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| What Will Happen to Your Music Collection and Equipment When You....... Agree completely, and have been thinking about this very subject myself lately. The thought of my very personal music collection being broken up and disseminated to various and multiple strangers is very disturbing to me, and I don't how to prepar... | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... I sold my MR RM-200 in late 2014 for $2000. I can't imagine why the one mentioned above is half that, and hasn't sold! | |
| Most coherent low volume speaker with very fast bass under 10k used? There’s nothing like a full range electrostatic loudspeaker for coherency imo. As you say "low volume", a pair of QUAD’s will do quite nicely. Restored 57’s are a perennial classic and favorite, but also the model 63 and it’s descendants, the 998/... | |
| Best divorce album? Derek's Ry Cooder pick is such a cool song. Jim Keltner's drumming on it is just insanely great! | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks Chris, interesting info from Bruce, a very talented, clever, and creative engineer. Why his LFT-8b loudspeaker isn't more widely known and owned is a mystery to me. | |
| Best and Worst Rock Concert Moments The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic, Summer of ’64 (my first show).The Beatles at The Cow Palace in San Francisco, Summer of ’65 (my second).All the San Jose Garage Bands that were playing from ’65-8---The Chocolate Watchband, The Syndicate of So... | |
| For a quick good time, blankets... I mentioned this somewhere else, but remember seeing a picture of male model Fabio's system? Nice gear, (IRS speakers and Krell electronics iirc), but set-up in a marble-floored, glass-walled room. Ridiculous. | |
| KT88 tubes for Monos Oy, the Twin Reverb. God I hate that amp---so bright, piercing, and loud. I lost some of my hearing due to that damn amp. I haven't seen an SVT half stack, but that's a great idea. With micing, who needs 8-10" drivers? The two worst things I had t... | |
| KT88 tubes for Monos Ah yes Wolf, I did indeed miss the "bass" in your post. I should have also mentioned the 6L6, used in a lot of Fender amps (including the 1967 Single Showman I use to have), A lot of guys I’ve played with have had the classic Ampeg SVT (as did Ric... | |
| KT88 tubes for Monos Wolf, I'll bet Ry Cooder knows all about tubes! As for the KT150, high-powered amps are completely out-of-fashion with the best guitar players. Low-powered combo amps using EL34's or 6150's is all that anyone plays. To get the tube saturation and ... | |
| The Best Cities & States to Find High End Gear Echo in Portland is pretty good, as is Pearl Audio-Video (Magnepan, Ayre, Mac, Linn, Rega, Project, Magico, Dynaudio, REL). | |
| How come only 1 or 2 cartridge makers offer a tune-up after run in? Analog expert Brooks Berdan always broke-in the cartridges he sold and installed on his customers’ arms, not letting them leave his shop "in the box". After running the cartridge for a certain number of hours, the cartridges suspension having been... | |
| The Best Cities & States to Find High End Gear Agreed jafant, Los Angeles in particular. In the late 90's I found a set of 13 ASC tube traps, sizes 9", 11", and 15", in The Recycler for ten bucks apiece! | |
| Tune of the Day Oh man, "Lido Shuffle" has a killer groove played by the great Jeff Porcaro, later drummer in Toto. The song was written by Boz and one of the other future Toto members. | |
| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 And I believe "Barbara Ann" had already been a hit for the vocal group The Regents, iirc. Most of the songs on the Party album were hits by other people. Doing Beatles songs, contemporaries of theirs, was not very cool of them! |