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| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. @tostadosunidos: Yes! That album sounds almost like a direct-to-disc, so alive and immediate. Produced by Richard Gottehrer, who didn’t make Blondie sound nearly as good.Gordon did the first version I ever heard of "My Gal Is Red Hot", a killer Ro... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! Both I and Michael Fremer have compared our original UK Island Tea For The Tillermann LP’s with the Analogue Productions LP of same, as well as with U.S. A & M pressings (the Island is considerably better than the A & M, by the way). I had... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! @benjie: You’re wasting your time. The Better Records groupies will never admit there is a single LP made by Classic Records, Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner, Intervention, or---God forbid!---Mobile Fidelity that is as good---let alone bette... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @jaym759: "Lightweights"---that adjective better characterizes The Heartbreakers than did my use of "unsubstantial."Another band whose talents don’t rise to the level of the songwriting---imo---are The Attractions. The only Costello album I like e... | |
| Considering a POSSIBLE replacement for speakers. Opinions? @noble101: Tim, give Danny Richie---the designer of the OB Sub---a call at GR Research. He is a very nice guy, and will be happy to advise you on adding the sub to your system.Danny is one of the true experts in the world on the subject of OB spea... | |
| Showrooms in/near LA, looking for Tube Gear, Exotic 300B tubes in particular Speaking of Brooks Berdan LTD.: as @tomic601 stated above, they (they being Sheila Berdan and I believe her store manager) are moving from Monrovia (slightly west of Pasadena) to Washington State. Good news for Jim and I! We are both former BBL cu... | |
| Mirage M1 Speakers The stability provided by the Sound City outriggers and isolating the speakers from the floor are two separate (but admittedly related) issues. As I have said before about the Townshend Seismic Pods, they may be used in place of the spikes provide... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: I kept my copy of Fresh Cream (and the John Mayall album, as well as it’s followup with Peter Green playing guitar), but ditched Disraeli Gears long ago. Did you hear Atlantic Records President Ahmet Ertegan’s reaction to hearing the album tapes? ... | |
| Which subwoofer? @rixthetrick: To read lots of discussions about the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Sub, head over to the GR Research Forum on AudioCircle. There are threads dedicated to the sub which contain info provided by GRR owner/designer Danny Richie, as wel... | |
| Tune of the Day @slaw, is your Little Village LP the 2019 version on Reprise/Rhino? | |
| AP HQRP KOB WHS LP? Jason, ya gotta watch the video to find out. ;-)Actually, he first describes the sound of each, then summarizes the differences between the versions, then addresses the matter of the reason for buying each, and finally, his over-all ranking. Too m... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Excellent point about the Prog audience, @stuartk! I’ve known some of those guys, who were exactly as you describe. Smug superiority to spare. I neglected to mention how much I dislike the attempt to combine Rock with Classical, a ridiculous notio... | |
| Are you still ignoring Iris Dement? Cool @idigmusic64, I haven't had that pleasure. In her shows she reveals her unusually witty personality, sometimes in a self-deprecating manner. Kind of a female Randy Newman. ;-) | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Watching Mazzie’s new YouTube video tonight (the topic of which is examples of the Gospel influence in white Rock ’n’ Roll---yet he neglected to cite Elvis!) made me realize I had neglected to acknowledge one of the greatest-of-them-all American R... | |
| Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews. @roxy54: Nothing wrong with mentioning religious affiliation, as long as in doing so one doesn't insult those who don't share that affiliation. Intending to show you put a great deal of thought into your articles and wish for them to be high quali... |