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| Who is your favorite instrumentalist or instrumental group? @stuartk: Love The Hellecasters! I saw them live once, opening for Michael Nesmith. Their first two albums were on Nesmith's label Pacific Arts Audio. | |
| Top DYI Speaker Options Another enthusiastic recommendation of the GR Research DIY kits, both loudspeakers and the amazing OB/Dipole Servo-Feedback Woofer GRR owner/designer Danny Richie created in a collaborative effort with Rythmik Audio owner/designer Brian Ding. | |
| Movie/film suggestions. I just watched a cool little movie named Lucky. It stars Harry Dean Stanton, with some other interesting characters including David Lynch. It's set in a desert, and the landscape is beautiful (if you like deserts). | |
| Do you have a speaker that’s not a big name maker but punches above its weight? Why? Eminent Technology LFT-8b and 8c. https://youtu.be/Uc5O5T1UHkE?si=6GOpTpR900Kpn4oP https://youtu.be/R4vC3V00-3Y?si=8DiHcpIzADuHRznD | |
| Question On Magnepan 3.7i and 3.7x Vocal Levels https://youtu.be/_bpDP0jxj4k?si=hbdOOAobiGpQMbhh | |
| New In 2025 Two new books just received: - Richard Manuel: His Life And Music, From The Hawks And Bob Dylan To The Band. Written by Stephen T. Lewis. - Smile: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection Of Brian Wilson. Written by David Leaf. | |
| Who is your favorite instrumentalist or instrumental group? Good nominee @slaw. As you know, another is Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives. Coincidentally their latest album Space Junk contains all instrumental material. My first favorite band was The Ventures; Los Straitjackets has been follo... | |
| Chess Records reissue series is about to commence! @slaw: Jackpot Records has chosen some great albums to reissue, not the typical audiophile titles. And Jackpot is located in Portland Oregon, so I can buy them at their retail shop, saving on shipping and sales tax (Oregon has none). It's a ver... | |
| Can single ended 211 or 212 amplifiers drive magnepan 20.7? Correct on all counts @thegreenman! Modjeski was able to coax 100 watts out of a single pair of KT-88 tubes not by driving them hard, but by doing just as you suggest---creating a wonderful circuit. You can read all about the amp (in both origi... | |
| New In 2025 @slaw: The first couple of times I saw Stained Glass, they were a quartet, and went by the name The Trolls. They shortly thereafter became a trio, with the Stained Glass name. I have their first album (Crazy Horse Roads, Capitol Records ST 154)... | |
| Open Reel Curious By the way, Ken Kessler (long time equipment reviewer at the UK magazine Hi-Fi News & Record Review) has been writing a column for the PS Audio online Copper Magazine, in which for quite a while now he has been focusing on reel-to-reel mach... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection Here’s an interesting short (6:41) video of Time Out Of Mind recording engineer Mark Howard talking about the making of the album: https://youtu.be/cxXkaAmPg6A?si=Nq-krJVtOsTTRSro And another: https://youtu.be/WeJVhQ3s9cI?si=yuXi_Nw... | |
| Warped record Of the LP's I receive from Amazon, about 20-25% of them come with a serious crease in at least one corner of the outer cardboard jacket, a result (I presume) of the LP being grabbed by a corner of the jacket by the Amazon employee pulling the L... | |
| What is your vinyl commitment? Actually Keith, If I remember correctly your VPI HW-19 is a Mk.2 (I sold it to you, and mounted your Moerch arm on it.). The original HW-19 ("Mk.1") had a textured fibreboard top plinth and an aluminum platter, the Mk.2 an acrylic plinth and a ... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection @jafant: Hmm, what’s left to do a deep dive into? I have recently added some of the expanded Bootleg Series albums (specifically Volumes 1-3 on 5-LP's, Vol.11 on 3-LP's, Vol.12 on 3-LP's, Vol.13 on 4-LP's, Vol.14 on 2-LP's, Vol.15 on 3-LP's, V... |