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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, I have the MCA Heavy Vinyl Buddy Holly, and the Analogue Productions version of that same album will be here tomorrow. On the front of the MCA cover the hype sticker has this quote from Fremer:"Music erupts out of total silence from these t... | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... Whatever name you put on them, the debut albums of Van Dyke Parks and (for example) Led Zeppelin are extremely different things. About all they have in common is that they are both music (being generous to LZ ;-). Maybe that's a bad example: Van's... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey @tomic601, was the Alone Together reissue done with the "splatter" vinyl of the original? I have the copy I bought when it was first released, along with a 180g pressing (still sealed) done as part of MCA's Heavy Vinyl series (in the late-90's... | |
| The best speakers over 50K You can always add an Eminent Technology TRW-17 True Subwoofer to your speakers (and "non-true" subs ;-) to reach $50k. If you don't yet know that Bruce Thigpen is a genius (or at least a very clever fella), check out the TRW-17. TRW stands for Th... | |
| Anybody have both Herbie's Cone/Spike Pucks and isoacoustics gaia's Each "Pod" in the Townshend Audio Seismic products provides height-adjustability, great for leveling turntables and CD players. select-hifi on ebay is the place to buy them. The seller (John) is a fantastic guy to deal with. | |
| What's your favorite boutique speaker maker I don’t know what constitutes "boutique" when it comes to loudspeakers, but I would think Bruce Thigpen and his Eminent Technology LFT-8b meets the criteria.For those willing and able to DIY, Danny Richie's GR Research kits are fantastic speakers ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ah, okay Jim. I saw Jerry on his last time through Portland. His solo stuff tends to be in the Bluegrass/Jazz fusion vein, with no vocals. I LOVE Jerry's playing (he and Ry Cooder, my favorite active guitar players), but prefer him in the purely B... | |
| Poor Fritz The rule of thumb in hi-fi manufacturing is to price a product at ten times the cost of parts. Assuming that is for selling through brick & mortar retailers, for direct sales let’s cut that in half. Even at five x parts, the $3500 Fritz is sti... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey @tomic601, where'd you find Jerry Douglas' Traveler on LP? The album on my buy list, but I'm seeing it on CD only. | |
| What's your favorite boutique speaker maker @treynolds155: If you think Kenjit’s Concrete Classics are good, wait until you hear his infinite baffle (drivers installed in the wall) model, or his open baffle. Of course, you really need him to come to your house and "custom tune" the CC’s to ... | |
| Tune of the Day "Watching The River Flow". I was knocked out by the song when I first heard it, in 1971. I just watched an interview with the drummer on the song, Jim Keltner. He said the rhythm section on the song---Leon Russell on piano (who produced the sessio... | |
| During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like. The Coen Brothers: The Man Who Wasn’t There. A Serious Man. No Country For Old Men.David Lynch: Eraserhead. Lost Highway. Mulholland Dr.Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove. Full Metal Jacket.Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law. Mystery Train. Coffee And Cigare... | |
| Buddy Miller on "vinyl" (LP) When I saw Buddy & Julie at The Roxy Theater in Hollywood (right on Sunset Blvd., a block down from The Whiskey A Go Go) in the late-90’s, they had Patty Griffin come on stage for a song. A while later they brought up Don Heffington, whom Budd... | |
| Buddy Miller on "vinyl" (LP) Cool, guys! Amazon is funny: when I placed my order, the price of the Your Love And Other Lies LP was around $26, Cruel Moon $21 (why the difference? The both have the same list price). When the LP's arrived I checked the titles again on Amazon, a... | |
| Your most indispensable "tweak"? I don't know what constitutes a "tweak", but:1- Room acoustical treatment.2- Loudspeaker and subwoofer placement within the room.3- LP cleaning. |