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| The best books on music I too highly recommend anything by Nick Tosches, but Greil Marcus is a little too academic and intentionally intellectualizing for me. Ben Campbell mentioned Paul Williams, who was the editor at the great Crawdaddy magazine, the first "adult" Rock... | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? Ha! Nope, it is due to it's "Direct Sensing" design, lack of cantilever and rubber suspension, and who knows what else. Even without an electronic damping circuit, Decca/Londons sound more "alive", immediate, dynamic, and exciting (thrilling is a ... | |
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers Another supplier of DIY loudspeaker kits is GR Research, designed by Danny Richie. | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? The design of the Decca pickup creates an inherent electronic resonance. In the mid-1980’s I had a long conversation with the greatly-missed Harvey Rosenberg---a Decca fanatic and expert, during which he explained to me how an electronic damping c... | |
| Your favourite 2017 album.? A lot of my favorite music was unfortunately recorded in indifferent sound. Nothing you can do about that, but if the music is good enough one can suspend disbelief. | |
| Autographed Albums Recently I've been unpacking my stuff after my move from S.CA to S.WA, including my poster collection. I rediscovered a framed show poster from Rockpile's October 17, 1980 performance at The Hollywood Palladium, given to me as a gift some years la... | |
| Analogue Productions Pet Sounds Reissues Yet another version? This is getting ridiculous! I'm all for high quality, but the recording itself isn't that great to begin with---veiled and opaque, not much in the way of highs and lows, very mid-fi. Real good music, though. I already have a h... | |
| Your favourite 2017 album.? Rodney Crowell's Close Ties will be in my shopping bag next time I'm at my record store, the excellent Music Millennium in Portland. His The Houston Kid is one of my favorite albums of the past few decades, it's that good. | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Slaw, I haven’t dug real deep into the Trans-Fi arm yet, as I’m not ready to buy one just yet. I’m just about to mount a Zeta on my Rock, which will be easy---the stock arm plate (a horrid, thin stamped steel one) is made for the Linn spacing, whi... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Slaw, I contacted Mark, and he unfortunately doesn't make the round-profile belt the Elite version (Mk.2) of the Rock uses. I got myself an HW-19 Mk.2 (acrylic armboard and platter platform) to play with until a Rock 7 comes my way. I may end up p... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Bob Dylan/The Band: Before The Flood. A 1974 live recording of Bob and The Band's first tour together since his 1965-6 world tour, when they were named The Hawks. They had just finished recording the Planet Waves album together, and The Band were ... | |
| Sonic Tonic fom the Tweek Geek Oh, I took the tonic part literally! | |
| Is Ronnie incincible.... Keith Richards is the anti-Dorian Grey. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? "Pop" became a derogatory term in the late 60's, particularly amongst my counter-culture hippie contemporaries. I didn't let that stop me from listening to the "shiny", studio-produced sounds I still preferred to the overly-long (imo), extended so... | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control Great idea of the glass marbles and bowls, Geoff. Better than the wooden egg holder or metal concave drawer pulls DIYer’s have been using. If one likes the result, the professionally made roller bearings can then be purchased, for even greater iso... |