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| The price of used LP's. I also brought home one of John Simon's two albums, Journey (Warner Brothers). John is best known for producing the first two albums of The Band, but he also did the debut albums of Leonard Cohen and The Electric Flag (the only one Al Kooper as le... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? OMG, they got me! Still, it wouldn't surprise me. ;-) | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? Want to see what one hi-fi retailer thinks it can get you to spend money on? I am NOT making this up, the following were pictured in today’s email from The Music Room: - Roller Hero Tubility Belt, a leather (looking, at least) utility belt that h... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. Here’s a "timely" occurrence ;-) : I returned home from my drive into Portland yesterday with a couple of LP’s containing music made by some of the names mentioned above: - Robben Ford: The Inside Story (Elektra Records), produced by Steve Cropp... | |
| Neutral, transparent, warm One more observation: JGH was particularly bothered by and critical of a particular type of coloration, one very common amongst loudspeakers. He even came up with a term for it: "Vowel coloration." He defined and explained the term in one early-7... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @jpwarren58: Tony Rice was Art Dudley’s favorite acoustic guitarist. I’ve been finding some of Tony’s Rounder Records LP’s lately in local shops, including his s/t debut on the label (cat. no. 0085), The Tony Rice Unit (0150), the Unit’s Backwater... | |
| Neutral, transparent, warm Oh yeah, I forgot some of JGH's other analogies about transparency: In addition to the term "veiling" (thanks for the reminder emrofsemanon!), he likened lack of transparency to a layer of "scrim" (must be a term from before my time, but I get it... | |
| Connecting monoblock tube amps to single subwoofer. @mike_in_nc: In fact, the exact opposite may be true. Why add the commonly-admitted limitations of tube amp output transformers to the signal if not necessary? Brian Ding of Rythmik Audio offers his subs with plate amps that include provisions fo... | |
| Neutral, transparent, warm I don’t know if it’s still available, but at one time Stereophile offered a little pamphlet containing all the terms used (some coined) by the father of subjective reviewing, J. Gordon Holt. Neutral and warm refer to frequency balance, transparen... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @stuartk: Yep, love Gurf Morlix. I saw Lucinda and her original L.A. band (including not just Gurf, but also drummer Donald Lindley and bassist John Ciambotti, a great trio) play around town after her Rough Trade album came out in 1988, once at a ... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @tomcy6: Rodney’s The Houston Kid is as good an album as I have ever heard, in my Top 10 of all time. He wrote an accompanying book, Chinaberry Sidewalks, which is well worth reading. He served as Emmylou’s band leader/harmony singer for a while, ... | |
| New cartridge for Eminent Technology ET2 Keep the trough, and get a London (Decca) pickup. ;-) | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? When I bought an ARC SP-3, D51, and D75 in 1973, they were priced at $595, $695, and $995. Not that much more than the price of mass-market mid-fi components. Sure, the price of ARC products has over the ensuing years risen far more than has infla... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @stuartk: For me, the Telecaster starts with James Burton. He made a huge impression on the very young me, smiling as he stood behind Ricky Nelson on The Ozzie & Harriet TV show. His solo on Ricky's "Young World" is a favorite of mine, and Geo... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @stuatk: The Hellecasters! I have their Escape From Hollywood album (the CD booklet includes this line: "Dedicated to the memory of Danny Gatton 1945-1994"), and saw them live in the 90's. Three masters of the Telecaster, on stage together. Jorgen... |