n80
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| Well maybe it IS my hearing @erik_squires : "Do I really want to be the person who can taste a difference in $300 bottles of wine, or one who enjoys $30 every week? We do that to ourselves a little too much."Well that's just it isn't it? But that's exactly what this whole a... | |
| How to value a used CD collection? Ironic that an audiophile mentions dial tone phones. Have any of you talked on one lately? In the hallway of my 90 year old home there is a black bakelite dial up phone from the 1940’s. We rarely use it but when you do the first thing you notice i... | |
| Best way to spike a large tower ( 100 lbs +) Spike or not to spike. Seems like one of those issues for which the conventional wisdom will always be a moving target.My speakers weigh 130 pounds each. I have them spiked on a carpeted suspended floor. I can't hear _any_ difference between spike... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? JD McPherson - Undivided Heart and Soul. Some good songs. Not as good an album as Let the Good Times Roll but still very good.From what I can tell he is serious about recording. Appears to use older analog equipment and records on tape for whateve... | |
| Well maybe it IS my hearing I think hearing acuity is only part of the equation as had been mentioned above. And physiologically acuity of sight, taste and hearing are no more than half of the equation that results in perception.Many people have exceptional vision but do not... | |
| Your favourite Rush albums? My brother-in-law was a roadie for Rush a few times. He also thought Peart was arrogant. Having seen a number of good interviews and documentaries on Rush I would say he is a little arrogant, but no more than anyone else and it is apparent that th... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Bukka White - Early Recordings. 180g vinyl.Its like reading Homer. It is easy for your initial impression to be "what’s so great about this stuff? It seems so primitive." But when you realize it was the _first_ stuff and it lead to most of the oth... | |
| Your favourite Rush albums? @prof " My idea of hell, though, would be the music of Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy piped in all day long." De gustatibus non disputandum. And I don't mean that in a nice way. ;-) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Led Zeppelin - Presence. Bought this vinyl in about 1981. It is fairly clean because I never did like this album much and didn't play it often. Still don't like it all that much. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Led Zeppelin III | |
| Your favourite Rush albums? @pgaulke60, great list. I agree that those are some great bands and I’m big fans of a lot of them. But a couple of thoughts. First, the thread was about favorite Rush albums....not live performances. I mention that because some bands do great stud... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Ruth Moody - These Wilder Things. I really like her voice most of the time. There are times when she uses that breathless sort of slurred enunciation that was so popular in female vocalists a while back and is still emulated on the singing/talent ... | |
| Your favourite Rush albums? "to many other good bands of the era with much better songwriting and musicianship."While their songwriting might be a subjective call, their musicianship is not. The list of musicians with better skills than those three is very short. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601 : Will look into the Ruth Moody album. I don't know anything about her but she sings on Mark Knopfler's best solo album (IMHO), Tracker, and she does have a beautiful voice indeed.Got Physical Graffiti on the TT right now. I bought the a... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? @bdp24 : Will look up Gary Smith. Really into the blues these last few days.Streaming tonight: Not blues but blues based JD McPherson, Let the Good Times Roll and bits of his other albums. Playing it for my wife and she likes it. He is coming to a... |