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| Billie Holiday's Birthday! @klimt Love Lady Day! In no particular order.. Lady in Satin and Body and Soul. I think these are her last two recordings, as she dies within a year. Solitude Lady Day Swings, which is a compilation album | |
| ARC SP-6B Newbie with Questions @kevemaher - I paired it with a Sonic Frontiers Power One, which is after many years still an excellent amp. It runs on four KT88 or 6550 power tubes with six 6922 signal tubes. Per Class D- I know people pair their ARC pre's with ARC D-200, with... | |
| ARC SP-6B Newbie with Questions Congratulations, Kevin! The SP6 is one of ARC’s best early pre-amp/linestages. The EH are exactly what ARC says they are. The Gold Lion sound is top to bottom oomph. JJ’s will be similar to the Gold Lions. The NOS Mullard will emphasize mid-rang... | |
| One of my favorite bands, one that many have never heard. @winoguy17 The Astoria. Are you from the area? I grew up in the Hudson Valley. | |
| One of my favorite bands, one that many have never heard. @bdp24 Thanks for starting this thread, and the videos. This may be the closest NRBQ got to making it bigtime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFxpFm1u26k | |
| One of my favorite bands, one that many have never heard. NRBQ is the best band "you never heard of." In the 1980s and 1990s I saw them dozens of times. They performed regularly at both The Lone Star Cafe and Bottom Line, in NYC, and extensively in the Northeast. At one show at the Bottom Line, Terry gav... | |
| Favorite Albums Not in the Mainstream Found on Streaming Services @bdp24 Thanks! Someone correct me if I am wrong-the masters for this excellent record were destroyed in the big Universal Studio fire, in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire | |
| Favorite Albums Not in the Mainstream Found on Streaming Services Tony Rice-Church Street Blues | |
| How long should high quality speakers last? Until you get the itch to upgrade? | |
| Help me mod my tube amp Start by swapping out the signal tubes? | |
| 12AX7 tubes for the phono stage of VAC Avatar SE integrated. @inna Your query got me to look through my signal tube stash. In a box labeled 12AX7 is a pair of NOS Matsushita, black plates, that were manufactured using Mullard tube tooling equipment. I bought these from Brent Jesse at his recommendation. ... | |
| 12AX7 tubes for the phono stage of VAC Avatar SE integrated. @inna When I was looking for 12AU7 tubes and variants, I contacted these two- Brent Jesse and Andy at Vintage Tube Services. | |
| 12AX7 tubes for the phono stage of VAC Avatar SE integrated. @inna If you want mids, NOS Mullards have the mid-range-to-die-for-reputation. I imagine older 12AX7 have higher-microphony issues. Thoughts? | |
| The "young people' music thread - Artists younger than 40 years old AJ Lee and Blue Summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp4EjMmowHI | |
| Walk On By - The Story Of Popular Song (BBC Documentary 17/23) @bdp24 - That's fun.Thanks for posting! After watching, this is what showed up on my feed. Steve Ferguson, after his NRBQ days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTLr5aZ_jg |