whart
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| Latest bin find.....Elton John David Lindley is, as a number of us here and elsewhere have acknowledged, an American treasure. He is great fun to hear live--we’ve usually caught him in small clubs where his tone and virtuosity just shine. I also love his sick sense of humor- it... | |
| Latest bin find.....Elton John I also have DJMs from France and Japan from the era. I first mentioned it, aside from the pressings, to underscore that Dick James had some real history even before Elton; those mop tops from Liverpool. Had a nice chunk of the publishing. And sol... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 You got 'em. From an irreligious jew. Just get the heck out of there if push comes to shove-- we had an evacuation plan post 911 in NY; I got my motorcycle license, my wife got a helmet, and we got a cat carrier for the kitties. Stay safe. I'll sp... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 @dlcockrum - shout out, remembered you live in Katy from another thread. Are you and yours ok? | |
| Latest bin find.....Elton John Yep, his early albums are great. I especially like "Tumbleweed Connection." The UK DJMs of these early records, including "Madman" sound very nice, but condition is always an issue. You know who Dick James (DJM) was? Interesting history if you loo... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 Dave- I can’t disagree with anything your wrote. I have always pulled power to my main system in the case of severe (or even not so severe) electrical storms. We are now in Austin, which probably doesn’t get as much electrical storm activity as Ho... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 @lowrider57 - what is the breaker rating on your Furman? The one I have (and used for some ancillaries, not in the audio chain itself) had a 15 amp rating, though the wall plug for the Furman is a 20 amp type. Thus, the lower amperage breaker (at ... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? @bdp24 - Yeah, I realized that later, when i saw that someone else had used "dreck" as a term of art. Hell, I’ll listen to stupid stuff too sometimes: I dig that song by the Spiral Starecase, I dig some Crystal Gayle, but at the same time I may sw... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? @bdp24 - for the "record," I never referred to some of the Brill Building writers as "dreck." I did say a lot of pop even in the '60s was crap. "Dreck" I reserved for a lot of what's popular today. My point was separating the wheat from the chaff,... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? It may have been covered in this thread already (sorry, I didn’t read the whole thing), but even in the days when the major labels had A&R staff, some good in-house producers and the wherewithal to procure and "develop" talent, much was crap. ... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? @kennythekey - I don’t disagree with anything you said. However, I think the word umbrella is actually a term of art (I got what you meant). "Umbrella" as I understand it as a consumer in an insurance context, is extra liability insurance over and... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? Ira- to me, the key would be to talk to different brokers who represent those companies since you will be dealing with the broker in the first instance. I doubt if you called Chubb (which is now part of Ace or the other way around) the insurer wou... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? I’m not in the insurance business, so others who are might have a different view, but there is an economy in using the same company for all coverage. These high end insurance companies insure valuable art, yachts, etc. and are used to dealing with... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? I changed my policy before I moved to increase the insurance on these items given that the equipment and records were going to be handled by movers (though I used specialty craters for the gear that didn’t have wooden shipping crates and packed th... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I swore I wasn’t going to go down the rabbit hole-I have a main system with what are probably regarded as expensive cables. But I am still in the process of assembling a vintage system in another room, based on a pair of the original Quad ESLs tha... |