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| Sweethearts of the rodeo tour Marty is coming to Washington, but opening for Steve Miller.@pehare, Clarence getting hit by a car and dying was SUCH a tragedy. What a waste. I've performed a lot of CH-era Byrds songs in bands, especially their version of Dylan's "You Ain't Goin... | |
| 1973 '73 was the year I bought my first "big" system: Magneplanar Tympani T-I loudspeakers, ARC electronics, Thorens/SME/Decca record player, Revox A77. My dealer was Walter Davies, now known for his excellent LAST record, tape, and CD maintenance prod... | |
| Best Record Cleaning Fluid Liz, baby, to not wash a used LP is like to deep kiss a stranger: you don’t know where that mouth/LP has been ;-) . The Record Doctor RCM can be had for only $199. | |
| Magnepans or...Martin Logan @cleeds, richopp is obviously unaware that were both tall and/or boxless speakers long before Magnepan introduced it’s original model the Tympani T-I in the early-70’s (which I bought in ’73. I currently have a pair of T-IVa), including the 6’ tal... | |
| Does anybody change their speaker placement with different types of music and bands? I'll bet Michael Green does. | |
| It was 50 years ago today... I still marvel at the fact that a mere one year after A Hard Day's Night was in the theaters, and the same year as Help! was playing, The Grateful Dead (still known as The Warlocks) were playing their first shows in the Bay Area, their very first ... | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps Since he likes nicknames so much Tim, turnabout is fair play ;-) . | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Uncle Tupelo and The Replacements, the two most influential bands of their generation. Tupelo, like Big Star and The Jayhawks, had two songwriter/singers who each needed their own band. For some reason Lennon & McCartney could mind-meld where ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados So true, @schubert. For the most mind-blowing counterpoint you've ever heard, give a listen to JSB's Concerto For 4 Harpsichords And Orchestra. Don't listen while operating heavy machinery, as you WILL get high. | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps Both Tim deParavicini and Roger Modjeski are students of transformer design, a dying art. And both are, though as audiophile-centric as any other designers out there, old school in many ways (the higher the measured distortion, output impedance, p... | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps Yes Tim, the Paravicini transformer/bass quote was from quite a while ago. I heard it second-hand from Roger Modjeski (who said he didn’t completely agree with Tim P on that subject), and I think it was said to make a point, not to be taken litera... | |
| Bits bits bits from Upscale Audio The PS Audio Copper electronic mag is really great, well worth your time. Great subjects and writers. | |
| Great sounding/recorded albums Depends on whom you're trying to impress, after all. Impressing a non-audiophile doesn't take much ;-) . Give 'em a buncha bass at concert-level SPL and they'll cream their jeans. | |
| Great sounding/recorded albums As roberjerman suggests, a direct-to-disk LP. Once you've heard one, everything else sounds veiled, compressed, and lifeless. Sheffield made a bunch of them, both Pop and Classical. There are other d-2-d labels, but the Sheffields are easier to fi... | |
| Anyone use auto lifters? Opinions There are two versions of The Lift (a product from Express Machining in San Jose, the guy who makes the Rega upgrade parts) listed on USAM right now, one chrome one black. |