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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Maher's 9th Symphony Karajan conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker 1981? I listen as an hommage to Lewis Thomas. His collected essays, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's 9th Symphony has shaped my thinking on our relationships t... | |
| Favourite Guitarists Bobby Fripp deserves mention in this Pantheon. | |
| What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)? Ten Seconds feat Bobby Wilcox and Live in Paris, Fripp and Eno, both on DGM, and only available en digital.. | |
| Acoustic Curtain for listening area I've hung a 3'x5' Navaho rug over the TV ( for God's sake it's only to read blu-ray/dvd-a menus ), a very course weave, of the sort recommended by R. Vandersteen for 1st reflections. So, course weave is worth trying. | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Bowie: RocknRoll Suicide, Golden Years Iggy Pop: Dum Dum Boys, Seek and Destroy Beatles: Tax Man, Savoy Shuffle I'm gonna assert that if you can listen to any of these, without singing along, that you can downsize and repurpose your list... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Bass Communion I Steven Wilson's dark ambient masterpiece, the 2018 RSD reissue on tonefloat records | |
| Turned back into a music lover That's what happened to me. And yet, I have big big plans: a new house chosen with a dedicated music room in , Carbon Quatros, Ref 250 SE , Ref5 SE.. But I'm now a record listener and collector. I've fallen in love with Stranded Records, Secret ... | |
| Square room Soundstage?? Yes, treatment will help. I get excellent imaging in my 12x12x8 room. Sent the dimensions to GIK, treated 1st and 2nd reflection points ( Including ceiling ) and it still took 3 years to finalize speaker placement. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Life Aquatic- lots of Bowie covers by a lone, unaccompanied Frenchman with a guitar. | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? That they are Vandersteens. | |
| Best Phono You've Heard Under $2200 Sutherland 20/20 + LPS Oodles better than the Lehman and Rega units I also tried | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Let it Be, Giles re-mix | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? KPFA, KPFB in Berkeley, KFCF in Fresno- the later reached my adolescent home town in Tulare Co, and Tuesday night was Maximum Rock and Roll in the early 80's | |
| Who will soon be going to a live concert? Saw the Residents last Friday in SF- vaccine carding required in a small venue. The wait for Roger Waters at a huge venue goes on. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Starless and Bible Black. Period, Jonathon Coleclough |