dragunski
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| What is your goto reference recording I always used to use "Ah Um" by Mingus to test systems. It's well recorded and has diversity of instruments, enough to test almost anything except pipe organ or full blown symphony orchestra. I'm not sure a system should be evaluated solely on tho... | |
| What are you listening to right now? The Anacondas - "Snaking All Over"El Ray - "Chasing Ray" and their compilation album "Highwave to Hell" | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I'd say that it depends on what you mean by "pop" music. If you rely on TV and radio (which nobody listens to anymore) to define current "pop" quality, you're going to be depressed. But there's still great music out there, you just don't hear it f... | |
| Most Beautiful Receiver / Integrated - Ever was... ? I always cared more about sound than looks, and my systems tend to be ugly, bare tubes, rusty transformer covers and wires all over the place. But appearances are important, especially where user interfacing occurs or if there's a wife or girlfrie... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... I have to admit that I have not listened to the new mix yet, but I find it hard to believe that anyone would want to change the tracks. Personally, I could see making the drums louder or even reducing the reverb and EQ effects on the vocals. But t... | |
| Will you be going to see YES or YES this summer? They were surprisingly good on the Rock & Roll hall of fame induction show. I expected another doddering nostalgia performance of half-dead, past-their-prime players. But it was pretty good. They didn't sound like they did in the 70s, but it w... | |
| Tube Life Artifacts After a week of solid state, I'm ready to switch back to tubes. Yes, I had a lot more clean power, but it was dry, bland, lifeless, uninvolving.The RCAs are going back in. Maybe I can get another 12 years out of them. | |
| List of artists that have never lost quality throughout entire career Haven't you ever heard the Brandenburg played badly? Sounding like a demented circus calliope on methedrine?It's a good piece, but it can easily be butchered. | |
| List of artists that have never lost quality throughout entire career I can't think of a single artist, in any genre, that hasn't put out at least one dog. In the long term, anyway.A good friend of mine, now deceased, used to say:"Every Beatles album has its "Octopus's Garden". | |
| Your Favorite Cover Songs? Maybe the best cover band from the 60s was Vanilla Fudge. Perpetually overlooked and underrated, they worked their covers into entirely new arrangements with extended jams and recurring themes to the extent that they were barely covers anymore. Ye... | |
| Albinoni's adagio This piece always reminds me of the movie "Rollerball" - the original, with James Caan. I had heard it before, but it never made a big impression on me until I heard it full blast in the theater. I immediately went out and got the soundtrack. It'... | |
| Restoration mc30's I can recommend Bill Thalmann at Music Technology (MTI) in Springfield VA. He isn't cheap, and is kind of slow, since he has a huge backlog, but he will do an excellent job. He knows most older amps inside out and used to work for Conrad Johnson. | |
| Greatest song titles.. Emmylou Rides Clarence West And Then SouthThe Mermen | |
| Greatest song titles.. With No Definite Future And No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow The Mermen | |
| Cheap Box Sets There's another Oliver Nelson box set that I've been watching on Amazon. Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions Import https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBIYHU/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=LARRM9BR2... |