edcyn
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| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? @bdp24 Hey -- I saw that Steve Earle/Del McCoury Band show in West Hollywood! My brain, though, can't quite remember if it indeed happened at The House of Blues. I keep thinking it was either the Roxy or the Troub. But I'll take your word for it.... | |
| "Tuning" CD's I still have CDs where I painted the edge with a special, audiophile-marketed green marker. Did it help? Maybe when I played them on my first CD player, a player that went belly-up maybe three days out of warranty. I can't recall the player's bra... | |
| Burt Bacharach has passed away An outstanding artist and composer. Responsible for a surplus of superb tunes. An archetype of his era. All I can say is that, even when I was playing in a punk/new wave band, I'd still listen to Bacharach. | |
| Previous Ownership...does it matter to you? If there were a high-end dealer on this island I'd probably pay a visit and check out their used stuff, but all told I'm not into buying used stereo gear. The technology relentlessly moves forward. If an item tempted me enough I'd still insist on ... | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? With their folk rocking sincerity and electric-yet-acoustic sound, REM were the closest thing to the Byrds this dyed-in-the-wool Byrds fan ever came across. I listened to Life's Rich Pageant for a good long time. The other LPs, well, maybe not qu... | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? Sure, classical music remains my favorite genre by far. But that doesn't mean I refuse to listen to anything else. For me, the key question is if a piece of music gets under my skin. Past my cerebrum. In any case, I continue to give a try to any a... | |
| It was 61 years ago today... Before the Beatles went on Ed Sullivan and my sister brought home the Meet the Beatles LP, I only listened to classical music and mostly hated everything else. The Beatles, though, totally turned my head around. What's better, as I spent all day ... | |
| Made in USA My stereo system knows no national borders. It contains components & parts manufactured in the USA, Canada, China, Japan, UK, and Russia. | |
| phono cartridge help I gotta join in the chorus. Just buy the most expensive Grado that fits your budget. My Grados have always been unfussy. They've always delivered audio pleasure, with fine timbres, soundstaging and punch. They've always tracked good enough for me ... | |
| Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig? Back in the audio dark ages...when transistors were usually only found in portable AM radios...your carefully-assembled component mono hi-fi system or one of them new-fangled stereophonic systems were commonly referred to as a rig. | |
| Show off! Any LP from Harmonia Mundi France. They feature lots of banging on acoustic instruments. Lots of 3d and a fine sense of the recording space. Michael Jackson's Thriller. The Beach Boys "Endless Summer" double LP from Capital. Schubert's Fifth S... | |
| Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig? I have to say, though, that streaming just isn't quite as reliable as analog. Yeah, I'm 100% hardwired to the net but there are more than a few times when the stream will just stop. It always starts up again when I unplug my streamer/D to A conver... | |
| Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig? Right now I'm listening to a selection of oddball Dylan home recordings via Qobuz. A sheer impulse selection on my part. In any case, it sounds very, very good, and Dylan's artistic contribution ain't bad, either. Putting it another way, when you ... | |
| Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig? For me & my system, the battle between vinyl and bits is essentially neck-and-neck. On the occasions when I let my analytical side rule and do side-by-side comparisons between what I have on vinyl and what I dig up from Qobuz or Idagio, it can... | |
| radio? I like my wife’s Boston Acoustics Receptor table radio. Maybe a bit too mellow to please dyed-in-the-wool audio tastes but clear, undistorted and very nice to listen to. It totally outclasses the radio at my side of the bed. |