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| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it If you want to stay with tubes, it's simple: get yourself a Music Reference amplifier. Roger Modjeski makes push/pull pentode, push-pull triode, single-ended triode, OTL's, direct drive amps for ESL's (no output transformer, no ESL input transform... | |
| Your Favorite Cover Songs? The Four Tops: "Just Walk Away Renee" (original by The Left Banke). Unusual for me to like equally two completely different interpretations of a song (in this case a great one), but, hey, it’s The Four Tops!The Band: "Long Black Veil" (original by... | |
| For those of us over 60.. slaw, I don’t know what you mean by "best describes you/your life as you see it." I’ll just say the band that currently really knocks me out is The Fabulous Superlatives, Marty Stuart’s "backing" band (they are actually more like collaborators), c... | |
| This is juvenile... Jessi Colter in 1976. Check out the cover of her Diamond In The Rough album. Daaaaamn..... | |
| Speed kills.... Erik, there is a reason loudspeaker designers still work hard to get theirs to sound as natural (lifelike timbres, especially vocals) as the 1957 Quad ESL. Limitations yes, but not at what's most important to some music lovers. Add a pair or quad ... | |
| For those of us over 60.. If a solo artist rather than a band can be cited, for me it's Iris Dement, then Buddy Miller. While not wishing to sound pejorative, there is a reason band members aren't solo artists ;-) . | |
| Seeking listening help in Austin area Barry, Magneplanars (and Eminent Technology LFT’s) are actually called magnetic-planar loudspeakers. The term "static" is appropriate for electrostatic speakers, but not magnetic-planars. | |
| Speed kills.... Erik, as you know ESL’s aren’t the only dipole planars. Magneplanars and Eminent Technology LFT’s, both magnetic-planar/ribbon speakers, also have nulls to either side (their radiation pattern is a figure-of-8), but they don’t have the apparent sp... | |
| Speed kills.... Music Reference is offering a direct-drive ESL for $12k. That buys you left and right panels, each of which is powered by it's own direct-drive tube amp (no output transformer on the amp, no input transformer on the panels!), plus a pair of 8" dyn... | |
| SAT Comparison If I was going to blow 48 grand on hi-fi, I’d build a room with a 3’ thick cement floor, interior dimensions of 10’ H x 16’ W x 26’ L, with bass traps built into the walls. FAR more improvement to the sound of a system than that from ANY arm, I’ll... | |
| I can not live without "Room Correction" shkong78, the IsoAcoustic GAIA isolators (and the Townshend Audio Seismic products) address only the speaker they are used with. Addressing the issue of room acoustics is a separate issue, including room dimension-created eigenmodes, reflections, ... | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it Yup Wolf, Gold Lion are making real good tubes, and they are reasonably priced. Still have to match them, of course. RAM Tubes is great at that. | |
| A song murdered by someone. Dylan wrote the song for the movie Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, and is used to great effect in the scene in which Slim Pickens' character is dying. Dylan had a small role in the movie, playing a character named Alias. | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Music categories and labels are somewhat subjective. I consider ABBA to have been not a Rock Band---the OP’s category, but a Pop Group, and a great one. Benny & Bjorn wrote GREAT Pop songs (chord sequences, melodies, harmonies, arrangements, e... | |
| Session Men by Gil Baker The L.A. film includes mention of Carol Kaye, including comments about her by Nancy Sinatra. Some of the players discuss the money inequity issue; everyone else involved in a hit song receives points---the songwriter, the publisher, the producer, ... |