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| WHAT SONG TOUCHES YOUR HEART THE MOST? "God Only Knows". Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, sung by The Beach Boys; Carl Wilson the melody, the others the harmonies in the choruses and the lovely counterpoint at the song’s conclusion and fade-out. The vocals and orchestration tend... | |
| What Amplifiers Have You Heard In Your System and What Amplifiers Will You Always Keep All three of my Music Reference: RM-9 Mk.2, RM-10 Mk.2, and RM-200 Mk.2. | |
| Oscar Peterson Performance 1983 Live in Tokyo I too watched that Beato video, just yesterday. Not just technically ridiculous, but musically delicious as well. Pass and Pederson provide tasty accompaniment, but I wish there were a drummer to provide punctuation and to deepen the swing the thr... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Agreed, @onhwy61. Though he and his band are not amongst my favorites, he and they certainly had a very long and artistically and commercially successful run. Good for them. I also like that Tom stood up to his record company when they were intend... | |
| Which Audio Research gears are classics? Amongst the pre-amps, the SP-3, -6, -8, -10, and -14 are particular favorites (I have owned the 3 and 6b, as well as LS-1 and -2). In power amps it is the D79. I have owned a D51 and D75, and much prefer the Music Reference RM-9 MK.2, which is ava... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: So I’m watching A Bronx Tale, and in one scene "99 And A Half (Won’t Do)" comes on the radio. I am instantly reminded that the studio band backing Wilson Pickett on the song---known as The Swampers---are just unbelievably, stupendously great. Toug... | |
| GR Research Nxtremes - DIY reference speakers Awesome! I watch all of Danny's YouTube videos, as well as those of people who have built any of the GR Research models. I myself built the OB Sub, installing the woofers in a W-frame, the latter acquired as a flat pack. Not that difficult!I'll se... | |
| Help! New TT skipping badly.... The problem is the VP! Scout has no suspension, and the approaches you've taken to solve your problem don't acknowledge that fact. Solid Steel racks are, as the name suggests, pretty solid---stiff, passing the mechanical energy from the floor into... | |
| Re-issue, CD, SACD, Tape....LP....and what studio tapes are being used.... Original LP pressings from the 1950's, 60's, 70's, and 80's were almost never made using the "master" tape (I'm not speaking of the 1" or 2" multi-track master, but rather the 1/4" or 1/2' 2-track mixdown tape) as the source for mastering, but usi... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @stuartk: I’m uncomfortable admitting this now (it sounds pretty elitist ;-), but in the 1970’s---when my peers and I considered most Pop music (non-Classical, non-Jazz, non-Blues, non-Country) to be getting really bad (except for the stuff we lik... | |
| Nicks or McVie..... I saw/heard Buckingham & Nicks live in their local San Jose garage band---Fritz---in the summer of ’68 (the opening act at The Santa Clara County Folk/Rock Festival, the headliner the doors. The Electric Flag preceded the doors, and were a tou... | |
| Which subwoofer? A coupla decades back Gradient made dedicated OB subs for both the QUAD ESL (aka "57") and the 63. They did that for a reason: QUAD owners had long been searching for a sub that would "mate with" their dipole ESL’s, to no avail. Non-dipole subs si... | |
| Should I switch to a larger room? A dipole loudspeaker in a 10' x 12' room?!A room with an 18' length is obviously more appropriate. That will allow the MMG's to be placed 5' from the wall behind them, 8' from the listening position, the listening position 5' from the wall behind ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yup @tomic601 and @slaw. Sheila Berdan is moving the business to Washington State, but my email and phone message asking to where in Washington and when have gone un-resonded to. I’m assuming up north; I’m sure it’s not to Vancouver, and there’s a... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: A lot of my favorite music makers never achieved (or if current have yet to achieve) mass popularity, instead remaining on the cult level. Some of them prefer it that way (or at least claim to ;-), and many realistically shouldn’t have expected or... |