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| New In 2023 Not literally new, but available again after being out of print for quite a while: Ry Cooder's 1970 Warner Brothers Records debut album, reissued in 2021 by the great Speakers Corner Records (a German audiophile company), back in stock. Pure anal... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time @macg19: Excellent! Now consider giving the album producer’s Buddy Miller a listen (if you haven’t already). He’s a mighty fine singer in his own right, an unusually interesting guitarist (he plays on the War & Treaty album, as well as those o... | |
| Fremer's Single-leg panel is absolute tweak bs ^ + 1. Print it out before it gets deleted! ;-) I'm gonna, then add it to my reference technical material. | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time Lately I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos of Robben Ford discussing all things guitar. I saw and heard Robben live a lot when he moved to San Jose (during my senior year in high school I had been in a band with a bassist who was in Robben’... | |
| Stylus gauge recommendations ? The Riverstone is all you need (great design, good build quality, simple to use), and it's cheap: $32.79 on Amazon. | |
| Question about Active Bi-amping As @erik_squires noted, with most speakers the stock/internal crossover is not simply a set of filters that divides the entire input signal into two separate frequency bands, one for the woofer the other for the tweeter (or tweeter/midrange drive... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? @rooze: Congratulations on having such a good system that you feel a need for an upgrade from your Steelhead phono pre-amp. We should all be so fortunate! At the risk of appearing condescending (I hate that), may I suggest that a "deeper dive" in... | |
| Is my Esoteric DV-50S a keeper? I acquired my DV-50s from Arthur Salvatore (it was the "low" priced digital source in his reference system). He shipped it in it’s original factory carton, and though the player perfectly survived the trip, the carton and internal Styrofoam blocks... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones Jim Keltner says The Stones were Charlie's band. ;-) Charlie was well known for creating the "feel" of The Stones; he played the snare drum back beat real "late" (far back in the pocket, in drumming lingo). A lot of Rockers who discovered Country... | |
| Which preamps use 6922/6DJ8 tubes? That is, two pair of outputs on both XLR's (balanced via Tim's famous output transformers) and RCA's (single ended), for a total of four pair of output jacks. The best output provisions of any pre-amp with which I am familiar. | |
| Which preamps use 6922/6DJ8 tubes? One benefit that came out of the CD was the elimination of the need for enough gain to boost the phono input to the level required by the input sensitivity of many power amps. With separate phono and line stages each can be optimized for their fun... | |
| Tune of the Day "Healing Tide" by The War And Treaty, the most powerful singing duo I’ve ever heard. Great recorded sound by producer/engineer Buddy Miller. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Excellent @reubent, me too ;-) . Before that it was The War & Treaty, produced by Buddy Miller. For those not that familiar with Buddy, he's had a long career in music, currently serving as Emmylou Harris' guitarist, harmony singer, and band l... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time @taxonomy: Have you read the entire thread? The "Country" music to which you refer is not at all what Americana (the underground---not on radio or TV---"Hard"---Traditional---Country) artists (T Bone Burnett, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Iris... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones Rockpile. Their Paul was Nick Lowe, their John Dave Edmunds. I saw both The Beatles and Rockpile live ("only" 15 years apart ;-), and Rockpile were by far the better band. So are NRBQ, Los Lobos, and plenty of others (Marty Stuart And His Fabulous... |