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| When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song. One genre that is heavy with "1-hit wonders" is the Garage Band music of the 1960’s. After The British Invasion took over the music business in 1964, every town and city in America witnessed an explosion of local bands who were inspired by The Bea... | |
| Anyone know the weight limit for a 4x4 Kallax with undeframe? I don’t know about the Kallax, but I have my Ikea EKET cubes sitting on the underframe Ikea made (now discontinued, replaced by individual feet) for it. The 4-cube EKET is 27.5" wide, and I have three EKET’s on each underframe, so 12 cubicles tota... | |
| What should I be looking for when buying my 1st Reel To Reel ? @rbtstock: PS Audio "publishes" a great online magazine: Copper. It's free, and is delivered to your computer's in box. UK reviewer Ken Kessler (Hi-Fi News & Record Review) is up to Chapter 11 in his Copper column dedicated to all things reel-... | |
| Is it ok to stack LPs horizontally? I see a lot of LP collections with the records leaning to one side. As @dseltz just said, given enough time LP’s thus stored can become "dish" warped. I years ago came up with a solution: you know the cardboard "spacers" you routinely find inside... | |
| SQ or performance? It depends on the degree of "badness", and to some degree by the nature of the music. Bernstein’s traversals of Beethoven’s symphonies---though not of audiophile purist sound quality---are not sabotaged to anywhere near the same degree as are tho... | |
| When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song. You guys don’t own any 7" 45’s? I have about 600 of ’em, mostly by "non-album" kind of artists (early-60’s). "Maybe" by The Chantels---a stupendous, glorious Pop masterpiece, later covered by Dave Edmunds on his fantastic second album Subtle As A ... | |
| One guitar, or three? @edcyn: There are actually two schools of Bluegrass: Traditional, and Progressive. There are Bluegrass players who perform exclusively in one of the two schools, and others who do both---for instance one of my favorite living musicians, dobro play... | |
| One guitar, or three? @stuartk: My original statement reads: "Most Jazz doesn’t speak to me". That was of course a generalization. Jazz music tends to not give me what I’m looking for musically, not as much as do other genres. I listen for for and respond to first for... | |
| GIK alternatives For those who don’t mind getting their hands dirty: GR Research has just introduced DIY acoustic panel kits sold as flat packs. Just screw the Baltic Birch pieces together, stuff the assembled frame(s) with your material of choice, and cover with... | |
| New In 2022 Jackpot Records is reissuing the 1976 Power Pop classic Shake Some Action by The Flamin' Groovies in May. Produced at Rockfield Studios by my favorite of the 70’s and early-80’s, Dave Edmunds (Fab T-Birds, The Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, Rockpi... | |
| High quality CDs @rman9: And the HM albums are by-and-large very well recorded. Plus their artist roster if fantastic: lots of the best "historically informed/original instrument" musicians in the world. The repertoire includes lots of Early Music and Baroque, alo... | |
| One guitar, or three? Yeah @stuartk, I thought using the term Urban might raise some eyebrows ;-) . Though now commonly used as a synonym for black, I used the term more literally: city music, irrespective of the ethnicity of the people making the music. The sound of ... | |
| Dipole speakers, subwoofers and that rear wall I can't let a discussion of dipole loudspeakers and subwoofers go without mentioning one combination of the two that is very unique: the dipole speaker of your choice mated with an OB/dipole sub. Brian Ding of Rythmik Audio and Danny Richie of GR... | |
| 180g … It’s All Hype ! Yeah @tgilb, Jackson's albums certainly warrant being again available on LP (I wish everyone would stop saying vinyl. LP's are NOT made of vinyl, but rather PVC---Poly Vinyl Chloride. Am I being too literal? ;-). His four albums released in 1993 t... | |
| One guitar, or three? Excellent nomination @valinar! In fact, five guitarists, but only one (Harrison) a lead player (Orbison, Dylan, Petty and---I think---Lynne rhythm only players). Acoustic guitars sound huge when double-tracked in recordings (an old trick); can you... |