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| Where can I purchase some good quality lubricating oil for my turntable Mobil 1. | |
| Analogue Productions Pet Sounds Reissues Which version did you just play, slaw? The same as the op’s? Now I definitely have to get it. | |
| Analogue Productions Pet Sounds Reissues Not this time, boxer! Pet Sounds continues to be considered by many as Brian’s peak, but I actually prefer his next phase---the Smile era. "Heroes and Villains" is way better than "Good Vibrations"! I was obsessed with Smile for years, getting eve... | |
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers Kosst---I can’t speak for all DIY loudspeaker kits, but in the GR Research products you are getting an advanced speaker designed by one of the best in the business. Danny Richie does outside work for non-DIY speaker companies, who pay him to desig... | |
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers While on the GR Research site, check out the 12" servo-feedback subwoofer drivers---one for sealed enclosures, another for OB/dipole applications, and the cabinet plans for 1- a double-walled enclosure with sand between the two walls for the 12" d... | |
| Your favourite 2017 album.? dlcockrum, it is indeed a shame when good music is available only in bad sound. One quality singer whose music is consistently poorly recorded is Delbert McClinton. So bad as to be unlistenable, even for me! | |
| The best books on music I too highly recommend anything by Nick Tosches, but Greil Marcus is a little too academic and intentionally intellectualizing for me. Ben Campbell mentioned Paul Williams, who was the editor at the great Crawdaddy magazine, the first "adult" Rock... | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? Ha! Nope, it is due to it's "Direct Sensing" design, lack of cantilever and rubber suspension, and who knows what else. Even without an electronic damping circuit, Decca/Londons sound more "alive", immediate, dynamic, and exciting (thrilling is a ... | |
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers Another supplier of DIY loudspeaker kits is GR Research, designed by Danny Richie. | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? The design of the Decca pickup creates an inherent electronic resonance. In the mid-1980’s I had a long conversation with the greatly-missed Harvey Rosenberg---a Decca fanatic and expert, during which he explained to me how an electronic damping c... | |
| Your favourite 2017 album.? A lot of my favorite music was unfortunately recorded in indifferent sound. Nothing you can do about that, but if the music is good enough one can suspend disbelief. | |
| Autographed Albums Recently I've been unpacking my stuff after my move from S.CA to S.WA, including my poster collection. I rediscovered a framed show poster from Rockpile's October 17, 1980 performance at The Hollywood Palladium, given to me as a gift some years la... | |
| Analogue Productions Pet Sounds Reissues Yet another version? This is getting ridiculous! I'm all for high quality, but the recording itself isn't that great to begin with---veiled and opaque, not much in the way of highs and lows, very mid-fi. Real good music, though. I already have a h... | |
| Your favourite 2017 album.? Rodney Crowell's Close Ties will be in my shopping bag next time I'm at my record store, the excellent Music Millennium in Portland. His The Houston Kid is one of my favorite albums of the past few decades, it's that good. | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Slaw, I haven’t dug real deep into the Trans-Fi arm yet, as I’m not ready to buy one just yet. I’m just about to mount a Zeta on my Rock, which will be easy---the stock arm plate (a horrid, thin stamped steel one) is made for the Linn spacing, whi... |