rettrussell
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| Are advances in technology making speakers better? Is it wrong to apply the wife/girlfriend analogy that if it still feels good/sounds good just, for Christ’s sake, thank your lucky stars for your good fortune and enjoy. Employ some Zen thinking and be satisfied for awhile. | |
| How much is about the recording If the sound recording is lousy the performance better be amazing or the record/CD etc. will be relegated to the back of my mind. An example of studio wizardry rescuing a lost cause is the 2011 release of Robert Johnson: The Centennial Recordings... | |
| The Beatles Revolver @vair68robert +1 Back in the day all the tens, hundreds (?) of snippets of taped musical components of a Beatles' song were individually mixed on 4 track and then "bounced down", enabling more musical elements to be added, which inevitably degr... | |
| Most underrated female recording artists.. dynamiclinearity++ the OP specifically requested underrated female vocalists; having seen the Heart Like a Wheel” tour in the day, I think we know Linda Ronstadt is hardly underrated. my list was in violation I think also. Yoko is an artist. ... | |
| Most underrated female recording artists.. The list is large, but here are a few of my favorites: Linda Thompson - (ex of Richard Thompson) Dreams Fly Away Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Allison Russell - (no kin) with Quantic- Look Around the Corner Emmylou Harris - Wr... | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding Quality vs Quantity has been my mantra, and I weeded out any record that didn't meet expectations....resulting in a modest 600 plus collection that stopped when my ex finally badgered me into selling them off; CDs were my main interest anyway back... | |
| Did you notice.... The best sound I've experienced has been with BluRay and DVD audio discs, which supposedly undergo no compression..... Ringo's bass drum/toms on Sgt. Pepper are a good example. I'm not holding my breath for more BluRay/DVD releases because the p... | |
| The greatest tweak ever? The OP mentioned “heathens” in his monologue opening, and I’m never one to shy from that descriptive. Do I need to wrap my house in aluminum foil so the gamma, cosmic, radio, etc waves won’t constitute an interference…? | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? When I was 16, around 1969, went with a friend to the house of an acoustics professor/in-home audio dealer and heard a pair of Klipshorns paired with a mono center Belle Klipsch. I was in awe & bitten....own a pair of K-horns today. Technica... | |
| Audio stops pain My parents reported a lot of personal pain from my music choices in the 60's & 70's...... | |
| Hot Rats His levelheaded, televised evisceration of Tipper’s PMRC inanity was a wonder to behold. I don’t think he would have minded what we thought of him as long as it was honest.…. i finally couldn’t stand it and bought the Complete Hot Rats Sessions ... | |
| Best progressive rock album side XTC - The Dukes of Stratosphear The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (a stretch....but, hey!) | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding After The Bends, Radiohead left me behind. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme...couldn't connect. Loved them at the time, saw the Speaking in Tongues tour, but Talking Heads is too twitchy for me to enjoy now. Maybe that's the point, but U2's The Jo... | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? My Oppo 103 got moved permanently to the tv room when the 205 was released. I called Modwright and scored a demo version of the 205, "modified" to include an external, 1 tube power supply and a 2 tubes in the audio output stage of the base unit. ... | |
| Best double live vinyl? Hendrix’ “Electric Ladyland” was the main one back in the day. Ramping it up even further was “The White Album”…. there were other worthy contenders but I think those were pretty good. |