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| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil The Townshend Pods are not simply damped springs, they are much more sophisticated than that. Their design is explained and effectiveness demonstrated in the video Max posted on You Tube. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I thank God I knew a great songwriter who introduced me to J.S. Bach when I was twenty-four. For the "richest", deepest music, I turn to him, with increasing frequency and consistently as I have gotten older. One has to listen to him last in the d... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Shelly Mann, a very musical drummer. Has anyone mentioned Earl Palmer? Though known as the creator of Rock 'n' Roll drumming (Little Richard, etc.) and an L.A. studio player, he was at heart a New Orleans Jazz drummer. | |
| A vote for the little guy suppliers Love Frank Van Alstine, a real no-bs guy. Also Bruce Thigpen of Eminent Technology, Keith Herron, Roger Modjeski of Music Reference, Geoffrey Owens of Helius Designs, Max Townshend of Townshend Audio, Tim de Paravicini of EAR-Yoshino, and Ralph Ka... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Elvis has long been accused of merely being a white man who sang like a black man. Not so. What he did, what made him so revolutionary, was that he fused the Jump Blues he heard on "Race" records and radio shows reaching Mississippi and Tennessee,... | |
| Best fuses for under $50? $300 might buy one a better amp, or at least tubes for one. And definitely some room acoustic treatment, or isolation footers. You know, stuff that actually provides improved sound ;-). | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Pick any genre you want, I’ll take Country. There is what you hear on commercial radio and see on the TV awards shows, the entertainers the music business has decided to push. What they do is not actually Country, not at all. But at the same time ... | |
| R.I.P Glen Campbell Also the original replacement for Brian Wilson as The Beach Boys touring bass player, when Brian didn't want to go on the road anymore. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I know a guy my age (67), a bass player (if you consider a Rickenbacker a bass---I don’t ;-), who does nothing but p*ss and moan about how "good" music isn’t popular anymore, like it was when we were young. It has never occurred to him that he sou... | |
| Mono recordings - two questions... Perhaps I put it incorrectly Lew. One of the two coils in London/Deccas produces the signal created by lateral movement of the stylus armature, the other by vertical. So mono output is just a matter of outputting only the coil responsible for the ... | |
| 2 Channel Subwoofer connection The Rythmik subs also provide speaker level connections to a power amp, just like the REL. | |
| Atma-Sphere MP1 with single-ended inputs and outputs? Adapters OK? The problem with XLR-to-RCA adaptors is that they’re made of brass, including the Cardas. But then so are most RCA jacks. Apparently copper is too soft. | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control pani, I believe the 'correct" model is the one that is intended for the weight of your table, as well as it's size, of course. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? A lot of the "best" music has always flown under the mass-market radar, subsiding on a cult level; Gram Parsons, John Hiatt, Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson, Marshall Crenshaw, Dave Edmunds, and Nick Lowe, for instance. Their ARE artists of quali... | |
| High quality high pass filtering for speakers? If a 1st order (6dB/octave) high pass crossover is steep enough for you, all that's required is the installation of a capacitor on your power amp's input jacks. The value of the capacitor plus the amp's input impedance determines the "elbow" frequ... |