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| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Slaw, a while back Max was offering an arm that was a heavily-modified Rega 300, with the outrigger assembly built into the front end of the arm. It's model name and number was Excalibur 3, and retailed for $2500. The classic arms found to work es... | |
| Treble panel for Quad 57 electostatic loudspeaker Email just sent. | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? Surprisingly (to me, at least) dweller, playing guitar on Beefheart's first album (Safe As Milk) was a young....Ry Cooder! | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? Bowie wasn't American, of course. French or Russian? Who cares! | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? There was so much mythology surrounding Beefheart, wasn’t there? Remember the 1971 Rolling Stone interview in which Don said "The phone’s gonna ring"? And it did! Perhaps he set it up. That five octave range claim was part of his press packet (War... | |
| Can an old Thorens Table be "Over Dampend" to the point where sound is adversely effected? I’m with you on this Raul. The "too controlled" sound some characterize the Rock as possessing is imo the lack of table/arm/cartridge resonances. But then I’m a London user, and it benefits more than most other cartridges from the damping!Geoch, t... | |
| Which song has fewest words ever? Maybe not the fewest words, but "Dan Blocker" by Gurf Morlix hasn't many, and they're great ones. On his album Toad of Titicaca, Gurf was Lucinda Williams' original guitarist/bandleader/producer. | |
| Can an old Thorens Table be "Over Dampend" to the point where sound is adversely effected? "Over-damped" implies there is an optimal amount of damping. At one time, the Linn Sondek and Oracle Delphi were considered the two best tables available. Their designs could not have been more different; the Oracle employed damping (particularly ... | |
| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? This reminds me---I need to check out absinthe, a liquor I’m as of yet unfamiliar with. | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? Yeah, good ones slaw---Little Richard!---(and everyone else). Ray Charles has to be the most influential of them all---Steve Winwood, Richard Manuel, Van Morrison, so many others citing Ray as their model. Big Joe Turner is a favorite of mine, as ... | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's The LP's on the ARK label, recorded by loudspeaker designer Robert Fulton. | |
| What are the smallest speakers that are clean and flat down to 20hz? Wow tostado, a piano tuner! Man, that takes a real good ear and lots of training. I worked with one pianist who wasn’t much of a player (he grew up in the era of the British Prog Bands, hence couldn’t play rhythmically to save his life) but was a ... | |
| What are the smallest speakers that are clean and flat down to 20hz? The lowest frequencies produced by almost all musical instruments are not as low as commonly believed. For instance, whilst 28Hz was above stated as being produced by an upright bass, that instrument's lowest note---the E string played "open", is ... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature That's odd, Geoff. I wonder, did Patti do so as authorized by Bob, on his behalf? | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's mmporsche---Welcome to the wonderful world of LP's! They often provide a completely different musical experience than a CD, or any other digital format. As his postings here testify to, Bill Hart (whart) is one of Audiogon's most valuable sources ... |