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| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world There is no such thing as "a" best speaker. Wilson has become seen that way by some in the same way The Rolling Stones came to be considered "The best Rock 'n' Roll Band in the world" by some. That wasn't true either. | |
| Sellers increasingly overgrade records For Jazz enthusiasts, Atomic Records in Burbank California is an excellent source for LP’s. The owners (two brothers) are very knowledgeable in the genre, and, though perhaps not audiophiles, have high standards regarding sound quality, and have a... | |
| RIP John Bonham Dylan toured with The Band the following year (’74), and if you want to hear a Rock ’n’ Roll drummer who plays the music the way it should be played, listen to Levon Helm on those recordings. No gratuitous, narcissistic, immature, amusical showing... | |
| Subwoofer advice please The 57 worked stacked because it had a single tweeter panel with a bass panel to either side. Stacking turned a pair into a quasi-line source speaker.The 2805, on the other hand, is essentially a coaxial design, the sound emanating from the center... | |
| Greatest rhythm sections Thanks 61. Levon Helm talked about The Hawks going and seeing Ray and his band in Montreal after they finished their nightly shows with Ronnie Hawkins. | |
| Audible Illusions M3B with Aragon amp? Does the AI pre still have 30dB line stage gain? Ridiculous! | |
| RIP John Bonham Didja hear the story about Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan?It was 1973, and Led Zeppelin was the biggest band in the world. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, along with LZ manager Peter Grant, went to a party in Los Angeles. Page and Plant saw Dylan there, ... | |
| Subwoofer advice please Right you are, willem, it was indeed Gradient. DSPeaker and Gradient are both Finnish companies, and there is some relationship between them, though I don’t recall exactly what it is.The GR Research OB/Dipole Sub is offered as a kit, the H-frames ... | |
| Subwoofer advice please willem, it is very true that part of the reason most subs don’t mesh well with ESL’s and other planar speakers is the dipole nature of their radiation pattern, which excites fewer room modes than non-dipole speakers and subs. Their null to each si... | |
| Greatest rhythm sections Ironically, Black Sabbath gave white musicians a bad name ;-). Terrible. On the other hand, Bonnie Raitt's guys are terrific. The L.A. studio team of Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar (Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor) were as well. Levon H... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! That looks REALLY nice, shadorne. The problem is each cube is $89, so a cube of four costs $356. The 4-cubicle EKET is $50. I bought nine EKET for $450; the comparable Simple Woods cubes would be $3204! That will buy a lot of LP’s. Yep, you're rig... | |
| BEST brand for Classical Recordings? Harmonia Mundi (U.S. and French), for both music and sound. | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! The maximum load capability of a shelf is partially determined by what constitutes a shelf. The EKET 4-cube model (the largest EKET) has only two approximately 13" cubicles per shelf wide. The Kallax in available in many different configurations, ... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers goofyfoot, Keltner may sometimes appear merely "solid" (as in The Traveling Wilburys), but is much more than that. Ry Cooder arranges his recordings around Jim’s availability, and will not record without him. Listen to his work with Ry and Bill Fr... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Yes, yes, yes---David Kemper is fantastic!! He's on T Bone Burnett's Truth Decay album, and has played with Dylan as well. He creates a deep, deep pocket and groove. Another great drummer from Tulsa Oklahoma (Jim Keltner is as well), btw, a town t... |