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| Vintage Mcintosh tuner The MR-71 has tube electronics, so of course some will prefer it's sound character/quality to that of the solid state MR-78. The RF section of the MR-78, however, is superior to that of the 71 (higher alternate and adjacent selectivity, etc.), and... | |
| unity gain active tube preamp? Give Roger Modjeski at Music Reference a call. He builds one-off pre-amps, and is a proponent of zero-gain or passive designs of such. | |
| Best Drum Solos I saw Keith Moon live twice (’68 and ’69), and he was as punchy and exciting as any drummer I’ve heard live. The only other I saw like him was Buddy Miles in The Electric Flag (with Mike Bloomfield, of course). A great drummer makes a band his, an... | |
| Best Drum Solos Loomis, I completely agree about John Bonham---"behind-the-beat" is exactly right! Some drummers like to be the engine at the front of the train, pulling the band along. Bonham was at the back of the "pocket", pushing the band from behind. The pla... | |
| Best Drum Solos I believe I’ve already told ya’ll this story Evan Johns told me when I recorded with him in Atlanta GA. If so, it bears repeating. Evan’s good friend and sometimes bandmate, the late, great guitarist Danny Gatton (Vince Gill, himself a fine guitar... | |
| My Home Speakers, My Car, and Me...The Ballad of What's Going Wrong? Could be you don’t expect great sound in the car (I don’t), so you’re not worried about it. In your room you have set your expectations higher, which could be creating anxiety.Or, it could very well be the acoustics of your room. My new room is ve... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Sure do, tostadosunidos! I just programmed out the Lou Reed track ;-). | |
| Best Drum Solos I’ll concede one point, ghosthouse---I really should not have used the adjective miserable, that’s excessive.In The Last Waltz, Eric Clapton talks about hearing Music From Big Pink for the first time, and how it changed everything for him---after ... | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil Local heavy industry and/or construction is one source of seismic vibration, the earth itself another. The presence of the latter does not make the absence of the former any less welcome. Duh, or should I say HELLOOO? Apparently some people just l... | |
| Atma Sphere S30 amp Another amp at that wattage level worth looking into is the Music Reference RM-10 Mk.2. | |
| Best Drum Solos First of all, Ginger’s drums and cymbals sound terrible---terrible! The drums are thin and ringy, no body or tone, like an unplugged Telecaster. The cymbals are dissonant (the overtones being out-of-tune with the fundamental) and clangy, without t... | |
| Is damping material necessary for a speaker having such a small cabinet volume? GR Research sells a cabinet wall damping material named NoRez. It has a thin layer of mechanical damping material, with a 1" layer of acoustical foam, and attaches to the interior cabinet walls with self-sticking adhesive. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? And, one man’s treasure is another man’s trash. That’s fine with me, I’ve long been out-of-step with many of the musicians I’ve associated with. I couldn’t get the hippies in my 1971 band to listen to my Smiley Smile or Shirelles Greatest Hits alb... | |
| Conrad Johnson Officially Transfers ownership eek, is that the consensus out there, that ARC has lost their way? That's the first time I've read that sentiment, unless we're talking about the pricing structure of their product line. IMO, as long as they have the same electronic design team, i... | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil folkfreak is in one of the most extreme construction-active cities in the U.S.A. right now---Portland Oregon! There is active construction on just about every street in the city. I go into town a few times a week, and am relived when I get back to... |