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| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? 40dB of gain was the standard back in the pre-moving coil days, and very few phono stages DON'T provide that amount of gain for moving magnet and moving iron pickups. The Herron VTPH phono amps (both the VTPH-1mm and VTPH-2) provide 42 or 44dB of... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @tylermunns: A songwriter/bandmate and I discovered Randy Newman’s first album through Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. Because of Van’s work with Brian on the Smile recordings (I discovered the Smiley Smile album in early-’68, and turned him on t... | |
| Tune of the Day "The Way" by Fastball. Power Pop to the max! | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. One of my very favorite early-60’s songs/records is "On Broadway", sung by The Drifters, written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s Brill Building songwriting team competition: Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. The song/recording is very haunting, an... | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music This is a good overview of the great drummer Jim Gordon, one of my half-dozen or so favorites. https://youtu.be/HToM-FY_xCc?si=A9pD_eS6aVkSJUzB | |
| Tune of the Day Paul Revere & The Raiders: "Just Like Me". | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Brian Wilson cites Gershwin as a major influence. He in fact recorded an album of Gershwin tunes---entitled Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin---in 2010. Dave Edmunds included a beautiful version of Rodgers & Hart’s "Where Or When" on his Get I... | |
| Growing list of current modern artists Another deep pool of talent worth diving into is the music made before the era you grew up in, and have yet to hear. There was a lot being made in the 40's and 50's, a time before most here were alive (or at least listening to music). Louis Jo... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. During the Hippie era, Pop became a dirty word. The 3-minute single became the domain of teenybopper music, not serious "Art". Pretentiousness became rampant, reaching it’s peak with Progressive Rock, the appearance of The Ramones finally putti... | |
| You’re An Independent Dealer, Which Companies And What Products Would You Represent? Oh, and amps and the pre-amps EAR-Yoshino, Pass Labs, Atma-Sphere, and perhaps Zesto, VTL, and Manley Labs. For cables Auditorium. And the full Vandersteen line. One main reason dealers need to be selective is that they have to sell enough of the... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Fantastic list @tylermunns! For an example of Carole King’s early songwriting quality, give a listen to her "Halfway To Paradise". I first heard the song on an early (pre-debut album) Nick Lowe single on Stiff Records, and was stunned speechles... | |
| You’re An Independent Dealer, Which Companies And What Products Would You Represent? @goofyfoot: Challenge accepted! - Eminent Technology LFT-8b and 8c loudspeakers - SoundLabs electrostatic loudspeakers - Sanders ESL speakers and amplifiers - Kuzma tonearms and turntables - London phono pickups - Degritter record clea... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @jmalen123: Rodney Crowell's "Why Don''t We Talk About It" is from 2001. Lucinda Williams' incredible song "West" is from 2007, her song "Essence" from 2001. The latter, by the way, is the most intense song I've heard from this century, with a voc... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @mrskeptic: You misunderstand my intent in the use of the term "greatest" (but @tony1954 doesn’t). It was deliberately chosen not to apply that adjective as a simple-minded statement of fact, but rather to make a polemic assertion. My statement as... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @rpeluso: Oh yeah, if you remove the "Paul and" the sentence would read "agree with me". So even with "Paul" in the sentence, "me" is correct. Smarty-pants. 😉 Another Top 10 song for me is "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted". Like "God Only... |