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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, Oh, I didn’t mean that Buddy Miller albums don’t sound "good"; they have a great deal of "in-the-room presence" and "aliveness". But Buddy isn’t adverse to using a great deal of compression, particularly on drums. I actually ask the enginee... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @rvpiano, Yup, that’s the sound "Historically-informed" or "Period" performers (of which Norrington is) are after. Their argument is that the sound of the modern Symphony Orchestra is far too influenced by the Romantic period (the number of player... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? The Audiomods arms were never "Rega-based", unless you consider using that company's good 1-piece tube makes an arm Rega-based. Every other part of the arm is non-Rega, and in the new Audiomods model even the tube is made by designer/machinist/own... | |
| Custom tonearm boards - who makes them to spec? I had Multi-Craft Plastics in Portland Oregon make me arm boards for my VPI Aries and HW-19 tables. I chose acrylic, but they also handle Delrin (technically named Acetal). They machine to order, and did a great job on mine. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Good point @slaw. My balk at paying over thirty bucks for an LP is in relation to the difference in sound between the LP and it's ten buck CD equivalent, which I already own. If the LP is pressed from a mediocre source (non-hirez), what's the poin... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? @n80, allow me to offer one piece of advice: remember that the value of technical ability is nothing more than the ability to play with your limbs what you hear in your mind. Poorly-conceived drum parts perfectly-executed nonetheless constitutes p... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Well @slaw, I’ve been wondering what the source is that Bear family is using for the LP pressing. Those two Buddy albums were on Hightone Records, which is out-of-business. So from where did BF get the recordings? If the LP’s were made from non-hi... | |
| Best 80s New Wave The debut album of The Beat (not the UK band, but the U.S. band lead by Paul Collins) was released in October of ’79, close to 1980. I think they are considered part of the New Wave, but what they were was a Power Pop Band, as were The Plimsouls. ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, hey how is the Bear Family LP of that Buddy Miller album? BF have issued two of his albums that were on only CD in the U.S. at the time of their initial release, both of which I saw at my LRS (each priced at $31.99). I have a bunch of Bear ... | |
| Can anyone hear the difference when you add REL subwoofers when playing two channel Jim Salk builds the Rythmik Servo-Feedback Sub into his higher-priced speaker models. He also offers subs that feature enclosures of his own design and build, into which he installs the Rythmik DIY kit. The enclosures are the best designed and bui... | |
| Magnepan LRS compared to the .7 or the 1.7i ? This subject is being discussed in depth on the Planar Speaker Asylum. | |
| So just how much vinyl do YOU own? Hey @whostolethebatmobile, it sounds like you may be hip to Greg Shaw. If not, he was the first Rock music critic to start (in the late-60’s!) a fanzine devoted to Garage, which he named Bomp Magazine. He also started a record label (also named Bo... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? @n80, it’s good to hear you are more intent on playing in a, as you put it, subtle style. While you might be able to pull off Keith Moon-style drumming in a few years (he played using single-stroke only, no doubles; you’ll learn what that means wh... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? Sure @n80, why not?! You don’t say whether or not you want to eventually join a band, but being on stage in front of an audience, or even just in a practice room with other musicians and a singer or two, is a lot more fun that playing alone. While... | |
| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? Hey @josh358, wouldn’t it be fascinating to hear the Tympani IVa and MG30.7 side-by-side?! That would take a MIGHTY wide room ;-). As you recently (today?) said over on the Planar Speaker Asylum, the 30.7 can’t be bi-amped, so the T-IVa has that a... |