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| Daily Record cleaning For removing a static charge from an LP, I for years used the good 'ol Zerostat (I still have my original red one from the 70's, plus a newer one). In the 80's or 90's I got the Nagaoka Kilavolt No. 103, which I found to be both more effective and... | |
| What speaker do you passionately want to demo? Fair points, @mijostyn. I’ve heard the Sanders Model 10 (C version?) twice (at the Anaheim Show), and loved ’em. Having lived with the QUAD ESL for years, I’m quite used to a loudspeaker which beams, not a problem for me. As for subs, agreed. I al... | |
| Daily Record cleaning New LP’s "clean"? Don’t make me laugh. Oops, too late.First of all, PVC pellets---from which the LP "puck" is made, the puck then pressed into LP form by a double-plate mold (very much like a waffle iron)---contain trace elements of a chemical inc... | |
| List your breakthrough products that you’ve discovered on this audiophile Journey. First the ESS TranStatic, then the Infinity Servo-Static, then the Magneplanar Tympani, and finally the QUAD ESL. Yes, all loudspeakers. Close behind the Decca pickups, now in improved construction under the London name. Can't leave out the Sheff... | |
| What speaker do you passionately want to demo? GR Research NX-Otica and/or NX-Treme. And Roger Modjeski's ESL, though it is no longer available. Also Max Townshend's Glastonbury, also no longer in production, I don't believe.I've heard big Soundlabs, but only under show conditions. In a good r... | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? As others have said, what about the 1950’s, 40’s, and 30’s? I would also include the 20’s, but there wasn’t much recording being done then. The seeds of Rock ’n’ Roll (what most of us are talking about. To bring up J.S. Bach is not only silly, but... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Yeah @articdeth, I've dealt with a few of your type clerks over the years; L.A. is full of them, especially in Tower Records. Wannabe Rock Stars, resentful that they haven't made it "yet". Some of them picked on Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) when he worke... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. New additions:Robert Gordon: Are You Gonna Be The One (RCA Records). Though only a mediocre Rockabilly singer, Gordon always has great musicians on his albums---especially guitarists, this one being no exception. His band on this album is the incr... | |
| The Immediate Family Bassist Leland Sklar---one of the most recorded in history---started posting daily YouTube videos he recorded in his Pasadena home after the pandemic closed down the music industry (both recordings and live shows). In each video he discusses a par... | |
| Favorite Live Concert Recordings A few not yet mentioned:Bob Dylan/The Band: Rock Of Ages. By the way, The Band's Rock Of Ages---a 2-LP set---is available in expanded form as the 4 CD/1 DVD set entitled Live At The Academy Of Music 1971. Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture:... | |
| Blues for Aficionados Great one rok2td! Ry Cooder's secret weapon, that duo. For hardcore audiophiles, there was a Terry Evans solo album on Audioquest Records. | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. I was being too hard on the 1980’s. That decade was filled with great music continuing to be made by artists and bands who had emerged during the 70’s---Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Loudon Wainwr... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. I got to know Billy Swan when we both lived in Sherman Oaks, California in the 1990’s (if he’s unfamiliar, look him up. His one hit single is "I Can Help".). I’ve always appreciated the bands I got to see and hear live in my teenage years due to t... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yeah @tomic601, that's Jim Christie drumming on Lucinda's live album, a great player. I saw him live when he was in Dwight Yoakam's band, which he quit to work with Lucinda. | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? I have about 3500 CD’s/SACD’s, a fair number of them containing music available in no other format. "It’s all about the music" may be an audiophile cliche, but to me it’s truth. They are just as valued by me as are my equal number of LP's. |