bdp24
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| BEL The Wire S-24 Speaker Cable @audiolui: Ooh, the Mk.V iteration of the BEL amp! That's the one to have, or I should say have a mono pair of. I didn't know it at the time (in the 1990's), but my favorite dealer in L.A. (Brooks Berdan, Ltd.) sold the BEL amp. BEL was pretty uni... | |
| BEL The Wire S-24 Speaker Cable @audiolui: In watching all the used hi-fi sites for years, I have seen a pair of the BEL speaker cables come up for sale only one time in the past ten years or so. I wouldn’t hold your breathe on finding a pair anytime soon. You could try a "Wante... | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music @8th-note: Agreed, I have the Tom Dowd video on DVD. While his recorded sound quality isn’t in the top tier, he worked with producer Jerry Wexler on some of my favorite albums. They include all the recordings the two made in Muscle Shoals for Atla... | |
| Does the Audio press ever excite you anymore? PS Audio's Copper Magazine is worth your time, and it's free. | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music @mahgister (and all others interested), what makes the above video by Ben Shelton so interesting and valuable is this: When discussing Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, it is always their vocal harmonies that is focused on. That is understandable,... | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music Here’s a video wherein a musician sits at a piano, explaining and demonstrating the construction of Brian Wilson’s masterpiece of a song, "God Only Knows": https://youtu.be/PjPN9zRUrgI?si=iUrEC88LWrxKw9EO&t=11 | |
| What new gear have you just bought? Music Reference RM-5 Mk.!V. | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection I've been obsessing on the Oh Mercy album for the past week, and loving it. | |
| What was your first record? When I joined the Columbia Record Club in 1962 (the model upon which VMP bases it's subscription service), my choice for my free first LP was Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits (I loved "North To Alaska"). Titles that followed were the early Paul Rever... | |
| Turning amp up - any limit? Maggies and Sanders Magetch. The position of the volume knob in relation to spl is a result of the input sensitivity of the power amp more than anything else. It tells you nothing about how much power the amp is putting into the speaker. That power can be determined with the ... | |
| Album Covers & Inserts @bslon: Was that at Music Millennium? I'm going this afternoon. At the last one I found about 50 titles I brought home. | |
| RIP Jimmy Buffett This decade is proving to be the end of the 1960 generation's lifespan. A bunch are already gone, with many more to follow. By 2030 there won't be many left. | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @waltersalas: Your list contains not only many of my favorite artists, but the same album from each I myself would choose. Iris DeMent's My Life, for instance. I wasn't going to contribute to this discussion, but I feel myself weakening. 😉 I wou... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie One real "problem" for me is that a fair amount of my favorite music was recorded "indifferently" or worse. And if a system is a little "too good" (i.e ruthlessly revealing), those kind of recordings may become somewhat unpleasant to listen to. I... | |
| Warm sounding 6922 Type Tubes Thanks @jjss49. I assume Telefunken was one company that made them? |