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| New In 2025 Two new books just received: - Richard Manuel: His Life And Music, From The Hawks And Bob Dylan To The Band. Written by Stephen T. Lewis. - Smile: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection Of Brian Wilson. Written by David Leaf. | |
| Who is your favorite instrumentalist or instrumental group? Good nominee @slaw. As you know, another is Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives. Coincidentally their latest album Space Junk contains all instrumental material. My first favorite band was The Ventures; Los Straitjackets has been follo... | |
| Chess Records reissue series is about to commence! @slaw: Jackpot Records has chosen some great albums to reissue, not the typical audiophile titles. And Jackpot is located in Portland Oregon, so I can buy them at their retail shop, saving on shipping and sales tax (Oregon has none). It's a ver... | |
| Can single ended 211 or 212 amplifiers drive magnepan 20.7? Correct on all counts @thegreenman! Modjeski was able to coax 100 watts out of a single pair of KT-88 tubes not by driving them hard, but by doing just as you suggest---creating a wonderful circuit. You can read all about the amp (in both origi... | |
| New In 2025 @slaw: The first couple of times I saw Stained Glass, they were a quartet, and went by the name The Trolls. They shortly thereafter became a trio, with the Stained Glass name. I have their first album (Crazy Horse Roads, Capitol Records ST 154)... | |
| Open Reel Curious By the way, Ken Kessler (long time equipment reviewer at the UK magazine Hi-Fi News & Record Review) has been writing a column for the PS Audio online Copper Magazine, in which for quite a while now he has been focusing on reel-to-reel mach... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection Here’s an interesting short (6:41) video of Time Out Of Mind recording engineer Mark Howard talking about the making of the album: https://youtu.be/cxXkaAmPg6A?si=Nq-krJVtOsTTRSro And another: https://youtu.be/WeJVhQ3s9cI?si=yuXi_Nw... | |
| Warped record Of the LP's I receive from Amazon, about 20-25% of them come with a serious crease in at least one corner of the outer cardboard jacket, a result (I presume) of the LP being grabbed by a corner of the jacket by the Amazon employee pulling the L... | |
| What is your vinyl commitment? Actually Keith, If I remember correctly your VPI HW-19 is a Mk.2 (I sold it to you, and mounted your Moerch arm on it.). The original HW-19 ("Mk.1") had a textured fibreboard top plinth and an aluminum platter, the Mk.2 an acrylic plinth and a ... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection @jafant: Hmm, what’s left to do a deep dive into? I have recently added some of the expanded Bootleg Series albums (specifically Volumes 1-3 on 5-LP's, Vol.11 on 3-LP's, Vol.12 on 3-LP's, Vol.13 on 4-LP's, Vol.14 on 2-LP's, Vol.15 on 3-LP's, V... | |
| New In 2025 @slaw: I saw just about every show The Watchband played around San Jose in 1965, ’66, and ’67, including their very first, which was held just north of Santa Cruz in the Summer of ’65. They found a spot in a lightly-wooded area not far from the... | |
| Can single ended 211 or 212 amplifiers drive magnepan 20.7? @assetmgrsc: To achieve more than "pretty good" sound with a sub augmenting your Maggies, look into the OB/Dipole Woofer offered by Rythmik Audio in conjunction with GR Research. Magnepan has been working on a dipole woofer to mate with their s... | |
| New In 2025 Yeah @slaw, the 5,000 numbered copies sold out in about 6 hours! Faster than any previous Rhino Hi-Fi title. Another 5,000 are available in un-numbered copies, and there will be a regular non-Hi-Fi version (mastered by Chris Bellman instead of ... | |
| Are you hearing the instruments or the music? Ah yes @mrdecibel, I missed yours. My post closely matches your first one, including the matter of the composition. After the song and the singing of it, I then listen for tasteful musical accompaniment by the musicians (if any), provided in se... | |
| Are you hearing the instruments or the music? One thing not yet mentioned is the vocals. The song itself and the singing of it are my first priorities. |