loomisjohnson
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @jeffstrick @bkeske just listened to lankum, which i’d never hear before--really dark, but hypnotizing stuff. @bslon the hitmen were pretty great--their first record especially. my hats off to your knowledge of obscure 80s guitar bands noone else... | |
| Given an Onkyo Integra M 504 today. Worth keeping? i had one back in the day and it was a helluva piece--massive power and great at low volume; also cool meters and wood sides. warm and not as transparent as modern amps--perhaps a little rolled off in the highs, but it sounded good with vinyl. lo... | |
| The problem with PLC So the purported clown idiot has generated 39 (now 40) responses to his nonsense. Which, I must admit, means he wins again. | |
| A coupla good stories about Merle Haggard. i just cued up that big brother record ("be a brother"), which was rated two stars on allmusic.com, and i was surprised how good it is--nick gravanites is no janis but he is a first-rate songwriter who's behind a lot of classic stuff from quicksil... | |
| A coupla good stories about Merle Haggard. @valinar surprisingly, that was a post Janis big brothers song...but I share the sentiment | |
| Integrated Amp Shopping Decisions accessories4less has the mf 5si on sale for $1350--sounds like a very good deal. they have a return policy if you don't like it. | |
| Living room integrated with HDMI ARC i've heard the naim uniti and the cambridge evo and they're both vg and full-featured--the cambridge has more power but you don't need a lot of power with your klipsch. i personally avoid nad because of reliability. | |
| Some more modern jazz piano trios @czarivey great call on the necks. don’t think anyone mentioned the bad plus or vijay iyer. | |
| Your suggestions: Headphone + DAC/Amp combo? i've compared the chord mojo to the smsl su-9/sh-9 combo and i like the smsl better--much better UI + digital tuning options + more dynamics and slam, while the mojo sounded a little more transparent/truer to source. both are hard to beat without ... | |
| Spotify HiFi spotify's continuing tease of a hifi tier is massively annoying and verges on securities manipulation. there are plenty of subscribers who would pay more for hifi even if competitors bundle it for free and/or have higher rez--spotify still has the... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? the verlaines, live at windsor castle--more ramshackle and punkier than their studio records would suggest. great nz band. off broadway, on--sort of a cheap trick manque, with a charismatic singer and a really hot guitar player. not a ton of lyri... | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? The band played waltzing matilda. Brilliant and spot on historically. | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? i generally agree with @jsalerno277 above regarding as the sonic character of vintage vs. modern receivers, although "good sounding" is of course a subjective quality and many find the older stuff to be musically pleasing notwithstanding the hig... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @curiousjim glad you're enjoying artful dodger--they have a third major label record, babes on broadway, which is terrible, but the first two and the aforesaid "rave on" are the bomb. further picks today: rage to live, s/t--very intelligent 80s ... | |
| Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there? if you're ok with hybrids, the vincent sa31 or rogue rp! can be found for a grand or so and are at least 83% of the way there |