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| 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. | |
| Commander Cody I was lucky enough to see and hear Cody & the boys in the early 70's, The West Virginia Creeper on pedal steel and Telecaster master Bill Kirchen on guitar. Anyone who doesn't enjoy "Seeds And Stems (Again)" is a square, man. How many bands in... | |
| Speakers recommendations for a Sony Japan golden era Hifi system Stax ESL's. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Bob Dylan: "It's not left or right, it's up or down." | |
| Ric Ocasek dead at 75 Keith Richards? Hell, Jerry Lee Lewis is still above ground! The last of the original 1950's Rockers. | |
| Tube Amps, Magnapans and Impedance I don't know whom at Magnepan you talked to, but the 3.7 "6-8 ohms throughout the audible range"? Nope, it is 4 ohms over most that range, dropping to 3 ohms at some frequencies.The original version of the Tympani T-I (which I owned in the 70's) w... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Sitting next to each other on a shelf are my ABBA, AC/DC, Roy Acuff, Arthur Alexander, Mose Allison, Al Anderson, and Alpha band (T Bone Burnett, David Mansfield, and Stephen Soles) LP's. | |
| Blues for Aficionados Love Joe Turner, @rok2id! I was fortunate to see/hear him live in the mid-80's, back by The Blasters. I consider Joe the first Rock 'n' Roll singer, one of the Jump Blues practioners the Southern white Hillbillies like Elvis and Jerry Lee were lis... |