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| 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... | |
| Why do better MC cartridges cost a fortune? Though a side issue raised by willemj, it requires a response. Willem, you are entitled to your opinion regarding CD players vs. turntables, but you are ignoring one kind of important fact: an LP won't fit into a CD player's disc tray. I have a lo... | |
| Philips Vinyl: Dutch vs Italian Pressing Also, Italy does not observe copyright laws, and the country's record companies don’t pay royalties to recording artists. That alone should stop one from supporting those companies. | |
| Question for cable/wire naysayers..... czarivey, no one said Doug Sax rewired his studio with NordOst, Alpha Core, Siltech, Audioquest, or any other specific brand, audiophile-approved or otherwise. I certainly didn’t say it, and that’s because I had no idea what wired he installed. Wh... | |
| What's your greatest purchase... My first Ludwig brass snare drum from the late 1920's, for $300. I ended up selling it to Art Laboriel Jr. (look him up ;-).Oh, you mean hi-fi? Quad ESL's, Townshend Elite Rock turntable in the early 1990's, for $650. Rega RB300 direct from Englan... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time What a thread! I hadn't seen it before, and like many others here consider J.S. Bach number one. I believe more in depth than breadth, so would thereafter go with other Baroque composers before those of other eras. But you can't eat the same thing... | |
| Sadly missed manufacturers Oh yeah, Wolf. I just unboxed my Electron Kinetics Eagle 2A. Hope it still works! | |
| Philips Vinyl: Dutch vs Italian Pressing Italian LP's are renown for being some of the worst in the world. Utter trash. | |
| Mono recordings There are a couple of other reasons for stereo/mono differences.1- Brian Wilson mixed The Beach Boys albums to mono because A- he is deaf in one ear, and B- he loved Phil Spector’s music, which was always produced in mono only.2- Before the late 1... | |
| Fake XLO cables from China So does Kimber. | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Not just drummers need good time. Ask any recording engineer about guitarists doing overdubs; many "rush", not laying back and waiting for the groove, so hot to play their solo that they jump out ahead of the rhythm section. I’ve seen it time and ... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Ha, I wondered if that would rankle anyone! Yes, I am well aware that opinion flies in the face of the commonly accepted wisdom, with which I obviously disagree. I could explain, but one either gets it or one doesn’t ;-). | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers You are of course right, Steve. Ringo was the best drummer for The Beatles, Keith Moon the best for The Who (though Zak Starkey, Ringo’s kid, is doing a fantastic job in The Who now. I saw Keith with The Who live twice, and he was a possessed madm... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers After the death of Buddy Rich, Neil Peart organized the recording of a tribute album to Buddy. Unfortunately for him, Neil exposed to the drumming world his total inability to play a shuffle, a complete lack of sense of swing. His playing on that ... |