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| Your last concert was to see who and when? Last Friday, Jerry Douglas in Portland Oregon. There are two main strains in Bluegrass---Traditional, and Progressive. Jerry as a sideman (Alison Krauss, Iris Dement, Dolly Parton, hundreds of others) is involved in the Traditional wing. As a solo... | |
| Tell Us about an Album That Took a Long Time to Grow on You Workingman's Dead is a classic, no doubt. When I heard it, it too sounded like it was at least in part inspired by the second Band album. The songs, the harmonies, the country feel. The Band and The Dead (as well as Janis Joplin & Big Brother)... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. A real nice tube amp for ESL’s is the Music Reference RM-200 Mk.2, designed and built by Roger Modjeski, an amp maker who is also an ESL speaker expert. Roger currently makes his own ESL’s, and was involved in the design of the legendary Beveridge... | |
| Greatest American Rock and Role Bands of ALL Time I see some names here that also appeared on the "Worst American Rock ’n’ Roll Bands of All Time" list (The White Stripes, Blue Cheer). Love it!oblgny, John Hiatt is one of my favorite active songwriters and singers, and could be included here as a... | |
| What tonearm will better mine? Meaning no disrespect, and acknowledging that other posters may in all likelihood have more experience with various arms than do I, may I humbly suggest that the extreme nature of the Decca/London cartridges is what needs to be taken into consider... | |
| What tonearm will better mine? If you feel like going hard-core Decca/London, the two arms known as great matches with the cartridge is the Fidelity Research 66 and the Zeta. There are not a lot of them around for sale, so you'll need to be patient. One new arm popular with the... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! Yup, the Rock 7 is now in Mk.2 guise. | |
| Cable for my Rythmik F12SE Sub Sorry for the delay in responding ghosthouse, I was away from home on a gig. I was pals with Brooks Berdan (R.I.P.), and we had a nice mutually beneficial arrangement wherein I would provide him with vintage drums at my cost (I was dealing in the ... | |
| Dipole Asymmetry Is he four or five feet tall? ;-) | |
| Cable for my Rythmik F12SE Sub I have assumed I would at some point try the Kimbre 8PR (I already have KCTG, KCAG, Hero, Silver Streak, and PBJ interconnects, and 4AG speaker cables). The Tympani's have those darned Magnepan connectors, for which I'm planning on getting a set o... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Thanks Geoff, great video. The drums I was describing are traditional wood ones, which is how bass drums (kicks) and toms are pretty much all made. Snare drums are a different matter, available in many different woods and metals.Charlie Watts like... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals I love the first three Procol Harum albums (pianist Matthew Fisher left after the third, Robin Trowers’ guitar playing turning PH into just another blues-based riff band. So sad.). Those first three PH albums WERE (and still are) filled with great... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Old boots dull? You haven’t seen my closet, but then you may not care for any boots, old or new. You sound more like a sneakers kinda guy. I’ve seen & heard both Dylan and Hendrix live multiple times, and have my own personal impression and op... | |
| Tube Amp vs Solid State Amp HELP As if all tube amps sound the same. My old Dynaco Stereo 70 sounds more different from my Music Reference RM200 than does a, say, high quality modern Mosfet solid state amp. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? I can't say about hi-fi platforms, but maple is the preferred wood for drum shells because of it's desirable (for drums) resonance and timbre. Maple's resonance characteristic is of long sustain (when you hit a piece of maple, it rings for a long ... |