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| JD Souther @rpeluso, have you seen the Ronstadt documentary? Fanf*ckingtastic! I have a newfound appreciation for her. I don’t care what Costello thinks, she may be the "best" female singer of her generation.Souther had a role in the Nashville TV series, and... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradio, not yet, my copy is on it’s way to me. I haven’t looked lately, but about a month ago there was a lot of chatter about the set on Steve Hoffman’s site. There are bound to be differences of opinion, and I expect to have conflicting ... | |
| Revisiting some music from the past ... Nice to meet ya Rich! Living in L.A. from 1979-2016, I was able to see and hear a lot of great stuff live. Los Lobos, Lucinda Williams, and Dwight Yoakum before they got record deals. Locals like The Continental Drifters (a great band containing V... | |
| What makes a good equipment rack? If I were starting over, and had unlimited funds, I'd get Sound Anchor stands for everything. I have their ET LFT-8b speaker stands, and love 'em. Cut some Baltic Birch plywood into shelf-size pieces, finish them with satin polyurethane (it brings... | |
| JD Souther A good bassist I've been gigging with recently played me some JDS. I didn't get into him back in the day, caring for The Eagles not at all, Ronstadt a little, though Jackson Browne a lot. I was somewhat underwhelmed, but perhaps JD takes a few pla... | |
| Vinyl cleaning and alcohol I've heard great stuff about L'Art du Son. Gotta get me some. | |
| Revisiting some music from the past ... The quality songwriting, singing, and musicianship you crave has moved underground, where there is healthy, burgeoning activity. It is called Americana. There was once a print magazine devoted to the genre, entitled No Depression. While the print ... | |
| Vinyl cleaning and alcohol What's are "vinyles"? Oh, you mean LP's. Yes, LP's are made of vinyl. Do we call our car tires "rubbers"? I for one don't. We older guys reserve that term for a different product.If you clean your LP's once after acquisition on a vacuum-type clean... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Part of it slaw is that terms are used too loosely. The multi-track master, the final 2-track-mix master, the production-master used to create the "mother" (for LP stamping), etc.But there is also the matter of dishonesty and lying that is now con... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Actually, it was Les Paul. He recorded those albums with his wife Mary on his own 3-track in the 1950's, in their basement, I believe. Over-dubbing multiple guitar parts, "bouncing" the recordings from channel to channel until he had all the parts... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi @slaw. my LRS was selling the boxset at full price, and Amazon was discounting it only 10%, so I dug deep and found it for $117 on the Walmart website (of all places!). But I knew I would get an Amazon giftcard or two for Christmas (I did), so ... | |
| Preamp connection to multiple powered subwoofers If you can build the enclosures, Rythmik offers their subs in DIY kits. The kit includes the servo-feedback woofer and associated 600w plate amp, and polyfill enclosure stuffing. Even if you can't make an enclosure, Parts Express sells some really... | |
| Which phono section to buy: match table or cartridge? Give Keith Herron a call. Most of the improvement made to the VTPH-1 to the -2 were in the section used only for low output cartridges. Keith occasionally has a traded-in VTPH-1mm that he will sell you for not much more than your $1,000 target (s... | |
| If you were to design a tone arm, what would it look like and feature? An uninterrupted run of internal wire from the cartridge tags to the RCA plugs. | |
| BEST SPEAKERS AT A REASONABLE PRICE $2499 will buy you a pair of the already-mentioned Eminent Technology LFT-8b, and unlike the somewhat similar Magneplanar LRS, .7i, and 1.7i (all being magnetic-planars), which are a 4 ohm load and require a considerably stout power amp, the LFT-8... |