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| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! When I said their names was the only difference between the Expidit and Kallax, I was speaking in terms of the over-all dimensions, style (room divider with no back panel), and LP capacity. At a glance, they look very, very similar, if not identic... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system I know what an OTL is, ya big silly ;-). I had a pair of Atma-Sphere M60’s for years, which I bought for driving my old Quads. One cool thing about them is you can take out half the output tubes, to create a 30 watt version of the amp, perfect for... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! There are a few differences between the two:1- The Valje is 11-3/4" deep, the Eket 13-3/4".2- The Valje is 59" tall by 39-3/8" wide, and priced at $149. The Eket is 27-1/2" square at $50. So for the price of one Valje, one can get three Eket’s. Fo... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Wicked good. A unique and interesting singer and songwriter too. | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Nice Lew! I'm a fan of the B139 (Dave Wilson is too, using a pair in each WAMM, for mid-bass), and I have a pair of ESS TranStatic I's that use it in a quarter-wave (I think it's called) transmissionline. The midrange is covered by a KEF B110 5" ... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Back atcha, brother. I saw The Dead in ’67 (in the Panhandle at Golden Gate Park), with Ron (Pigpen) singing. I liked that first album a lot, and the next few that followed. But when they started trying to sing harmonies (that had became all the r... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system What? The LFT-8b’s aren’t perfect?! I like my Quads (original 57's) and Magneplanar Tympani-IV's more than the LFT's in some ways, but that's not the point of the post. | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener If one's sub can be integrated using a mere 1st order high-pass filter (6dB/octave), there is a simple, easy, transparent way to accomplish that. Just solder a capacitor of the correct value (the formula for determining that value can be found on ... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Ha! Hyperbole on my part Lew, obviously. But close to it (let's say 120dB @ 1Hz ;-), the Rotary Woofer not being constrained by physical excursion like mechanical transducers. A really fascinating, revolutionary, visionary creation from the mind o... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Coincidently, I just read a quote from Jazz musician Ornette Coleman. After jamming with The Dead in the early 90’s, he said to their manager "Man, those guys don’t listen to each other when they play". Looks like I'm not the only snobbish elitist... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Understandable boxer. I played in my first all-original-material-band in ’71, and could not get the other guys to listen to my recent (’66-’71) Beach Boys albums. The image of them at that time was of their early, surf style music. There is actual... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Ignorance is not necessarily an insult---it's an adjective. In your case boxer, an apt one. Brian Wilson was long gone from The Beach Boys by the time of Kokomo, having left for a solo career years before. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Oh man, I love Planet Waves, one of my favorite Dylans. Live in the studio, with very little electronic effects (reverb in particular---the recording is very "dry"). After the album was done in early '74, they hit road for a two-month tour, their ... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Wow. Musical taste is one thing, ignorance another. Ask any songwriter about Brian Wilson---start with Paul McCartney. Ask any producer---start with George Martin. Absolutely, and by a large margin, the best of his generation. Jerry Garcia himself... | |
| Best Debut Albums A big second to has2be's The Who's My Generation nomination. Another hugely influential (amongst musicians) debut album was The Yardbirds For Your Love. Guitar playing by both Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers s/t debut... |