slipknot1
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| Movies in the 70's & 80's was it stereo or mono? Right around the time Star Wars: A New Hope was released (1977), I went to see the premier of The Grateful Dead Movie at the Harvard Square Theatre. They had to bring in 4 stacks (1 in each corner), amps and a mixing console to do "four channel so... | |
| Porter Port WHAT DO U THINK? Contact Mr. Porter directly. You can reach him via the AudiogoN emailer system. I have Porter Ports on all the lines going into my listening room. They are indeed very good. They hold onto heavy power cables like a pit bull on a pant leg.I have fo... | |
| What are your fav “Off Hollywood” films Time BanditsThe DishMy Left FootBirdyEverything the Coen Brothers make (even though they are "Hollywood") | |
| Todd Rundgren Best of Lp's I enjoy "Something/Anything" both music and sonics. I am speaking of the original pressing. I don't have any experience with any of the reissues. | |
| Mystical Performances Janis Ian "Tattoo" Rickie Lee Jones "Last Chance Texaco"Dory Previn "Doppelganger" This one is REALLY creepy, sort of an H.P. Lovecraft story set to music | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listening to a bunch of different pressings of Emerson, Lake and Palmer: "Brain Salad Surgery" and "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends"BSS pressings include Manticore, US Atlantic, UK Atlantic. Best bass response has been best on ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I have been "spinning" a recently acquired collection of RCA and Mercury 2-track 7.5 ips tapes on my R2R deck. The RCAs are Chicago/Reiner classics as well as a large group of Dorati/LSO, Dorati/Minneapolis Mercurys, all in their original boxes.Th... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I spent all day Sunday "spinning" (at 15 ips) 8 of the 10 Tape Project tapes. That's 16 reels of analog fun... TP009 Mose Allison "Creek Bank" was delivered by UPS today. Looking forward to spending time with it. | |
| Is the Walker Audio Updated Phono one of the Best? Robert-I have only heard it in the context of Lloyd's personal system at his house. Everything there is optimized around Walker components. Like anything Lloyd produces, he takes it as far as he thinks he can go with it before taking it to market.... | |
| 1 piece of audio gear I really regret selling is.. Original Keith Monks RCM. Thought it was too tweaky at the time. We were moving around then and every time we did, something would go amiss. Wish I could set the Wayback Machine to the early '90s | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Rushton-I am listening to side 4 as I write this. It's a live recording and it includes an instrumental version of Masekala's best known tune: "Grazin' in the Grass". The quality overall of the recording is very good, perhaps a bit tipped up in th... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? so far-Pink Floyd "DSOTM" (Harvest SMAS-11163) Purchased in March 1973. A little noisy after all these years, but still my preferred pressing.Stravinsky "Firebird complete Ballet" Dorati/LSO (Mercury SR90226) 200g 33 1/3 rpm reissueNext up:Hugh Ma... | |
| reel to reel I am a charter Tape Project subscriber and I use a Technics RS1500. Mine came from Jeff Jacobs at J-Corder http://www.j-corder.comJeff sold me a completely refurbished and restored 1500 which was shipped from him over to Dan at Bottlehead for modi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Let's see if we can kick this thread back to life...Nat "King" Cole "Penthouse Serenade" (Pure Pleasure Analogue PPAN T332)Nat Cole playing the piano with a trio. Only a couple of vocal cuts on the entire LP. Chad Kassem insisted that I include th... | |
| the dead on tour again. ---two questions: It will be nice to see Jerry playing again....How are you going to do that? Are you planning on joining him? |