stuartk
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| Best best ballads that refer to a US State Sweet Home Alabama is a "ballad" ???Hmm... learn something new every day. In that case, my vote is "Montana" by F. Zappa... | |
| Nicks or McVie..... @middlemass:" Neither. But Stevie used to be hot". . and what, exactly, does this have to do with music ???? | |
| Do You Ever Find Yourself Unable to Listen To Your System? @sheridanmartinj:Why don't you find a more appropriate forum for your proselytizing?And no, I'm not an atheist. | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? @lalitk2: "I believe neither analog nor digital are plug n play, they both require fair amount of attention to detail". +1 | |
| Chicago Transit Authority You're welcome, robert53! | |
| Nicks or McVie..... The singer is Emily Jolland, BTW... | |
| Nicks or McVie..... Stevie Nicks is, in my opinion, one of the most highly overrated singers. Compare her to this, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hbNkLyqUU | |
| Do You Ever Find Yourself Unable to Listen To Your System? There is nothing abnormal about your experience. Pretty much everything in this world is cyclical. There is very little that is unaffected by this-- relationships, weather, politics, hobbies such as audio. . . and, of course, human emotions. I do... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Clapton asserts he never invited G. baker to join Blind Faith and given the ongoing war between Baker and Bruce, which had thrust Clapton into the thankless role of perpetual mediator, it makes sense that he wasn't eager for a reunion with either ... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: "I neglected to mention how much I dislike the attempt to combine Rock with Classical, a ridiculous notion imo"I don't know if it's ridiculous but I don't like it. "Clapton’s playing over the years has sure been hit-or-miss, all over the map". ... | |
| 30 year old player, worth an upgrade? @ertorque:""The CD40 does not have digital outputs. It is the cheapest Marantz player that has the TDA1541A chip"My bad-- I should've suspected that a CDP that old might not have digital outputs.keep in mind, if you do go with separates, you'll ha... | |
| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. @bdp24:"Yes @thecarpathian, and correctly so. It is also often mis-pronounced tim-ber by the musically uneducated (no offense intended) . Timber! is what you yell when a tree has been felled. ;-)"So, when the tree surgeon you've hired misjudges hi... | |
| 30 year old player, worth an upgrade? Why not keep the Marantz as a transport and put all your money into a separate DAC ? | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: "But Prog bands, they make music which assumes complicated song structures and hard-to-physically perform instrument parts are ends unto themselves. And the music is made as, it sounds to me, a form of bragging: see how good I/we am/are? At the ri... | |
| Listening to digital and analog @dhite71:"It has been a bit of a psychological struggle for me where I was resistant to liking digital. I have invested so much in vinyl and it takes so much more effort that it didn't seem right to accept digital"Appreciate your honesty. |