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| The longest you have owned any gear? jaybe, I believe you meant to say NYAL Super It pre-amp. Superphon was a brand. | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Stan Lynch was perfect for Petty, a real fine "song-player" drummer---very musical. By the way, after Lynch left Petty (for very understandable reasons), he took Don Henley's advice to him and pursued a career as a songwriter, having a couple of h... | |
| Audio Desk Systeme CD lathe Sound Improver Geez, and digital proponents say LP’s take too much effort?! Ditch my CD’s? I have a lot of music on my 3,000 + CD library, which I am not about to throw away. It is, after all, about the music. Right? | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers transaudio (and anyone else interested), there is an instructional video wherein Jeff Porcaro sits at a drumkit, explaining and displaying how he came up with his part in "Roseanna". Brilliant! Jeff's playing in Boz Scaggs' "Lido Shuffle" is legen... | |
| Best wishes for Tom Petty I neglected to mention that Petty can be seen playing bass in at least one early Dwight Twilley Band video, and also their appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand TV show. | |
| Best wishes for Tom Petty Here's a Tom Petty story:Tom and the rest of Mudcruntch left Florida, heading for Los Angeles to get a record deal. The Dwight Twilley Band (Dwight and his partners, Phil Seymour on drums and vocals, and guitarist Bill Pitcock IV) already had thei... | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? I have a Cecil E. Watts Record Preener rattling around in a box. Before the introduction of the Discwasher in the early 70's, it was THE record brush. | |
| What direction is VPI headed? Don't forget ARC! | |
| the best amp to run the bass of infinity RS-1b's An Electron Kinetics Eagle 2 (A, B, C, or D version) can be had for around $500. A great amp for woofers. Yeah, it's an old design, but so are the Quad ESL and Magneplanar. | |
| The best books on music My local public library actually had "Music In The Castle Of Heaven"! It's on my pile now. | |
| Artists Seemingly Incapable of Laying a Turd Iris Dement, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Patty Loveless, Jim Lauderdale, Rhonda Vincent, Ricky Skaggs, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, J.S. Bach. John Hiatt, almost ... | |
| Support table or shelf for turntable I'm just happy to see Michael Green's (Room Tune "guru") proposal of component "tuning" by constraining outer structures with spikes falling out of fashion. Wrongheaded then, wrongheaded now, wrongheaded forever! We want decoupling (isolation), no... | |
| How important is component “aesthetics” to you? Very. I've always loved the look of Conrad Johnson and Atma-Sphere's champagne-colored faceplates, the control knob layout on the Marantz 7, the Marantz Model 9 power amp, and the retro-styling of the Atma-Sphere M-60 Mk.3---with rounded corners a... | |
| Is it possible to buy a decent tube amplifier in the $2000-3000 range? Music Reference RM-200 Mk.2. Occasionally available used for around $3000. Or an RM-9 Mk.2, for around $2000. The RM-200 is a tube amp unusually good for use with low impedance speakers, due to it's lower-than-normal output impedance and increasin... | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? Revox A77, bought new in '72. ESS TranStatic I's, bought used in '81. Nakamichi BX300, bought new in mid-'80's. Original Quad ESL's, bought used and restored in the early '90's. Townshend Elite Rock turntable, bought new around the same time. An A... |