dragunski
Responses from dragunski
| Tone controls? I have always thought that bi-amping or tri-amping with a fully adjustable high quality active crossover was a far better solution than tone controls. It;s just not doable with most systems, or prohibitively expensive. Speaking for myself, I reall... | |
| So just how much vinyl do YOU own? 19 feet of 12" vinyl. about 1,300. 10 feet of CDs. (300?) a few more in the caronly 2 feet of 45s and 78s cassettes? mixtapes? reel to reel? a few boxesI have started culling them, but it's hard. I gave some to my niece and sold a few, but at this... | |
| Do you have a defining musical moment from your early years? I guess for me, it would be the radio. My parents had records like Eartha Kitt, Harry Belafonte and Burl Ives. The only one that impressed me was Prokofiev's "Peter & the Wolf". But when I was 10 years old, Armed Forces Radio came to town. The... | |
| Top Ten Rock Vocalists I'll second - Terry Reid, Bob Mosley, Jack Bruce. What about Barbara K? Sara Lov? Laura Nyro?Not enough women on these lists. | |
| My favorite song. When I was a kid, it was this:https://youtu.be/nmjPAb-v4NwUntil I heard "Maybelline". | |
| Have you had enough of Classic Rock? Yes, you've said that a number of times here. Perhaps you are confusing the term "classical" with "classic". | |
| Have you had enough of Classic Rock? I don't know if "classic rock" is a radio format, a time period or a music genre. Depending on how you define it, you might like or dislike it. If it includes folk rock, punk, soul, jazz-rock, garage and everything else that took place in that per... | |
| Have you had enough of Classic Rock? Obviously, the term "classic rock" means different things to different people. But, yeah, hearing the same overplayed top 40 recycled over and over can be tiresome. Underground/alternative radio is gone, but you can still hunt that stuff on the in... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? Iko-Iko, out of Miami. An excellent band, better live than on record, but still with some releases available on Amazon. Blues based swamp rock with a touch of folky psychedelia.The album "Shine" is excellent, as is "Protected by Voodoo". Highly re... | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? That was difficult to do with no Prokofiev or Zappa. But I'm sticking to it. | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? 1. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady2. Dizzy Gillespie - The New Continent3. Oliver Nelson - Jazzhattan Suite4. Baden Powell - Canto On Guitar5 - OK, I’m going with Rubber Soul for my Beatles selectionI know it won’t be very p... | |
| ... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ... How about "Surrealistic Pillow"? A great record but suffers from too much reverb, low levels, poor mixing, muddy bass and no snap to the drums. And the better the system, the worse it seems to sound. You can't make it better with tone controls. Al... | |
| Marantz CD-67 SE - Worth Fixing? I'm assuming that NLA is "no longer available"? I'm going to take it to Music Technology, but those guys are expensive! I don't really trust anybody else though. $75 for an estimate, and maybe $300 to fix. I think that's the max I'm willing to put... | |
| Best Songs To Sing In The Car To Embarrass Your Kids It doesn't work on all teenagers. We once picked up my nephew from lacrosse practice in my GTO, top down, cheap Jensen triaxials blasting Wilson Pickett at full volume. He loved it.We had to give his teammates rides around the parking lot. Even th... | |
| Best Songs To Sing In The Car To Embarrass Your Kids I wish I had a better stereo in the car. I put all my bucks into the home rig. Anybody have tube amps in the car? |