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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Damn @spiritofradio, that’s a great version of also one of my very favorite songs, up there with "God Only Knows" and "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted". "The Weight" (and the rest of Music From Big Pink, and the s/t brown album), once fully dige... | |
| Tim de Paravicini passed away..... I believe Tim is also responsible for the tube electronics in Kav Alexander's recorder, heard in his fantastic Water Lily Records albums. Kav uses Modjeski's RAM Tubes in his equipment. | |
| What if any, is the difference between a band or a group? When The British Invasion swept across the U.S., The Beatles, Stones, Dave Clark Five, Animals, Manfred Mann, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Spencer Davis (yup) Group, Yardbirds, Who, Small Faces, etc. etc., were called Groups. The UK press called th... | |
| Tim de Paravicini passed away..... First Roger Modjeski, and now Paravicini. Both masters of the science and art of tube amplifier design, and both routinely ignored by the vast majority of high end consumers. Not by myself: my hi-fi collection includes an EAR-Yoshino pre-amp and t... | |
| For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question. Atma-Sphere and EAR-Yoshino amplifiers, Revox reel-to-reels, McIntosh 70-series tuners, the Quad ESL. | |
| I love sad music A lot of great nominations already. I’ll add:"No Time To Cry" by Iris Dement. Merle Haggard also recorded the song (written by Iris), but his version doesn’t hit me as hard. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601: Hey Jim, I'm alive, just been deep up in the mountains in Deer Island, Oregon. On a small farm at the end of a little road, no cable/internet (so I brought no computer). TV reception via a dish, water from a well, septic tank no sewer, ... | |
| Your favorite 'concept' album For those interested, the Smile boxset is still available through Amazon. Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks started working on this musical imagination on the subject of Manifest Destiny (look it up ;-) in 1966, and closed it down in mid-'67. It is ... | |
| Walter Davies (LAST Factory) has passed away Oh man, that's a drag. I met Walter in 1973, when I visited his newly-opened hi-fi shop (Audio Arts) in Livermore, and a few months later bought from him my first big system (ARC electronics, Magneplanar Tympanis, Revox A77, Thorens/SME/Decca). He... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I may as well ask here, seeing as how all ya'll get a lot of LP's shipped to you (until recently I've always done my music buying in person. Amoeba Music on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood is awesome!) :Last Sunday (10-25) I placed a $200 order online a... | |
| Amazon Ships Records in Plastic Now I ordered two LP's from Amazon at the same time. They both arrived the same day, one in a cardboard mailer the other in a plastic bag. The listing for each LP listed Amazon as the order fulfiller. Amazon has until now been great, but it appears th... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? @rauliruegas---"Critical tonearm damping". Not the tonearm in isolation, but as part of the complete arm/cartridge/LP playback system. It's a complex relationship, which I am not going to attempt to distill into a short post.The Townshend Rock tur... | |
| Best mp3 song set as ringtone? "Green Onions" by Booker T & The MG's. | |
| Amazon Ships Records in Plastic Now I received an LP from Amazon yesterday. It was in an unpadded plastic bag (?!), one corner of the cover bent and creased at the LP's perimeter. Back it goes! | |
| Your favorite 'concept' album Smile by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks. |