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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Freddie Hubbard - "Backlash" (Atlantic Jazzlore)Barney Kessel & Friends - "Barney Plays Kessel" (Concord Jazz)Jimmy Giuffre 3 - "Trav'lin' Light" (Atlantic)The Pentagon (Clifford Jordan, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins, Ray Mantilla) - ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey Rushton, I have that Rites Of Spring. No doubt primarily *because* of the cover! You don't want to know (and I lost count long ago) how many goofy- or sexy-cover LP's I've accumulated down the years. None of them displayed, mind you, just sitt... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I noticed that -- maybe that's why I was inspired to dip back in :-) Happy listening! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? What the hey, can't sleep tonight and I haven't posted in forever...and judging by the LP stack here, I guess I *have* been tearing up the turntable a bit the past couple of days. In no particular order (and somewhat selective, that is to say, if ... | |
| Review: KAB SL-1200 Fluid Damper Tweak Hi Detlof, and thanks for checking in on me :-) I may not have been "cured" as you say, but I've been doing my best to keep it down to a low roar, and ceasing to write about the subject every day has helped. (That and, sad to say, getting burned a... | |
| Review: KAB SL-1200 Fluid Damper Tweak Update: I recently received a new paddle assembly from KAB, to replace the original that I busted by accident. During the interem while awaiting my new paddle's arrival, I was reminded, in the first absence of active damping from my tonearm since ... | |
| Passive Biamping? I went by Guitar Center today but the only XLR Y-adaptors they had were cheap (as opposed to inexpensive, which they weren't particularly), so I'll probably look at ordering something better online instead.We'll see what happens when I get the spl... | |
| Passive Biamping? I am familiar (as you might hope!) with the sound of the speakers strapped with jumpers and driven by a single amp (either the mono's or the stereo amp in question here). And like I said at the top, the amps are by the same maker and similar, soni... | |
| Passive Biamping? Thanks guys. I have the matched sets of balanced interconnects on hand, so the Y-adaptor route seems like a good inexpensive way to try this out (before possibly investing in custom cables of my preferred type to eliminate the adaptors).Any though... | |
| Best jazz covers of rock songs Arranger Gil Evans' 1974 "Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix" is a very neat album and should be a sure-fire conversation starter... | |
| McCormack Advanced Rectifer Circuitry Anybody with updates to report on this topic? I recently purchased a pair of used DNA-125 Platinum Monos and should receive them tomorrow. These were modified close to three years ago, so they predated the ARC options. Before deciding whether to s... | |
| The Worst Speaker you have ever heard. Wow, hard to believe someone pulled a comment of mine from '03 to remark upon today. Leeistad, my guess is that the reason Velodyne didn't succeed (in either sense, businesswise or sonically) with their speaker back in the mid-90's wasn't simply b... | |
| Do we believe in Machina Dynamics? For a long time now the only interesting thing about this and related threads has been to observe how they can bring out some of our most regrettable tendencies as human beings, and how the fundamental debate between believers and skeptics within ... | |
| Jazz trombone anyone? Often overlooked by hardcore jazzers -- who tend to disdain regular *bands* (like the MJQ) and *song*-form instrumental material -- is Wayne Henderson's outstanding work with the Jazz Crusaders (acoustic 60's) and later the jes' plain Crusaders (e... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Kenny Drew "Undercurrent" (Blue Note, 1960) All devotees of the great vintage BN 'hard bop' house style need this album! Other than his sideman turn on "Blue Trane" I didn't know much about pianist Drew, but picked this disk up when I saw he wrote... |