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| Days of Our Lives Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey Police On My Back - the Clash (they mention all 7 days in the chorus) Can't think of any band names except: Till Tuesday. | |
| Bands/artists you never got to see live in their heyday, but would've liked to. Genesis on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour (Gabriel's final tour with the band). My best friend got sick, so I missed the show. Renaissance and Spirit. I missed the show because I got sick. Badfinger on my 18th birthday, had to be 21 to get... | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? Mostly college and/or public radio stations for me:WRAS - Atlanta (Georgia State) KUT - Austin (Univ of TX)WDET - Detroit (Wayne State)KBAC - Santa Fe ("Radio Free Santa Fe")WFCF - St Augustine (Flagler College)I've seen CKLW in Detroit & Wind... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Rodney Crowell - "Things That Go Bump in the Day" and "We Can't Turn Back Now" (both from "The Outsider"). | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system Average White Band - "Schoolboy Crush," for the bass and percussion <sleigh bells!>.The Bongos - "Skydiving," for the bongos.Emmerson, Lake & Palmer - "Take a Pebble," for the 3 virtuosos showing off (in a good way) on piano, bass & ... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system @bgross - Beck's "Morning Phase" album is a fave Sunday morning chill record for me; but, it's also a sonically interesting record. It made me revise my opinion of him.@bigkidz - Totally agreed about the importance of good sounding persussion (co... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system From the album "Turn Of The Cards" by Renaissance:1) Black Flame2) Running Hard3) Things I Don't Understand.All three will feature copious amounts of acoustic piano, harpsicord, Rickenbacker bass and an orchestra. Annie Haslam is an incredible voc... | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max There is a CODA S - 12.5 for $2495 on Audiogon right now. Seller has a 100% - 363 rating. Over 600 views & 10 watchers' so, I'm not sure why it has lasted this long. Maybe it's due to no the lack of a Paypal payment option? | |
| Combining home theater with two channel @ peytoni, what percentage of the time are you listening to your system in "home theater mode" versus "2 channel music" mode? I think the answer to that question will help you focus on a solution. So, good luck on that elusive search to have your ... | |
| 3way replacement for my 2way Sorry, forgot to mention that all three Revel listings are on Audiogon, while the Monitor Audio listing is on US Audiomart, | |
| 3way replacement for my 2way If you want to stay with a bookshelf speaker, The Music Room (TMRAudio.com) has a new pair of ELAC "Uni-Fi Reference UBR62's for $999.98 (retail is $1200). This is one of the few 3 way bookshelf speakers that I know of.There are 3 pair of used REV... | |
| Is The FM tuner obsolete? I've been lucky to live near some great college and/or public radio stations, like WRAS in Atlanta, KUT in Austin and WDET in Detroit; so, as others have pointed out, your ability to access a good local station has a major impact on this question.... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? Another big recent surprise for me was discovering Don Was radio show on WDET in Detroit. The show is called "Don Was Motor City Playlist," and you can listen to it on either WDET's website (WDET.org) or Spotify[WDET only has access to the 2 most ... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? Well, what a surprise it is to have a thread from December of 2018 come back to life. At that time, Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip had recently passed away. This year in March we lost Michael Stanley (Michael Stanley Band), who I did not see ge... | |
| Best way to spend $1000 on used bookshelf speakers? There is a new pair of ELAC "Uni-Fi Reference UBR62's" on the Music Room website (TMRAudio.com). They normally list for $1200; and, they are one of the rare 3 way bookshelf speakers out there. Plus, the Uni-Fi series typically get very good review... |