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| 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... | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? What brought this thread back to life ten years later?! I could say a LOT about Pet Sounds, but why bother? If one doesn’t "get" the album, so be it. Having said that, I will in fact say a few words about it; I owe that much to Brian Wilson.I can ... | |
| This is a brilliant interview of Keith All right, since you guys brought up Ry Cooder, I'll repeat this story Ry told in a Rolling Stone Magazine interview:After the death of Brian Jones, The Stones auditioned a number of guitarists to take his place in the band, including the great We... | |
| Recommended Speaker List for Atma-Sphere OTL Amplifiers. The Eminent Technology LFT-8b is very well suited for the M60 in all regards save one, that of sensitivity/efficiency. The LFT is rather insensitive/inefficient (rated at 83-4 dB), so in a large room at high listening levels the M60 may not provid... | |
| Soundstaging and Imaging: Not an Illusion Oops, Green not Greene! | |
| Soundstaging and Imaging: Not an Illusion I am in agreement with much of @viridian’s above-stated opinions regarding imaging/soundstaging. That aspect of reproduced music has never been a high priority more me, and I found Harry Pearson’s (and the rest of the original TAS reviewers) obses... | |
| Tone Arm board material @travbrow, is the damping material bright blue in color? If so, it may be EAR C-1002 Isodamp, considered the constrained layer damping standard in the industry (though Geoff Kait disapproves of it). Michael Percy Audio sells C-1002 in varying thic... | |
| Dick Dale I don’t know about Petty, but his guitarist Mike Campbell sure is (not was. The music lives on.). It was Campbell who arranged to have Los Straitjackets (a contemporary instro-band) open for TP & THB when they played the Pacific Amphitheater i... |