bdp24
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Before The Doobie Brothers put San Jose on the Rock ’n’ Roll map, we had The Syndicate Of Sound (who had a national hit in ’66 with "Little Girl". By ’68 they playing at high schools again, and at my Senior All-Night Party, held in a bowling alley... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? In the Summer of ’71 the band I was in did an audition to replace The Doobies as the house band at The Chateau (they had resigned after signing their Warner Brothers’ deal), the hippie/biker bar up on Summit Road in the Santa Cruz mountains (we di... | |
| GR Research NX-Extreme m-a, I didn’t mention it, but the Rythmik A370 plate amp (the amp that is included in the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Sub kit includes a continuously-variable Phase/Delay control, providing phase rotation from 0 degrees to 180 degrees (0-16 ms).... | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? ARC takes a position (apparently) opposite to that of Jadis. They feel tubes sound better when run fairly hard (up to a point, of course), one reason ARC amps are known to burn through tubes faster than do some other brands.Music Reference's Roger... | |
| GR Research NX-Extreme Sure @martin-andersen, as with all dipoles, any of the GRR open baffle loudspeakers and subs can be placed as close as 3’ from the wall behind them (you call it the back wall, but if you’re facing it, it’s the front wall ;-) . 4’ feet is even bett... | |
| Best driving music. All Rockabilly and Bluegrass. 1950's Rock 'n' Roll. 1940's-50's Jump Blues. Dave Edmunds’ Get It album. AC/DC and The Ramones. | |
| Poor Fritz "My wife/girlfriend is good looking enough for me.""No she is not."Wouldn't ya love to punch the jerk in the face? | |
| Favorite used tonearms under 1000 dollars Zeta. Roughly 16g effective mass, depending on location of the counterweight, and how many of the cw's internal discs are employed. Very stiff armtube, very good bearings. They don't come up for sale very often (once every couple of years), so one... | |
| Classical music, symphony AND planar speakers @recluse, being in the southeast, consider looking into the LFT-8b from Eminent Technology, located in Tallahassee Florida. The LFT-8b is, like the Maggies, a magnetic-planar design, at least for much of the bandwidth. A pair of LFT drivers (one a... | |
| Classical music, symphony AND planar speakers I’m with @frogman. My first audition of the Magneplanar Tympani T-I (three panels per side) in 1973 included Boult’s version of Holst’s The Planets on EMI. Never before had I heard the full depth of the orchestra reproduced: the percussion section... | |
| Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band Absolutely, @theo! Muscle Shoals is all about the Fame recording studio owned by Rick Hall. Fame is where Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler brought Aretha, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Dusty Springfield, and numerous other artists to record... | |
| Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band I saw this at a theater right before the fake-pandemic started ;-), and enjoyed it for what it is. I take issue with a few of the things Robertson said, but that’s to be expected. There is also a movie made about Levon: I Ain’t In It For My Health... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @noromance: Big Jay McNeely---now yer talkin’! Do you have the Honkers & Screamers/Roots Of Rock ’n’ Roll Vol. 6 double LP on Savoy Records? BJM, Lee Allen (Little Richard’s tenor sax man, who was in The Blasters when I saw them back Big Joe T... | |
| During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like. A Serious Man is perhaps the most overlooked Coen Brothers films. I wouldn't have understood it nearly as well if I hadn't had a Jewish girlfriend. It is like no other movie you have sever seen, which is true of all theirs. | |
| Eminent Technology LFT 7 !! @slaw, ain't it the truth! Damn, @gstewtoo's post today has me feeling like a kid on Christmas morning. A lot of info to take in and digest, and then employ. |