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| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time I’m in my seventies and do like quality music in every genre including Rap, Country, Classical, Rock n Roll, R&B, Bluegrass, Jazz, and all the rest. That’s a great quality I picked up from my Mom who grew up in the Swing era and played Classic... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? I’m with you mijostyn. It’s been that way ever since, as a very young child, playing over and over Mom’s three Rock n Roll singles, Bill Haley’s "See You Later Alligator", "Rock Around the Clock", and Little Richard’s ’Tutti Frutti". One of those ... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? We oldtimers who love records can still purchase them on Ebay and from used record stores. By the time the interest and availability of vinyl records peters out, so will most of us anyway, so why worry about it. Instead enjoy what records we alrea... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? How much can it cost to break out the old equipment and press a new copy of a record a company already has the rights to and masters for? I’d love to buy some new reissues on vinyl, but the prices are arbitrarily ridiculous. Even used CD prices se... | |
| Anybody have plans for building Dahlquist DQ-10 speaker stands? Atlasdoc2, Did you ever come up with the plans for the Dahlquist stands, I have a copy of those plans for the three post type stand . If you haven’t tracked any down yet I could mail them to you. The top plate has a bit of an "L" shape on ... | |
| Made in USA Japanese integrated amp, Japanese preamp, American turntable, American speakers, American power conditioner. I’m not exactly the patriotic type, and haven’t bought an American car since the late 60’s. But just as "Made in Japan" used to stand for ... | |
| What CDs to buy I’ve had good luck with both Blue Note CD’s, and any Van Gelder reissues, not necessarily only Blue Note ones. You might try out a few SACD’s if your CD player can play them. The two I own are markedly better, although perhaps prohiibitively costl... | |
| RIP Tom Verlaine Just broke out finished playing Television's Marque Moon which I hadn't played in years. He was an original and talented guitarist, and will be missed. Time to listen to his solo work again to and appreciate his contribution to music again. | |
| Testing for Dirty Electrical Power Curiousjim, please pardon the typo in my post above on the Entech (not Entach) device. Let us know how it works for you. Mike | |
| Testing for Dirty Electrical Power Jay73, the Shunyata site has a YouTube video where they use an Entech Powerline Noise Analyzer to sonically and numerically demonstrate what you are asking about. Watch the video. It explains itself. In part I purchased a Shunyata Hydra Denali uni... | |
| World's Best Stereo System ?... Fertguy, I really enjoyed that video. That’s my kind of guy. By the way, a month or two ago, someone posted a link to a what he termed a bit facetiously to something like the "worlds greatest speakers?". The linked contained a video of the speake... | |
| RIP Jeff Beck Made me cry to hear of his passing. Just finished acquiring his final few albums last year. Some of his later recordings, including videos, were simply fabulous. He played wonderfully well right into his seventies and seemed to keep getting better... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? (For those of us multi-taskers who can still both listen and count) this week’s top three are : Laura Nyro Billie Holiday Aretha Franklin | |
| After fifty years… amazing. What high end audio can be. Ghdprentice, you’re one of my favorite contributors on site too. You consistently provide well thought out and practical advice. Glad to hear how much satisfaction you derive from your current system, which you’ve obviously taken great pains to pu... | |
| Lyra Kleos arrives after eight months. . Worth the wait? First impressions Nice to hear from you mijostyn, but don't think you're going to get me spend any more money on any more equipment. You've already overachieved in that department. I do like the Kleos so far and my dealer did a nice job of setting it up using all s... |