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| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe Perhaps it’s just me @loomisjohnson, but Rod has always struck me as one of the thousands of guys who try too hard to sound "soulful" (black). I can understand wanting to have the gravitas of Big Joe Turner and/or Ray Charles, but a skinny little ... | |
| Tune of the Day Not yet @slaw, but I’ve pre-ordered it on LP. Comes out September 26th. Buddy has been very active since their last album together, but not Julie. I believe she wrote every song on the new album. @curiousjim: I'm probably even further from kid-do... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? Just my opinion, but the difference between bass drivers and midrange/tweeter drivers FAR exceeds the difference between comparable amplifiers. Except of course for planar-magnetic’s, ESL’s, ribbons, etc. Different drivers made of different materi... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? @knotscott makes a very important point: electronic crossovers provide only "textbook" filters. TF’s are 1st/2nd/3rd/or 4th order, which create slopes of 6/12/18/or 24dB an octave for each driver. The internal passive crossovers in almost all good... | |
| Tune of the Day "Healing Tide", the title song on the Buddy Miller-produced album by the duo of Michael and Tanya Trotter, who go by the unlikely group name of The War & Treaty. The song is an intense, smoldering-hot slab of Southern Soul/R &B, sung by M... | |
| KLaudio or Degritter Mark II As always, Neil provides the definitive evaluation and comparison 😊 . | |
| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe I’d love to be able to hear the Truth album without having to hear Rod Stewart’s voice. Jeff didn’t hesitate humiliating Rod when I saw them on stage together on Jeff’s first U.S.A. tour (it was well-deserved). But I did get to hear Nicky Hopkins ... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? Bi-amping provides the most improvement when the source signal (most commonly the output of a pre-amp) is divided into bass frequencies for one amp, mids and highs for the other. The dividing is done with an electronic crossover which receives the... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". I do somewhat similar thought experiments all the time, including with members of The Beatles. In the documentary on The Band, George Harrison states he instantly felt a kinship with Robertson, hearing in Robbie’s guitar playing an emphasis and fo... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". @onhwy61: I don’t know if I’m the world’s biggest fan of The Band, but I’ll admit to being amongst those who are. Speaking of which, in the latest Stereophile Newsletter (August---2nd Edition), there is a great story on and interview with m... | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? Magnepan's sensitive and dynamic?! I like Maggies as much as the next guy, but those are not two adjectives I would ascribe to them. In fact, Maggie detractors have long found them lacking in exactly those two areas. They are in the range of 82-84... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". @gavman: Yep, that’s what it is. I hope you didn’t jump to the conclusion that my wanting to see Birth Of A Nation implies I agree with the sentiments it espouses! Does wanting to see a Nazi propaganda film make one a Nazi-sympathizer? Not necessa... | |
| As he promised, Guttenberg reviews the Eminent Technology LFT-8c. @seanheis1: Though reviewer Corey Greenberg loved the LFT-8 ("These are MIGHTY fine speakers, rivaling many well-known models at considerably higher prices. In terms of detail and midrange clarity, they are some of the most impressive speakers I’v... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". One movie I still need to see is Birth Of A Nation. One of my longtime faves is To Kill A Mockingbird, which just yesterday I again watched for the first time in years. One of my sisters recently reminded me of an incident that occurred lon... | |
| Timbernation Platform Problems I don’t remember who, but someone is making racks using Baltic Birch plywood instead of solid maple or other woods. Anyone with metal racks (such as those of Solid Steel) can have a local woodworker cut a sheet of Baltic Birch ply into shelf-size... |