stuartk
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| RIP Rick Laird OK. | |
| How to connect headphone amp when system has separate transport and DAC? The female Neutriks are too shallow and too loose to grip Acoustic Zen Silver Reference IC's.They're going back-- waste of time. | |
| What do you have on order RIGHT NOW. Symposium Svelte shelf speaker set...Symposium Svelte Plus shelves and footers have made an enormous difference in my system. | |
| RIP Rick Laird @inna:Yeah-- that's a nice one.I've never paid much attention to Mahavishnu Mk II but perhaps I owe them a closer listen. | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp245:"What I above meant by saying you can’t argue with success, is not that "popularity is proof of artistic merit", or even that there aren’t examples of garbage that sells well, but rather that anything that is popular and does sell well is ... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @winoguy17:September's great. It's called Wolf Neck Woods:https://www.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/doc/parksearch/search_name.pl?state_park=31&historic_site=&...Another nice place, nearby, for a Fall; walk is the Mast Landing Audubon Sanctuary... | |
| RIP Rick Laird @arcticdeath:Yeah-- I wish I'd bought that box before it went out of print!It's going for $100 or more, now. For me, when it comes to Fusion, Mahavishnu reigns supreme. I respect the likes of RTF and W. Report, but personally, I've never found the... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp24:"But there are many, many examples of great art and great success coming together in one place""Mass popularity sometimes comes from not just talent, but timing and good luck. In other cases it’s pure, hard work".Of course. I never claimed,... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @slaw:"You can’t argue with success"History is littered with examples of amazing artists in many genres/media, who never achieved fame/fortune and many examples of hacks whose popularity and wealth far outweighed their artistic abilities. | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Miles, IMHO, was one of the greatest in terms of his use of the silence between notes. . . I'm not a fan of big bands/large emsembles so I can't comment on how this quality might be evident in music by Base or Duke. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? @mahgister:"But i want to remind you and all people here that the mechanical control of vibration will not replace in any way the necessary control of the electrical noise floor level of the house and system...And will never replace the astonishin... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp24:"Let's just call both (U.S.A.) Americans and Canadians as North Americans. ;-) ". Sure. Why not? "I would argue that in some ways Americans from the North (or at least non-South) have more in common with Canadians than they do with Sou... | |
| How to connect headphone amp when system has separate transport and DAC? I wasn't aware that band-aids were a tweak for headphone amps...Plastic or cloth?Medicated or unmedicated?You learn the darndest things on A'gon... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: You might as well claim that when Clapton plays the Blues, it's not American music because he was born in the UK. That strikes me as absurd. | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: I'd assert that although most members of The Band were not "American" by birth, as a group they certainly produced music that continues to epitomize the sound and spirit of American music... |