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| System building; a meditation My hi-fi journey commenced in the late-60’s, when almost all loudspeakers were pretty-severely colored (see below). Colored in the sense used by J.Gordon Holt---"vowel" colorations, especially noticeable on voices. If you don’t know what vc means,... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Yup, Harold Bronson owned Rhino, both record shop and record label. The label started small, issuing offbeat, obscure artists in the 1970’s, selling them in the store. They then got into assembling comps of 50’s and 60’s music, and then single-art... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Oh yeah @edcyn, McCabes is not on Santa Monica, it's IN Santa Monica. I think. I always got there from Westwood Village, where I shopped at Rhino Records. Also on Pico were a coupla great record shops, Record Surplus a long-time favorite of mine.M... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection No @jafant, and most likely never will. His worst period! I loved the three Christian albums which immediately preceded it, however.I saw him live in the very-early 90’s, and he was just awful, as was his 3-piece band. Ten years later he was great... | |
| My New Magnepan 1.7i's sound dull and lifeless on the top end...why? Absolutely @yuviarora, the binding posts as well (Cardas posts will fit right in the stock holes). That whole plate is filled with ferrous parts! Have you watched the GR Research YouTube video in which Danny Richie measures the 1.7 and looks into ... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? The most efficient and effective means of absorbing and dissipating cartridge mechanical energy is via employment of a damping trough (containing viscous fluid) located at the front end of the arm, as found in the series of Townshend Audio Rock tu... | |
| One man Band Somewhat unknown is John Fogerty's first solo album, put out under the pseudonym The Blue Ridge Rangers. The album fits the op's requirements in that Fogerty plays all the instruments and sings all the parts, but fails in regard to songwriting. Th... | |
| Blues for Aficionados Has anyone mentioned The Best Of Little Walter Volumes 1 & 2 on Chess Records? | |
| One man Band This is an easy one: Emitt Rhodes 1970 s/t debut on Dunhill Records. There is a documentary about Emitt entitled The One Man Beatles. I actually think he was (RIP) better than they. | |
| My Experience With Tekton @tomic601: Good point JIm. In one of his Burning Amp talks, Modjeski said EAR-Yoshino's Tim de Paravicini (as with Modjeski, recently departed) claimed he could tell how a tube amp sounds by looking at the transformer(s).Let me point out that a 4 ... | |
| A CHEAP AND VERY EFFECTIVE RECORD CLEANING SOLUTION. @whart: Oops, thanks for the correction Bill. I’ve been reading the writings of both Neil and Rushton, and conflated the two. I also made it through the complete record cleaning thread on the VPI forum, where a lot of info on the ultrasonic cavita... | |
| What 3 recordings from different genres do you and your wife/partner appreciate equally? Not recordings, but artists: Dave Edmunds (Rock ’n’ Roll), Marshall Crenshaw & The Plimsouls (Power Pop), Iris Dement (Singer-Songwriter/Bluegrass), Steve Earle (badass Country). Oops, that’s four genres and five artists. | |
| Blues for Aficionados One long-time favorite is the debut album by Lou Ann Barton entitled Old Enough, released in 1982 on Asylum Records. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama, produced by Jerry Wexler (Aretha, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Dy... | |
| A CHEAP AND VERY EFFECTIVE RECORD CLEANING SOLUTION. In the very comprehensive tome Rushton Paul wrote (and @whart published), he makes the case for Alconox Liquinox. For lowering water surface tension (both in and out of ultrasonic cleaners), he explains why Tergitol 15-S-9 (made by Talas) is a goo... | |
| Tune of the Day Mary informed us that she wrote a book during the lockdown. She organized her set by reading a passage from the book that chronicled the impetus for a given song, followed by her performing the song. Wonderful. Lots of humor in her repartee, too. ... |