zaikesman
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Rush, there's hope for our musical compatability yet, we both dig Buddy Holly!MDT, Holly (along with the Everly Brothers) is often credited with instigating the combination of the dual-guitar based group (sans sax and/or piano) playing pop-derived... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Likewise Rush (even though I presume you and I will almost never listen to the things the other one comments on)! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Big Brother & The Holding Company (w/Janis Joplin) - "The Lost Tapes" [2CD, Airline '08] The Yardbirds (whom I dig) had their "blueswailing". I guess you could call this stuff "bluesshrieking". Suffice to say that, a handful of later studio cu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Chameleons - "Why Call It Anything?" [Cleopatra '02]The Church - "Priest = Aura" [Arista '92]Shonen Knife - "Genki Shock!" [Glue Factory '06]"Anarchy From The U.K. Vol. 1" - V.A. [Dojo '96]N.E.R.D. - "In Search Of..." [Virgin '01]Buffalo Sprin... | |
| Passive Biamping? Update: I experimented biamping with pro-audio Y-cables ordered online, but these weren't transparent enough to keep in the system. I hated the thought of compromising my reference interconnects.Then I saw this thread and learned about the hardwir... | |
| xlr splitter? Thanks for that tip Eldulcesol!I'd previously posted this thread but still hadn't found a suitable XLR splitter. I experimented with my biamp setup using a set of one of the inexpensive splitter-cables you can buy on the Web, but they compromised ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Andrew Hill - "A Beautiful Day" [Palmetto '02]Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "'S Make It" [Limelight/Verve '64/'04] | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Oh yeah Rush 'n' E, every once in a blue -- uh, better make that purple -- moon, I'm you're classical man! (Well, if not exactly classical then early or modern at least. But I do promise, in that setting anyway, not to pretend to know what the hel... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I don't know about hanging on to my current Mordaunt-Short Performance 6's for life, but I do regard their physical form factor as being among the best ever -- a unique modern classic that won't seem dated-looking way beyond what the vast majority... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Jaybo, although I sold the Allison:One/Allison:Three pairing I inherited from my father (which I'd helped him choose as a teenager back in '77, winning out over K-horns by a nose for sound and a mile for livability), as well as previously selling ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Nina Simone - "Four Women: The Philips Recordings" [Verve/UMG '03] 4CD annnotated box set containing the entirety of her 7 albums recorded for the label between '64-'66Miles Davis All Stars - "Walkin'" [Prestige/CMG RVG edition '54/'06] Extended-f... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "Baldy" tavern songs...That is too funny! (Not to mention sad but true ;^) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Mitty Collier - "Shades Of...: The Chess Singles 1961-68" [Kent/Ace '08] Deep-voiced Chicago soul "cult heroine" (as the liners put it) never had a big chart hit, cut only one album at Chess, and retired for good from secular music by '72, but the... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Red Garland Quintet - "Soul Junction" [Prestige '58/'07] With John Coltrane, Donald ByrdTito Puente - "King Of Kings" [BMG '02] Compilation of '56-'60 RCA sides | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sonny Rollins - "The Bridge" [RCA/Bluebird '62/'03] With Jim Hall guitarOscar Peterson Trio - "A Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra" [Verve '59/'04] Longtime Peterson Trio drummer Ed Thigpen died last weekThe Ovations - "Goldwax Recordings" [Kent/Ace ... |