larsman
Responses from larsman
| What is your favorite cover? @ozzy - actually, Arthur Brown had quite a good career with his prog-rock band, Kingdom Come and he's done a bit since then, too. Kingdom Come's 'Journey' is a progressive rock masterpiece.... | |
| Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra - tribute to the skatalites Ska orchestra covering Skatalites?? Sounds very cool!!! | |
| Toilet Paper to Vacuum Tubes @jonwolfpell - 🤣🤣🤣🤣 - Thanks, needed a laugh to start the week! | |
| Amir and Blind Testing @phantom_av - Nobody is 'forced' to do anything. I see negative reviews of gear on YouTube reviews all the time. What will make people stop paying any attention to reviewers is if they always say everything is great - people buy something a review... | |
| Does carpet deaden the sound too much? Carpet certainly absorbs sound (as does plush furniture, etc), but absorbs 'life' out of it? I guess that's pretty subjective. I've always had wall-to-wall carpets and ain't no shortage of life coming out of my speakers, unless there's a shortage ... | |
| Audiophile Myth - Subjective or Objective for Music What is the original sound of music? Depends on where your vantage point is, I suppose. Sound of the music will be very different from 2 feet away and from 20 feet away. The best any playback equipment can do is to try to reproduce what the produc... | |
| Toilet Paper to Vacuum Tubes @nonoise - I thought I was the only one who did that!! 🤣. Tube or not tube, that is the question.... | |
| Remember the Electric Light Orchestra Big fan of the Move, and the very first ELO album, which was basically the Move with strings - Jeff got the strings, and Roy got the brass and winds on the last Move recordings.... All were Roy, Jeff, and Bev. Jeff is a wonderful songwriter but my... | |
| The Growing Challenge of Buying NOS/NIB Tubes Retailers who provide responses like this guy should be in another line of work. | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? @mg16 - if you mean the fellow who used to be with Yes, his name is Rick Wakeman... | |
| What is your favorite cover? @berner99 - I loved how they used 'All Along the Watchtower' in BSG!!!!! For favorite cover, I'll go with Jello Biafra's version of "They're Coming To Take Me Away".... | |
| Is Old Music Killing New Music? @femoore12 - good to see you're a Steven Wilson fan (Porcupine Tree tix for US shows go on sale this week), but it's surprising that you're a prog rock fan and didn't hear of him until 4 years ago; both with Porcupine Tree and his own bands, he's ... | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? 'Always' is always a tricky term to use when asking a question like this.... | |
| Eric Clapton reveals this week of his declining health @loomisjohnson + 1 And the original post and most of the responses are from 4 years ago.... | |
| Verastarr @twoleftears + 1 - What an unpleasant fellow who seems to be unclear on the concept of the roles of 'retailer' and 'customer'. |