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| Warning: China-Hifi-Audio.com It depends on watcha buying. If you know you‘re buying cheap crap, fine. Anything with a brand on it, counterfeit, pass. If it seems too good to be true, it is. And If it‘s a ‘insert designer‘s name‘ kit, they stuffed up plagiarising it in some cr... | |
| Cables ... no longer opinion I know early Naim and some other British amps could get very tetchy with high cap cables, with dire warnings of incendiary consequences for the unwary.Things now appear somewhat more sensible, but I still wonder whether moderate-longish runs of ri... | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube For a tribute band, these guys really blew me away. I think Jackie Wilson would be smiling up therehttps://youtu.be/-QMz7OTjVUE Another amazing cover by some unknownshttps://youtu.be/g_9PdY3SvSI I wouldn‘t mind having them at my next partyhttps://... | |
| Warning: China-Hifi-Audio.com And, tube dstasheets don’t even appear to act as guidelines for some Chinese ‘designers’ - unless their transformer winders are on crack. | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube Another scintillating Jackie Wilson performancehttps://youtu.be/7LqbXlj812U | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube Booker Tkiller version of Time is Tighthttps://youtu.be/nbBcXvKvB08 The great Otis Redding. This clip seems to gather most of his great stuffhttps://youtu.be/kI6AvhOKbUU And the incomparable Jacky Wilson. The voice, those moves! Michael Jackson w... | |
| Speaker Spike Philosophy you laugh but when I visited Solid State Logic’s recording studio just north of Oxford in the early 80s the reference monitors were suspended from the ceiling I too have seen speakers suspended from the ceiling with chains in a medieval dungeon st... | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube I referred to the other version of Suki Suki Suki you had up - it‘s an amazing clip which lead me to find the other one. | |
| Speaker Spike Philosophy If you ever get the chance, have a listen to a good pair of speakers with spikes/cones under them. Then try some Townshend Podiums. Once you pick your jaw up off the ground and finish asking yourself why life is so cruel, I think you might make so... | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube A live version of Vampire Againhttps://youtu.be/rAUk4aLko7w | |
| Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference? the irony just gets better and better.......... | |
| Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference? Sighted, or double blind? Have you thought that visual clues might influence the outcome? | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube Marlon Willims is crminally unknown, even in his native New Zealand, where he is virtually a fringe artist not given regular airplay. One American critic called him the only artist today carrying forward a great tradition of authentic American mus... | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube Sadistic Mika Band, Suki Suki Suki livehttps://youtu.be/cTJXY0yW6JA Miles at the top of his gamehttps://youtu.be/7U0gDkriczc | |
| The Best Live Recordings on Youtube Luther Allison yer again at his incendiary best. The sound is lacking in bottom end, but the performance is electric.https://youtu.be/M3Qhg4PU8BQ The Sadistic Mika Band Clip was a bit of an eye opener - I had anly heard their more poppy stuff. Ama... |