richmon
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| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? guessing yor're asking about obscure good albums .. Leafhound 'Growers of Mushroom' -- elements of Grand Funk, Deep Purple James Gang rolled into one. Szobel 'Szobel' elements of a Zappa fusion album. He was Bill Grahams nephew, so he got an alb... | |
| Female vocalist recommendations Seeing you like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span is similar, one of their lesser known albums Hark the Village Wait has two female vocalists: Steeleye span - lowlands of Holland - YouTube And only really like one of her albums Sarah McLachlan'... | |
| Psychologist dissects Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' Always wondered if the appeal of DSOTM came from the band touring and tweaking the album before it was released. I saw this' Eclipse a piece for assorted lunatics' concert which was the working title at the time and still have the program that wa... | |
| I just discovered Van Der Graff Generator... Big fan here, got H to He when it first came out. Find similarities between Peter Gabrial's vocal style and Peter Hamill's. A more recent and simila americanr band - Discipline 'unfolded like staircase. Discipline band Canto IV (Limbo) - YouTube | |
| It was 61 years ago today... @hertzhead -- just wanted to say, I caught your Jimi 3rd stone reference, excellent. Your people I do not understand So to you I shall put an end And you'll Never hear Surf music again | |
| Forgotten Licks Methinks ’all’ of Savoy Brown with the exception of Kim Simmons split off to form Foghat. Kim wanted to stay true to the blues and the rest of the band was tired of scuffling and wanted to cash in. Foghat was definatly the right move to get popula... | |
| Forgotten Licks Me like long time -- went to see them at the Electric Factory in Phillly 1970, I was in 10th grade. The opening act? Pink Floyd! Talk about one band on the way up and one on the way down My favorites are the ones with Chris Youlden, tho Looking... | |
| UPS. Friend Or Foe? Funny, in hundreds of deliveries I've never had a damaged box, except when a 'FRAGILE' sticker is on it, had an amp packed by Conrad Johnson sent to me, appeared to have been rammed by a forklift prong, no amount of overpacking protects that. Agr... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century My foam tubes are on the interconnects where the AC cord is nearby or crossing, my goal was to eliminate or reduce those electrical fields in and around the AC from the signal. wire/interconnects. Sorry I wasn't clearer about that, no foam tubes ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century My 20yo Chenin is quiet, all cords and IC;s have those foam pipe tubes cut to length and separates AC from the signal wires. All components seperated on their own shelf, I had hum at one time and that seemed to resolve it. | |
| Forgotten heavy bands from late 60's to early 70's Youse guys are good, lots of goodies mentioned. a few that slipped twee the tracks: Leafhound 'growers of mushrooms; Tommy Bolin 'Teaser' | |
| CJ MF2200 or Threshold CAS-2? @jmarki ... guess I want to walk back by suggestion, being as the speakers and amp are partners, your speakers are already at the level of the amps you have and likely wouldn[t respond to an amp upgrade as much as mine did (I way upgraded my speak... | |
| New Omega E Mat from Perfect Path Technologies As a long time user of the Omega E mats, thought I'd share this. Been doiing various tweaks recently to lower the noise floor in my rig, one of the best ones was the Puritan 136 power conditioner, really wowed me with how good everything sounded ... | |
| CJ MF2200 or Threshold CAS-2? Agree with russ69, I had the MF2250 paired with Supratek Chenin and Revel M106 bookshelfs, and at low volume it delivered warmth, detail and soundstaging. Had it for 20 years. Fast forward to present, I retired and bought Magico A3's and started ... | |
| Cartridge Loading.....Part II Been following the cartridge loading threads with interest. I have a VPI Prime, AudioTechnica ART9 MC and Supratek Chenin which has a cart loading slider switch where I can change values while playing LP's - 47k, 1K, 100 and 10 setpoints. Used 'A... |