loomisjohnson
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| Danny Kirwan has passed away agreed. "then play on" is still blues-derived, tho you can hear them veering into sort of cosmic folk/psychedelia. to me, the next one, "kiln house" is the real transition from the peter green straight blues to their eventual AOR/pop guise--kirwan... | |
| what can reasonably be expected of a seller? from my experience, with a few exceptions (i.e. a goodwill store or a widow selling her late husband's gear) the "untested" label is code for the equipment being faulty in some way. any seller who's too busy to test equipment before sale logically... | |
| Ruku device your oppo can already stream netflix and most other popular apps (other than amazon), and your samsung should do likewise--i'm not sure why you need the roku. | |
| Danny Kirwan has passed away having vaguely remembered reports of drug or health problems, i actually thought he passed years ago. in any event, he was an understated genius--for my money his iterations of fleetwood mac were by far the strongest, with then play on, kiln house... | |
| Opinions needed on some Klipsch for 2 channel i really liked the quartets, which had plenty of bass, are inexpensive and will match well with your pioneer | |
| LG V30 - Impressions? If it's 50 o or below itll stay in normal mode which isnt adequate. However you can carry around a little 3.5mm m to f adapter plug or cable which if you plug in first will put the phone in external mode, which is excellent. You can also get an im... | |
| LG V30 - Impressions? erik, i got my v30 about two weeks ago to replace my htc m10, which was a vg player. the lg is eons better so long as it's playing in external or high impedance mode (it automatically senses when your headphones are >50 ohm; otherwise you can u... | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! i also don't get the praise for foo fighters, whose music has devolved to generic, soulless arena rock. i gotta say, however, that the eponymous first album, which grohl played by himself, is a tight, ragged little masterpiece--he had a bunch of g... | |
| "Bookshelf" speakers designed to be placed near the wall behind them? i've frequently reccomended the rega rs1 (current model is the rx1, i think), which is absolutely impervious to placement and a great value. the step up from there would be the paradigm signature, which worked really well near-wall. | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense interesting analysis. personally, i'd ascribe more importance to amp/preamp and to recording format, but i also agree with much of the rest. | |
| Robert & Alison-Raising Sand i was never blown away by the sonics, though i'm usually a big fan of tbone's productions, but i think the performances are great and that it's easily the best post-zep thing plant has done. the gene clark covers are absolutely killer. | |
| Looks like Tidal is doomed! there's been a series of credible stories about tidal fudging its subscriber numbers and skewing royalty payments towards its artist/owners, none of which bode well. i can see tidal getting acquired by a giant wishing to expand its streaming platf... | |
| Keep Adcom GFP-750 or Replace i would not sink more $$ into your adcom--for your stated budget you can find a nice parasound, ps audio or the like which should be a significant upgrade. the rogue also looks very compelling (i like their power amps), tho i haven't heard it myself. | |
| Oppo Ceasing production if only because there are so many billions of discs existing in the world there will be a decent-sized legacy market for physical media for the immediate future. however, i'd expect that market to shrink very quickly-- it's unusual to find a kid ... | |
| A Budget Amp Comparison fwiw, i picked up the sherwood 4105 receiver touted by michaelgreen ($19.99 on ebay) and it is a good sounding piece--impressively transparent, with good low end control and little of the brittle "digital" quality of typical low end ss gear. |