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| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Like @lewm, the AR XA was my first good table. But the arm wasn't so hot. I replaced the AR with a Thorens TD-150, which had a suspension, platter, and bearing very similar to the AR, but with a much better arm. I then got a TD-125 (with an SM... | |
| Rythmik Audio on The Intellectual People Podcast Great, thanks @jtwrace. I've spoken on the phone with Mr. Ding on numerous occasions, and putting a face on the voice is always interesting. He's a brilliant guy, his subwoofers excellent products (I own four). | |
| Any piece of equipment you currently dream of ? A McIntosh MR-71 tuner, and a pair of BEL 1001 Mk.V power amps. | |
| New In 2025 I find this news pretty surprising: Sire Records (a Warner Brothers subsidiary) is getting into the One-Step business with their March 21st release of K.D. Lang’s Ingenue album. At least it’s retailing for less than everyone else’s One-Steps, ... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @flash56: For another great music mockumentary, check out The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. It's a 1978 spoof on The Beatles, written and directed by Eric Idle of Monty Python. Idle plays McCartney, Neil Innes of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band play... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? For those who don’t mind a history lesson as a post : The first concert I attended was The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic Auditorium in the Summer of 1964 (before a fair number of ya’ll were born, right?). The opening act was a 4-pc. Surf... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update @ledoux1238: So we are fellow owners of both the ET-LFT loudspeakers (a hi-fi best buy) and the Terminator! If you get yourself an ET arm, know that Brooks Berdan (the dealer at which I heard the LFT-8 and subsequently bought them) preferred t... | |
| My Esoteric DV-50S died. Where do I go next? Are you sure the part you need is exclusive to Esoteric? If it’s not, a repair might cost you only a coupla bucks for a generic part and an hour of a technician’s time. I hope I expire before my DV-50S does. | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? @tomic601’s mention of Roger Modjeski leads me to suggest that for longest tube life, they can be installed in any of Roger’s Music Reference amps (RM-9, RM-10, RM-200), in which output tubes last about 10,000 hours. Compare that with ARC amps.... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Damn @petaluma, great post! I saw our (yours and mine) favorite band at The Berkeley Community Theater in 1969, on their tour in support of the brown album. By a wide margin the best band I’ve ever seen and heard live (and I’ve seen a lot). I s... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? A lot of great comments here. In my case, the LPs and CDs I already possess would take me more time to listen to than I have time left on Earth. Yet I continue to buy more used and new ones. I love records! I also love good sound, but my system... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? This isn't technically a case of an opening act, but at the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival I witnessed The Electric Flag precede The Doors on stage. The concert poster shows Country Joe & The Fish as the act between the two, bu... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? In the Summer of '68 my best friend and I went to The San Jose Civic Auditorium to see Lee Michaels open for Steppenwolf. The curtains opened, and there was Lee sitting at his Hammond organ and dual Leslie speaker cabinets, with about fifteen V... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Another fan of The Ninth Gate (directed by Roman Polanski), which I have now watched a half dozen times. Polanski's Chinatown is a perfect movie. | |
| A great singer you may have never heard, or even heard of. Willy and Jack Nitzsche in a hotel room. This is what it’s like when two very talented musicians are together in a room. Both Willie and Jack have left us. https://youtu.be/pfDKbQnqcA0?si=LoxlTovgf0GBopev |