bdp24
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| 180g … It’s All Hype ! Too much generalizing and over-simplifying for me, but one sentence really stands out: "with the same quality control they had back in the day." If you think record labels manufactured their 1960’s/70/s/80’s LPs with the care Chad Kassem puts in... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @tablejockey: You are so right about Redd Volkaert (for those who don't know, Redd took Roy Nichols' place in Merle Haggard's band after Roy's passing, and won a Grammy in the 2000's for best instrumental performance). A bassist partner of mine an... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. I became aware of the name Eric Clapton when in 1966 I saw and heard the new Elektra Records sampler album entitled What’s Shakin’ (billed as Eric Clapton And The Powerhouse), which also contained the guitar playing of Mike Bloomfield (as a member... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @crustycoot: Actually, the guitar Ry uses primarily for his slide playing is a heavily-mofified Strat, not Tele. He refers to it as the Coodercaster ;-) . At the suggestion of David Lindley he replaced one of the stock pickups with a pickup out of... | |
| Best double studio vinyl? An album I just found in Mint condition for $6.99: - Any Day Now by Joan Baez. Two LP's of Dylan songs, wonderful versions by Joannie, a new favorite of mine. Musical accompaniment by the best musicians in Nashville at the time of the recordings:... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @mammothguy54: I also recorded with Emitt, in his studio in Hawthorne. He still has the Gibson ES335 pictured on the back cover of the album and the pump organ he’s sitting at on the inside of the gatefold! He had me record the song he was produc... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @jrpnde: Gordon Lightfoot's Bobby McGee is my favorite version of that song. Good recording, too. In 1973 I was visiting the newly-opened Audio Arts in Livermore California on the very day Bill Johnson was delivering and installing his complete A... | |
| American Made Audio Products I have owned three pair of Magneplanars (including one pair currently), and the Eminent Technology LFT-4 and LFT-8b. None of them are perfect, Neither are my QUAD ESL's, or the Infinity RS-Ib I formerly owned. Anyone who claims ANY loudspeaker to... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @tablejockey: In the 90's I had a '66 Deluxe Reverb, but the reissues are great too. In December of 2007 I played a 3-night gig with a singer (L.A.-based Jonny Kaplan) who is a really good rhythm guitarist, and his Les Paul Jr. into a new DR sound... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. The Deluxe Reverb (blackface, of course ;-), my favorite amp. Dwight Twilley’s long-time guitarist Bill Pitcock IV (now RIP) used a pair of them with an MXR digital delay between the two, with an ES335 plugged in. Awesome live sound! When I recor... | |
| Does measurements really matter? Timely: In his latest GR Research YouTube video (posted today, Wednesday 3-23-22), Danny Richie examines the Magnepan Mini send him by a customer. In the video you see not only how Richie evaluates a loudspeaker---and designs a cure for it's ills,... | |
| American Made Audio Products Bruce Thigpen invented his Eminent Technology LFT driver in response to the original, single-ended Magnepan planar-magnetic drivers, still found in most Magnepan models. I own a pair of Magnepan’s Tympani T-IVa, which features single-ended bass an... | |
| Anyone out there own a Clearaudio Double Matrix Pro Sonic? @lewm: I keep my HW-17 in a walk-in closet, and close the door when running the vacuum. Cheap US machines emit a very high frequency buzz, sort of like a bug zapper. Again, mine’s in the closet. | |
| Anyone out there own a Clearaudio Double Matrix Pro Sonic? The Project vacuum cleaning machines (two models, priced at around $499 and $699) are also bidirectional, AND have an LP platform the size of the label, for those who don’t want the full-size VPI-style platter. I don’t know about the Project, but... | |
| Mono Recommendations I believe the mono Springfield albums were offered individually, though I haven't seen them in any of my record stores. I'l check next time I'm in one, and let you know. |