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| Tell Us about an Album That Took a Long Time to Grow on You YES! I am drawn to Festival Express by my favorite band, The Band, but Buddy Guy doing the great Barrett Strong classic "Money" (later done in an also-good version by The Beatles), and Janis Joplin doing "Tell Mama", a tough R & B song origina... | |
| Your favorite one-man band! I just heard Marshall Crenshaw's fantastic version of Dylan's "My Back Pages" on You Tube. You may have heard The Byrds excellent hit version, but I like Marshall's version, found on the Bleecker Street various artists album, even more. And that r... | |
| Clear Day vs Acoustic Zen Some people feel all silver cables are good with tubed electronics, copper with solid state. But Cardas and Audioquest copper are used with ARC and other tubed amps at some dealers, so there are differences of opinion. Big surprise! | |
| Reel to Reel tape decks There are quite a few r2r tapes of the RCA golden age albums, but not many of the Mercury’s. At least that I’ve seen. Wonder how they sound compared to the LP’s? | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Being a long-time Quad ESL (original 57's) owner, a small sweet spot is old news to me! | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I believe Roger Sanders was involved in the design of the original Martin-Logan model(s), but now disavows the curvilinear principle and design, not using it in his own ESL. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Max Townshend uses an oscilloscope to display the effectiveness of his Seismic Isolators in a video viewable on You Tube. He gives a rap to the side of a speaker enclosure spiked to a concrete floor, then again with the speaker on his Isolators, t... | |
| Reel to Reel tape decks Orpheus---I had my A77 restored years ago (mid-90's), at the then location of Studer/Revox USA in Nashville. I bought it new in '73, so the cost involved was worth it to me. The longer you own a piece, the lower the year-to-year maintenance costs ... | |
| Music you llisten to in your car, but rarely play on your rig at home Dave Edmunds: Get it; Tracks on Wax 4; etc.The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some ActionThe Kinks: the early albumsRockabilly like The Johnny Burnette Rock 'n Roll TrioSurf music like The Ventures and Dick DaleThe Ramones: the first four albums | |
| Reel to Reel tape decks Parts for the Revox A77 cost a small fortune. | |
| How hard it is to replace the rca input on the shindo amplifier? If you're close to Monrovia (just north of Pasadena), take it into Brooks Berdan Ltd. and have the shop's tech Tom do the soldering. He is very experienced with electronics, being a maintenance engineer for a Los Angeles TV station. He routinely w... | |
| Is my amp the problem? Another good x/o is the First Watt B4. All discrete (no opamps), zero feedback. More flexible than the Bryston, with far more available frequencies, and the highly-desirable 4th order-24dB/octave slope, which the Bryston does not provide. $1250 re... | |
| JL F113 vrs SVS SB13 There is a comparison of the SVS SB13 Ultra and the Rythmik F15HP available for reading somewhere on the net. | |
| Music you llisten to in your car, but rarely play on your rig at home Stuff like AC/DC and Weezer, great driving music. Pedal to the metal, baby! | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? I’m no mechanical engineer, but I do know that a spring is an isolator starting about an octave above it’s "effective" resonant frequency. That frequency is determined by the spring rate and the mass placed upon the spring, such as a pre-amp. Max ... |