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| Great country recording Right, @boxer12?! Even cooler, Todd ended up working with Grisman, as an equal. All it takes is talent! Todd, like the rest of us suburban musicians, became interested in Roots music after hearing it played by The Band and the other great late-60'... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report The Thorns: s/t. Three good songwriters and singers, great production (by Brendan O’Brien) and engineering, Jim Keltner on drums. Excellent music, mighty fine album! Issued on CD only (to the best of my knowledge) in 2003, currently out-of-print. ... | |
| Phono Stage for a VPI Prime Scout How much ya wanna spend, tops? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? My thoughts on The Dead are over-simplified. I loved the first three albums, and saw them live in ’67, in Golden Gate Park (with The Airplane and Country Joe & The Fish). At that time they were still kind of a Garage/Biker Band, sounding more ... | |
| Anyone know a good place to have pre-Compli Theta transports worked on? If your problem is the common one of the disc drawer no longer opening, you can do what I did: buy a new belt (that turns the drawer-opening gear), and put it in place of the old one yourself. Very easy, and almost free. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, The Thorns album is SO fine! Hard to miss with three good songwriters ;-) . I know Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge are huge Brian Wilson fans (I’m less familiar with Shawn Mullins), which may explain the advanced chord structures of the songs ... | |
| cable connection Not mentioned, but if the system has a record player, the tonearm internal wiring if it needs it. An uninterrupted run from cartridge clips to RCA plugs. | |
| Youngsters these days. @noromance, I had to look up FTW. For The Win, or F*ck The World? ;-) | |
| To clean or not to clean? New LPs may look clean to the naked eye, but aren’t necessarily. Plus, don’t you intend to get into buying used records? They REALLY need a deep cleaning. You may eventually want to get an ultrasonic cleaner to augment the VPI. | |
| Youngsters these days. Who cares what a contemporary 24-year-old thinks about anything, let alone hi-fi? When I was 24, I had an ARC/bi-amped Magneplanar Tympani/Thorens-SME-Decca/Revox system. What's this kid have, ear buds? | |
| Great country recording The suggestion by @boxer12 of Old & In The Way is a good one. It was released in 1975 on LP by audiophile label Acoustic Disc, and features excellent recorded sound quality. They were the ultimate longhair Bluegrass band, a real bunch of hippi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradio, Jim Keltner met Jeff Porcaro when the latter was only 16 years old (and already a monster player). Jim says Jeff told him what an influence Jim had been on his playing, and Jim told him to listen to Roger Hawkins (in a Modern Drumm... | |
| Thoughts about buying a Bedini 100 The lower-powered Bedini’s are renown for their good sound (the 10/10 and 25/25 are pure Class A). I don’t know if the same is true of the higher-powered models. They are all pretty old by now, and often in need of having their power supply caps r... | |
| Diminishing Returns Cool @b_limo. If you live 150 or more miles from an ET dealer, you can buy the LFT-8b factory-directly with free shipping.Regarding durability, the Linear Field Transducer (LFT) has been in production for over 30 years, unchanged! That midrange dr... | |
| What is up with Audio Research during the pandemic? Excellent advice Mike. Nobody else tests their tubes in all the parameters that RAM Tube Works does. The details of that testing are available of the website. Roger Modjeski matched pairs and quads for Quicksilver (he and Mike Sanders were close f... |