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| It was 50 years ago today.... @gpgr4blu, believe me, I completely understand why you feel the way you do, and wouldn't dream of challenging your opinion. The Beatles made some great Pop music, a fair amount of which I would not want to be without. And they are unquestionably a... | |
| It was 50 years ago today.... Correct Geoff. Let It Be was such a downer they wanted to go out on a higher note (they knew The Beatles were over. George had already started recording his All Things Must Pass debut, and Paul was also working on a solo album), so went in and rec... | |
| Ikea Eket shelves with a large vinyl collection? Yep schubert, the Kallax is the best deal around for LP storage. Now I'm looking for an old file cabinet for my 7" 45's. I have my collection of around 750-800 in the cardboard boxes offered by Bags Unlimited, but they're not so user friendly. | |
| It was 50 years ago today.... "It’s complicated". They were such a cultural phenomenon that it’s hard to judge their music objectively. Everyone likes one period or album(s) more than another, and they progressed through a lot of them. Think how much different they sounded in ... | |
| My Audio System and Invitation. I haven't been up north yet since moving to Vancouver, WA. How long is the drive from here to you? | |
| Too good to be true? Al, there are two videos filmed at the BAF viewable on You Tube, from two different years. Roger Modjeski’s 90 minute (iirc) talk on tubes and tube circuits is also well worth your time. | |
| Ikea Eket shelves with a large vinyl collection? Quite right, Elizabeth. When I checked out the EKET and the Kallax at my IKEA, I saw the EKET had a back panel, the Kallax not. I pushed on the side of a 16-cube (4 X 4) Kallax, and it moved---a lot. When I assembled my EKET's, they "gave" a littl... | |
| If you want to get the best of your transport, try this. Symposium’s second Roller Block, named "Jr,", contains a top and bottom cup, circle-shaped with a diameter of just under 2". Symposium’s original Roller Block (still available) came as a single cup, rectangular in shape.Ingress Engineering now mak... | |
| Best song for immediate impact when presenting or testing? @tostadosunidos, Damn great list! Robert Gordon’s first album knocked me out when it was released in ’77; great songs, great band, great sound. It was produced by Richard Gottehrer, who also did Blondie’s first couple. "The Way I Walk" is a song w... | |
| Value of upgrading only 1 set of interconnects? I'll bet Audioquest makes their balanced cables with the wire running in the "correct" direction. | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Steve, the story Eric tells (in The Last Waltz, I believe) is that his reaction upon hearing Music From Big Pink was "Music had been heading in the wrong direction for a long time. When I heard MFBP, I thought, well, someone has finally got it rig... | |
| Beyond the sound of things, and into the soul of things. Yeah tomic, Richard Thompson is one of the greats! Writes, sings, and plays guitar like no one else. I didn't catch up with him until his Shoot Out The Light album with Linda, but that album so knocked me out I got all his previous albums, and tho... | |
| Greatest American Invention that change music forever more: THE BASS DRUM PEDAL Yup @isochronism, it's my youngest sister and I on Christmas morning in Pacoima, California, 1955, I reckon. I didn't know it at the time, but Richie Valens lived not far away, and was probably practicing on his guitar at the time the pic was taken. | |
| Ikea Eket shelves with a large vinyl collection? I received a real nice PM from Erik in Stockholm, inquiring about the strength of the EKET cubes. He said he had bought one, and was concerned about its’ structural strength; he was worried the cube would collapse on him. A justifiable concern! I ... | |
| Greatest American Invention that change music forever more: THE BASS DRUM PEDAL I'll watch the entire video later, but for now I can say the introduction of their bass drum pedal in the second decade of the 20th century was the start of the Ludwig Drum Company. They were already one of the three or four major drum companies a... |