bdp24
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| 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... | |
| Talk but not walk? glupson---No, I meant the services MG provides through his website (or however he does his consultation), not any information he provides here on AudiogoN gratis. | |
| Home grown turntable platform/base? A sheet of 3/4"/19mm 13-ply Baltic Birch plywood (it is available in both 4’ x 6’ and 5’ x 5’ sheets) will cost you only $50 or so. Cut two pieces to size and glue them together. MUCH stiffer that the twice-as-thick 3" thick piece of maple, and mo... | |
| Talk but not walk? Well stevecham, MG says he’s happy to do Q & A, so ask the questions to which you desire answers. Let’s see if he will, conversely ;-), talk it like he walks it. Just to be clear, I believe MG has every right to charge for his services, which ... | |
| A song murdered by someone. Oh man forsooth, great one! Talk about a bludgeoning! Vanilla Fudge was the most grossly untasteful band I’ve ever heard. I lost a lot of respect for Jeff Beck when he hired Carmine Appice and Tim Bogart, one of the worst rhythm sections to make i... | |
| Home grown turntable platform/base? asahitoro, even if you go with maple or butcher block, consider getting two pieces and placing a thin sheet of constrained layer damping of your choice between them. That will mitigate the resonance found in all materials, including wood. Actually... | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century @fixedincome---I too love the GV, but that is hardly a 20th Century piano work! | |
| Talk but not walk? @glupson---Oh no, I have no problem with MG posting here, on any topic he choses. I was just explaining to stevecham why he's not getting the answers from MG he wants. For that info, you gotta pay! | |
| A song murdered by someone. @acresverde---We have a winner! I have no idea what was suppose to be funny about that. Why mock such a thing?Al---I had forgotten about "Stroll On"! You’re exactly correct about the reason for the change in lyrics. I’m sure they would be sued for... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "Sugar Baby" is on the "Love And Theft" (quotation marks in the title, as if to say..... ;-), album, which I have raving about for quite awhile here on Audiogon. It doesn’t seem to get mentioned much, but’s it’s a favorite of mine. | |
| When you audition equipment, what albums do you bring? I just remembered an album that has excellent sound and interesting music (at least I think so), one that never gets mentioned. It’s the 1975 debut album by Old & In The Way, a group consisting of Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Peter Rowan (from... |