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| 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... | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil Watch the Townshend You Tube video, silly! Max explains the Pod, which behaves like a bellows, iirc. I would watch it again, but my computer has a virus that prevents me from doing so.Me too, swampwater. The Eminent Technology LFT-8b has it’s bind... | |
| Sonic Tonic fom the Tweek Geek If the stuff is anything like the Tweek of the 1980/90’s, careful on tube pins. Tweek was conductive, and if any was dripped between pins on tube sockets, shorting could result. | |
| A vote for the little guy suppliers In the world of DIY speakers, Danny Richie of GR Research rules. In the world of musical subwoofers, his collaborator Brian Ding of Rythmik Audio does as well. | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil The Townshend Pods are not simply damped springs, they are much more sophisticated than that. Their design is explained and effectiveness demonstrated in the video Max posted on You Tube. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I thank God I knew a great songwriter who introduced me to J.S. Bach when I was twenty-four. For the "richest", deepest music, I turn to him, with increasing frequency and consistently as I have gotten older. One has to listen to him last in the d... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Shelly Mann, a very musical drummer. Has anyone mentioned Earl Palmer? Though known as the creator of Rock 'n' Roll drumming (Little Richard, etc.) and an L.A. studio player, he was at heart a New Orleans Jazz drummer. | |
| A vote for the little guy suppliers Love Frank Van Alstine, a real no-bs guy. Also Bruce Thigpen of Eminent Technology, Keith Herron, Roger Modjeski of Music Reference, Geoffrey Owens of Helius Designs, Max Townshend of Townshend Audio, Tim de Paravicini of EAR-Yoshino, and Ralph Ka... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Elvis has long been accused of merely being a white man who sang like a black man. Not so. What he did, what made him so revolutionary, was that he fused the Jump Blues he heard on "Race" records and radio shows reaching Mississippi and Tennessee,... | |
| Best fuses for under $50? $300 might buy one a better amp, or at least tubes for one. And definitely some room acoustic treatment, or isolation footers. You know, stuff that actually provides improved sound ;-). | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Pick any genre you want, I’ll take Country. There is what you hear on commercial radio and see on the TV awards shows, the entertainers the music business has decided to push. What they do is not actually Country, not at all. But at the same time ... | |
| R.I.P Glen Campbell Also the original replacement for Brian Wilson as The Beach Boys touring bass player, when Brian didn't want to go on the road anymore. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I know a guy my age (67), a bass player (if you consider a Rickenbacker a bass---I don’t ;-), who does nothing but p*ss and moan about how "good" music isn’t popular anymore, like it was when we were young. It has never occurred to him that he sou... | |
| Mono recordings - two questions... Perhaps I put it incorrectly Lew. One of the two coils in London/Deccas produces the signal created by lateral movement of the stylus armature, the other by vertical. So mono output is just a matter of outputting only the coil responsible for the ... |