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| Your favorite excellent quality/sounding LPs - Any and all direct-to-disk LP’s (Sheffield labs, M & K, Crystal Clear, etc).- Water Lily Records (start with A Meeting On The River with Ry Cooder).- Audioquest Records (lots of Blues and Singer/Songwriter).- Lots of albums on the labels Rou... | |
| Ported versus sealed speakers: is one type better? ^ If you had ever read any technical papers, you would know the answer to that question, it’s in the literature. Too much trouble to do the work, it’s easier just to display your ignorance and laziness? If you find reading too demanding, can you a... | |
| What Do You Think . . . and How Does It Work? ^ Linkwitz’s speakers ARE well known and sought after. If you want to get a glimpse into why he is considered a brilliant speaker designer (by all other speaker designers, and electronics guys like Nelson Pass), read his technical papers (his webs... | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world Shake Some Action by The Flamin’ Groovies, produced by Dave Edmunds. A wonderful blend of 1950’s Rock ’n’ Roll and British Invasion. The recorded sound is unlike that of any other album you have ever heard, deliberately. Very thick, plush, and fat... | |
| Tune of the Day Dwight Twilley Band: "Did You See What Happened?", the B-side of the "I'm On Fire" 7" 45RPM single off the band's incredible Sincerely debut album. Power Pop at it's finest. | |
| Black vs. Colored Vinyl The picture discs (a picture encased in clear vinyl) I've heard (Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds) sound terrible. But they're made to look at, not listen to. | |
| I wish these albums were available on vinyl The Houston Kid by Rodney Crowell. | |
| Upcoming Neil Young album, Homegrown Vinyl. A must have? For those who, like myself, consider Harvest his best album, this is a welcome release. Great collaborators, too (Emmylou, Levon and Robbie from The Band, Ben Keith, Tim Drummond). The five songs referred to above are not recycled, they are the or... | |
| Tune of the Day "One Hit Wonders Of The World Unite" by Badger. An infectious Pop song with a killer hooky chorus worthy of Brian Wilson and Bjorn & Benny (ABBA). | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Thanks again Bruce. Say, where inside the woofer bin is the x/o located? I haven't removed a woofer to have a look inside, though I have the parts for the "Davey" mod (to remove the woofer's resonance in the 1200-1500Hz range), just a cap and resi... | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world The Beach Boys: Sunflower. What a breath of fresh air when it arrived! Crisp, tuneful songs, a much-needed antidote to the heavy, ponderous, plodding sludge being made by most Rock bands in 1970.Maria Muldaur: her s/t debut. A great, unique (and v... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Thanks @brucefrederick. I myself am considering sending the LFT-8b x/o schematic to Danny Richie at GR Research, seeing what he recommends as an upgrade. One can send him a loudspeaker for a free complete evaluation (he measures the speaker, inclu... | |
| 40th Anniversary Pre Amp and Repair History Yup @stereo5, Simon was living in Portland, about a half hour drive from me (he has since moved back to the UK). I got to hear not only his impressive system (Magicos, VTL amps, ARC REF40 pre (since replaced with a VTL), DCS Vivaldi, EAR-Yoshino t... | |
| 40th Anniversary Pre Amp and Repair History ARC runs their power amp tubes hard, which results in lower distortion/higher sound quality, but at the cost of reduced tube life. They are not alone in that. Whether the same is true of their pre-amps I don't know. Audiogon member folkfreak had a... | |
| Do we ask too much of our audio systems? Agreed @edcyn! Recordings can be magnificent on their own terms. In addition to the Monument recordings of Orbison, the Barnaby and Warner Brothers’ recordings of The Everly Brothers are sublime (the Rhino LP’s are very good, the UK Ace LP’s even ... |