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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... |