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| Another great gone, this time its Charlie Watts Charlie didn’t have to be "perfect", or technically advanced. In fact, if he was he would sound out of place in a band with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. Like the often-denigrated Ringo Starr, he was the right drummer for the group. As was Keith... | |
| And Tom T. Hall makes 3 :-( Oops! I just again looked at the CD, and realized it is entitled The Real Tom T. Hall Project. "The real Tom T. Hall" is how he was referred to in Country music.Thanks @rpeluso, I'll look up that version. | |
| Another great gone, this time its Charlie Watts Like Charlie, once I heard a Gretsch drumset, that was it for me! Levon Helm also played Gretsch, including in The Last Waltz. A beautiful black diamond pearl-finished set. A have a set in bdp, and one in Brazilian walnut. Both with 24" bass drums... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? @stuartk: Beato's videos are fantastic! I watch at least one a day, often learning a lot. | |
| Discovered I had a One Step pressing....from 1978! @emailists: Oh yeah, d-2-d is very impractical. Very few musicians (or singers) can record an entire LP side live without playing a number of clams. I was speaking only of the best-sounding LP system, not the most doable.You use the term "older re... | |
| Does listening to music increase your IQ? There is a body of research that establishes the playing of Mozart music to babies increases brain activity, leading to early intellectual development. When presented with information it doesn't understand (Mozart music), the brain works to make s... | |
| VTL 300 Deluxe monoblocks @tomic601: I hadn't heard about Tom retiring. Glad I got the RM-9 Mk.2 he scrutinized for Sheila while I could! I assumed he wouldn't be coming along when she moves the Brooks Berdan operation up to Washington, sometime this year I believe. | |
| How to repair bottom diaphragm connection of Eminent Technology LFT8 planar speakers By the way, nice loudspeaker! An overlooked little gem. Only a little more $ than the Maggie 1.7i, and imo quite a bit better. | |
| Acoustic treatment for windows and a piano As @dekay suggested, damping the piano strings (two per keyboard note---that's a lotta strings!) is the first order of business. They ring like crazy when provoked, much more than an acoustic guitar or drumset. A folded furniture moving blanket wi... | |
| Another great gone, this time its Charlie Watts I just heard. There are those who consider The Stones Charlie's band, not Mick & Keith's. I guess Steve Jordan now has a full-time job ;-) . I love the pictures of Charlie on stage, smirking at Mick's "antics". Charlie was a hardcore Jazz fan,... | |
| Discovered I had a One Step pressing....from 1978! The direct-to-disc LP still beats all LP's pressed using a recorder of any kind. Skipping the recording "step" is the biggest of them all. | |
| surround processor? An economical way to give surround sound a try is to get the old Dynaco Quadaptor. You hook it up to your power amp's binding posts, and it creates a left minus right (L - R) signal, which is sent to a rear channel amp and speakers. The L - R sign... | |
| TEKTON IMPACT MONITORS If you send one speaker to Danny Richie at GR Research, he will thoroughly evaluate it's performance (frequency response, spectral decay---aka waterfall plot, enclosure resonances, x/o parts quality, etc. If he thinks a redesign of the crossover w... | |
| How to repair bottom diaphragm connection of Eminent Technology LFT8 planar speakers Why not send the pics to Bruce Thigpen at Eminent Technology? Don't worry, he's a real nice fella. | |
| VTL 300 Deluxe monoblocks Tom Carione at Brooks Berdan, Ltd., in Monrovia, California. Tom was servicing VTL products when Brooks was a VTL retailer. He's an excellent technician, and a great guy to deal with. |