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| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? My vote for most over-rated album is Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The title, the cover---Hell, the very concept---is beyond hokey (it was all McCartney’s idea, of course). Lots of mediocre or worse songs, too much sitar (ANY sitar is too ... | |
| New In 2021 Two by Lucinda Williams:- Lu’s Jukebox Volume 3: Bob’s Back Pages: A Night Of Bob Dylan Songs.- Lu’s Jukebox Volume 4: Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night Of 60’s Country Classics.Both albums feature excellent song choices; I can’t wait to hear wha... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Tonight, John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band. Music making on a very high level. A master songwriter and stylized vocalist, a band composed of virtuosos, on a level with Jazz musicians. The band changed gears and turned corners like a highly-tu... | |
| American Audio @mijostyn: I fully understand your point, but with all due respect I was drawing a finer distinction. I made the statement "Bill Johnson instigated the high end revolution in electronics with the introduction of his tube designs in 1970" intention... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings Buddy Holly: "Jazz is strictly for the stay-at-homes."Vivian Stanshall (The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band): "Jazz, delicious hot, disgusting cold." | |
| Speaker impedance patterns - how to read them? The question posed by @tomic601 was the exact one Roger Modjeski asked when a potential Music Reference customer inquired about the suitability of one of Roger's amps for use with a given loudspeaker. He advised taking a SPL reading at the preferr... | |
| Brooks Berdan says bye bye tomic601: Ah, so you ended up with the SP-6, ay Jim? I sold it to Brooks, having got it myself from Steve McCormick when he was having a clearance sale at the closing of his retail store Music By The Sea.I bought a number of classics from Brooks o... | |
| Vinyl Buyers: The Premium Price Vinyl v. Cheap Vinyl Ratio Speakers Corner (Germany) is doing some great reissues, the latest being Ry Cooder’s Warner Brothers debut. The Analogue Productions catalog is simply amazing, and their Beach Boys LP’s by far the best sounding versions ever made, by a country mil... | |
| Dynaco PAT 4 Phono stage question Use the tape out jacks on the PAT-4 to access the output of the phono stage. That stage is located before those jacks in the circuitry, and of course before the second (line level) gain stage and the volume control. The volume control is located a... | |
| Crazy Good Vinyl recording fidelity on COMMAND label Everest was well known for their 35mm recordings issued on LP, many engineered by Audio Magazine writer/reviewer Bert Whyte. I started buying every copy I found in my crate-digging days (1970's-90's), available for peanuts unlike the more-famous R... | |
| Brooks Berdan says bye bye In the email, Sheila said she was moving to Washington State (in the Northwest corner above Seattle) to be closer to her daughter Jen (I’ve known her and her older brother Brian---who owns Audio Element in Pasadena, an excellent shop---since they ... | |
| Strata mini comp. AV123. Please help!!! Contact Danny Richie at GR Research. He designed all the AV123 loudspeakers, and still has some to sell (he bought all the inventory when the company went under). | |
| New In 2021 Appearing soon at a record store near you:- Stomping Ground by Dion DiMucci. If you’re not hip to Dion, get with it, man. Dave Edmunds produced his 1989 "comeback" album Yo Frankie, upon which appear k.d. Lang, Lou Reed (a huge fan of Dion), Paul ... | |
| Commander Cody @whart: "Hot Rod Lincoln" made it's first appearance on the 1971 debut Commander Cody album, Kirchen playing guitar. Bill's live version is fantastic, playing solos in a plethora of styles. | |
| Tube Amps, Magnapans and Impedance Roger Sanders makes two versions of his power amp, one for ESL's the other for magnetic-planars such as Maggies. It is very well regarded in the Magnepan community. Check the Planar Speaker Asylum for reviews. |