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| Technics Turntables...really??? To expand on creeds' comment, there were lots of "junk" tables produced by many Japanese manufacturers, Technics was not unique in that. The reason? Large companies (relatively) produced a wide range of products to appeal to the full spectrum of... | |
| Does anyone have any experience of hybrid valve and solid state power amps? Van Alstine (AVA) has three hybrid amps in their line up. The Fet Valve 600 R (300 wpc), 400 R (200 wpc), and the DVA 850 monoblocs (850 wpc). I have no personal experience but have read multiple rave reviews.Based on all these responses there a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados o10, you were apparently quoting Redman, but I don't agree with "there are certain things like swing, that are crucial components of jazz". When a performance swings that can be enjoyable and even stimulating. But in my opinion that is not essen... | |
| Jazz for aficionados acman, thanks much; from that two further thoughts.One, I'm often fascinated some of these Indian percussionists can get so much variety and nuance out of just two drums.Second, I'm almost afraid to suggest it, but Ravi plays with soul. Just watc... | |
| Jazz for aficionados o10, your Ali Khan posts reminded me of a wonderful musical introduction and experience from many years ago. Sometime later in his career Ravi Shankar bought a home near San Diego. In the 1980s he opened his house for concerts, featuring touring... | |
| Jazz for aficionados We've skipped on from the Jamal link but I really enjoyed that updated version. A couple of his albums were among those I bought when I first got into jazz.As usual, I have a little story. I never heard Jamal live. In college in the early '60s ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados acman, thanks for those links. It was great to see a reply that actually shed some light on the subject at hand.BTW, for those who read those links but are not familiar with Miles' famous objections to Monk's playing, I'm pretty sure that happene... | |
| Jazz for aficionados As a fan of Brubeck for several decades, I'm well aware of the criticism he received. But "No soul, no jazz"? I just don't understand that. I've heard plenty of emotion, drive, and thus soul in many of his recordings.This may be an oversimplifi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Many thanks o10 for bringing this great artist up again. When I began listening to jazz on my own in high school (separate from the Sachmo and others I'd heard my dad playing), the Dave Brubeck Quartet was an early favorite. Their first album I ... | |
| Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? pts, wasn't the Sumo Nine a class A design too?There is a company in CA that refurbishes Threshold and Forte electronics. http://www.vintageamprepair.net I think they were former Threshold employees. I've seen several online comments on the qua... | |
| Does anything better Jelco arm ~$1000 From what I've read so far, the new Jelco arms are available only in 9" and 12" versions, no 10"/10.5" for those wanting that length. | |
| SP10mk2: OMA Graphite plinth vs.Dobbins plinth chakster, do you, or others here, have any experience with the AT-666 mat? It was designed to add vacuum hold down but I recall reading of some using it just as a replacement mat. Raul in fact recommended it with the Technics SP series as a mat ... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? For any of you who may not be aware, English is not Raul's first language. So in this case I think he might be given some slack for using "ignorant" in the strict dictionary sense. As cleeds points out it does suggest something different in comm... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks for that link frog. Here's another link to Webster, this time with Gerry Mulligan, another major favorite of mine. I just happened to play this album recently.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dRqDktqWUYalex, this is the only Handy album I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados rok, I caught that last evening. I agree, nice to see such coverage on a national network. And the advantage with PBS was it ran longer than 30 seconds!! For those who missed it, watch here -https://www.pbs.org/video/lost-coltrane-1531524781/ |