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| Help choosing an amp for Thiel 2.7s If you aren't dead set against tubes, a tube power amp can mate well with Thiels. Midrange presence with a slightly forward sound is fairly common in tube amps. The trick will be finding one that doesn't mind the load impedance of the Thiels---tub... | |
| How to store headshell and tonearms safely Do a search over at Vinyl Engine. Somebody (j7 at Origami maybe) is making and selling shipping cartons with foam cutouts for pick-up arms. | |
| And Clapton Didn't Even Know After Cream hit big, we young musician's searched out Jack and Ginger's previous work together in the Graham Bond Organization, a British jazz group in which their playing was not much different than that in Cream. Ginger was already doing an earl... | |
| Your three favorite audio dealerships? I can tell you why, Taters: Brooks left behind a widow, Sheila Berdan---Brian's mother, and she and Brian couldn't come to an economic arrangement for the shop that worked for both of them. Brian left to start Audio Element in Pasadena, taking wit... | |
| Your three favorite audio dealerships? I can tell you why, Taters: Brooks left behind a widow, Sheila Berdan---Brian's mother, and she and Brian couldn't come to an economic arrangement for the shop that worked for both of them. Brian left to start Audio Element in Pasadena, taking wit... | |
| And Clapton Didn't Even Know Clapton ended up not liking the role he played in Cream (nor no longer liking the music Cream had created) after being played The Band's Music From Big Pink by George Harrison. Harrison started carrying around a portable record player specifically... | |
| Tubes, old and new Wolf, I'll have to try some Gold Lion 12Ax7's in my new phono amp---Keith put Sovtek's in it, but told me sure, try some others. I use GL KT88's in my power amp, they're good enough for me. Where'd you get the 12At7's? They're the other tube in my... | |
| Tubes, old and new A guitarist, ay? What amp are those tubes in? The best players I've worked with favor amps like the blackface Deluxe Reverb and Vox AC30. Heard of Evan Johns? Great player, a Tele straight into a Deluxe on 10. Awesome tone! Drinking problem, thoug... | |
| Songs that Inspire or Move you "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", both the original sung by Jimmy Ruffin and the live one Joan Osborne did with the Motown house band in the documentary about them. A masterpiece of a song. Even J.S. Bach smiled when he heard it. | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads I can't not mention the incredible version of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?" Joan Osborne does in the documentary on the Motown house band. A Top 10 classic song is there ever was one (it's actually in my all-time Top 3, alongside "God Only ... | |
| 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... |