don’t know what vc means,... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Yup, Harold Bronson owned Rhino, both record shop and record label. The label started small, issuing offbeat, obscure artists in the 1970’s, selling them in the store. They then got into assembling comps of 50’s and 60’s music, and then single-art... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Oh yeah @edcyn, McCabes is not on Santa Monica, it's IN Santa Monica. I think. I always got there from Westwood Village, where I shopped at Rhino Records. Also on Pico were a coupla great record shops, Record Surplus a long-time favorite of mine.M... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection No @jafant, and most likely never will. His worst period! I loved the three Christian albums which immediately preceded it, however.I saw him live in the very-early 90’s, and he was just awful, as was his 3-piece band. Ten years later he was great... | |
| My New Magnepan 1.7i's sound dull and lifeless on the top end...why? Absolutely @yuviarora, the binding posts as well (Cardas posts will fit right in the stock holes). That whole plate is filled with ferrous parts! Have you watched the GR Research YouTube video in which Danny Richie measures the 1.7 and looks into ... |