xiekitchen
Responses from xiekitchen
| Your favorite prog rock music? ? Dan ed,That one was my favorite, looked a long time to find a clean mint UK pressed LP of it... much better than U.S. pressing. | |
| Which artists' music do you buy without audition The new Steely Dan and Donald Fagin Releases | |
| Your favorite prog rock music? ? Had to come back here - Thanks for catching so many I missed, like Budgie, Vandergraaf G. or Badger(never thought ANYONE would remember them!) Favorites I forgot about: Kansas, Song for America, Icarus, Miracles out of Nowhere (yeah not as mature ... | |
| Your favorite prog rock music? ? How to tell a true prog. rock vinyl audiophile:1. Owns 1st edition UK pressings (red and plum Atlantic) of Fragile and The Yes Album2. Owns original UK 1st pressing Island pink "eye" pressing of Tull's Stand UP3. Owns MoFi pressings of Aqualung, C... | |
| Your favorite prog rock music? ? OH MY GOSH so many prog rockers!I've got 'em all...You're missing:Happy the Man - two LP's from late 70's BETTER than G.G.Jade Warrior (the four Island pressings from '74-78)Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior, Morrocan Roll and LivestockBill Bruford's ... | |
| Anyone can tell me the cartridge shown here? When you put a MC into a MM phono eq. preamp circuitry, if the MC is low output you will have to turn the volume of the preamp WAAAY up loud to hear it, and it still won't be very loud... if it's a High Output MC cart, it may even work... experime... | |
| Good and bad w/ replacing stock preamp jumpers? really good question.. I suppose you could always use a 1/2 Meter high quality interconnect of your sonic signature choice... On the old Marantz 70's receivers they had those metal jumpers, if lost, which occured with mine, I had just used a fairl... | |
| What song turns back the clock? One of These Nights - Eagles, really brings back summer 1975( I think?)Free Man in Paris - Joni Mitchell spring of 1974Seventh Sojourn - The Moody Blues... the whole albumBrain Salad Surgery - ELP: spent the winter storm of '77 listening to this a... | |
| Steely Dan's "Two Against Nature" on vinyl? Well I never knew my LP was a fake(!!)Now I'll have to go out and buy the CD(horrors!) to get the real thing | |
| Best rock song of all times This is an impossible task.. I'll just go with Thin Lizzy "The Boys are Back in Town" | |
| Steely Dan's "Two Against Nature" on vinyl? Yes it appeared very briefly on vinyl when it was first released, pressed in "Europe".. doesn't state which country... my pressing is noisy and while the sound is good the vinyl itself isn't that hot. This title could use a high-fi re-do by the li... | |
| Any active/passive preamps with penny & giles pot? Savant Audio in Princeton NJ had some passive pre's built with Penny & Giles POTS, built very well with cardas wire and jacks and Delrin case... price around $ 5K or so... I don't know if any are still available at this time. | |
| Dilemma of Warped LPs - is seller liable? Thaluza:Just because "I had to have it" I paid, with shipping, nearly $90 or so for an "excellent" copy of Tull's "Stand Up" 1st edition pink Island label UK pressing. Turned out it has audible surface noise, no matter how many times I wet vac it.... | |
| Dilemma of Warped LPs - is seller liable? often with these old new stock sealed Lp's that have been sitting around for 2 decades sealed in plastic are almost always warped. Probably better to buy a used open copy in NM condition. | |
| Best Rock Drummers I'm sorry but I believe 'you' plural have it backward:I would rate Bill Bruford (listen to "One of a Kind"), Carl Palmer, Terri Bozzio and Pierre Moerlin (Gong) above Neil Pert and Bonham... however I suppose if we're talking ROCK as opposed to Pr... |