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| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @slaw---Yup, I watched the whole season of Cadillac Records, and was surprised it wasn't renewed for a second one. You can sure tell Martin Scorsese was involved, can't ya?! It really captures the New York attitude and energy, and the personality ... | |
| ... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ... @johnto, recording Cream (and Hendrix) WAS a challenge for the old school engineers in ’67, but it wasn’t because of the drums. Clapton and Hendrix hadn’t learned that their stage amps (Marshall stacks) were not appropriate or best for recording. ... | |
| Please help! Tube amp issue Roger Modjeski (ramtubes) may be able to give you some advice. | |
| Good FM tuner for around $1K Vintage equipment CAN be a problem, but McIntosh tuners certainly aren't. Audio Classics are experts at repairing, restoring, and modifying them all. The designer of the MR74, 77, and 78 offers updates to those tuners (through Audio Classics), inc... | |
| Old vs. new "Bop" was not the first digital recording (by a long shot), it was the first commercially-released Pop (non-Classical) recording, on LP only originally. | |
| Good FM tuner for around $1K For selectivity and sensitivity, the MR78. If your reception situation is difficult, that's THE tuner. For the sound quality of the amplification circuits, some prefer the MR77. | |
| James Strickland/Acoustat To all who own Acoustats, Roger Modjeski of Music Reference is a fan of the speaker, and offers some great services and products for optimizing them. | |
| Old vs. new I myself was never too bothered by the sound of "Bop" wolf, but it DOES sound kinda antiseptic. It's worth it for the music! The New West record label puts the following sticker on the shrink wrap of the front cover of their LP's: "Audio mastered ... | |
| What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it? Great first album, tostadosunidos! All Summer Long was the first album I truly loved, my favorite of 1964. I wasn't yet sold on The Beatles, and gave my ticket to their '64 Cow Palace show to my mom, who went with my sisters. That summer I went to... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Speaking of member names, I particularly like wolf_garcia's, as Howlin' Wolf is big in my house. Ain't that a man?! Mine comes from my preferred drum finish and bass drum (kick drum, if you insist) size; bdp for black diamond pearl (not the curren... | |
| extra links in the supply chain and do they affect performance? Right angle adaptors are made of brass, not the best sounding conductor. But then, so are most RCA plugs themselves, even the expensive ones (including the over-priced Cardas). Not the KLEI and WBT, however. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Just one opinion here, but you asked for them, right? The Esoteric X03SE is an unusually good CD/SACD player, your cartridge merely good; a better cartridge would improve the sound of your LP’s. A cartridge is like a loudspeaker, a transducer. Bot... | |
| Good FM tuner for around $1K The Mac MR 73, 74, 77, and 78 are all available for under $1000 used. Their RF capabilities are unmatched. Audio Classics often has all of them in stock. | |
| Anybody have experience with using Iso-Acoustics Iso-pucks under Maggies? Competition for the GAIA is the Townshend Audio Seismic Puck, priced about the same as the GAIA 2, I believe. | |
| Need a Record Brush. Got a recommendation? I don’t know if it’s still available, but I like the Hunt brush. Made in England, it has a center, velvet covered pad, with carbon fibre bristles on either side. |