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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... 
Tone Arm board material
By the way, the generic name of Delrin is Acetal. There's also a long chemical name for it (abbreviated to POM), but you don't need that. 
Magnepan and room size, room placement
@meiatflask, if you choose to go with a planar, take a look at the Eminent Technology LFT-8b, another magnetic-planar loudspeaker. A pair retails for $2499, and home auditions are available. Read the review by Robert Greene in The Absolute Sound t... 
Soundstaging and Imaging: The Delusion about The Illusion
Regarding tostadosunidos comments on the topic of the ability of a pair of speakers to reproduce depth:I first heard the effect on the occasion of hearing a true high end system for the first time, a system being delivered and set up by Bill Johns... 
Charts & Graphs?
MG, I was first apprised of the amp/speaker impedance interaction when looking for an amplifier for the original Quad ESL, which has an insane impedance curve (from around 1 ohm to 30!). When an amp with a high source impedance is partnered with t... 
Tone Arm board material
One other material to consider is a close cousin to acrylic---Delrin. That's a brand name I believe, not the material's generic name. Delrin is the material VPI used for the platters of the HW-19 MK.2-4, Aries 1 (top layer), and TNT (pre-Mk.6) tab... 
Charts & Graphs?
It needn’t be one or the other; bench tests can aid the consumer in narrowing his search for, say, a synergistic loudspeaker/amplifier pairing. When a John Atkinson bench test of a power amplifier reveals the amp to have a very high source impedan... 
The best music in 2019
Well ya know Tom, Rockabilly is basically the mix of Jump Blues and Hillbilly. Rosie is awfully good at Rockabilly (and Hillbilly), and without a grounding in Blues that would not be possible. Another singer in Rosie's league is Lou Ann Barton, fr...