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| Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned? The AR XA table, bought new in ’69 for around eighty bucks, I believe.My first Decca cartridge, the Blue, new in ’73 for a hundred bucks or so iirc. Changed my life!QUAD ESL’s/pair of model II power amps/Dahlquist DQ-LP1 x/o, in the early 90’s, al... | |
| Magnepan's new LRS? Keith, planars are notorious for being difficult to measure (that's why Magnepan doesn't send Stereophile products to review). Those who measure them the same way they do drivers-in-a-box loudspeakers, and then listen to confirm their measurements... | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... One artist who erased the line between Blues and Jazz was Mose Allison. Great songwriter, singer (Bukka White first recorded the classic "Parchment Farm", but Mose did the definitive version), and pianist, always had a great band. | |
| Is a captured good tonearm cable better than a high quality one DIN connection? A $4,000 tonearm cable? Damn, how much was the arm it was used with?! | |
| Beatles best album and concert dvd? The Let It Be album was originally being mixed by the great Glyn Johns, but Lennon changed his mind and gave it to Phil Spector. Bad idea. I have heard the album is being readied for a boxset reissue, and I sure hope we get the Glyn John's mixes. ... | |
| Beatles best album and concert dvd? There are "camps" when it comes to Beatles albums. While Sgt. Pepper was proclaimed the best in the late 60's, I don't know anyone who thinks that now. For some it's Abbey Road, for others (like Mazzy at The Vinyl Community on YouTube) Revolver. F... | |
| laid back stereo power amp While not wanting to be argumentative, the Atma-Sphere M60 is not a good amp for the 4 ohm Maggies. 1- OTL amps don't like low impedance loads. 2- The M60's output at 4 ohms is not nearly enough to drive 1.7's to anything approaching reasonable SP... | |
| Blue Note Tone Poet Series There is a very charming guy posting videos on YouTube, his "handle" being 45 RPM Audiophile. He is German, but makes most his videos speaking English. He reviews LP's from all the audiophile labels, from MoFi to The Electric Recording Company.He ... | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... Another common denominator between Blues and Jazz is the absolute requirement of being able to "swing". It helps for other musicians, but is absolutely essential for drummers. You might be surprised by how many can’t play a good shuffle (what the ... | |
| Tea For The Tillerman2 After resisting for quite a few years, I finally broke down and bought the Analogue Productions pressing of the original TFTT. I hate paying fifty bucks for a single LP (this is my first time), but this recording is so insanely great (maybe the be... | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... The Real Folk Blues, album titles of both Muddy Waters and Sonny Boy Williamson. I think of that "hybrid" genre designation in terms of rural, acoustic Blues. Before the southern blacks moved north, plugging their new electric guitars into small c... | |
| Wall mounting on studs To add mass and reduce vibrations in the wall:1- After installing additional vertical and horizontal studs, pack the space between all the lumber with sound absorbing insulation material. People have their preferences, one being Roxul Safe ’n’ Sou... | |
| will the beatles rubber soul ever be remixed? I just watched a video in which Stones producer Jimmy Miller talks about their early recordings. He says since they had only three tracks on the multi-track recorder, one track would contain the drums, bass, and rhythm guitar, a second track the l... | |
| will the beatles rubber soul ever be remixed? You don't like Mono? The Beatles made Rubber Soul to be listened to in Mono. So did Brian Wilson for all the Beach Boy albums up through and including Pet Sounds, Ray Davies for all the early Kinks albums, the early Dylan albums, the first Procol ... | |
| The blackest black paint ever It's not just the blackness that matters, but also the degree of lack of reflectivity (sheen). Krylon offers a model named "Ultra Flat Black", catalog no.1602. It's like a black hole! |