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| Magnepan 1.6QR vs .7 speakers I hate to once again beat this dead horse (why do I bother? ;-), but a used pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b loudspeakers (like Maggies, a magnetic-planar design, though with a dynamic woofer for 180 Hz down) can be had for around $1500. Consider... | |
| Out of Their Wheelhouse Genius The Beatles Revolver. Actually, their reinvention started with the 45 RPM single that preceded that album: "Paperback Writer"/"Rain". A group changing their sound that much (from the Rubber Soul album) was at that time considered very risky, the p... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Cl;assical and Jazz are viewed as the most "advanced" of all musics. It takes years of study, training, and practice to become proficient enough on an instrument (or voice) to perform it well.I find those two musics very different in major ways. A... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Song title on the debut album (entitled Gorilla) of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band:"Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold".More facts about Jazz: The music requires the most technique of all non-Classical musics to be able to perform well. Lots of musi... | |
| Stereophiles 2021 Recommended Components is now on line. Somebody should snap one up for themselves @clio09. If I didn't already have one (and an RM-9 Mk.2 and RM-10 Mk.2) I would. Not trendy enough for some audiophiles.The late Brooks Berdan recommended Music Reference to his clients (and hosted Roger'... | |
| What 3 recordings from different genres do you and your wife/partner appreciate equally? Oh yeah, like I she loves NRBQ (atta girl!), Kasey Chambers (a wonderful Australian Country artist), and Los Lobos. Great taste (for a chick ;-), ay? | |
| DCM Time Windows - What Next? Randy Cooley was a DCM dealer in the 1980's (when he managed one shop in a small Southern California high end chain, the name of which escapes me at the moment). When he opened Optimal Enchantment in Santa Monica, he chose Vandersteen as his bread... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @estreams: Your view of the different strains of Jazz can lead one to this fact: amongst some musicians, the more "difficult" a music is, the more artistic it is. It’s a form of snobery, one I clearly hear in the music of, for instance, Frank Zapp... | |
| Stereophiles 2021 Recommended Components is now on line. Cool @clio09. Are the RM-200's the "standard" Mk.2 version, or with the transformer(s) personally hand-wound by Roger? | |
| Ken Micallef interviews Joe Harley. Yes indeed @slaw. | |
| Stereophiles 2021 Recommended Components is now on line. Speaking of the RC list: The October 2021 issue of Stereophile---which contains it---has yet to be left in my mailbox. Am I alone in this? | |
| Blues for Aficionados Hidden Charms by Willie Dixon (Capitol Records 90595). Produced by T Bone Burnett, songs arranged by Willie, the great Earl Palmer on drums and Red Callender on upright bass . Recorded at Ocean Way Studios (Ry Cooder’s favorite studio), mastered f... | |
| American Audio "Audio"? High end is dominated by U.S.A. brands, and always has been. Infinity, ESS, and Magnepan---all loudspeaker makers---were started in the late-60's. Richard Vandersteen---about as American as you can be---is a sterling example of how to des... | |
| Blues for Aficionados @dabel: Neither album should be too hard to acquire, though neither has to my knowledge been reissued.The Emitt Rhodes debut came out around the same time as did McCartney's, and the reviews (include those of my friends and myself) favoured Emitt'... | |
| Blues for Aficionados One of most-prized musical experiences was seeing and hearing Big Joe Turner backed by The Blasters in the mid-80's, at Club Lingerie on Sunset Blvd. In the band at that time was Lee Allen, the sax player on many of Little Richard's Specialty reco... |