bdp24
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| Which SACDs? A 2nd on the John Hiatt and Muddy Waters recommendations. New West Records doesn't charge an SACD premium on the Hiatt; I got it for five bucks during one of the label's sales!I love the Dylan w/ The Band Planet Waves album (both musically and son... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @n80, I actually listen to Classical a lot (especially the Baroque era), but don't usually comment on it here. While fairly knowledgeable about Popular (non-Classical) music, I can be viewed as a dilettante in regard to the serious stuff.The title... | |
| Tune of the Day Wow @slaw, The Junkies do that song? I absolutely love Them's version (wickedly "tough", and even better imo than Big Joe Williams' 1935 original); I can't imagine how Margo sings the song; she and they are so laconic, ya know? Having heard Aerosm... | |
| Options for ridding records of static electricity The Zerostat is imo somewhat tricky to use (if you squeeze the trigger too rapidly, it "clicks"). I long ago found a better static eliminator---the Nagaoka Kilavolt No. 103---but it is long out of production, and rarely seen for sale.If you don’t ... | |
| No "Room Correction" Topic option. Why? Acoustic Sciences Corp. offers a fantastic product they named Wall Damp. It is part of a complete wall construction system, Wall Damp being a thin (1/16" iirc) viscoelastic material, available in 4" x 4" squares and long strips. I heard a mighty f... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Beethoven 9 Symphonies, John Gardiner conducting Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique. Archiv 439 900-2. | |
| Tekton speakers with Ribbon / AMT ?? @asvjerry: For woofers that can "keep pace" with your Heil AMT’s, check out the OB/Dipole Sub offered by GR Research in collaboration with Rythmik Audio. 12" servo-feedback woofers (two or three) mounted in an H-frame (or M-frame if you prefer, in... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? There’s a great interview of Rick Rubin on YouTube, in which he details his work with Petty, starting with the Wildflowers album. He mentioned they recorded enough songs (Rick says 26-28) for a double album, but Warner Brothers didn’t want to rele... | |
| Tone arm resonance and cartridge compliance: How do they interact?? I’ve seen low effective mass referred to as low moment of inertia. It is logical to conclude that a low moment of inertia arm requires and benefits from a low friction bearing.Geoffrey Owen offers his Helius Omega Silver arm (used by Tim de Paravi... | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial No @simao, mm doesn't v. ;-) I do like Paul Simon's first two solo albums, though. | |
| Tone arm resonance and cartridge compliance: How do they interact?? The beauty of the adjustable-mass counterweight of the Zeta arm (accomplished via removable steel discs in the hollow counterweight) is that if one wants to use the arm in it's lowest effective mass guise, more discs are placed in the counterweigh... | |
| Where do you buy your CDs these days? I bought a bunch directly from the great Americana label New West last time they had a five dollar sale. Richard Thompson, John Hiatt, and Rodney Crowell albums for five bucks! | |
| Tone arm resonance and cartridge compliance: How do they interact?? Plus, the effective mass of an arm varies depending on how far from the bearings is the counterweight. Some arms incorporate a counterweight that affords adjustable mass, the Zeta being one such.In addition, while the arm and cartridge interaction... | |
| Live CD Recommendations Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks: Where's The Money?The Ventures: On Stage.Roy Orbison: Black & White Night.The Everly Brothers: Reunion Concert.Bob Dylan / The Band: Before The Flood.The Band: Live At The Academy Of Music 1971 (boxset), abbrevia... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume I used to have an Audible Illusions Modulus 2 pre-amp, the line stage of which provides 30dB of gain! Did Art Ferris ever update his design? |