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| Tubes, old and new Keith Herron, another good one, is with you on the subject, putting current Sovtek tubes in his products, which sound mighty good, and advising against substituting "better sounding" vintage tubes. Modjeski himself says a tube doesn't have an inhe... | |
| Tubes, old and new I think that's a pretty safe assumption! Kavi Alexander had Tim design the tube electronics for the microphones and tape recorder he uses to make his Water Lily albums, some of the best recordings ever made. Roger Modjeski says Tim is one of the o... | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads Uh, Cello Suites, that is. | |
| Planars/ Electrostats benefits over box speakers? I've heard only one $100k-$250k speaker, the big Wilsons at Brooks Berdan's shop, and it did sound huge. They are the only Wilsons I've heard that I could live with---too bad I can't afford them!. Brooks knew that life-size image and scale is of p... | |
| Songs that Inspire or Move you The Band "The Weight"; "God Only Knows" written by Brian Wilson, sung by his brother Carl; "Like a Rolling Stone" by you know who; "No Time To Cry" by Iris Dement (a devestatingly moving song); a Slim Harpo song in a current version by the great J... | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads I wasn't going to mention my favorite "new" artist of the past few decades. The last time I recommended her, to the wife of a friend who was looking for a new female artist to like, the feedback I got was that the wife found Iris Dement "so melanc... | |
| Which phono preamps among these three? There is now a Quicksilver phono amp on AudiogoN for cheap. | |
| Which do you feel ... Iris Dement. She's a very special songwriter and singer whom I learned of from Merle Haggard, himself not bad at both ;-). There are a bunch of videos on You Tube with which to check her out | |
| Helius tonearm users, what have you upgraded to? Thanks Harvey, I'll do that. | |
| Tubes, old and new Tim Pavaracini = "supposed" expertise?! | |
| Balanced or fully SS pre with tone controls What you can do is get a modern, no-tone control pre-amp with a processor pass through input, send an output from that pre-amp to an older pre-amp with tone controls, return the output from that pre-amp (with the signal "tone-controlled") back to ... | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads Ooh, good one Peter! Another incredible female is Julie Miller, a great songwriter and singer, wife and partner of the best producer/singer/guitarist/bandleader (for Emmylou Harris) working today, Buddy Miller. | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads Mass popularity and my tastes are usually mutually exclusive, but there is a fairly recent new singer who has sold a lot of albums whom I really like. She's British, goes by the name of Adele, and is a great singer of ballads, even one by Dylan. S... | |
| Another Best sounding room Marty, I'm jealous! Santa Monica is beautiful, and hard to find a vacancy in. I come in once a month from the desert, bringing my mother-in-law to 20th and SM Blvd. for her Chemo treatments. I bring my dog and we walk along Pacific Coast Highway o... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has It's Richard Manuel of The Band I miss the most from my lifetime, but who wouldn't want J.S. Bach walking around! By the way, if JSB were, it would be Garth Hudson he would be hanging with, not Keith Emerson. |