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| The sense of smell evokes memories, while the sense of hearing evokes emotions That’s more like it, MrD ;-) . The 24 refers to my preferred bass drum size (24"), the bdp to my favorite vintage drum wrap, black diamond pearl. I also like that all the letters are flipped versions of the same shape. Aesthetics matter! | |
| Best MM? $1500 will buy one a London Super Gold. It's a Moving Iron, not Moving Magnet, producing an output voltage of 5mV! The Herron phono amp has enough headroom to handle the London's unusually high output; not all do. The cartridge is not for everyone... | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? The good news is there are a lot of used LP's out there. The bad news is many of them are damaged beyond repair. I was in Music Millennium last week, and the sounds of a familiar late-60's/early-70's album (try as I might, I just can't recall whic... | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. So true n80. 1968 was truly a landmark year, with an abnormal number of either really great or highly influential (or both!) albums. Two Byrds albums (The Notorious Byrd Brothers and Sweetheart Of The Rodeo) came out that year!1968 saw the debut a... | |
| The New American Songbook Ultimately, it comes down to what constitutes, or qualifies as, a "song". Thoughts on that question vary greatly. | |
| The sense of smell evokes memories, while the sense of hearing evokes emotions One other point to be made is that for music that includes lyrics, their higher intelligibility (afforded by higher quality recording and reproduction), and the beauty of a voice actually containing beauty (not all do, nor are intended to) capture... | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. Speaking of Van Morrison (a favorite singer of mine; I was lucky enough to see and hear him live in Them in 1967), he and Band pianist/singer Richard Manuel sing a duet on "4% Pantomime" on The Band's Cahoots album, and it is fanfreakingtastic! | |
| The sense of smell evokes memories, while the sense of hearing evokes emotions Actually, my post above over-simplifies the question. Better sonic quality in either recording, playback, or both, can make more audible two instruments, or two voices, playing or singing notes that are close but different that lesser recordings o... | |
| The sense of smell evokes memories, while the sense of hearing evokes emotions It is the chords, melody, harmony, counterpoint, inversions, etc. in music that evoke emotion. That can be provided by even a car radio. Higher quality reproduction has more effect on the intellectual properties in music. | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. Don’t fret n80, your experience is part of the LP learning curve! For us older guys who already had LP collections before the CD was introduced, learning about all the different pressings of an LP, and the sonic differences imbedded in their groov... | |
| Roger Modjeski discussing tubes at Burning Amp 2018 Nelson’s talk is equally interesting and illuminating. Both he and Roger were speaking to knowledgeable DIY’ers, but what they had to say should be of interest to the rest of us as well. At least half of what each had to say is above my technical ... | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. @slaw, sorry for what Steve? No apology necessary, everything you said is fine by me! I agree about $30 being too much for an "RL" pressing of the brown LP (let alone $60!); I’ve had original UK pressings of both MFBP and the brown album since the... | |
| FR64 cartridge suggestions George told me the 15K Ohms impedance setting on the moving magnet switch in his Zesto Andros phono amp was put there specifically for London cartridges, a fair number of his friends and Zesto owners using it with that cartridge design. | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. @n80, I feel I should tell you Music From Big Pink sounds like no other album you have ever heard, and some find it takes quite a few playings for it to "reveal" itself. I myself didn't understand it for about a year after it's release, not gettin... | |
| Cartridge for Symphonic music . The ultimate turntable for any Decca or London is the Townshend Audio Rock, the turntable with a damping trough at the headshell end of the pickup arm. As for arms, old favorites include the Zeta, Fidelity Research, Mechanic, and Mission, but any ... |