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| A song murdered by someone. I mentioned earlier Jackie Wilson's "Danny Boy." I cannot begin to express how much of a contradiction is that performance--overwrought, corny, excessively showy and cheesy, and it doesn't help that the song is a tired warhorse--but, I cannot thi... | |
| A song murdered by someone. A great song is open to a lot of different interpretations/versions. I think "Unchained Melody" is a great song. There are more than 1500 recorded versions of that song, and MANY are worthy of being played even if the Righteous Bros. version is ... | |
| A song murdered by someone. I love the Concrete Blonde "Everybody Knows." I have it on the soundtrack album for "Pump Up the Volume." There are LOTS of terrific covers of Leonard Cohen songs. Mostly because the songs are well written, but it is also probably the case tha... | |
| A song murdered by someone. "No Mr. Nice Guy," the Pat Boone album of metal done his way is a HIGHLY coveted album and hard to get without paying pretty big bucks. It is really quite a laugh listening to that one. I have not heard the "House of the Rising Sun" mentioned ab... | |
| A song murdered by someone. The original version of "Unchained Melody" is so superior that the Righteous Brothers cover shouldn't be played? | |
| A song murdered by someone. I don't know if great songs can ever be murdered by a cover--they survive and the cover just makes one appreciate the artistry of the original artist even more. I like almost all covers I hear of songs I like, but my least favorite form of covers... | |
| What is the average lifespan of a phono cartridge? It is possible to trace a different part of the groove and mitigate at least some groove damage; I've heard this myself. When a record is damaged by mis-tracking or a bad stylus, chunks of vinyl are removed so that the wall becomes pitted, it is ... | |
| A song murdered by someone. Don't forget Shatner's "Mr. Tambourine Man," another amazing cover. This, and a bunch of other aweful covers can be found on a CD called "Golden Throats." That album included Sebastian Cabot doing "It Ain't Me Babe). That cover prompted me to f... | |
| A song murdered by someone. Wow! a worse version of "Africa" than the original; I would have never thought that was possible. What next, a bad cover of "We Built This CIty?" Actually I found one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JphLIPqhpg&list=RD3JphLIPqhpg&start_r... | |
| A song murdered by someone. I really love bad covers, they are fun to listen to. Nazareth's "Love Hurts" falls in that category. I particularly love hearing Shonen Knife cover "Top of the World, " and maybe even Dolly Parton doing "Stairway to Heaven." | |
| What is the average lifespan of a phono cartridge? When a stylus is worn, or the suspension has begun to fail, it will not track as cleanly as before. This is first evident on more difficult to track passages, such as when a female vocalist its a not really hard or gets a bit too close to the mic... | |
| Advice and help understanding, choosing a Widebander / Single Full Range Driver speaker? The Charney system I heard with Voxativ driver sounded very good for a full-range dynamic driver system. To me, the only short-coming is that the top end is not fully extended.I recently heard an open baffle system using a full-range G.I.P. field... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers Gifted Listener, Command and Deja Vu are all great places to stop and listen--very friendly and attentive, no high pressure sales tactics. Of these, Command probably has the widest array of gear. But, it is Deja Vu that is the utterly unique exp... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? It would be helpful to know what ruled out some of the contenders. I like a lot of the speakers you mentioned. I notice that they mostly fall in the warmer side of the the coloration spectrum, and tend to deliver rich, well saturated, timbre rat... | |
| "New" Western Electric wire Alex,I have not heard the regular EML300B in a side-by-side comparison with the meshplate version. What I have heard in a side-by-side comparison is the meshplate 2a3 and the regular plate 2a3 (I owned both versions of 2a3 tube). I have also hea... |