bdp24
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| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie @mahgister: I love your line "Because doing so I will die with more in me than my limited tastes." After watching my mother die a slow and painful death from brain cancer when I was 14-15 years old, I thought "So that’s it? She’s just gone?... | |
| Vinyl Lovers @ghdprentice: I started using the Zerostat when it first came on the market. It was somewhat effective, but required one to squeeze and release the trigger v...e...r...y s...l...o...w...l...y. A real pita to use. When the Nagaoka Kilavolt No.103 ... | |
| Warm sounding 6922 Type Tubes I guess I missed it: What's a "CCA"? | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @mijostyn: "Don’t bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me." But seriously, hope your recovery from pretty serious surgery is speedy. In the meantime, careful with that tonearm and stylus 😉 . | |
| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe I agree @loomisjohnson, I don’t directly hear Ray Charles in Richard Manuel’s voice. That’s a good thing! He internalized it, deep down inside, and it came out as his own voice. As did Van Morrison. By the way, Van and Richard trade lines in The B... | |
| Vinyl Lovers @bigtwin: The Amazon packing you are seeing in Canada (a thin cardboard mailing sleeve inside a 4" thick carton filled with bubble wrap) is the same I have been seeing for quite some time here in the US. That's certainly preferable to the mailing... | |
| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe Perhaps it’s just me @loomisjohnson, but Rod has always struck me as one of the thousands of guys who try too hard to sound "soulful" (black). I can understand wanting to have the gravitas of Big Joe Turner and/or Ray Charles, but a skinny little ... | |
| Tune of the Day Not yet @slaw, but I’ve pre-ordered it on LP. Comes out September 26th. Buddy has been very active since their last album together, but not Julie. I believe she wrote every song on the new album. @curiousjim: I'm probably even further from kid-do... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? Just my opinion, but the difference between bass drivers and midrange/tweeter drivers FAR exceeds the difference between comparable amplifiers. Except of course for planar-magnetic’s, ESL’s, ribbons, etc. Different drivers made of different materi... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? @knotscott makes a very important point: electronic crossovers provide only "textbook" filters. TF’s are 1st/2nd/3rd/or 4th order, which create slopes of 6/12/18/or 24dB an octave for each driver. The internal passive crossovers in almost all good... | |
| Tune of the Day "Healing Tide", the title song on the Buddy Miller-produced album by the duo of Michael and Tanya Trotter, who go by the unlikely group name of The War & Treaty. The song is an intense, smoldering-hot slab of Southern Soul/R &B, sung by M... | |
| KLaudio or Degritter Mark II As always, Neil provides the definitive evaluation and comparison 😊 . | |
| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe I’d love to be able to hear the Truth album without having to hear Rod Stewart’s voice. Jeff didn’t hesitate humiliating Rod when I saw them on stage together on Jeff’s first U.S.A. tour (it was well-deserved). But I did get to hear Nicky Hopkins ... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? Bi-amping provides the most improvement when the source signal (most commonly the output of a pre-amp) is divided into bass frequencies for one amp, mids and highs for the other. The dividing is done with an electronic crossover which receives the... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". I do somewhat similar thought experiments all the time, including with members of The Beatles. In the documentary on The Band, George Harrison states he instantly felt a kinship with Robertson, hearing in Robbie’s guitar playing an emphasis and fo... |