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| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? Exactly @tomic601. Danny Richie performs those tests on all the loudspeakers he gets in (and has designed and offered as kits), and displays the results in his GR Research YouTube videos. Very illuminating! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Most LP’s in any and every genre are of less than "audiophile" sound quality. I have long felt audiophile reissues are of interest only if 1- the music is good enough to justify it, 2- the recording is of high enough quality to justify it, and 3- ... | |
| What exactly is textural density?? Good analogy @twoleftears. Art Dudley was fond of this kind of phrase as well, and both he and Herb used it in their reviews in Art's 90's mag, Listener. I've always taken textural density to mean a full-bodied sound, akin to color saturation in p... | |
| Artists you feel you can rely on, buy any new album unheard. A great topic, and a lot of great nominees already mentioned. Some relatively obscure, and very hip: The Wondermints (I saw them live in L.A. a few times before they hooked up with Brian Wilson), NRBQ (one of the very best bands in R & R histo... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bkeske: I feel the same about Harvest, by far my favorite of Neil’s many albums. The NYA (Neil Young Archives) reissue provides noticeably improved sound quality over the original pressing. He also redid all the Buffalo Springfield albums, availa... | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) When I was in 6th grade we had a school orchestra (7th through 12th, too). Learning to play a musical instrument was considered part of a well-rounded education. When Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California (proving the state was not tota... | |
| The Vinyl Community's Mazzy Loves You! Nice LP player @seanchau! I too have been buying a lot of Analogue Production, MoFi, Speaker’s Corner, Intervention, etc. records lately. At $35 a pop, it doesn’t take long to spend a coupla grand! But used LP’s are surprisingly cheap in my area, ... | |
| Record clamp/weight and turntable speed The first table I saw with a reflex clamp was the Oracle Delphi. As described above, a thin (1/16") washer is slid down the spindle and onto the platter---under the LP, which of course raises the LP off the surface of the platter by the same heigh... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, speaking of Let It Be Naked, word is the upcoming reissue of All Thinks Must Pass will also be free of Spector's overdone echo & reverb. | |
| DVD player playing CD's Esoteric DV-50S, a multi-format (DVD, CD, SACD) player. | |
| Stereo systems are like Harleys Stereos may be like Harleys, but audiophiles are not like bikers.The band I was a member of in '75 got hired by the owner of a motorcycle repair and customizing shop on El Camino Real somewhere between San Jose and San Francisco to play at a party... | |
| Biographies I am currently reading Sandra B. Tooze's biography of Levon Helm. Fan-freaking-tastic! She had previously written Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man, which I guess will be next.Robbie Robertson's Testimony is excellent, much better than I had anticipated.... | |
| What to do with a collection of sealed audiophile vinyl? MFSL Telarc Sheffield Nautilus The original MoFi Music From Big Pink (Stan Ricker mastered) is not good. The second MoFi version (MFSL 1-346) is much, much better, but is out-of-print, and worth some semi-serious money. Even the new Capitol 45 RPM double-LP edition is better th... | |
| Ringo Beaucoup of Blues @tablejockey: Don Nix is very cool. He's an Alabama boy, and a great songwriter. I have his album on Elektra Records, recorded in Muscle Shoals with The Swampers (whose members include the great drummer Roger Hawkins and bassist David Hood---his s... | |
| Ringo Beaucoup of Blues Oh, and by the way: the musicians who played on Ringo's album made a couple of albums as a Group, naming themselves Area Code 615 (Nashville's ac). |