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| Loudest Sound Ever? The Ramones at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the 1980’s. The Civic is a horrendously bad sounding room, a large cement bunker. Prior to that, it was the night I did an 8-hr audition for a really good San Jose band, from 9 PM until the Sun c... | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? "I'm not suggesting there's no Rock guys who played Jazz." True @coltrane1, you far more than suggested it:"Motown's musical backbone was having music preformed by Jazz musicians. Rock can't claim that. Only Motown can."By the way, James Jamerson,... | |
| What will you pay for a new LP? Original 1950’s-60’s Mint copies of Blue Note LP’s sell for up to (depending on title) thousands of dollars. You can get a new reissue (mastered by Kevin Gray, pressed at QRP) of many of them for $50-$65 (the Tone Poet series, done by Joe Harley--... | |
| Designers -who's been around the longest ? Nelson a one trick pony? What a silly thing to say; he's only the most versatile amplifier designer in the history of hi-fi! He makes amplifiers employing dozens of different circuits, of all types and topologies.As for Frank, the topic of this th... | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? Earl Palmer (New Orleans) and Jim Keltner (Tulsa) both come from Jazz backgrounds. Palmer is the drummer heard on Little Richard’s 1950’s Rock ’n’ Roll records, and on some of Phil Spector’s 1960’s procductions (along with Hal Blaine, also a Jazz ... | |
| Movie Stars that can handle musical instrument well Levon Helm was (he of course played Sissy Spacek’s father in Coal Miner’s daughter), Dwight Yoakam (Sling Blade), and Billy Bob Thornton is the drummer in a Pop/Rock group. Loudon Wainwright III has done some acting, as has Sting. Jeff Goldblum is... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. Not to be argumentative @coltrane1, but I must disagree. My first concert was The Beach Boys in the summer of ’64, The Beatles the following year. After that it was up to San Francisco to see The Dead and The Airplane in Golden Gate Park, then a L... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Good one Steve. That LP is on my list to acquire. I had it long ago, don't remember why I got rid of it. Early Bee Gees and ABBA, two guilty pleasures ;-) . | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? Illuminating indeed, @tomic601. Modjeski gave hour long talks at three of the Burning Amp Festivals (videos available on YouTube), the audiences filled with some other pro hi-fi designers (Nelson Pass, Mike Sanders of Quicksilver Audio), a few rev... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. We're all "self appointed judges", aren't we? ;-) | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? Good post @fleschler. Tim's U.S.A. doppelganger was Roger Modjeski of Music Reference and RAM Tubes. Roger argued that the use of costly boutique parts was often unnecessary, as their claimed superior involved matters unrelated to the part's funct... | |
| Ultrasonic LP Cleaning vs. “Thread Type” Cleaning (Keith Monks/Loricraft/etc.) Thanks @orthomead and @whart.When I ordered the Vinyl Stack Spinner, I inquired as to whether or not they had any of the single-disc models left. That model was simply two of the Vinyl Stack "platters" with a handle attached, designed for pre-clea... | |
| Tune of the Day "Did You See What Happened?" by The Dwight Twilley Band. The KILLER, smokin’-hot Rock ’n’ Roll song that is the non-LP B-side on the band’s "I’m On Fire" debut single, which somehow managed to became a Top-40 hit in 1975.Having long-since listened... | |
| Designers -who's been around the longest ? Don’t forget about Frank Van Alstine, a designer talented enough to diagnose and fix the problems in early ARC designs (specifically the SP-3 pre-amp). As was just posted, Tim de Paravicini (EAR-Yoshino)---a master designer pretty much ignored her... | |
| Sonics? All Things Must Pass -50th Anniversary Thanks Stuart, I've been meaning to see what Fremer has to say about it. Though Bobby Whitlock is probably not an audiophile, and in all likelihood has a mid-fi at best system, his description of the 50th is right in line with your Fremer quote.To... |