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| An examination of one of the greatest Pop songs of all-time. Below is the Jimmy Ruffin original. The song was written by the Motown team of William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser, and James Dean. The chord progressions of the song are almost as majestic and glorious anything J.S. Bach composed, and the bass pl... | |
| Best Covers Before giving this song a listen, think about where Rock music was in 1968, the year this song appeared on the debut album of The Band. In ’68 everyone I knew was listening to Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, etc. Sure, there was also Buffal... | |
| Ikea Kallax Vinyl Record Storage: Which version have you used? I went into my Ikea to compare the Kallax with another shelving unit named the Eket. I found the Eket (the 4-cubicle model) to be far more to my liking, for a number of reasons: 1- Unlike the Kallax, the Eket has a back panel, which makes i... | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors Great speaker/sub combo @mscetal! As you are new here, you probably don't know that I have for years been recommending the GR Research/Rythmik Audio OB/Dipole Sub for use with planar loudspeakers. I made the double-woofer version, in W-frames rath... | |
| Is There a New Record Pressing Machine Out There? I don't know for a fact, but VPI's choice to make their platters 11.5" in diameter may have been to prevent the lips of LP's to raise the outer portion of the groove (each LP side contains only one long groove) off the platter. | |
| Best cover songs? Here is Joan Osborne’s fantastic live version a song originally done by Jimmy Ruffin, "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted", a song in my All-Time Top 10. I love both versions. Electric bass on the original played by my favorite bassist, the inc... | |
| Best cover songs? Here is The Fabulous Thunderbirds 1982 recording of a song originally done By Ron Holden & The Thunderbirds (different bunch-o-birds 😊 ) in 1959, "My Babe". The song is found on their album T-Bird Rhythm, produced by Edmunds’ partner in Ro... | |
| Best cover songs? And here is his recreation of the Chantels’ Girl Group classic "Maybe", found on his second album Subtle As A Flying Mallet. Dave plays every instrument and sings every note heard in this recording. The modulation (key change) as we head into t... | |
| Best cover songs? Here is Dave Edmunds’ re-imagining of "I Hear You Knocking", turning the Smiley Lewis Blues song into a Rock ’n’ Roll scorcher. Listen to the tension Dave creates in his guitar solo. Now think back to where Rock music was heading in 1970, the y... | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors The DC3 Multifuser works great on the wall behind my planars, stacked three high on each side: | |
| Is There a New Record Pressing Machine Out There? The "no lip" LP is called a "flat profile", and was introduced back when Classic Records was in business. At least that is my understanding. | |
| As he promised, Guttenberg reviews the Eminent Technology LFT-8c. Several years ago one poster on the Planar Speaker Asylum (I believe it was) wrote about speaking with Thigpen regarding upgrading the LFT-8 x/o. Bruce was not-in-the-least offended, and in fact provided the LFT-8 owner with details on how to d... | |
| Best music in 2024 Released on CD only in 2001, Rodney Crowell’s The Houston Kid is finally available on LP. It is the current Vinyl Me Please Country Music Record Of The Month (March), and is one of those rare animals: a perfect album. Eleven excellent songs, co... | |
| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative I still have my original Zerostat (the body of which is glossy red, both smaller and more rounded than the Zerostat III) sitting in a drawer, but stopped using it when in the 1980’s I got the already-mentioned Nagaoka Kilavolt No. 103, which I ... | |
| TAS. The Absolute Sound? Tom Martin comes across to me as do the salesmen in some high end shops. Prior to the appearance of TAS in 1973, J. Gordon Holt (who started Stereophile in 1962) was the only hi-fi reviewer assessing the quality of components based on their... |