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| Vinyl Only "Within You Without You" on the Sgt. Pepper album. But Eric, that’s the first song on side 2. Yeah, I know. Not having to hear the rest of the side is a free bonus. 😉 | |
| Best Covers Dave Edmunds is not a songwriter, so most of his music is recordings of songs written by others. Here’s his version of John Fogerty’s "Almost Saturday Night", which I prefer to John’s original. Here’s a live version of a Nick Lowe... | |
| Static on turntable When a disc is sprayed on one side only, the static charge "migrates" to the untreated side. | |
| Tube amps under $7500 If you go with a pair of Atma-Sphere M-60's (a great amp, which I have owned) or S-30, for use with a 4 ohm loudspeaker you will need the Z-Music Transformer, which raises the impedance the amp sees. OTL amps don't like low impedences. | |
| Leaving tube amps on. Ah, okay @tattooedtrackman, I see the difference. Not 24hrs/day, but all day in anticipation of listening that night. Still, I would not want to leave the 750’s on without someone in the room they are in. That is generally true of all tube amp... | |
| KEF LS50 Meta John Atkinson sure likes the speaker; it’s his reference. Of course British audiophiles, with their typically small listening rooms, are willing to forgo deep bass altogether. 50Hz? That’s mid-bass. The bottom note on a 4-string bass (the E st... | |
| Leaving tube amps on. Leave ARC 750’s on 24 hours a day? 36 power tubes total? I find it inexplicable that anyone would even consider such a foolish thing! No offense intended. ARC power amps are well known to self destruct when even a single power tube blows (ARC ... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Music Reference products, though never trendy and/or fashionable, are (were) very well designed and built by tube expert Roger Modjeski. Roger passed away in 2019, but his amps are well known to run trouble free for years. At one seminar I atte... | |
| Static on turntable @dogberry: It’s best to "spray" the record on both sides before placing it on the turntable, holding the disc in one’s hand. That’s true of not just the Destat, but all anti-static guns. | |
| 5 steps in developing hearing Conspicuously absent is the first thing I listen for, and has been since I was 18 years old: How closely reproduced vocals approach the sound of real life ones. I recorded my 3-year-old’s voice with a small capsule condenser mic plugged into a ... | |
| my own experience with Tekton Design I have to admit my first exposure to Eric Alexander did not make for a positive impression. It was a video in which he explained the development of his patented tweeter array. He said he heard a 440Hz note played by a violin, and then measured ... | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. Here’s Rodney Crowell recounting his first hearing of "I Walk The Line" in 1956, driving in a car with Pa and Grandpa. Johnny Cash makes a cameo appearance on the chorus. | |
| Static on turntable If you have a turntable and play records, you HAVE to have a way to combat static, which is inherent in PVC. The Zerostat works okay, the Furutech Destat III works great. | |
| Record Store Day 2024? Yeah Jim, Jerry Douglas is a monster musician. I went to the taping of Dolly Parton on the Tonight Show at the time of the release of her first Bluegrass album, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill Records, 1999). I was sitting in the balcony, directl... | |
| Best Covers Getting back to the topic of this thread, here are a couple of my favorite covers of Slim Harpo’s classic "Shake Your Hips", both of which make The Stone’s version sound tepid. Joan Osborne’s version is smokin’ hot, live in a radio station wit... |