mwilson
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| Favorite Lesser Known Sax Players Nik Turner of Hawkwind (and related projects.) | |
| Top "covers" first three that come to mind:"Ride Like the Wind" by Saxon (yikes, but it rocks!)"Come Together" by Trouble (awesome groove)"Winchester Cathedral" by Perry + Kingsley (moog pioneers) | |
| Do Kimber KCAG's sound bright???? Try Kimber Select 1010 (or newer 1011) as a cost-comparable high-quality copper offering from the same manufacturer. Same "staging" characteristics as many other Kimbers, but smoother (copper) and less zingy than the KCAG. Also way better than the... | |
| Michell Gyro SE...Light or Heavy style Clamp?? Audiomax - my Gyro SE spindle is not threaded. The Michell clamp I have (two of them actually) has a knob on the top that you loosen/tighten, but this knob tightens a collet inside the clamp that clamps to the smooth spindle (as opposed to threadi... | |
| How about some slammin' reggae for my N802's.... I know what you mean about Reggae... especially the old Dub I listen to most (King Tubby, Scientist etc.) Here's a few that sound very nice though. Nothing here is top-flight recording quality wise, but they're much better than most, and stuff I d... | |
| Your favorite type of music and genre? I'm all over the map, but love stuff with an edge:Heavy Metal - mostly '80s thrash along the lines of Destruction, Celtic Frost, Testament, King Diamond etc. Have hundreds of CDs from all genres of metal, but the 80's thrashers remain my favorites... | |
| multi-amp's other than Parasound w/ gain controls? There's probably one by B&K - I bought my brother a 3-channel model (ST1430 mk2) that was 3 channel and had gain controls on the rear. It's likely there's a 5-6 channel amp in the same amplifier series that would have these controls. Check out... | |
| Discs you play again and again Misfits "20 Hits" (yellow skull album) - hey, Mikey F. likes 'em... I'd forgotten how real this band was for about 18 years until this year -- last memory I had of it was listening to it on headphones in a Ramada Inn somewhere while along for the ... | |
| Top Ten Electronic/alternative Albums Sean: Nik Turner's "Hawkwind" (Pressurehed, P-Orridge, Helios Creed, etc.), Nik Turner's Sphinx (Gong back in '78, Pressurehed in '93), DarXtar, HawXtar (DarXtar + Nik Turner), Dark Sun's Ice Ritual (feat. Nik Turner), Pressurehed, Farflung, Anubi... | |
| Budget tuner? Michaela - I think we're still watching the same program. You've named a unit not "blessed" by the fmtunerinfo site - I'm also not talking about the top Sansui models, but an echelon of well-built "second-tier" models (not so highly-acclaimed), al... | |
| Budget tuner? I third (or second, or fourth) the Sansui suggestion - it's a buyer's market right now with lots of decent ones available for very little money. fmtunerinfo.com as suggested is a great starting place, but don't be afraid to drag in one they don't ... | |
| Guilty Pleasures? "Oh What A Night" by Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons. "Ride Like the Wind" by Christopher Cross (only because Saxon covered it, honest) A little bit of Neil Diamond. Early Jackson Five. Sons of the Pioneers. Meco. Deodato songs other than "Zar... | |
| Inexpensive wine pairings? And here I was about to suggest Thunderbird and Molly Hatchet. | |
| Top Ten Electronic/alternative Albums All 3 albums from Zero One, almost anything from The Orb or Ozric Tentacles. | |
| Tuners that do it? I bought a Magnum Dynalab Etude recently as a reward to myself for the Sox reaching the world series after listening to the whole season on an 80's Sansui. Simply put, I'm floored by the sound quality of this unit, not to mention reception and sel... |