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| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. Okay members, on one side we have Roger Waters, Graham Nash, Ringo Starr and George Harrison (both big fans), Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, The Staples, Muddy Maters, Dr. John, Jim Keltner, Elton John and Bernie Taupin (Bernie says Tumblewe... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them Agreed. I wince when I hear the term record collector. I’m not collecting anything, I’m amassing a music library (my entire adult life), for listening to. And to then refer to record collecting as a hobby only makes it worse! When I started buyin... | |
| Looking for a London (DECCA) Reference phono cartridge He had a dealer/distributor in San Francisco for quite a few years. I don't remember his name, but a Google search may bring it up. | |
| Component placement for open baffles? You're SO right about scale @hleeid. After experiencing big planars, box enclosure speakers sound like the whole soundstage has been miniaturized and squeezed through two little holes in the wall. Huge grand pianos sound like a child's doll house ... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them Yep @sokogear, you HAVE fallen hard for Steely Dan! Those who buy all the upcoming UHQR's are going to have a fair chunk o' change invested in that group. I sold my MoFi collection of The Beatles albums when the mono boxset came out, as those MoF... | |
| Magnepan .7 Alternatives If a low input impedance in the power amp is the problem, there are four tube pre-amps which will drive a load as low as even 600 ohms: two from Atma-Sphere, and two from EAR-Yoshino. EAR's Tim de Paravicini did a lot of work in recording studios,... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them @sokogear: In the world of rare LP collecting, $3-400 is not at all uncommon. Original 1950’s Blue Notes in Near Mint condition now sell for more than that, and even more rare records into four figures. I myself don’t swim in those deep waters, an... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tgilb: Yes! Once again, thank God for Chad Kassem (and mastering engineer Kevin Gray). Who but Chad would think to reissue the entire 1962-67 Capitol Records Beach Boys catalog (stopping before Wild Honey, for some reason). I have six different ... | |
| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. @skyscraper: I saw The Band live only once, at The Berkeley Community Theater on the tour in support of the s/t ("brown") album. I sent for the lottery tickets Bill Graham was selling for the Dylan/Band Before The Flood tour in ’74, but missed out... | |
| Looking for a London (DECCA) Reference phono cartridge Damn, John retiring is very bad news. Those of us who already own the utterly unique London and Decca pickups are going to have a hard time finding someone else to service them. I better give him a call! As for acquiring a Reference: don't hold y... | |
| Personality Type? @wolf_garcia: Amen, brother! Another cat I love is Roger Hawkins (of Muscle Shoals’ The Swampers fame). And Al Jackson (Booker T & The MG’s), Jim Gordon (Derek & The Dominos, All Things Must Pass), Keltner, of course. Kenny Buttrey (Nashvi... | |
| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. So @boxcarman, are you asking people to put more stock in your opinion than that of Graham Nash? And Roger Waters? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or as my momma useta say, "Each to her own said the lady as she kissed the cow." A very old ex... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them @sokogear: Another guy did a shoot out between the Classic Records "regular" 45 RPM Kind Of Blue (NOT the single sided boxset) and the Analogue Productions 33-1/3, and felt the latter was superior overall (I don’t remember on what basis). I don’t ... | |
| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? Hi @chowkwan. Sheila Berdan has closed the Brooks Berdan Ltd. shop in Monrovia, and will soon be relocating to Northern Washington State. I bought a fair amount of my hi-fi from Brooks, and my pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b's (a great, somewhat... | |
| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? The late Brooks Berdan---well known in the hi-fi business, and referred to as Mr. Analog---probably mounted and set up more arms & tables than anyone else in history. He was one of Bruce Thigpen’s first dealers, and mounted a LOT of the origin... |