xiekitchen
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| Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin Else"... Mono? I think "Somethin Else" is right up there with "Kind of Blue".I think personally for me, although I own an 'audiophile' reprint 180 g pressing in Stereo, I wish I had bought the mono now instead.. stereo in those days sometimes was a gimmicky one ... | |
| Record Club vs. Store purchased records Good info, Elizabeth.. I can remember playing some record club pop/rock pressings way back when I had crappy gear and could tell the pressings were lower grade then! I would say, trash all the columbia club pressings of pop/rock and try to find us... | |
| Did I choose the right path? You learned.. that has value.. B&W.. hey you could have done alot WORSE. Take your time and rebuild slowly, hey you're still young! Don't go to too many loud concerts and fry your ears.. wear hearing protection... keep at it, improve when you ... | |
| Analog care -- what do we NEED Cartridge Demagnitizer - noZerostat gun - well maybe only if necessaryWet vacuum cleaning machine - ESSENTIAL (had a nitty gritty for decades, now use a VPI 16) after wet vacuuming usually there is no static and no need for the anti-static gunWalk... | |
| Generally wise/unwise to mix metals in AC plugs? Elizabeth.. wow good point. It is amazing... | |
| End of Snell Acoustics? Snell E III RIP | |
| Computer Speakers Not made in China yes.. forgot about the Mackie.. THOSE would be perfect I think.. Mackie makes good stuff, have used their mixers for years.. (currently using a digital Yamaha board I love) | |
| Snell Type A/II or Type E/III - opinions wanted I love the E/III too... wish I could tell you about the A.. but all I ever hear is how great they are.. kind of big boxes for almost the same drivers you'd get in the 'C'... the AIII has the 12" vs. the earlier 10" woofers... I think the model CII... | |
| Best of the "Best of Chicago" Compilations Foster: only thing I know of then it the official "Chicago Greatest Hits" on the columbia record label, this came out in mid/late 70's, with a photo of the band on the cover "looking like a Norman Rockwell painting" You would know it if you saw it... | |
| Computer Speakers Not made in China you would have to buy some older 1990's minimonitors and use those but then you'll need an amp.. like PSB, JBL control series, Paradigm, or JPW made some very small very good speakers with 4" cone.. used around $100 pair.OR get the Bose powered si... | |
| Metheny show...who is excited? It's been too many years for me.. I'm due | |
| Best of the "Best of Chicago" Compilations Maniac Terry Kath struts off his bluesy guitar on the "IV" or the 4 volume "Live at Carnegie Hall". For performance reasons, this remains my favorite Chicago... you have to get past the poor miking and live sound recording shortcomings in 1971, me... | |
| Best of the "Best of Chicago" Compilations In my opinion you would have to get columbia records cd's of each album, I, II, III, V, VI, VII and I suppose you could burn your own cd copy of selected cuts you like best?Also there is the original columbia "Chicago Greatest Hits" from the end o... | |
| What is your favorite guitar solo of all time? Steve Howe's little bridge piece on "Sound Chaser" from "Relayer"...but there are SOOO many | |
| Clint Eastwood's HiFi Chazzbo: good info, thanks... I'm a fan of the Coltrane/Johnny Hartman LP: love it! |