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| Sweethearts of the rodeo tour While Gram Parsons is given the lion’s share of credit for The Byrds’ Sweethearts Of The Rodeo album, to relegate Chris Hillman to a mere supportive role is, I maintain, a grave injustice. Remember, it was Hillman who was in a working Bluegrass ba... | |
| So disappointed in today's Americana Excellent @mcondo, congratulations on your great musical taste! For more Americana albums in great sound, search out slaw's posts. They're full of them. | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? A great early-70's artist almost forgotten by all but the most ardent Pop fans is Emitt Rhodes, whose self-titled debut album is fantastic.Everybody knows Crazy Horse as Neil Young's band, but they made a great album of their own in 1971, when gui... | |
| Preamp to preamp @ihcho, if pre #1 sounds better than $2 (plus has a phono stage), you could consider going without a remote (the horror!). If you just have to have it, do as you thought---tape out from pre #1 to any pre #2 input for phono. But your CD player shou... | |
| So disappointed in today's Americana @mcondo, do you already have all Buddy Miller's albums? His with his wife Julie? Iris Dement? Emmylou Harris? Jim Lauderdale? Marty Stuart? Steve Earle? John Hiatt? Lucinda Williams? Rodney Crowell? Chris Hillman's latest (produced by Heartbreaker... | |
| Is this the end of HEA? I got to know quite well the manager of the Classical department at my local Tower Records. He had a very negative opinion of what he referred to as audiofools---those who care more about the sonic quality of a recording than its’ artistic content... | |
| Vandersteen 3a vs Magnepan 3.7i While a bigger room is better, 12' X 15' is sufficient for Maggies. Put them 5' in front of the 12' wall, and your listening chair 3' from the wall behind it. Because the speakers are to the left and right of the center line, that will put the cha... | |
| Is this the end of HEA? Real good points @mustbethemusic. Very few people these days just sit and listen to music, as a destination activity. Many people just like a particular song by any given entertainer (as opposed to artist ;-), and are not necessarily interested in... | |
| Seasoned ears only @willieva, Roger Modjeski of Music Reference has developed a mod for the 121 Interface (he studied it, and found faults he could eliminate), as well a direct-drive tube amp for ESL’s. Modjeski designed and built the direct-drive tube amp used in t... | |
| Subwoofer info @pcc67, your concern about the lower power output of the Rythmik plate amp as compared with that of the SVS would be valid IF the sensitivity of the woofers used in both companies subs were equal. They are not. Rythmik woofer drivers are unusually... | |
| Coaxial Ribbon Midrange/tweeter - Can a small midrange ribbon actually do midrange well? @erik, are you forgetting about the Apogee Acoustics full range ribbon loudspeakers?But let me back up. I asked if you meant to say "ribbon" in your sentence "this is not the first time a planar midrange has been envisioned". I did so because the ... | |
| What do you like most? Jazz or Classic? Great post from @schubert, as always. J.S. Bach's music is particularly profound, and was written to glorify God, not Bach or the performers of his music. I was introduced to his music in the early 70's by a college music major musician I had play... | |
| Is this the end of HEA? Speaking of low mass, that’s really important in the drivers in loudspeakers. If low mass is a design criteria and objective (rather than a marketing slogan), electrostatics have far less than dynamics (cones), so why not design, build, and sell t... | |
| subwoofer amp with crossover/phase control Actually @jackd, you have it backwards. Brian Ding of Rythmik Audio designed the patented Direct Servo-Feedback circuit and amplifier found in the Rythmik plate amps, and has those plate amps manufactured in China. They all come into the U.S. thro... | |
| Is this the end of HEA? Great posts @dramatictenor and @inna."bumper sticker slogan". The operative word was obviously slogan, not bumper sticker. The misrepresentation of that phrase is yet another example of that very bumper sticker mentality. |