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| Which subwoofer? Cool @lewinskih01! I chose to go with two woofers per side, in the less-common W-frame (most people go with the H-frame, including the Canadian woodworker who offers GR Research customers a great frame in flat pack form), which Siegfried Linkwitz ... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: When I was 17 I became attracted to Jazz by and for the advanced chops of the musicians (when you’re young, guys who play things which are physically difficult to perform---as opposed to things which sound "good", and/or serve the music---are cons... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Chuck Berry’s music is very simple, but kills me. Johnny Cashes too. I REALLY dislike music intentionally made to sound complicated, like Prog.A song can be simple, but great none-the-less. Two songs can be very similar in construction, the only d... | |
| Blues for Aficionados By the way: In early-67 (I think it was), a band I hadn't heard of came to play at The Continental in Santa Clara (a converted roller rink, complete with horrible acoustics) just off Highway 101. They were named The Steve Miller Blues Band, and ha... | |
| Tune of the Day @slaw: Jim McGuinn has said that when he heard "American Girl" on the radio he thought to himself "I don’t remember recording that song." He thought it was The Byrds!I unfortunately never managed to see The Byrds live. I’ve always wished I grew up... | |
| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. If it’s a great sounding recording you want, just about any direct-to-disc LP absolutely slaughters any and all recordings ever made with a tape recorder. They possess an immediacy and visceral transient "snap" not heard in recordings made by any ... | |
| Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews. I very much like the above post by @douglas_schroeder, with the exception of one statement:"Also, as a Christian I intend to show that I put a great deal of thought into my articles and wish for them to be high quality."There are a couple of adjec... | |
| Stacking gear no more rack space does it affect sound quality By the way, Michael Percy Audio (whose website @rodman99999 posted above) is a great source for a lot of hi-fi accessories. | |
| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. Yes @thecarpathian, and correctly so. It is also often mis-pronounced tim-ber by the musically uneducated (no offense intended) . Timber! is what you yell when a tree has been felled. ;-) | |
| Millercarbon's Mega Moab Mod Meander Damn, that’s a lot of x/o parts!By the way, my turntables/speakers/electronics compress the Townshend Seismic Pods under them to about exactly the same degree as yours do under yours. I have found I prefer using slightly lower weight rated Pods th... | |
| Tune of the Day Now THAT’S interesting, @slaw. Though originally a hit for Dave Dudley, the first version of "Six Days On The Road" I heard was that by Taj Mahal in ’69. The guys I was musically involved with then started performing it live shortly thereafter; al... | |
| Considering a POSSIBLE replacement for speakers. Opinions? @mijostyn: Ah yes, but there is a cure for the one weakness in the ET LFT-8b (ignoring in this discussion it's inefficiency, which is actually not as severe as are Maggies. I have both.)---the matter of mating the planar m/t drivers with a monopol... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @zerofox: Petty was great on that Shandling episode! (I miss Gary a lot) Tom's a not bad actor. I loved when he referred to fellow-guest Clint Black as Roy Rogers. ;-) | |
| How to remove scotch tape brown residue from album covers I repeat, though I don't know why I bother ;-) : Bestine was created specifically to dissolve rubber cement. "Scotch tape brown residue" = rubber cement. Capiche? | |
| Which subwoofer? GR Research has many planar loudspeaker owners (myself included) who have found musical happiness with any one of their subs. Look into the model F-12G, designed in collaboration with Danny Richie of GR Research (hence the "G" in the model designa... |