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| 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... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe’s favorite Rock ’n’ Roll drummer is Terry Williams (Rockpile, Carlene Carter, Dire Straits). Tom Ardolino of NRBQ was an unusually creative drummer (recently deceased), but not one whom anyone merely looking for technica... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers John Bonham's part in "Rock and Roll" is a direct cop of Earl Palmer's in Little Richard's "Keep-A-Knockin'". A comparison of the two will display why Bonham sounds so flat-footed, so leaden, to me. Earl's part absolutely bristles with kinetic ene... | |
| Acoustical music OMG slaw, Mary Gauthier is fantastic! My favorite discovery of the past few years. | |
| What are you listening to right now? Love "Sundown", slaw (that Lucinda album, too. She’s back, baby!). Gordon’s recording of "Me and Bobby McGee" is my favorite, and ARC’s Bill Johnson loved it’s sound quality when it was played for him by at-the-time retailer (now head of Last Reco... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers All great comments. As always, taste is personal. For instance, I love Bonham's snare sound (a 6.5" deep metal Ludwig shell), but hate Chad's (that high-pitched wood piccolo sound).What constitutes over-playing is a matter of opinion. The tale I h... |