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| My daughter practing snare, bells this aft...... For the very high frequencies (bells, triangles, cymbals, etc.), I stand by ESL’s or ribbons. For drums themselves, planar-magnetics, especially the Magneplanar Tympani T-IV and T-IVa (the best reproduction of my own Gretsch drumset), and perhaps ... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? In addition to a Herron VTPH-1mm, I have an Audible Illusions Modulus 2 that was radically modified (re-engineered, really) by Ric Schultz of EVS, turning it into a RIAA phono-only amp. Ric worked for Art Ferris, and had some ideas for how to impr... | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Steve’s debut album (Children Of The Future. It’s cover looked great under a black light ;-) was credited to The Steve Miller Band, and featured Boz Scaggs solely on rhythm guitar. Boz’s own debut album was a good one, with Duane Allman playing gu... | |
| best interconnect at decent price Just for the sake of clarity, I'm sure the op meant to say his RM-200 amp is by Music Reference rather than RAM Labs. RAM Labs is Roger Modjeski's vacuum tube business, Music Reference his amplifier company. | |
| My first Tube Amplifier I neglected to mention.....Brooks’ tech Tom Carione was in the shop on Wednesdays and Saturdays (and remains so, the shop now run by Brooks’ widow Sheila), and Saturday was my regular visiting day. I can’t tell you how many times I would enter the... | |
| Greatest debut album Speaking of Disraeli Gears, have you heard the story Eric Clapton tells about it? Cream were signed to Atco by Ahmet Ertegun, founder/owner/President of Atlantic Records. Ahmet was a Blues and Jazz lover, and was of course pretty pleased with how ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @n80, yup, I'm a big Little Walter fan, and have his Hate To See You Go LP on Chess Records. I worked with a guy up in the Bay Area (Gary Smith) who goes for the same tone outta his harp as did LW, sax-like. Gary mentored with Charlie Musselwhite ... | |
| Rosanne Cash "She Remembers Everything" LP @folkfreak, where in Portland is Rosanne appearing? I too have never seen her live, though I have a bunch of her albums. | |
| My daughter practing snare, bells this aft...... Even better, the Sheffield Labs Track album on direct-to-disk LP. The CD was made from an analog recorder running at the same time as the d-t-d master was being cut on a lathe, straight from Doug Sax's mixing console. | |
| Turning off tube preamp first sends solid state amp into protection? The turn on/off order has nothing to do with tube vs. solid state. You turn on the pre-amp and sources before the power amp because the amp can’t send any of their on/off noise to the speakers until it is on. And you turn off the amp first for the... | |
| My daughter practing snare, bells this aft...... ESL's. | |
| My first Tube Amplifier @ramtubes, Yep Roger, it was those expensive Jadis that my $20,000 price point was referring to. Brooks had them and the almost equally expensive VTL’s in his main room, driving (usually) Wilson speakers. The Jadis are beautiful to look at, have g... | |
| Tune of the Day Great slaw. I'm still listening to the copy I bought at the time of it's original release. Quality is timeless! One of my San Jose peers (he played with some of the same guys I did) was in Maria's band for awhile, and then became a long-time membe... | |
| ... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ... It doesn’t matter on what system you play any recording of Ginger Baker’s drums, how you "tune" that system, or at what level you set the volume, his cymbals and drums will still sound terrible.Here’s an interesting fact: while audiophiles decry c... | |
| Tune of the Day Maria Muldaur, "Midnight At The Oasis". Cool song, great vocal, master musicians. |