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| A new book by David Leaf on the Smile saga. And here’s part two of the interview, posted on YouTube today: https://youtu.be/FzKl9nmRr_8?si=WOuE4DB2W0F0CCaW&t=1 | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse I too follow Neil’s method, now doing a pre-cleaning of used records, holding the LP above the sink while gently running a cleaning brush around it after having squirted the surface with a diluted Liquinox solution. I hold the LP above the sink... | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? I’ve seen the Straitjackets live only once, opening for Tom Petty. Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell is a fan, and arranged the gig for them. Straitjackets bassist Pete Curry is an old friend and former bandmate of mine, and he told me Mike... | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? There's a real nice VPI HW-17 for sale right now on USAM, priced at $475.00. The HW-17 weighs a ton, so shipping won't be cheap. | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? Speaking of Little Village, here they are on the Tonight Show: https://youtu.be/vw1SCbpwnwE?si=cyKupoP6owh76E8o | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? I have used a VPI HW-17 for many years. Yes it’s quite noisy, but it works splendidly. If you are looking for a vacuum machine only to remove any cleaning (or rinsing) fluid from your LPs, the Pro-Ject line of vacuum machines may be a better ch... | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? Some comments on above posts: @jasonbourne71: I shopped at Bleeker Bob’s when I briefly lived in New York (Flushing, Queens) in ’83. Quite an ornery fella! Later in the decade he opened a shop on Melrose Street in Los Angeles, and brought h... | |
| Have You Seen - 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound @ghdprentice: A marketing shot, yeah. But what kind of potential customer does PS Audio think the picture will attract? A woman? A novice audiophile? I don't think anyone new to high end audio is going to be buying a pair of PS Audio's $30,000 ... | |
| Mike's Barn. Regarding the rational for having multiple turntables: I don’t like two tonearms on the same table, especially if one is of tangential design. I also don’t like detachable head shells. Changing cartridges on an arm without a detachable head... | |
| Who has gone fully active? What speakers and preamp did you end up with? There was one active system I was very interested in, but then the designer/builder Roger Modjeski (of Music Reference of course) died, and the system with him. The system consisted of an electrostatic loudspeaker with no input transformer (al... | |
| Have You Seen - 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound And in the discussion of point 1 (the speakers should disappear in the room), they show a pair of PS Audio FR30’s right in front of a wall of glass windows and doors. Duh. And that goes for PS Audio too; the picture was taken from the PS Audio ... | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? @sns: Oops, I forget to include the fact that the Taxi To The Terminal Zone was an album by Ducks Deluxe. I saw Rockpile live only once (at The Country Club on Sherman Way in Reseda California), and they were fantastic. Moon Martin was the ... | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? I guess I (and @slaw) need to give the Little Village album another spin! I loved them live. @sns: Another Pub Rock album to give a listen to is Taxi To The Terminal Zone, produced by Dave Edmunds. | |
| A good little documentary on the great Jim Lauderdale. Oh, and Elvis Costello, Patty Loveless, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, James Burton, Ralph Stanley, Dusty Wakeman (SoCal recording engineer, and player of a 3-string Fender P-Bass), many others. I learned some things I didn’t know about Jim, and... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? With the acquisition of a London pickup. Then you will need an arm that can handle the mechanical energy it produces (a stiff arm tube and strong bearing design and build). |