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| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp The RAM Tube Store meticulously measures all tube parameters, including noise. They then grade each tube, and offer matched pairs and quartets. They offer a Super Low Noise 12AX7's for use in phono amps, etc. A very quiet 12AX7 substitute is the 5... | |
| Sexy singer(s) and/or song(s) I just remembered "Fever" by Peggy Lee. | |
| The Band- Capitol 45 rpm One of the first I considered a perfect album (not a single less than very good song, and most great.). The Kinks had three in a row in ’66, ’67, and ’68 (Face To Face, Village Green Preservation Society, and Something Else.). In ’65 and ’66 The B... | |
| Sexy singer(s) and/or song(s) @slaw, yeah, Dusty's "The Look Of Love" is subtly smoldering (I once told a songwriter friend of mine the song felt like a deep, slow kiss to me). Her whole delivery and vocal style is, I love her.@bob540, right you are about Shania. She took a lo... | |
| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? A more pertinent question (to me, anyway) is: are audiophiles music lovers first, or second? I don’t listen to my system, I listen to music through my system. Just a means to an end, not the end itself. That’s why I don’t call "it" a hobby. Musici... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dang @tomic601, yer swell. Both Charlie and Butterfield were living in San Francisco in the late-60’s/early-70’s, and showing us white boys how to play Blues. Robben Ford came to town in ’71, with his family band, The Charles Ford Band (named afte... | |
| Sexy singer(s) and/or song(s) Man, how could I have forgotten about "I Touch Myself"? Can’t get any more blatant than that!@lg1, for more of ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog (what a name ;-), watch her YouTube video of "When You Walk In The Room". There is also one of Jackie DeShannon ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? No @tomic601, not that Musselwhite album. But speaking of Charlie, for a CD of great harp playing, look for an album by a Bay Area guy who studied with him. It's Up The Line by The Gary Smith Blues Band. Gary and I were in a band together straight... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601, bdp24 = bdp is black diamond pearl, my fave vintage drum "wrap" (plastic veneer on the outside of the drum shells), 24 is my preferred bass drum diameter in inches. | |
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc Oh, and perhaps most important of all: Keltner favours metal-shelled snare drums (particularly brass), Tutt wood. Brass is brighter and wetter (more high-frequency ring), wood darker and drier (less ring). Of course, that is effected by the tensio... | |
| Speakers that are a great value! A second for GR Research (if you're a DIYer), and Eminent Technology if you're not (check the reviews of the LFT-8b, then endeavor to hear a pair). | |
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc @tomic601, Tom and I really hit it off. I would always gravitate to his workbench when I went into Brooks Berdan, Ltd., where I would watch him find the problem in (often) Jadis amps. He is one of only two guys I would let near a Music Reference a... | |
| Upgrade to Maggi 3.7i or Tekton Moab? Big Maggies have plenty of slam, especially the 3-panel models (Tympani's, 30.7), In fact, you haven't heard midbass until you've heard it coming from a big Maggie (or the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Sub). | |
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc Keltner plays Paiste cymbals, Tutt A. Zildjians; the two brands sound very different. I played A. Zildjians in my younger years, switching to Paiste 602's in the mid-70's. Keltner is a master at drum tuning, his drums usually sounding great (thoug... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Oh, and @slaw I agree with your opinion of Joan Osborne's Dylan songs album; not her forte, for some reason. LOVE her version of "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" though, that song (originally recorded by Jimmy Ruffin) being one of my three all... |