bdp24
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| Vinyl Lovers-- Cartridges!!!! Do you have a daily driver? Thanks @dogberry. I used to keep up with the postings on Lenco Heaven, but had forgotten about the site until earlier this morning. Thanks for the reminder! I’m gonna email them today. I had been looking for a 4 Series Decca for quite a while ... | |
| One of my favorite bands, one that many have never heard. When Lou Ann performs the song live, a "knowing" smile will occasionally cross her face. I wanted to post one of her live performances of the song (especially one with The Fabulous Thunderbirds), but none had the "Share" option underneath the v... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite turntable companies (manufacturer) and why? I can't speak for VPI the company, but I sure can about founder/owner Harry Weisfeld. About five years back I bought myself nice used HW-19 and Aries model tables. A little while later I acquired a (used, of course) TNT-5 platter and bearing a... | |
| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. @stuartk: I couldn’t agree with you more about Iris, my favorite living songwriter and singer. I made the mistake of taking her My Life album (on CD) to the CES in Vegas one year in the mid or late 90’s, and had Jerry Crosby play "No Time To C... | |
| Vinyl Lovers-- Cartridges!!!! Do you have a daily driver? I just snagged a Decca 4RC off ebay, described as "Good coils, needs rebuild." Any suggestions as to where to send it? I guess the new owners of the London brand would be first, but as the Series 4 Decca was very different from those that follo... | |
| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. All good comments and valid opinions. @onhwy61, I regretfully have to agree with you on The Band without Robbie Robertson. Mick Jagger once sang a song entitled "The Singer Not The Song", Sorry Mick, you’re mistaken. Without the song there’s no... | |
| Tubes and less sensitive speakers Regarding the poet by @blisshifi: Mating subs with Maggies (in fact any and all dipole loudspeakers) is indeed a challenge. The solution is a dipole subwoofer, which Magnepan has been working on a for a few years now. There is already a real g... | |
| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. Everything you say is true @stuartk, except for your final sentence. I only recently learned of Levon, Rick, and Richard’s use of hard narcotics. Clapton recently talked about the breakup of The Band, and mentioned how those three members h... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? No problem @billpete, you confusion is quite understandable. I’ll look through YouTube videos and see if I can find the ones wherein Chad Kassem, Bernie Grundman, Michael Fremer, and Kassem’s QRP (Quality Record Production) production manager s... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @flash56: Yes, the misapplied Dolby playback equalization decreased the percussive attack of the drumstick tip striking the snare drum and tom tom drumheads, and of the felt bass drum beater striking the kick drum batter head. With my sunray Is... | |
| Tubes and less sensitive speakers One thing to consider is installing a high pass filter on the input jacks of the power amp (inside the amp)---or in a little box containing the filter plugged into the input jacks (as the video below will explain)---feeding the Maggies, to remo... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? According to Bernie Grundman---who has been mastering since the 1960’s---analogue masters tapes are relatively hearty, and suffer no degradation from sitting on a shelf unplayed (assuming the shelf is in a climate controlled environment, which ... | |
| Jesse Colin Young has passed away. This decade has been brutal, and it's not even halfway over. I can't help but wonder who'll be next. Dylan will be the monumental one, for me at least. | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? A good question to ask @flash56, as I don’t think @billpete fully absorbed the somewhat complicated and confusing chain of events. Before I answer you, let me correct one mistake I inadvertently made in my long post above: In the next to the la... | |
| New In 2025 Also available on RSD is Ry Cooder Live At The Main Point 1972. I have a friend who saw Ry and his band (which included Jim Keltner on drums) in the 1970’s in Santa Cruz, I don’t know why I wasn’t there. I didn’t see and hear Ry live until I wa... |