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| Latest bin find.....Elton John Bill, upon hearing of the flooding in Texas I immediately thought of you in your really cool old (but new to you) house in Austin (I had already seen the pics of it in your Blog postings I received via email). I was relieved when the storm took a ... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D stringreen, it's not VPI's (or anyone else's) attempts to keep improving it's product(s)---making incremental improvements to a model over time---that it's detractors find objectionable, but rather their history of first embracing one design philo... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I hear the songs of a lot of young singer/songwriters, both in Portland/Vancouver bars & pubs and on TV (my sisters watch all the talent competition shows), and I have noticed a couple of things about most of them. The chord sequences are very... | |
| Best Bang For The Buck I've Ever Spent Terry, are you speaking of the RTOM Moongel drumhead damping pads? They are pretty subtle on heads (I’ve used small cotton pads taped onto mine---long used by studio drummers---for many years), but never tried them on a tonearm. Sounds promising. ... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D So true, slaw. While having made a number of turntables worth owning (though not tonearms---unipivots suck!), VPI has little credibility in terms of a design point-of-view or philosophy. Or, I guess Harry can claim, it has "evolved" ;-). | |
| Latest bin find.....Elton John tablejockey---the Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb, both original (I used to own one) and reissue, is a FANTASTIC sounding amp! Jonny Kaplan played a Gibson Les Paul Jr. through one when I gigged with him, and it was the best sounding guitar I’ve ever hea... | |
| Vintage Mcintosh tuner MR78 designer Richard Modaferri offers his update/optimization of the tuner through Audio Classics. He incorporates everything he has learned about tuner design since the tuner was introduced into his update, improving both the 78's RF performance... | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? Oops, I meant to say glorified, not glamourized. My first good table was the AR XA, and I watched Brooks Berdan set up a few LP12's. He wasn't too impressed with it, feeling, as did Peter Moncrieff of IAR, that the Oracle Delphi was a far better t... | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? The LP12 was, in the opinion of some, nothing more than a glamourized Acoustic Research XA. A better bearing and superior machining, but their over-all design basically the same. From a design viewpoint, they are in fact almost identical. Linn use... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... I like Ringo's second album, Beaucoups of Blues (recorded in Nashville with the cream of that city's session players), and his third s/t one. He's not much of a singer, but then neither is Mick Jagger. He's certainly far better than was Lou Reed! | |
| Best Drum Solos Stevie Wonder is a gas! Speaking of great drumming by musicians for whom drums is not the main instrument (Stevie), my favorite is Richard Manuel, pianist and singer of The Band. Very creative and unique, better than most drums-first drummers imo.... | |
| Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering Geez, and all this time I've been thinking Peter Walker got it right with his Quad ESL back in 1957. Apparently not, as Eric Alexander now proclaims "If you want to hear it all were (sic) the only ones that can do it". Yeah, you and Trump. | |
| Best Drum Solos shadorne, I LOVE Phil Rudd! Love him to death. Nobody plays Chuck Berry-style Rock 'n' Roll better than Phil, and his snare drum sounds just the way they are suppose to. Steve Gadd is an absolute marvel, absolutely one of the very best drummers in... | |
| Best Drum Solos Loomis, I loved Disraeli Gears at the time of it's release (Fresh Cream as well), and played songs off both albums in my High School garage band. But you have just pointed out Ginger's tendency to play for his own benefit, not the song's or the ba... | |
| Best Drum Solos Loomis, Jim Capaldi was a very fine drummer, very cognizant and respectful of the singer’s phrasing and dynamics, as well as the song's structure. Being a singer and songwriter himself, that’s not surprising, I suppose. Now that you mention Jim, p... |