larryi
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| A song murdered by someone. Don't forget Shatner's "Mr. Tambourine Man," another amazing cover. This, and a bunch of other aweful covers can be found on a CD called "Golden Throats." That album included Sebastian Cabot doing "It Ain't Me Babe). That cover prompted me to f... | |
| A song murdered by someone. Wow! a worse version of "Africa" than the original; I would have never thought that was possible. What next, a bad cover of "We Built This CIty?" Actually I found one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JphLIPqhpg&list=RD3JphLIPqhpg&start_r... | |
| A song murdered by someone. I really love bad covers, they are fun to listen to. Nazareth's "Love Hurts" falls in that category. I particularly love hearing Shonen Knife cover "Top of the World, " and maybe even Dolly Parton doing "Stairway to Heaven." | |
| What is the average lifespan of a phono cartridge? When a stylus is worn, or the suspension has begun to fail, it will not track as cleanly as before. This is first evident on more difficult to track passages, such as when a female vocalist its a not really hard or gets a bit too close to the mic... | |
| Advice and help understanding, choosing a Widebander / Single Full Range Driver speaker? The Charney system I heard with Voxativ driver sounded very good for a full-range dynamic driver system. To me, the only short-coming is that the top end is not fully extended.I recently heard an open baffle system using a full-range G.I.P. field... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers Gifted Listener, Command and Deja Vu are all great places to stop and listen--very friendly and attentive, no high pressure sales tactics. Of these, Command probably has the widest array of gear. But, it is Deja Vu that is the utterly unique exp... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? It would be helpful to know what ruled out some of the contenders. I like a lot of the speakers you mentioned. I notice that they mostly fall in the warmer side of the the coloration spectrum, and tend to deliver rich, well saturated, timbre rat... | |
| "New" Western Electric wire Alex,I have not heard the regular EML300B in a side-by-side comparison with the meshplate version. What I have heard in a side-by-side comparison is the meshplate 2a3 and the regular plate 2a3 (I owned both versions of 2a3 tube). I have also hea... | |
| Favourite Opera Recordings For the Ring cycle, the old Solti stereo recordings are pretty good for sound quality. Now for something quite different. I like the music, performance and sound quality of the Janacek Katya Kabanova with Elisabeth Soderstrom on Decca.Now for so... | |
| "New" Western Electric wire I like the various EML Meshplate tubes too, particularly for the enormous and enveloping soundstage they manage to deliver. But, the EMLs don't seem to have the extraordinary lifespan of the WE tubes. I know people who run their amps every day t... | |
| "New" Western Electric wire The "new" Western Electric, is not just a purchase of the old trademark; the company owns the old tube-making gear so there is at least a chance that the reissued 300b tube will be like the "old" reissued 300b (which means a very good tube).As for... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? I have no idea what is a "neutral" sounding speaker. That implies some kind of reference; what is that reference? The correct speaker is the one that sounds most musical to the beholder. It would help if the original poster would provide a pers... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Where did the information on the offset angle of the 12" arm come from? The side-by-side drawing on Fremer's Analogue Planet of the 9" and 12" arm shows that the slots cut in the headshells of the two arms differ; as to be expected, there is less... | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century I love "Gaspard" and the Debussy Preludes. I think Satie is also worth looking into, although his most popular works were composed in the late 19th century. | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century Anyone up for Kaikhosru Sorabji’s "Opus Clavicembalisticum"? It is about 4.5 hours long and almost every minute is exhausting to listen to because of the complexity and changing rhythm. I particularly like the last two sections of the work (the fu... |