bdp24
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| Why is it so easy to tell the difference between live and recorded music? Tom, have you heard a Direct-To-Disk LP played by a Decca/London cartridge? That's the closest to live I've heard. Very dynamic, and "immediate". | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks fellas, I'll look for both. I agree loomis, Brooker is one of the better UK singers. He, Van Morrison, little Stevie Winwood, Steve Marriott, Paul Jones (Manfred Mann), and Paul Rodgers come to mind. All obviously indebted first and foremos... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I loved Procol Harum's first three albums at the time of their release, and still do. Then organist Matthew Fisher left the group, and their style and sound changed dramatically. The fourth album---Home---was not at all to my liking, Robin Trower’... | |
| Ikea Eket shelves with a large vinyl collection? Yep shadorne, the Simple Woods cube is really nice; I love Baltic Birch. But to get the linear footage I got in the EKET for $500, the equivalent Simple Woods would be $3200. I would rather spend the $2700 difference on LP’s themselves. | |
| Ikea Eket shelves with a large vinyl collection? Ispice---There are several Ikea shelving units that work well for LP’s, as attested to above. I went to my Ikea to look them all over, and chose the EKET. I too had concerns about it’s weight capacity, but they have (so far!) proven to be groundle... | |
| Catalog Completist? If we're talking about now the no-longer-with-us, the list would be quite long. If the focus is on the currently-active, my A-list includes: Iris Dement, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, Chris ... | |
| This guy just doesn't stop... Licorice Pizza! Tablejockey, I shopped at the one on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Canoga Park when I lived there in '78-'82. LP was a small record store chain in SoCal, of which there were a few. Another was Moby Disc (good name!), in whose Sherman... | |
| Open Baffle. Why are they mostly limited to DIY? Gradient needn't bother. The GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Sub is far superior! | |
| Shelby Lynn & Allison Moorer / Not Dark Yet Yes indeed jafant. Steve Earle himself has crawled back out of the hole he dug himself into. | |
| Open Baffle. Why are they mostly limited to DIY? Correct roberjerman, Gradient made dedicated OB/Dipole subs for both the Quad ESL63 and original ("57"), which doubled as stands for the speakers. The GR Research/Rythmik is similar in basic design and style, but quite a bit more advanced. Better ... | |
| Michael Fremer's system The video reveals that Mike is much more passionate about LP's and phonograph playing equipment than the rest of a system. As to the size of the room and bass reproduction, though the area he has the speakers in---back behind the aisles of LP rack... | |
| Pat DiNizio, lead singer of The Smithereens, R.I.P. He and they made some classic music. Damn, we’re dropping like flies. Many of the 60’s generation are not living to a very old age, for some reason. I’ve had a bunch of friends and peers make it to only their mid-50’s to mid-60’s. | |
| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano philjolet, that $4000 will also buy you a pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b's and a pair of subs. I would at least check out the ET's before pulling the trigger. Read Robert E. Greene's review in TAS a couple of years back. | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. simonmoon, it is my opinion that it was primarily Emerson's keyboard playing that displayed and contained his classical training and knowledge, his writing less so. I find the ELP songs devoid of the musical sophistication, wit, and wisdom found i... | |
| Open Baffle. Why are they mostly limited to DIY? seanheis1, an open baffle sub, or even woofer, has advantages and disadvantages in comparison to boxed ones, whether sealed, ported, or infinite baffle. No enclosure resonances (though even the baffle, if insufficiently engineered, can itself be r... |