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| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? My Audiogon handle is a reference to my preference when it comes to bass drum diameter (and drum covering finish). Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa (and most all other big band drummers in the 1930’s and 40’s) played 26" bass drums early on, downsizin... | |
| Tune of the Day The Notorious Cherry Bombs, great album Steve! I wish Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, Tony Brown, Richard Bennett, Hank Devito, and Eddie Bayers (now THAT is a supergroup!) would make a second album. The song "Wait A Minute" has an infectious hook,... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? I joined a Jump Blues/Swing band in 1973, and had to learn to play in the style heard on the 1940’s-50’s recordings of that music. Those drummers played "4 on the floor", a term meaning playing the bass drum with 4 quarter notes per bar (on the... | |
| A great Otis Gibbs interview with guitarist Kenny Vaughan. Another current unique guitarist is Buddy Miller, who has a style and sound all his own. He leads Emmylou Harris’ band on the road and sings harmony with her. He is also a great producer, singer, and recording engineer (the sound of his recordi... | |
| VPI to What @ozzy62: I too have an Aries (the original version, bone stock) in addition to a highly modified HW-19. They’re both available (no, not mine 😉) at very modest cost. And I agree, the Aries is indeed sexy looking. My other table is a Townshend A... | |
| The joys of mid-fi A great topic! Art Dudley included the subject of the ability of superior hi-fi components to afford the listener deeper access into the musical performances contained in recordings, irrespective of the "sound" of the recordings and/or compone... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Here’s why: In Jazz, drummers tune their bass drum to a higher pitch than in Rock/Pop music, and leave it undamped, so it rings. Rock drummers often removed the front bass drum head (or cut a hole in it) so as to make the attack of the bass dr... | |
| New In 2024 Nite Owls by JD McPherson (from the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant band) on September 27th. | |
| Wilson Sabrina X ... oh my God! and Jadis... or? @daveyf: Did you mean to say "MF" (which to me means Musical Fidelity), or rather "MR" (for Music Reference)? If MR, do you remember which model? The RM-9 is pure tube, the RM-200 a hybrid (solid state input stage, tube output). The RM-9 is a c... | |
| A great Otis Gibbs interview with guitarist Kenny Vaughan. For you Tommy Emmanuel fans (aren’t we all?!), here he is with Marty and the boys. By the way, Harry Stinson is not only a great, musical drummer, but also an excellent singer. Some of his recording dates are as not a drummer, but a harmony sin... | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? Yeah @inna, everyone's on the lookout for original Blue Note's. I've never seen one "in the wild". I've found some original Prestige LP's at cheap prices, many of which Rudy Van Gelder also recorded. | |
| VPI to What A Kuzma Stogi Ref on a VPI HW-19 makes for a real nice turntable. Even better if you replace the stock platter with the one included on the TNT-5, a 1.5" thick slab of stainless steel and Delrin weighing about 15lbs. You can also replace the ba... | |
| Wilson Sabrina X ... oh my God! and Jadis... or? Brooks Berdan Ltd. sold Jadis when Brooks was still living, as well as Wilson speakers. But he also sold Music Reference electronics, which he held in very high regard. Brooks had some customers who bought with their eyes, others with their ear... | |
| Subwoofer placement - back or front of room? Go onto internet and find one of the 3-D room mode graphs. Put in your room’s dimensions, and look on the graph for your room’s low pressure zones. Try your sub in any of those locations. That’s the way to minimize your room’s (any and all r... | |
| Issue with Audio Research 5SE Preamp I would call PS Audio and ask them what would cause the amp to shut down. Then I would have the pre-amp checked to see if it's passing DC to the inputs of the amp. As others have suggested, Audio Research tends to run their tubes hard, shorten... |