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| Clear vinyl vs. regular black vinyl @sokogear: I started a thread here about the Acoustic Sounds UHQR Kind Of Blue LP, and info about the panel discussion on YouTube related to that release. The video provides all the details one could want, the participants being Chad Kassem of Aco... | |
| Clear vinyl vs. regular black vinyl Clear vinyl makes it IMPOSSIBLE to see any pressing imperfections in the LP surface, as well as scratches and scuffs, and even dust. The same is true of lighter-colored PVC, just to a lesser extent.On the other hand, the new(ish) Clarity vinyl---w... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A discontinued @au_lait: I don’t want to speak for Keith Herron, but though he will not be making any more phono amps, he may be willing to upgrade a VTPH-2 to a -2A, assuming he has the required parts in stock. He is staying in business, still making his line s... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Vince Gill nicknamed Danny Gatton ’The Humbler". When he felt his band were becoming a little too pleased with themselves he would play a Gatton CD on the tour bus sound system to put them in their place. ;-) | |
| Beatles Vinyl Mono Box..do you have one? Yep @slaw, the MoFi Beatles LP’s are not so hot. I sold all mine too, which more than paid for the mono boxset. The MoFi Beatles were done in the early days of the company, mixed and mastered by a now-deceased engineer who was a bass player and ha... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A discontinued Correct @lewm. 4 x 12AX7 = 44dB, 2 x 12AX7 + 2 x 12AT7 = 42dB.When Frank Van Alstine was installing his own circuit into the Dynaco PAS 2 & 3 pre-amps (in the 1980’s), he was using 5751 tubes in place of the stock 12AX7’s. The 5751 provides so... | |
| Beatles Vinyl Mono Box..do you have one? I have original UK Parlophone stereo LP’s, and the mono box. The early stereos are silly---vocals and instruments panned hard left and hard right (sounds like our political environment ;-). The Beatles and George Martin put all their energy into c... | |
| Transcendent T16 OTL amp - bias question (& general tips) Too bad Roger Modjeski (Music Reference, RAM Tube Works) is no longer with us. He had worked on a couple of Transcenent OTL amps, and had even come up with fixes for their "problems".I don't know if he can help, but I would give Tom Carione at Bro... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A discontinued I contacted Keith about acquiring a VTPH-1mm, long after it had been superseded by the VTPH-2. My research on the phono amp had informed me that most of the improvements introduced in the VTPH-2 were to it's mc section, which is of no significance... | |
| Audiophile LP cover of Good Vibrations The Papa Doo Run Run version is an instrumental? I doubt it: they are a vocal group. Admittedly, I've never heard the album, but I’ve seen them perform the song live, and not as an instrumental. | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. @onhwy61: No disrespect taken! Roger Hawkins is one of my three favorite drummers, about who Jim Keltner says he wishes he played more like. Don’t we all!. I have studied the drumming of Hawkins for years, and benefited greatly from his musical wi... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. @sgreg1: Can’t disagree with ya, mate! I had tuned out contemporary Rock ’n’ Roll by the time Born To Run was released, but all the noise about that album sparked my curiosity. I got the LP, and found it to echo (no pun intended ;-) Shakespeare: A... | |
| Are you still ignoring Iris Dement? Ya'll are my kinda people! Well, except for @clearthinker and @ebm ;-) . | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. A lot of fair points, and I fully expected to see @onhwy61’s argument made. Sweetheart Of The Rodeo was big in my small circle of friends (my senior year band included a coupla songs from that album in our repertoire, as well as some Buffalo Sprin... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. Speaking of the influence the brown album had on The Band's contemporaries:I went to my local Barnes & Noble this afternoon to return the copy of the new John Hiatt/Jerry Douglas LP I received in the mail yesterday. Even before opening the fli... |