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| Brian Eno's Turntable Design @larsman: Your exact original post (to which I was responding), not the amended one directly above: "Some guy says he has no idea who Eno is, but he's happy to describe his music as vapid, empty, and soulless....". Separating the single quote foun... | |
| Why recordings made before 1965 sound better. Good point @cleeds. The dynamic element in Dolby makes it more difficult to pull of perfectly than does the static RIAA. I was speaking in terms of the boosting and cutting of frequency bands, used in both Dolby and RIAA filters. When I bought my... | |
| How eclectic is your taste in music? I just like a great song, sung by a good or better singer, played by a good or better band. Is that too much to ask? ;-) In the first cubicle of my LP racks are albums by Curtiss A, ABBA, AC/DC, Roy Acuff, Arthur Alexander, Mose Allison, The Alph... | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition The EAR-Yoshino 834 is not a line stage amp, it is a phono stage. But speaking of EAR, the 868L IS a line stage pre-amp (a real good one), available used for around $3k. The 868PL is the same line stage with a phono stage, which go used for around... | |
| Brian Eno's Turntable Design @larsman: Your reading compression is about on the same level as are Eno's musical talents. The Audiogon poster who said he has "no idea who Eno is", and the poster (myself) who was "happy to describe his 'music' as vapid, empty, and soulless" (I ... | |
| Brian Eno's Turntable Design Eno was in the original line-up of Roxy Music (wearing ridiculous costumes and makeup, pretending to play keyboards), produced one (or more?) U2 albums, and did some soundtrack work and albums of ambient "music". He’s done very well for a guy who... | |
| Short list of musical subwoofers Too bad so few have heard the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Sub. Nothing else like it on the market. | |
| Brian Eno's Turntable Design Hopefully the table is not as vapid, empty, and soulless as is Eno's "music". | |
| Tune of the Day "The Times They Are A-Changing" by Bill Kirchen and Austin De Lone. Now my favorite version of this great song, found on the pair’s Transatlanticana album (reviewed by myself in the What’s In Your CDP Tonight thread.). Goosebump-inducing! Sorry L... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Compass Records had a Black Friday sale, with free shipping on orders of $50 or greater. I was ordering to get a coupla LP’s of Shannon McNally (my most recent female vocalist discovery. Only took me twenty years ;-) . To get the free shipping, I ... | |
| Why recordings made before 1965 sound better. @onhwy61 has it right. Done correctly, Dolby does NOT change the original tonal structure (timbre) of instruments or vocalists. It takes the original signal and boosts the high frequencies for recording, in playback reducing the high frequencies b... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601: My copy is on its way to me Jim. I again sprung for the deluxe boxset. uDiscover is selling it right now at 30% discount, with free shipping---Eric. | |
| Best drum solo (best drum sound) I have ever heard... and its a YouTube MP4! The Sheffield Labs direct-2-disc Drum Record LP features Jim Keltner on one side, Ron Tutt on the other. Keltner's solo is pretty good, Tutt's not so much. Typical direct-2-disc sound quality on both sides. In other words, stunning. | |
| Tube Amps, Magnapans and Impedance For those who like the Maggie/tube amp combination but can’t or don’t want to spring for a high-powered amp, there is an alternative. Is everyone aware of the fact that Maggies are not the only planar-magnetic loudspeakers on the market? Bruce Th... | |
| Anyone Get a Degritter for Xmas? @jgreen19: Like your preferred inner sleeves, the thickness of the VSS inners prevents them from "bunching up" as you slide the LP into either the cardboard jacket or outer plastic sleeve, as can happen with the thinner MoFi (and other) sleeves. T... |