stuartk
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| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: "I neglected to mention how much I dislike the attempt to combine Rock with Classical, a ridiculous notion imo"I don't know if it's ridiculous but I don't like it. "Clapton’s playing over the years has sure been hit-or-miss, all over the map". ... | |
| 30 year old player, worth an upgrade? @ertorque:""The CD40 does not have digital outputs. It is the cheapest Marantz player that has the TDA1541A chip"My bad-- I should've suspected that a CDP that old might not have digital outputs.keep in mind, if you do go with separates, you'll ha... | |
| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. @bdp24:"Yes @thecarpathian, and correctly so. It is also often mis-pronounced tim-ber by the musically uneducated (no offense intended) . Timber! is what you yell when a tree has been felled. ;-)"So, when the tree surgeon you've hired misjudges hi... | |
| 30 year old player, worth an upgrade? Why not keep the Marantz as a transport and put all your money into a separate DAC ? | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: "But Prog bands, they make music which assumes complicated song structures and hard-to-physically perform instrument parts are ends unto themselves. And the music is made as, it sounds to me, a form of bragging: see how good I/we am/are? At the ri... | |
| Listening to digital and analog @dhite71:"It has been a bit of a psychological struggle for me where I was resistant to liking digital. I have invested so much in vinyl and it takes so much more effort that it didn't seem right to accept digital"Appreciate your honesty. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? For me, it's not been a component but Symposium vibration control products-- specifically their Svelte Plus Platforms coupled with Rollerblock Jr. + footers under DAC and transport and a Svelte Plus Platform mated to Precision Couplers for my inte... | |
| What system would a robot with ears buy? @pauly:I was thinking the same thing but you had the chutzpah to actually type it out... | |
| Chicago Transit Authority Here's the link to US shows selling through Ticketmaster...https://www.ticketmaster.com/leonid-friends-tickets/artist/2581568 | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp24:"I REALLY dislike music intentionally made to sound complicated, like Prog"My feelings exactly. I've listened to quite a few prog band recordings, on line in an effort to try to find one I liked. . . and failed. No-one can like everthing, r... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @tomic601:I did a Google search and apparently I and Joy was bought out in 1995 and then, at some point, they closed. Too bad... it's not easy to find authentic bagels. I was a bagel baker for awhile and learned the traditional ways... Ironically... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: I lived in Glendale for three months in '74. . . that was enough for me! However, later on I did find something to appreciate in Reseda-- "I and Joy's Bagels". I'd often travel from Santa Barbra to Riverside County to visit friends and always mad... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? "As hard as it might be for some to accept, I don’t think analog is for everyone". Judging from the number of digital-only responders to this thread, it's clearly not! | |
| Clean AC power "The power to my house comes from the pole on the road, then underground to a large box that I assume is a transformer. This supplies power to my house only: there are no other houses within 1000’. Does this mean that I am getting very clean power... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @zerofox:"That said, I think what makes him and the Heartbreakers special is that they are simply a pure rock and roll band and most importantly they didn’t try to do too much - just well executed rock and roll".This strikes me as a fair/accurate ... |