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| Best wishes for Tom Petty Here's a Tom Petty story:Tom and the rest of Mudcruntch left Florida, heading for Los Angeles to get a record deal. The Dwight Twilley Band (Dwight and his partners, Phil Seymour on drums and vocals, and guitarist Bill Pitcock IV) already had thei... | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? I have a Cecil E. Watts Record Preener rattling around in a box. Before the introduction of the Discwasher in the early 70's, it was THE record brush. | |
| What direction is VPI headed? Don't forget ARC! | |
| the best amp to run the bass of infinity RS-1b's An Electron Kinetics Eagle 2 (A, B, C, or D version) can be had for around $500. A great amp for woofers. Yeah, it's an old design, but so are the Quad ESL and Magneplanar. | |
| The best books on music My local public library actually had "Music In The Castle Of Heaven"! It's on my pile now. | |
| Artists Seemingly Incapable of Laying a Turd Iris Dement, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Patty Loveless, Jim Lauderdale, Rhonda Vincent, Ricky Skaggs, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, J.S. Bach. John Hiatt, almost ... | |
| Support table or shelf for turntable I'm just happy to see Michael Green's (Room Tune "guru") proposal of component "tuning" by constraining outer structures with spikes falling out of fashion. Wrongheaded then, wrongheaded now, wrongheaded forever! We want decoupling (isolation), no... | |
| How important is component “aesthetics” to you? Very. I've always loved the look of Conrad Johnson and Atma-Sphere's champagne-colored faceplates, the control knob layout on the Marantz 7, the Marantz Model 9 power amp, and the retro-styling of the Atma-Sphere M-60 Mk.3---with rounded corners a... | |
| Is it possible to buy a decent tube amplifier in the $2000-3000 range? Music Reference RM-200 Mk.2. Occasionally available used for around $3000. Or an RM-9 Mk.2, for around $2000. The RM-200 is a tube amp unusually good for use with low impedance speakers, due to it's lower-than-normal output impedance and increasin... | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? Revox A77, bought new in '72. ESS TranStatic I's, bought used in '81. Nakamichi BX300, bought new in mid-'80's. Original Quad ESL's, bought used and restored in the early '90's. Townshend Elite Rock turntable, bought new around the same time. An A... | |
| Speed variance study with a Phoenix Roadrunner Found it, thanks guys. | |
| Best Rock Drummers I just read some of the older posts on this thread, and man did loomisjohnson describe Bonhan's playing perfectly, way back in 2014! | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Perfectly put, shadorne. Here’s a little story illustrating a related point:I was hired for a session, the recording of a single song for the soundtrack of a low-budget movie. I had worked with the producer before, so he knew what he was getting. ... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? I still have a pair of Radio Shack Optimus Pro LX5, which has the Lineaum tweeter. While it's no ESL, the tweeter is way better than a lot of domes. | |
| Vibration Issues / Turntable Decisions Hang a shelf from the ceiling via bungee cords. Would look like hell, but are you an audiophile or not? ;-) |