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| Anyone heard the E.A.R. "Acute"? Tim doesn't put "boutique" parts in EAR products not to save money, but because he doesn't find they lead to better sound or greater reliability. What he DOES do is use parts with voltage ratings that exceed the voltages the parts will see in the ... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Yeah Ghosthouse, Brian Wilson wrote quite a few songs that could be nominated, "Til I Die" and "Surf's Up" being a couple more. | |
| Songs that trigger you to switch the station or... Anything with Steve Perry (Journey) on it. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Going for songs here, not pieces:- God Only Knows, The Beach Boys- What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, Jimmy Ruffin- No Time to Cry, Iris Dement | |
| Greatest Rock Guitar Riffs Roy Orbison "Oh Pretty Woman". | |
| Overshadowed by bandmates What a great topic! Lots of great answers, too. Most of my examples have already been mentioned, the most significant being Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry's pianist. Someone interviewed in the movie Hail, Hail, Rock n' Roll, noted that a lot of Chuc... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Speaking of Bloomfield, another great Band I'm so thankful to have seen live was The Electric Flag, with Bloomfield and the great Buddy Miles in '68. The Flag had four saxes that day---two tenor, a baritone, and a bass. HUGE sound! | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Oops, neglected to point out that on the tracks on which both Robertson and Bloomfield play, you'll notice Robbie is on guitar and Mike is on piano. The info about Mike moving to piano after hearing Robbie start playing guitar came from Mike himse... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Not on "Like a Rolling Stone", you're correct. Two different stories, two different sessions---both happened. Robertson had already been on the Bringing It All Back Home album (the "electric" side, of course), and would be on Blonde on Blonde the ... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... That's a different story Onhwy61---both happened. Look on the album credits for the Blonde on Blonde album also---"Jaime" Robertson (the 1st Band album has him as J.R. Robertson). Robertson had already been on the Bringing It All Back Home album (... | |
| Quad 2905 ESL Arcing Sparks I'll bet when your amp has shut down it was because of the typical ESL brutal impedance/phase angle it presented to the amp. If I was going to get a new pair of ESL's, or amps for a pair, I'd look into the Roger Sanders stuff. His amp is made spec... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Damn Marty, the more you talk, the more I recognize in you a kindred spirit! You have simply and concisely (how appropriate---read on) differentiated between the two main camps of musician's: Those who play for the song, and those to whom a song's... | |
| Quad 2905 ESL Arcing Sparks Goofyfoot, the voltage clamp is just a simple electronic limiter I believe, allowing only a certain amount of, duh, voltage to pass through it, to prevent the 57's panels from arcing. There is no button etc. to reset after it has engaged, but I di... | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? I wish it were George. The interaction will be with only an un-buffered passive pre's volume control, then. Does that include those with optical attenuators (Lightspeed)? | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? Yes! Well, it took a design expert, but finally a great answer. Driving the inter-connect cable---what a concept! Maybe another reason why the sound of any given cable is so system-dependent---it's interacting with the volume control in the pre-am... |