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| DIY Audio Rack [*fail*] If sufficient isolation is achieved for every component, the importance of the rack itself is minimized. Maybe not completely eliminated, but close enough for Rock ’n’ Roll---a classic musician’s joke. Audiophiles tend to drive themselves crazy, t... | |
| Spectron Audio Out Of Business? Right you are tomic601. The tech's name is Tom Carione, in the store on Wednesdays and Saturdays. His other job is the service manager at a major radio or TV (I don't remember which) station in Los Angeles, and he REALLY knows his stuff, tube and ... | |
| This is juvenile... @frogman---Ha, good thing women don't feel that way. There'd be a lot of homeless musicians ;-) . One performer who has left a littered field of past relationships is Lucinda Williams. She has been through more marriages and boyfriends than a movi... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Thanks @mental. Amazon has the LP, but they are selling it for $48.99! I like and want to support the LP, but that's a bit much. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? reubent---Alone Together is a FANTASTIC album! I have only the original pressing, the vinyl of which looks like a paint wheel---lots of splattered colors, gray being primary. I'll have to look for the MCA remaster. | |
| This is juvenile... @audioman58---Apparently Keith Richards finds Norah very attractive. The two of them did a duet on "Love Hurts" at the tribute show to Gram Parsons at The Universal Amphitheater in 2004. I was in attendance, and watched in horror as Keith couldn't... | |
| DIY Audio Rack [*fail*] Great post Robert. My outright dismissal of brass was intended to be subtly tongue-in-cheek, but it was too subtle! Your treatise above is far more deserving of consideration that is my flippant comment. Actually, I don't really "believe" in using... | |
| Top used turntables under $500 Great buy lohanimal! I got my Rock Elite just before it was discontinued for $650 U.S., which was a ridiculous bargain. A better motor is a good idea; my VPI HW-19 Mk.2 has a Berger Lahrs motor on it, which VPI used a long time ago. So you like th... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Great postings @cd318. Printing out his lyrics puts the lie to the people who questioned the validity of Dylan’s 2016 Nobel prize for literature. Literature snobs! I also find Joni Mitchell’s recent critique of Dylan absurd. I admit to having neve... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report A while back I read accolades from Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller about a guy named Doug Seegers. Their praise was quite glowing, and coming from them really means something. So I got his Going Down To The River album (CD only). Oh baby, Emmylou ... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? Damn Wolf, Mattacks is a GREAT drummer, one of my favorites. He has also worked with Richard Thompson, who was of course in Fairport Convention. He not only plays real well (musical, tasteful, ensemble-style), he also knows how make his drums soun... | |
| Top used turntables under $500 @lohanimal, your nomination of the Townshend Rock Elite is interesting. It IS a brilliant design (I’ve owned one for a quarter century), but I don’t know that you can acquire one for under $500. They rarely become available (I include Townshend in... | |
| When you audition equipment, what albums do you bring? Pet Sounds is great (really great!) musically, but sonically mediocre. Give the Sunflower album a listen. Also musically great, but in better sound. | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? Speaking of the Musicians Union, I have a story:In the early 70’s, Bill Graham used Monday nights to audition local (Bay Area) bands. The ones who passed were given slots on regular nights, opening for national acts. The Fillmore was a Union build... | |
| DIY Audio Rack [*fail*] While solid objects are often couplers, it’s a matter of at what frequency. Cones, spikes, and Sorbothane type rubber products provide isolation above a certain frequency---around 10Hz, it is said, not nearly low enough. Springs can provide isolat... |