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| 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. | |
| Pheonix Engineering Road Runner Great price Peter, you should sell a lot. | |
| Greatest debut album @slaw, I beat you to The Traveling Wilburys! I left off the Little Village album (weak material imo. But they were one of the best live bands I've ever seen & heard. Ry Cooder is God ;-), but could have and should have listed that band's true ... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier Brooks Berdan very much liked the Music Reference amps (and he was extremely hard to please), recommending and selling them to his customers. But some of his customers wanted to spend more money (bragging rights? bling?), and Brooks didn't mind ta... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? 28Hz at sufficiently high SPL from a single 6.5" woofer per speaker? Good luck! No spike, footer, or any other accessory is going to increase the speaker's LF output. To do that, you need to move more air. Spikes and footers can't, don't, and won'... | |
| what 12 lps would you like to see reissued that will never see the light of day again? The Insect Surfers! They were part of the SoCal Surf scene in the 80’s and 90’s (and perhaps still are), and their leader David Arnson came to a lot of the shows The Hillbilly Souls Surfers did when I was a member of that instrumental trio. One ni... | |
| Old vs. new Cooder heard about the new recording format, digital, and, being a fanatic about the recorded sound of his incredible guitar tone (he's a master), gave it a try on his Bop Til You Drop album. He hated digital! Back to analog he ran, and eventually... | |
| Music reference/ audio research / vpi @tomic601, a cheap pc to try, just to see if it makes any audible difference, is the 10g MagicPower pc by Signal Cable, only 69 bucks for 3’. If your pal detects an improvement, he can then experiment with (perhaps more expensive) others. I use a ... | |
| Suggestions for Solo Violin Recordings Players in the "Historically Informed" camp have been fairly criticized for their sometimes less-than-world-class technique and pitch precision (more in the movement's early days than today). Still, I love Baroque music played without 18th and 19t... | |
| White Album Deluxe Anniversary edition @twoch, not as much damage as Phil Spector! But I agree; Martin's mixes suck, the vocals far too high in the mix, the bass drum almost inaudible. Upon hearing the first album, Ringo asked "Where's me kick?" Martin recorded them like a Pop Group, n... | |
| new york city audio show 2018 Yup Kent, the Quad looks like hell with the front screen removed. I have run mine for years with Jerry Crosby's grilles in place of the stock. They are more open in construction (bigger holes), less resonant (the stock make quite a racket when str... | |
| Replacing The Factory Jumpers On Magnepans - Does It Improve The Sound? There is a lot of discussion on this subject on the Planar Speaker Asylum Forum and MUG (Magnepan Owners Group). | |
| Old vs. new A major focus of Michael Fremer in his LP reissue reviews is the provenance of the tape used as the source for the new mastering of an old album. Seeing that a reissue is made from a digital source automatically disqualifies the LP for me. What's ... |