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| Song covers that are better than the originals I just found a new one:Grant Green covering The Isley Bros. "It's Your Thing". This is a great take on a classic - definitely worth checking out.Marty | |
| How a turntable is like a gym membership I could have (maybe should have) written this post word for word, except:1)I use a QSonix server,2) my daughter is 5and3) I suck at hoopsTouch screens killed the wiggling stylus star - at least in my house.Marty | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Ralph,Isn't ARC in your 'hood? Don't you Minnesota high end manufacturing types huddle over hot cocoa when the winter sets in?Seriously, if you do cross paths with any of their tech folks, put the question to them. I might have somehow mangled the... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Ralph,I can only tell you what ARC told me.They said that RCA to XLR adaptors would cause the VT-130SE to suffer "serious" (or words to that effect) performance deterioration including loss of more than half of the power output capability. They we... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Ralph,The protection circuit issue with the ARC amp may be weird, but it doesn't mean the amp needds to be fixed, either. I learned of the issue not because I had a problem, but because I called ARC before I even tried the approach. They explained... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Luka Bloom's cover of LL Cool J's "I Need Love".Don't know if he's ever recorded it, but a showstopper in concert. | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? One note of caution: Not all Balanced amps are created equal.I put this very question to ARC's tech team some years back and learned -ARC's balanced amps (according to ARC) will perform "very poorly" if you try this scheme. I'm not particularly te... | |
| Grant Green suggestions Thanks all - I'll be working my way thru this list straight away.Marty | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals From the last time this kind of thread went around:Danny Gatton's take on Earle Hagan's "Harlem Nocturne", a song usually associated with Duke Ellington. IMHO, guitar playing doesn't get much better than this.Don Dixon/Marti Jones' version of Joe ... | |
| Best Rock Drummers Most of my "A" list has aready been cited here, but three guys who've had my attention of late because they're on records that have recently been in heavy rotation in my home/car and haven't yet been mentioned:(Two are at the "edges" of rock, but ... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Also,Lindsey Buckingham does a solo guitar arrangement of Rogers and Hammerstein's "This Almost Was Mine" that IMHO blows away the original Cast version.Marty | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals If you've ever heard Kid Creole live, his version of "If You Wanna Be Happy For The Rest of Your Life, Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife" is both absolutely hilarious and an amazing high energy funk workout. I think Harry Belafonte's is the orig... | |
| JL Audio F113 or F112 For Dynaudio Confidence 5 Trance,I spent about 18 months auditioning, researching and finally integrating subs into my 2 channel system. Here are some things that I learned along the way.(Where judgements are involved, all are IMHO)Even though one great sub may well have b... | |
| Anyone have any idea where I can get an NHT S-00? Have you tried audioadvisor.com?They've had them available new - at least until last year (I think), tho they might be gone by now. Probably worth a phone call.Good LuckMarty | |
| Best recording audiophile level albums of 2010 I agree with the above re: Petty- both on music and SQ. On the music front, the name says it all. The "Mojo" Petty is talking about was a late '60s kinda phenomenon and that's exactly where the record is rooted. It covers a lot of ground from that... |