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| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? Elvis Costello, "This Years Girl" See her picture in a thousand places ’Cause she’s this year’s girl You think you all own little pieces Of this year’s girl Forget your fancy manners Forget your English grammar ’Cause you don’t really give a damn... | |
| Looking for a more solid-feeling turntable (and maybe a new preamp) @retiredaudioguy @bbillings was back at the Boston store with the VPI and got the full history of its previous owner. Guess he was a real hi-end guy with some amazing pieces including an ARC Reference, Levinson & Von Schweikert etc most that ... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? Anything by Paul Weller... The Jam, Style Council & solo PW albums. I just identify with his song writing and perspective. Oasis & BlackBerry Smioke (polar opposite) when I want to rock. Also a ton of John Mayall & Terry Reed lately - ... | |
| Favorite rock/pop male voices Paul Weller - Steve Marriott - Rod Stewart - Paul Rogers - Freddie Mercury - David Bowie - Roger Daltrey - Elvis - Bono - Terry Reid - Chris Cornell. Pretty solid list... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Grateful Dead, yuk! | |
| Looking for a more solid-feeling turntable (and maybe a new preamp) @hiscores - was at my local shop yesterday to pick up a Powernode for my outdoor deck system. They have this super loaded VPI, Scoutmaster Ref and demoed it for me. Please purchase it cause I don't have the $5K and I couldn't sleep all night think... | |
| Seeking a Tube preamplifier Preowned Aesthetix, Calypso Signatute... has a balance control, true fully balanced compnent with every input/output available in XLR, lineatage only, looks amazing and has an easy Velcro-esque pop top for tube trials. Mine currently running with ... | |
| Standmount speaker suggestion Yeah, Accordo Goldberg are $15K... not in the OPs budget although the most visually striking speaker ever produced, in my eyes anyway | |
| Looking for a new DAC Have listened to so many... a lot of them just sound the same so I went to a tube DAC. 1st a Line Magnetic 502ca (which I still have) and a better Canor DAC 2.10. Both are excellent and once you swap out for better vintage 12au7 & 6922, they a... | |
| Standmount speaker suggestion Preowned all the way: KEF Reference 1, Totem Element Fire II, Focal Sopra 1, SF Guarneri Homage or even the Cremona Auditor M not in any particular order. Just my opinion... | |
| Tune of the Day Steve Strauss - "Old Crow" off Just Like Love Grace Carter - "Wicked Game" off Wicked Game Cat Power - "Like a Rolling Stone" off Live at Royal Albert Hall 3 great tracks for a lazy Sunday | |
| Tune of the Day John Mayall - "The Mists of Time" off Stories Julian Sas - "Blues for J" off For The Lost and Found Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Ship Song" off The Good Son In a certain mood these days... | |
| David Johansen has passed away I booked Buster Poindexter at Roxy, Boston in '89... put on an amazing show with full orchestra. Stayed really late and partied with the staff after-hours; a very cool guy indeed. | |
| The "young people' music thread - Artists younger than 40 years old Leon Bridgs - Son Little - Raye - Olivia Dean - Anderson East - Black Punas. Just some acts I'm streaming lately. A lotta talent in that group | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? Aerial Acoustics, 10T - not easy to find, big & heavy but for $3-$3500 used, Mike Kelly's masterpiece is still an amazing system. https://www.stereophile.com/content/aerial-acoustics-10t-loudspeaker-page-3 |