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| Greatest Rock Drummers When the "chops" players and fans of that style playing starting badmouthing Ringo for his lack of technique, one of his fiercest defendants was a very technically accomplished player---Greg Bissonette, drummer in the Maynard Ferguson Big Band. Gr... | |
| Obscure brands worth considering There are some companies and their products that are both very well established and financially stable, yet still relatively obscure; Music Reference and Eminent Technology come to mind. Their products aren't reviewed much (models aren't "improved... | |
| Sellers increasingly overgrade records I was really p*ssed when Nitty Gritty had to discontinue First. Damned EPA! | |
| If you were to market a product, what would you do? There is nothing like a positive review from a critic with integrity (and a system suitable for your products). I would have Dick Olsher and maybe Art Dudley give your stuff a listen. | |
| recommendations of phono preamps < $3000 range If I hadn’t wanted and bought a tube phono amp, I would have gotten myself the Liberty B2B. Really quiet, with the highest overload margin I’ve ever seen (take a look at Atkinson’s bench test report in Stereophile). According to Michael Fremer, a ... | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 Have a locked room, with scheduled demonstrations. | |
| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world There is no such thing as "a" best speaker. Wilson has become seen that way by some in the same way The Rolling Stones came to be considered "The best Rock 'n' Roll Band in the world" by some. That wasn't true either. | |
| Sellers increasingly overgrade records For Jazz enthusiasts, Atomic Records in Burbank California is an excellent source for LP’s. The owners (two brothers) are very knowledgeable in the genre, and, though perhaps not audiophiles, have high standards regarding sound quality, and have a... | |
| RIP John Bonham Dylan toured with The Band the following year (’74), and if you want to hear a Rock ’n’ Roll drummer who plays the music the way it should be played, listen to Levon Helm on those recordings. No gratuitous, narcissistic, immature, amusical showing... | |
| Subwoofer advice please The 57 worked stacked because it had a single tweeter panel with a bass panel to either side. Stacking turned a pair into a quasi-line source speaker.The 2805, on the other hand, is essentially a coaxial design, the sound emanating from the center... | |
| Greatest rhythm sections Thanks 61. Levon Helm talked about The Hawks going and seeing Ray and his band in Montreal after they finished their nightly shows with Ronnie Hawkins. | |
| 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... |