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| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Just yesterday I learned that Bill Pitcock IV died of Cancer back in 2011 at age 58. He was the guitarist in The Dwight Twilley Band, and played the great flurry-of-notes break in the middle of "I'm on Fire". Give it a listen---I'll guarantee you'... | |
| wired magazine and Tom Port Yeah, weird to see those kind of components in a system used to evaluate the sound of LP's. He's obviously never heard a high performance system. I should have had him over to hear the Quad ESL/ARC/VPI-Rega-Grado rig I had when he was down the str... | |
| Johnny Winter I just learned yesterday that Bill Pitcock IV died of Cancer back in 2011. He was the guitarist in the Dwight Twilley Band, and played that great flurry-of-notes break in the middle of "I'm on Fire". You smokers hear this all the time, but.....Bil... | |
| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar Geoffrey Owens, the designer of the Helius arms, states that how an arm handles the mechanical energy created by the cartridge is his number one priority in designing an arm! Further, that the bearing assembly should optimally transfer that energy... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? You're spot on Marty. There's the story about Sinatra introducing a song during a live show, calling it one of the greatest love songs ever written, attributing "Something" to L & M. Because it's a Beatles song he naturally assumed they wrote ... | |
| wired magazine and Tom Port In the late 80's Tom's apartment and mine were a couple of blocks apart, his very near the corner of Ventura Blvd. (as immortalized by Tom Petty in his song "Free Falling") and Van Nuys Blvd. It was a great neighborhood---locals like Johnny Ramone... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Rarely mentioned, or even thought of (because of our focus on technique rather than musicality?), is George Harrison. His song parts are exquisite, as are some of his solos. A particular favorite of mine is that in "Nowhere Man"---very simple, pre... | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE Bifwynne, having an ARC repair tech nearby does make ownership of their power amps more reasonable. Imagine having to ship a heavy power amp to Minnesota every time a tube blows! In his writings on amp design and building-in reliability, Roger Mod... | |
| Some Musical Truths Mine were offered deadly seriously. | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE I wondered why there were always so many ARC power amps on the trade-in shelves at Brooks Berdan Ltd. Sure, he was a VTL, Jadis, and Mac dealer, so there would be trade-ins, but why so many ARC? Brooks' tech Tom told me he was constantly repairing... | |
| Do Countries Have a "House" Sound Also to the nature of the listening rooms endemic to the country of origin. British listening rooms are often small and of brick construct, hence small bass-shy mini-monitors (the room structure does not suffer much bass loss, unlike U.S.A. sheetr... | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE Do you ever get the feeling that ARC deliberately leaves out the circuit refinements that they end up offering for each of their models a year or two or three after each new model is introduced? As a cynical way to create business in between truly... | |
| The Band: S/T and/or Music from the Big Pink Absolutely. Over-playing was rampant in '69 (actually, it still is)---I have no doubt that's the first thing Clapton heard, the economy and taste with which all members of The Band played, the opposite of Cream (Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker may hav... | |
| Looking for really fine cables at really low price Tajacobs has raised the per foot price of the 16ga to $1.49, while the 14ga remains $1.79. | |
| Short speaker cable recommendation Thanks Rob, found the reference to balanced 8402. |