puptent
Responses from puptent
| What artists can you not get enough of? This is pretty much the heavy rotation so far for end of March and the beginning of April. This last cycle started with Nurse With Wound, BTW the entire NWW catalog is available from band camp as a download for around $500 nurse with wound stere... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? recent crate diving.... the Scruffy The Cat was the jewel of the day; I've always had the release on cassette, so glad to find it's been RI on vinyl AND The Lincoln St Exit!!!!!!!! SRUFFY THE CAT "boom boom boom bingo" Relativity 8856... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? ---TODAY'S ENTERTAINMENT---(PULLED AT RANDOM mol) FLOCK "Inside Out" Mercury SRM-1-1035 GORDON LIGHTFOOT "Sit Down Young Stranger" Reprise RS 5392 ARRANGED MARRIAGE NP "S/T" ... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound I should have mention the Seatbelts, especially the Cowboy Bebop records. Available as Japan Pressings. | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound There are sooo many swing and big band artists out there in the used records bins. Like, the Dorsey Brothers, Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman (the Live At Radio City is an awesome album-- Gene Krupa on drums), it just goes on and on. ... | |
| How long should high quality speakers last? My Krix Euphonics were purchased in the mid to late 80's, they were demonstrators from a shop that was closing. The surrounds are butyl type material, not foam so no degradation yet.. For a period in the mid 90's I drove them with a pair of Carver... | |
| Has it all been worth it? For me it has always been music first. My hardware is the best that I can fit into my budget without affecting my media purchases (vinyl, CD, cassette) or performances. I've been buying records since I was in grade school, and I just turned 70. My... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? recent acquisitions: ALAN VEGA "After Dark" In The Red ITR 356 KRONUS QUARTET "Black Angels" nonesuch (RI) 7559790680 SML "Small Medium Large" International Anthem Recordin... | |
| Unipivot tone arms My thinking is that Uni Pivot Arms addressed an issue with bearing manufacturing tolerances, materials, and quality control. I think the bearing industry has caught up, and perhaps surpassed some of the Uni Pivot Arms out there (I have a couple o... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Mental As Anything completely stole the show from U 2 on their American small venue introduction tour at The Rainbow in Denver. Same venue, Fabulous Thunderbirds (original Jimmy Ray line up) were so dominating I can't remember who they opened for | |
| For Tube Folks... NOS New Old Stock, usually from old inventory from out of business retailers. Boxes can show significant shelf wear. | |
| 3k budget for Turntable and Phono Noob- do I need external power supplies? Save some money for the record collection. You can only listen to DSOTM a certain number of times before your friends stop coming by, your significant other finds some other place to be significant, your family will shun you, the dog will run awa... | |
| Favorite Cover Album "Quiet About It" a tribute to Jesse Winchester. But if you meant best album cover......Frank Zappa "Ship Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch"-- hands down. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Krokofant "Krokofant" Rune Grammofon RLP 3154 Faust "Faust" Tangerine Dream "Electronic Meditation" Tiger Bay TB 6201 C Elyse "Elyse" ... | |
| Replace tubes yearly? What I might do instead of REPLACE every year is to ROLL every year. I have a low power SET in the bedroom system who's tubes may outlive me. I've collected some used and new replacement tubes, and as it happens, intend to roll power tubes today. |