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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Great drummers aren’t necessarily in bands, they are also in recording studios. Some studio drummers have temporarily been in a band: Jim Gordon in Mad Dogs & Englishmen and Derek & The Dominoes, Roger Hawkins in Traffic, Jim Keltner in Li... | |
| Pure Audio Project open baffle speakers OB speaker enthusiasts comprise a large segment of the DIY speaker community. There is lots of info available about OB design on the GR Research AudioCircle Forum. | |
| Add to Wedding Registry? Wait a minute: YOU got the silver tea service? | |
| bigger posts=better sound? ^ +1. Take a look at the Cardas CPBP post, or the even lower mass (and like the CPBP, machined from copper) Electra Cable Tube Connectors, available from GR Research. | |
| Most amusing album or song titles Damn ya'll, these are some great ones, many new to me.Not a song or album title, but the lyrics in one Zappa song on the We're Only In It For The Money album (okay, there's a pretty good nominee) has the protagonist fantasizing about moving to San... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower For the reason atmasphere just stated, I elected to have an armboard for my VPI HW-19 made from the same material at the top plate of the floating subchassis: acrylic. Delrin is harder and better damped than acrylic, but an armboard made of it wil... | |
| Subwoofers - Front Firing or Down Firing - Which Sounds Best? Rythmic Audio used to offer a down-firing sub. Designer Peter Ding found it to be inferior to all his front-firing models, and discontinued it.In talking about the wavelength of bass frequencies, remember: the lowpass x/o filters are not brickwall... | |
| Tune of the Day Having just listened to Rodney Crowell’s The Houston Kid, I could nominate any number of songs on this fantastic album. I’ll say "Why Don't We Talk About It", a song Tom Petty wished he could write. The chord progression, the melody and harmonies,... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report I may have mentioned this one before, but I just listened to it and it bears repeating:The Houston Kid by Rodney Crowell. Not only is it in my Top 10 All-Time Favorite Albums list, but is also the most consistent album I've heard since The Band's ... | |
| Religious music for less than devout In 2005 Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives (my favorite band since NRBQ lost Al Anderson, Tom Ordolino, and Joey Spampinato) made an album entitled Souls' Chapel. About it the company promo said: "A no-holds barred Gospel celebration steep... | |
| The Forest for the Trees @slaw: "I don’t go to his house and complain."That brings to mind the best putdown I’ve ever heard. Led Zeppelin were on a U.S. tour in the 70’s, and attended a party in L.A. with their manager Peter Grant. When they arrived they saw Bob Dylan---w... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, yeah, Sugar Hill is a wonderful label. There were a couple of real good Chris Hillman albums released by Sugar Hill on LP in the 1980's. Like Rounder Records, Sugar Hill made consistently good sounding records. | |
| The quest for sound vs. music I know exactly what ignited my initial lust for a better hi-fi: I heard an ESL for the first time (though it was only a tweeter: the three RTR’s in the ESS Transtatic). The ESL transparency revealed so much more of the music that was on my LP’s, m... | |
| How does the sound of the PCC88 and PCC189 compare to the 6922/6DJ8 and its iterations? The sound of a tube cannot be considered without context: it is dependent upon how it is employed in a circuit. One designer using the 7DJ8 to good effect is Tim De Paravicini, in his Ear-Yoshino 868 and 912 pre-amps. | |
| Religious music for less than devout For irreverence, "God May Forgive You (But I Won't)", written by Harlan Howard & Bobby Braddock. I have it in recordings by both Iris Dement and Rosie Flores, both great. |