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| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Thanks Robert, I'll look into your products. Some of the drum company's have introduced accessories designed to allow their drum shells to resonate as long as possible (sustain is very "in" right now in drums), by suspending their mass in free air... | |
| Favorite guitar players not named...... radfrad, you may already know, but Derringer was in The McCoys, known for their 60's hit single "Hang On Sloopy". | |
| Rolling Stones Mono Box Set (lp or cd) Ian Stewart was the 6th Stone. The pianist on a lot of British invasion records is Nicky Hopkins, heard on albums by The Kinks, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Jeff Beck Group (I saw him live with Beck on the first U.S. tour), The Stones (Satanic Majes... | |
| What tonearm will better mine? Yes, the Super Gold needs to be loaded at around 22k ohms resistance with 220pF capacitance, which creates the optimal electronically damped circuit with the cartridge. Another arm worth looking into is the Well Tempered. And if your Super Gold do... | |
| Question for sub woofer users A bigger problem in using subs with the Quads (or any other planar) is getting them to sound "one" with the speakers. Dipole users complain that subs produce bass that doesn't integrate with their speakers, sounding detached, tacked on, and of a d... | |
| Coupling or Decoupling speakers? The Townshend Seismic isolators are also available without the bars, just the Pods themselves. If they work with your speaker cabinets, three of them are much cheaper than are the bars. | |
| Dipole Asymmetry Do you use grand-daddy literally or figuratively, cleeds? Magnepan has probably done more to popularize planar speakers than any other company, but the original Magneplanar Tympani T-I was not introduced until 1971, long after the original Quad ES... | |
| GRASS ANYONE? Love Muleskinner tostado! Rockadanny, Chris Hillman’s solo albums on Sugar Hill are fantastic too, as is his Country group with Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson, The Desert Rose Band.Here’s a warning, of a sort: There are two main strains of Blueg... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Geoff, remember, Sinatra didn't write any of the songs he sang. Kinda hard to give him an award for literature, no? | |
| Chuck Berry will be 90 next week. Oops, forgot Little Richard is also still above ground. The movie Keith Richards did on Chuck (Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll) is a must see. To hear Chuck's style perfected (he can be credited with creating it, but is not it's best practitioner!), give... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature For anyone desiring help in understanding Dylan, or why others like him more than thee, here are some books that may be of interest:The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes; by Greil Marcus. Includes great info on the hugely... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature A Facebook friend of a friend of mine yesterday posted an article entitled "How Jimi Hendrix's obsession with Bob Dylan led him to Woodstock". It was from something called "Cuepoint", whatever that is. I was unaware Hendrix was obsessed with Dylan... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Erik, Music Reference’s phone number is still the Santa Barbara one (805)687-2236, which will go to Roger’s voice mail. His email address is musref.roger@gmail.com. Wish I could join you! I miss the Bay Area, having grown up in Cupertino/San Jose,... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Erik, Roger Modjeski is indeed currently offering his own self-designed and built ESL speakers with his tube amps connected to them without output transformers. Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area wishing to hear them can do so at Roger's new fac... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Apparently inna you don't hear what others (including his peers) do in Dylan. He's not for everyone ;-). |