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| AUDIO RESEARCH SP-10 MODIFICATIONS @autospec: Good point about after-market mods done by those who don't fully understand the stock design, and the reasons the designer did what he did. Roger Modjeski of Music Reference regularly received in for repair amplifiers of his which ha... | |
| Things we cannot be bothered by anymore Reviews of $100,000 (and above) loudspeakers, power amps, and turntables, $50,000 (and above) CD players, phono stages, and pre-amps, $10,000 (and above) phono pickups. | |
| Elvis Costello's favorite album of his own. @slaw: The one album of his that is different from the rest is King Of America. T Bone did a good job of minimizing Elvis’ idiocynchrasies, and provided him with a great band (which The Attractions are imo not). It’s the only album of his I sti... | |
| Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band). The only drugs we had in San Jose in the 60’s and 70’s (at least that I knew of) were weed, LSD, and amphetamine (speed). When I moved to L.A. in 1979, cocaine was everywhere. Every party I went to had mirrors with lines of coke floating around... | |
| Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band). @wharfy: Evan was in a band with the genius guitar player Danny Gatton, who like Richard committed suicide. Evan told me it was Danny’s wife who drove him to it. He also told me Danny was the best musician he ever played with. I wasn’t insulted... | |
| Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band). @wharfy: It was only recently that I learned of Richard's (and Levon's) dabbling with heroin. Coincidentally, I believe that was also when Clapton was using, locked inside his house for a coupla years. And the same time John and Yoko were doing... | |
| Frank is gone. AVA lives on! @pryso: Yeah, those newsletters of Frank's were great. In them he looked "under the hood" of electronics in a way none of the glossies did. His Dynaco PAS "mod" (using 5751's in place of the stock 12AX7's) was the quietest tube pre-amp I've eve... | |
| Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band). Here's Richard leading The Band in "The Shape I'm In" at The Last Waltz. My God, just awesome! https://youtu.be/aHMp_HV6a4s?si=VYptz9gaLsZzH3EW | |
| Modular LP record storage suggestions I've heard from one member who also has a number of the IKEA EKET 4-cube model, and loves 'em. He asked me about the brackets for securing multiples when stacking (I have my 4-cube EKETs stacked three high, which measure 6' 10-1/2" tall, and fi... | |
| Favorite Album Cover (picture or art on the cover) The cover of The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace Of Sin album was good for a laugh back in 1969. That’s the one with Gram Parsons wearing a Nudie Western Suit embroidered (by Manuel Cuevas) with marijuana leaves. Too bad Gram didn’t s... | |
| Music/Life And then there is Bob Dylan, who has done neither. | |
| Impedance - The most ignored and useful measurement tool All of Danny Richie's (GR Research) loudspeaker evaluations include impedance measurements. | |
| Frank is gone. AVA lives on! Frank was a no-nonsense, "traditional" engineer who didn't go for questionable hi-fi tweeks. Though Bill Johnson was considered "the" tube amp designer of the 1970's (and beyond), Frank studied the ARC SP-3 pre-amp and came up with fixes for th... | |
| Woodstock 1969, or 1967? You’ll notice that after hearing Music From Big Pink, Clapton himself no longer wanted to do what Cream did, told Jack and Ginger it was over, and made a pilgrimage to West Saugerties, sitting around waiting for The Band to let him play rhythm ... | |
| What has been a favourite moment in Audio? Definitely the day I first visited the new high end shop in the Bay Area, Audio Arts In Livermore California. It was owned and operated by Walter Davies, later gaining notoriety for his LAST record care products. It was the spring of 1973, and ... |