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| Songs this good don't come around every day. Yeah Stuart, Iris' basic style is melancholy (which I deeply relate to, considering it a sensible view of life). But some of her stuff is quite joyous, and on stage she is quite humorous. A great live performer, with a grand style of piano play... | |
| New In 2024 On September 13th Nick Lowe’s first new album in over a decade comes out on Yep Roc Records. Providing musical accompaniment is Los Straitjackets, his road band for quite a while now. The title is Indoor Safari. I take particular interest in t... | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? Oh, and in contrast I bought a bunch of LP’s for 2 bucks apiece at the recent sidewalk sale Millennium Records in Portland Oregon has once or twice a year. I even found a few titles on my wants list, all in NM condition. It took me about 4 hour... | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers Where the line is separating high SQ standards from obsessiveness is an interesting (and personal) question. Nelson Pass used Mills resistors in his First Watt B4 crossover I own, because the cost of doing so (not cheap) was justified by the S... | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? I somewhat arbitrarily set myself a limit of $100 for any and all LP’s, breaking that rule for only one title: the MoFi 1-Step of Tapestry. I care enough about the album to pay for the first really good (in relative terms: Lou Adler was not a r... | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? Half speed mastering is somewhat controversial. While it can provide some benefit in higher frequencies, some mastering engineers and audiophile producers find it does so at the cost of lower frequencies. The "best" engineers (Bernie Grundman f... | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers Most loudspeakers contain not only junk hookup wire, but junk crossover parts. Take a look inside any given speaker and see what you find. Danny Richie is not just some guy on the internet. He is a professional designer with many loudspeakers ... | |
| New In 2024 A new one (Consequences Of The Crown) from Shelby Lynne on August 16th. | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable Sumiko MDC-800 The Arm, which SOTA's David Fletcher designed to partner with his table. If you can’t find (or afford) one, look for a Zeta, the workingman’s MDC-800. | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers In one of his most recent YouTube videos (well worth your time), Danny Richie of GR Research recounted his experience of years ago auditioning loudspeakers in a dealer’s showroom, in a system that including a pair of $5,000 speaker cables. He w... | |
| When was the last time when serious new instrument was invented ? The Moog synthesizer? | |
| For city apartment dweller audiophiles. Have you ever had neighbors banging on your walls? "horse-shaped"? Oops, horseshoe-shaped. | |
| For city apartment dweller audiophiles. Have you ever had neighbors banging on your walls? In the late-80’s my woman and I moved into a nice building one block off Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks (the street upon which one could indeed see vampires---Goth high school kids---walking west, as reported by Tom Petty in "Free Falling"). The ap... | |
| New In 2024 Available now is a new one from Richard Thompson. In July it's a live album from Steve Earle. | |
| Bob Weir: "George Jones is my favorite musician." Dave Edmunds duetting with Country music royalty in the form of Carlene Carter. This song is found on Carlene’s Musical Shapes album, which was produced by Dave’s partner in the great band Rockpile. If I remember correctly Carlene and Nick were... |