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| Tube amps under $7500 Music Reference products, though never trendy and/or fashionable, are (were) very well designed and built by tube expert Roger Modjeski. Roger passed away in 2019, but his amps are well known to run trouble free for years. At one seminar I atte... | |
| Static on turntable @dogberry: It’s best to "spray" the record on both sides before placing it on the turntable, holding the disc in one’s hand. That’s true of not just the Destat, but all anti-static guns. | |
| 5 steps in developing hearing Conspicuously absent is the first thing I listen for, and has been since I was 18 years old: How closely reproduced vocals approach the sound of real life ones. I recorded my 3-year-old’s voice with a small capsule condenser mic plugged into a ... | |
| my own experience with Tekton Design I have to admit my first exposure to Eric Alexander did not make for a positive impression. It was a video in which he explained the development of his patented tweeter array. He said he heard a 440Hz note played by a violin, and then measured ... | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. Here’s Rodney Crowell recounting his first hearing of "I Walk The Line" in 1956, driving in a car with Pa and Grandpa. Johnny Cash makes a cameo appearance on the chorus. | |
| Static on turntable If you have a turntable and play records, you HAVE to have a way to combat static, which is inherent in PVC. The Zerostat works okay, the Furutech Destat III works great. | |
| Record Store Day 2024? Yeah Jim, Jerry Douglas is a monster musician. I went to the taping of Dolly Parton on the Tonight Show at the time of the release of her first Bluegrass album, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill Records, 1999). I was sitting in the balcony, directl... | |
| Best Covers Getting back to the topic of this thread, here are a couple of my favorite covers of Slim Harpo’s classic "Shake Your Hips", both of which make The Stone’s version sound tepid. Joan Osborne’s version is smokin’ hot, live in a radio station wit... | |
| Best Covers Emmylou and Lucinda have always had the best bands. Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Buddy Miller, Albert Lee, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Emory Gordy, Herb Pedersen, Bernie Leadon, Ron Tutt, John Ware, Ben Keith, Byron Berline, Amos Garrett, Bi... | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. For he who wants no more than five, here are five more: - Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure. A true super-group (Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner, Terry Williams). - The Beat: s/t. Fantastic Power Pop! - Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Sur... | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. Oops, no list is complete without: - John Hiatt: Bring The Family. | |
| Steve Albini R.I.P. Damn, another one younger than I. My pick is Country Love Songs by Robbie Fulks. | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. Off the top of my head: - The Band: s/t (the brown album). - Dave Edmunds: Get It. - The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely. - Moon Martin: Shots From A Cold Nightmare. - T Bone Burnett: Truth Decay. - Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is N... | |
| Record Store Day 2024? @wolf_garcia: J.S. Bach is my favorite composer, Baroque my favorite Classical period, Bluegrass my favorite Pop genre these days. Have you also heard the Goat Rodeo album? It’s Thile, Meyer, and Ma, along with Stuart Duncan on Fiddle. A 2-LP s... | |
| Record Store Day 2024? Jim, I enjoy knowing that Jerry had been playing acoustic (guitar and banjo) around the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto only a coupla years before I started playing at that school’s frat parties in ’68. Those frat boys know how to party, a... |