bdp24
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| 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 ... | |
| Running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode and 4 Ohm Speaker @geek101, just so you'll know (in case you don't), poster ramtubes is Roger Modjeski of Music Reference, designer and maker of tube electronics. Asking him for an amplifier recommendation puts him in an awkward position ;-) . | |
| Pheonix Engineering Road Runner Bill at Phoenix will respond if you send him an email. He may be happy to answer questions about the upcoming SOTA/Phoenix product(s). | |
| Tube / SS amp that handles 4ohm loads well and delivers lively texture / palpability Ralph, your Atma-Sphere amps are known for, among other things, their superior reproduction of bass frequencies and instruments. In the technical details you provide for the amps, you cite their unusually wide bandwidth, possible only by not conta... | |
| ... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ... @three_easy_payments---It may partly be the recording of Mitch’s drums (1960’s Ludwigs), but also how he tuned and (didn’t) damp them. His drums sounded about the same live (I saw him twice) as on the Hendrix albums, high and ringy, with lots of s... | |
| new york city audio show 2018 Sure Walker knew what he was doing, at a genius level. So why did he make the ESL with that horrid metal front grille?! It the panels have resonances, why is the front wave not as effected as is the rear? | |
| ... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ... @whart, I don’t own the Blind Faith album, and haven’t heard it in many years. Are the really bad sounding cymbals on only the one song? I ask because Ginger Baker’s cymbals, starting on the Graham Bond Organization albums, and continuing in Cream... | |
| Greatest debut album Another contender is the debut by Moby Grape. And Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Iris Dement, Lou Ann Barton, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Dave Edmunds, Rockpile (their s... | |
| Best wood under audio components? Some have tried the Bamboo cutting boards from IKEA, and like them. Surely their are IKEA's in Norway! | |
| $10k Speaker Cables?????????????? @roberjerman, it was actually Robert Fulton who started it, with his "Brown" speaker cable. Next, I believe, was the Polk Cobra, which had so much capacitance it caused marginally stable amplifiers to oscillate. | |
| Greatest debut album I am not alone in considering Music From Big Pink by The Band the winner of that award. Others who concur are George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Al Kooper. | |
| Onzow Stylus Tip Cleaner Another is RTOM Moongel, a drumhead damping product. Available real cheap at Guitar Center. |