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| I feel bad for speaker manufacturers We keep seeing this assertion that "yesterday's paradigms" "don't fit" in todays marketplace. The Vandersteen and Magnepan "paradigm" is just as valid as it was before the mythical "low mass" revolution didn't happen. That's just a bumper sticker ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Hey @boxer12, a coupla days ago I received notification of the Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" 20th Anniversary Tour. It’s coming to Portland Oregon, and general admission tickets are only 30 bucks, I believe it was. There were also... | |
| My 2019 RSD haul................ Only one today, because I thought it might sell out. Apparently not, ’cause when I got to the far wall in Music Millennium (where the RSD releases were), over half of the 60 copies of the Dylan they ordered were still sitting there. The line to ge... | |
| What’s the Right Power Amp Ratio For Bi-Amping? It depends on the design of the loudspeaker. It is my understanding that Magnepan recommended the two power amps used to bi-amp their old Tympani T-IVa be of equal power rating (and gain, of course), and chose the speaker’s cross-over frequencies ... | |
| Organic, musical and natural sounding speakers up to $12K Oops, I meant to say the MG3.7i’s big brother, the 20.7i. The 3.7i retails for around $6k, the 20.7i for about double that. They need an amp like the Sanders Magtech though, so you have to factor the cost of that in. Sanders makes a second version... | |
| Song (or music) you want played at your funeral. Ooh, good one @tls49! I love the two Wilbury albums, and went to the tribute show for Roy at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. Barbara Orbison was there, and looked stunningly beautiful. | |
| Beautiful Vicoustic's flagship Wavewood panels for room tretment. Anyone? @slaw, I too have the PI Group diffusers in my sights. PI offers two models, a 2-D and a 3-D, priced $20 apart for a box of four (two pair of mirror-imaged diffusers). And they are CHEAP! However, they are not 13-root designs, but something of the... | |
| Song (or music) you want played at your funeral. I just remembered that great scene in Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, when Slim Pickens is dying as Dylan's "Knocking On Heavens Door" plays. | |
| Great guitar 'breaks" (as opposed to solos). Hey @whart, Redd must live in Austin. Last time I was in town I went into a little bar to get a drink as soon as we arrived, and there was a drumset and couple of amps on the little stage. The band was on break, but when they came back Redd was th... | |
| Song (or music) you want played at your funeral. @tablejockey, hey The Foothill Club was a great one! I played a set there in the late-90's, backing Specialty Recordings artists Don & Dewey, label-mates in the 50's with Little Richard and Ritchie Valens. Hardcore Rockabilly clientele---they ... | |
| Does anyone use wood for vibration control? Some DIY sub builders swear by 13-ply Baltic Birch. | |
| Organic, musical and natural sounding speakers up to $12K Magnepan MG3.7i (magnetic-planar), Sanders Model 10 (electrostatic), but only if you can place them well out into the room (3' minimum, 5' better), firing down the longer dimension of the room. | |
| Getting new Preamp One tube pre-amp designer who does so for both the consumer and pro markets is Tim de Paravicini. His EAR-Yoshino pre-amps are designed to drive a 600 ohm load, the standard in recording studios. The EAR 868L has four pair of stereo outputs---2 pa... | |
| Great guitar 'breaks" (as opposed to solos). I loved "Loan Me A Dime" from the first time I heard it, and at that moment also became a Duane Allman fan (he was okay in Derek & The Dominoes too ;-). The first time I saw Boz Scaggs, he was playing rhythm guitar (only) in The Steve Miller B... | |
| alternative music guitar heroes Evan Johns made some noise in the 80’s, with three albums on Rykodisc (one produced by Gary Tallent of The E Street Band). Before that, Evan-fan Jello Biafra put out one album of him on his Alternative Tentacles label. Evan and Danny Gatton had wo... |