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| Vibration isolation or absorption? Erik, have you watched all the videos Max Townshend made and put up on YouTube? Worth your time, at the very least. | |
| Increasing a Low output MM If you're the patient type, keep a lookout for a used Herron VTPH-1MM. 44dB gain. | |
| New In 2023 Coming soon to a record store near you: Here Are The Sonics !!! (exclamation points not of my doing) on Big Beat Records, the debut album from this greatest of all 1960’s Garage Bands. I have an original on Etiquette Records (plus the 1998 reissue... | |
| What was the craziest location that you made an audio purchase from? In the early-90’s I saw an ad in The Recycler (a buy/sell weekly in SoCal) for ASC Tube Traps, ten bucks apiece! I called the guy and arranged to immediately pick them up. They were in an empty house in Reseda, recently sold. I took ’em all---thir... | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. @randybrinkman: Some ARC owners get defensive about their favorite brand of electronics, but your experience is not atypical. The ARC decision to not fuse their output tubes---using :"sacrificial" parts in their place---leads to amp repairs being ... | |
| Taylor Swift Concert Prices In contrast, tickets to Joe Henry’s upcoming show in Portland are twenty bucks, Iris DeMent forty. Seeing NRBQ---one of my all-time favorite Rock ’n’ Roll bands (they are actually much more than that)---when they came through town awhile back set ... | |
| 6DJ8 vs. 6922? One great thing about tubes is you can use them to fine tune your system. If your phono cartridge is a tad bright, use softer sounding tubes. And visa versa. A tube pre-amp doesn’t have a fixed sound, it’s sound is changed by the tubes installed i... | |
| New In 2023 On June 30th the Kentucky Colonels’ album 1966 will be released on LP and CD. The Colonels’ members included Clarence White, better known a member of the 3rd incarnation of The Byrds. | |
| Lucinda Williams' Stories From A Rock n Roll Heart. The difference is those who use a teleprompter are trying to hide the fact that they are using one---thereby creating the impression of "professionalism". Lucinda is unconcerned with such matters: she's an artist, not a mere entertainer. | |
| Monitor Stands - Made of Stone I'm surprised by the news that Townshend is hard to buy from. My dealings with John at the company have been the opposite---very efficient processing of my orders, and prompt shipping, not a single problem. | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp I sold my Bedini 25/25 about ten years ago. It needed the filter capacitors replaced, which the buyer was willing to do. | |
| How rare is an audiophile Sadly, many musicians are amongst the worst. One bassist I've known since we were kids in elementary school listens to music on the speakers in his computer. Back in the 1980's he put his LP's in the carport of his condo (in San Jose a lot of apar... | |
| Lucinda Williams' Stories From A Rock n Roll Heart. @ozzy62: Lucinda is not a polished, professional entertainer, that's for sure. Every time I've seen her live, she has had a music stand in front of her, upon which sits a 3-ring binder with pages of song lyrics. After she finishes one song, she tu... | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp The Music Reference RM-10 is perfect for the Quads, as is the Atma-Sphere S-30. | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy The B-side of The Band’s "Ain’t Got No Home" (from their Moondog Matinee album) is the previously-unreleased "Get Up Jake", a cool little song recorded during the sessions for their second album, I believe. That song later showed up on the Band’s ... |