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| You can Vote for Most Valuable Lead Vocals (Rock Groups) Buddy Holly, when he was a member of The Crickets. But that's Rock 'n' Roll, not Rock. I don't care for much Rock. | |
| Morning coffee with Beatles and a hole By "regular clean press" do you mean mono US LP's from the 60's? The U.S. LP's have different song inclusions than do the UK LP's (up until Sgt. Pepper), and pretty substantial poorer sound. The 2014 boxset was a real gift for those wanting the UK... | |
| 1st Album you Ever Owned? My first records were 7" 45 RPM singles, the original format for Rock ’n’ Roll and Pop-Rock music. It was the music we heard on AM Top 40 radio in the very-early 60’s, and sold on 45’s for 49 cents apiece. The only albums in the house were my Mom'... | |
| Budget Tube Preamp ($2000) A pre-amp should not add anything, warmth or "coldness". And the very good tube (and solid state) pre-amps don’t. If your system lacks warmth (whatever that means to you), better to address the source of that shortcoming. Complimentary colorations... | |
| Morning coffee with Beatles and a hole For original pressings, the UK monos on Parlophone are the ones to look for. Expect to pay dearly for them in very good condition. VERY dearly. | |
| You can Vote for Most Valuable Lead Vocals (Rock Groups) Damn ol' brain. I just watched the performance of "The Weight" I referred to above; it was on "Evangeline"---with Emmylou Harris---that Richard plays drums and Levon mandolin. On "The Weight" Levon plays drums and sings the first verse, Mavis Stap... | |
| The "other" singers you enjoy.........? Gosh, there are so many not-so-well-known singers (at least to the general public---present company in some cases excluded ;-) I love. Lou Ann Barton, Kasey Chambers, Julie Miller, Iris Dement, Patty Loveless, Darlene Love, Arlene Smith (lead sing... | |
| You can Vote for Most Valuable Lead Vocals (Rock Groups) You are correct @rpeluso, Manuel’s first name is Richard. Levon said he considered Richard The Band’s lead singer; he was Clapton’s favorite white male singer. Richard, Levon, and Rick all sang the melody on different songs, sometimes one of them ... | |
| Spatial Audio open baffle speakers, who has them? Worthwhile change from Maggies? Part 4 in Danny Richie's series of videos dedicated to open baffle loudspeaker and subwoofer design is now available for viewing on YouTube. The best one yet! A GR Research YouTube search will bring it up. | |
| Pre to meet 2021 goals @roberjerman, when Steve McCormack closed his retail store (Music By The Sea) in the 1980's, he held a sale to get rid of components he had on hand. I bought his personal SP-6b, and later sold it to Brooks Berdan. That's one piece I really wish I ... | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? I had forgotten: having had my mind blown when I heard the Decca Blue cartridge on Bill Johnson's tonearm (a prototype that never went into production) in '73, I never-the-less went with the flow and replaced it with a Supex moving coil and the Le... | |
| Thinking about the good old days... Blind testing? I'm going to guess you're not a "tube guy". ;-)Roger Modjeski (of Music Reference and RAM Tube Works fame), though a completely "modern" amplifier designer, considered the OTL design of Julius Futterman---created in the 1950's---a w... | |
| Raise my subwoofers off the ground approximately 12”? Get a piece of Baltic Birch plywood (the stuff is pretty stiff), and if you want to go nuts glue a piece of MDF onto it. Even better, put a layer of ASC WALL damp between them (the resulting shelf will be very non-resonant). Add a set of bolt-on l... | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? After living with a pair of Magneplanar Tympani's for a year, I was seduced by the new Fulton Model J, which offered deeper bass and the transparency of RTR ESL tweeter (6 of them per speaker). It took me only a coupla months to realize that what ... | |
| DQ-LP1 Transformer @epiii---I got rid of the link I had to the company offering service/parts/upgrades for lots of the Dahlquist products when I sold my DQ-LP1 (I got myself a First Watt B4, a much more flexible active x/o. It sounds like you don't require that vers... |