bdp24
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| I'm here for the enthusiasts, not the snobbery When I was kid, a neighborhood young man crashed his motorcycle. The gas tank ruptured, the gas flooding out and exploding into flames, melting the face shield of his helmet onto his face, badly burning it. The rest of his life had been determined... | |
| magnapans.7i and subs @turnbown, thanks for the additional REL info and correction. As everyone always mentions the "unique" REL high level connection, I assumed low level aren't provided. As they say about assuming..... ;-). Does the Speakon connector provide a better... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Another analogy: To be a great race car driver does not require one have the ability to build a race car.I would say having a deep understanding of music is a more fitting requisite to be an audiophile. But why the "fitness" test? IMO, being a per... | |
| I'm here for the enthusiasts, not the snobbery I never rode, so haven’t had bugs get caught in my teeth. Now hair, sure. ’Cause I have long hair, I mean. Why, what were you thinkin’? ,-)When J. Gordon Holt started Stereophile in 1962, many hi-fi enthusiasts WERE amateur engineers, having had t... | |
| Pick my album If you haven’t heard Dave Edmunds’ 1st album on Swan Song (personally signed by DE fan Robert Plant), give a listen to his Get It album. 100% American Rock ’n’ Roll by the great Welshmen, who later produced The Stray Cats, The Fabulous Thunderbird... | |
| Sexy singer(s) and/or song(s) Marilyn Monroe: "Happy Birthday To You", the you of course being President Kennedy. Somewhat related, I never heard Traci Lords' album. | |
| Pick my album Excellent @iron57, you know yer stuff! | |
| Best tube preamplifier for under $15k EAR-Yoshino 912, a favorite of Art Dudley. | |
| Pick my album Philosophy Of The World by The Shaggs from 1969, a favorite of Frank Zappa. Reissued in 1980 on Rounder Records, at the suggestion of Terry Adams and Tom Ardolino of NRBQ. | |
| magnapans.7i and subs @johnnyaa, the statement above that REL subs connect "unlike anything else" is incorrect. Rythmik subs also provide for "High level" connection (from the main power amp, on binding posts), but unlike REL's offer the alternative "Low level" (from a... | |
| Damn, what a joy to have good College FM stations. Oops. While The Wailers WERE an early-60’s Garage band (the U.S. Wailers, not the Reggae band of course), it was The Kingsmen (both The Wailers and The Kingsmen were from the Northwest) who had the hit with "Louie Louie", written and recorded in 1... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, were you into Rank & File during their heyday (the 1980’s) ? Alejandro was the guitarist in the band, Chip and Tony Kinman being the songwriters/singers in that Cowpunk band. They played in L.A. regularly (though based in San Francisco)... | |
| Damn, what a joy to have good College FM stations. @whatjd, we must be about the same age ;-) . Though the pre-British Invasion Pop music was dismissed as disposable fluff by the mid-late-60’s counterculture and critics---who insisted on bands being primarily Blues-based---they were mistaken. Your... | |
| Upcoming Neil Young album, Homegrown Vinyl. A must have? @tablejockey, yeah, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is great musically, but the recorded sound is not very good. The low end is rolled off (no doubt in anticipation of the poor tracking abilities of the arms & cartridges presumably owned by th... | |
| Ever feel like a "low dollar" customer that your dealer doesn't think worth their time? @bomd, I too have found Echo to be cool. I had been at the old location, and recently accompanied a friend of mine to the new store in Beaverton when he went there to get a new belt for his Pro-Ject turntable. Though it was only a (iirc) $20 sale,... |