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| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects Anti-Cables, Kimber PBJ. Used Kimber Hero if you get lucky. | |
| corner speakers When I would go up to my Grandfathers cabin (which he himself built) just south of Lake Tahoe in Kyburz, CA (beautiful country!), I’d be out swimming or fishing in the American River, hiking in the woods, climbing trees, or doing other fun stuff, ... | |
| An Excellent New Read: "A Brief History Of Why Artists Are No Longer Making A Living..." @onhwy61, one of the benefits of the decline (imo) of Rock ’n’ Roll music in the early-mid 70’s was that it drove many of my contemporaries and I to follow the bread crumbs of the music’s history back to it’s origins. I heard for the first time Ba... | |
| Infinity IRS Betas - proper amplification A real good amp for woofers is the Electron Kinetics Eagle 2, if you can find one in good working order (they are by now pretty old). | |
| An Excellent New Read: "A Brief History Of Why Artists Are No Longer Making A Living..." @jburidan, imo the one exception to your otherwise fine contention is that of Paul Simon’s Graceland album. Not because he merely pasted his voice onto the music of the South African musicians he recorded and called it his (though that is a valid ... | |
| The Best Record Ever Made? All the Sheffield's are amazing (in fact, all direct-to-disk LP's are!), as are those on Water Lily Records (including A Meeting By The River, one of those meeting being the great Ry Cooder).Speaking of The Trinity Sessions album (I concur, a good... | |
| Why are you into hi end audio? There are "enthusiasts" in every area of human activity; why should music and it’s reproduction be an exception? I find the lack of a deep interest in music of more concern than that of hi-fi. Most of the musicians I know listen to music on their ... | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? @nicktheknife, the whiny voice in The Beach Boys is that of Mike Love, whom I abhor. Brian sang the high, falsetto parts. Carl Wilson had a nice voice, and it is he singing the melody on "God Only Knows". | |
| Why are you into hi end audio? In service of the music, silly boy! | |
| Vibratory or Not? Everybody knows phono pickups (cartridges), loudspeakers, and microphones are considered transducers because they convert one form of energy to another; pickups from groove modulations to an electronic signal, loudspeakers form an electronic signa... | |
| Component isolation I have roller bearings by both Ingress Engineering and Symposium Acoustics, as well as Townshend Audio Seismic Pods. Roller bearings provide good isolation in all planes but vertical, in which they act as not isolators, but couplers. The Seismic P... | |
| Roxul Rockwool or Owens Corning Thermafiber I found Roxul Safe 'n' Sound in stock at Home Depot for around fifty bucks a bag, I believe it was. A bag contains twelve 3" thick X 16" wide X 48" long pieces. Owens Corning 703, the stuff everybody (GIK, ATS) puts in their absorbers, is a specia... | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? Though I hold Brian Wilson in as high esteem as anyone, and consider him to have written a fair number of the best songs I’ve ever heard. I don’t love Pet Sounds as much as I am "suppose to". I had loved All Summer Long, but didn’t at all like it’... | |
| An Excellent New Read: "A Brief History Of Why Artists Are No Longer Making A Living..." In the old days, touring was considered part of record promotion. The record companies paid for all expenses incurred, which were deducted off the top of the gross from album sales, the artist/band receiving no royalty checks until the debt had be... | |
| This is a brilliant interview of Keith So @pops, you think Ry is lying?!Watch the video again. Notice how when Ry's name comes up, Richards quickly (and slyly) changes the subject?On a related matter, here's something I find interesting: Whenever I have worked with a guitarist and/or s... |