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| Best Rock Drummers "There were no great Rock drummers before Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, and Keith Moon". Wow, such unashamed ignorance. So no Earl Palmer (Little Richard)? D.J. Fontana (Elvis Presley)? Fred Below? Below was the house drummer at Chess Records, play... | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle @nonoise: I too have the Porter Ports, which are good enough for me. But then I’m not fanatical about that kind of stuff. Is Albert still offering them? Geez, I hope he didn't die and I never heard about it! ;-( | |
| A bit too "non-audiophile", but what are your favorite high-end tuners based on Looks? McIntosh MR-67, 71, 73, 74, 77. Understated elegance. Too bad Mac added that hideous bezel in the MR-78, and switched from their nice original knobs to the ones with the black front. | |
| Toroidal transformer on tube amp Roger Modjeski (Music Reference, RAM Tubes) brought up the topic of the employment of toroidal transformers in tube amps in one of his Burning Amp Festival amplifier design seminars, and was adamant in his opposition. Tim de Paravicini (EAR-Yoshin... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s For those who balk at the price of the Townshend Platforms: imo the individual Seismic Pods can work just as well, and are considerably lower in price. If your loudspeakers have outrigger bases, the Pods (or the IsoAcoustics GAIA) can be installed... | |
| Led Zeppelin 11 Better Records’ Tom Port obscures the pressing info contained in the run out groove of the LP’s he sells by adding his own scratches (not cool, imo), in order to make identifying a white hot stamper (as defined by him. When I visited his apartment... | |
| 180g new vs. NM used Classic Records reissued the Led Zeppelin albums in the first decade of this century (all analogue of course, on 200g "flat-profile"---no raised outer "lip"---discs I believe), and in a couple of different configurations, including single-sided 45... | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae I saw/heard Jack Bruce live twice, and his tone was, by far, the worst I’ve ever heard. And then there’s his playing; far too busy for my taste (my musician friends refer to his style of playing as "lead bass" ;-), but to each his own. Now Jack C... | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers Loudspeakers are the opposite of women---to be heard, not seen ;-) . | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? The Music Reference RM-200 has been in the Stereophile Recommended Component List for over 20 years, with one model/design change in all that time (from original to Mk.2). Compare that with the amps of ARC ;-) . Unfortunately designer/builder Roge... | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae Fun topic! | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae Not a ranking, listed in alphabetical order: - Rick Danko (The Hawks, The Band, Dylan). He and his musical brother drummer Levon Helm showed everyone how to build a great Rock 'n' Roll, uh Band. Their playing on the "brown" album is as good... | |
| 180g new vs. NM used Speaking of Led Zeppelin: Avoid the LP reissues Jimmy Page did recently; in this case the source WAS digital. Also The 2010 (I think it was) Beatles stereo boxset used digitized sources. The mono boxset was originally set to be released in 2012, b... | |
| Best Rock Drummers Bobby Whitlock (organist/singer/songwriter in Derek & The Dominos, organist/singer on George Harrison’s All Thinks Must Pass album, member of Delany & Bonnie and Friends) states unequivocally that the best Rock ’n’ Roll drummer of all-time... | |
| 180g new vs. NM used I buy both originals and reissues, and on some titles have both. The statement above that reads "Most new reissues are made from digital files" is one you hear often, and the people saying it never divulge the source of the information upon which ... |