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| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Rarely mentioned, or even thought of (because of our focus on technique rather than musicality?), is George Harrison. His song parts are exquisite, as are some of his solos. A particular favorite of mine is that in "Nowhere Man"---very simple, pre... | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE Bifwynne, having an ARC repair tech nearby does make ownership of their power amps more reasonable. Imagine having to ship a heavy power amp to Minnesota every time a tube blows! In his writings on amp design and building-in reliability, Roger Mod... | |
| Some Musical Truths Mine were offered deadly seriously. | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE I wondered why there were always so many ARC power amps on the trade-in shelves at Brooks Berdan Ltd. Sure, he was a VTL, Jadis, and Mac dealer, so there would be trade-ins, but why so many ARC? Brooks' tech Tom told me he was constantly repairing... | |
| Do Countries Have a "House" Sound Also to the nature of the listening rooms endemic to the country of origin. British listening rooms are often small and of brick construct, hence small bass-shy mini-monitors (the room structure does not suffer much bass loss, unlike U.S.A. sheetr... | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE Do you ever get the feeling that ARC deliberately leaves out the circuit refinements that they end up offering for each of their models a year or two or three after each new model is introduced? As a cynical way to create business in between truly... | |
| The Band: S/T and/or Music from the Big Pink Absolutely. Over-playing was rampant in '69 (actually, it still is)---I have no doubt that's the first thing Clapton heard, the economy and taste with which all members of The Band played, the opposite of Cream (Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker may hav... | |
| Looking for really fine cables at really low price Tajacobs has raised the per foot price of the 16ga to $1.49, while the 14ga remains $1.79. | |
| Short speaker cable recommendation Thanks Rob, found the reference to balanced 8402. | |
| Some Musical Truths Dan Hicks: "How can I miss you when you won't go away".Harlan Howard & Bobby Braddock: "God may forgive you (but I won't)".B. Dylan: "We're idiots babe, it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves". | |
| The Band: S/T and/or Music from the Big Pink Oh (not him again!), one other detail ya'll may (or may not ;-) find interesting: The distinct and huge difference in the sound of the snare drum heard on MFBP vs. the brown album is not from the room, the manner of recording, or anything of that ... | |
| Short speaker cable recommendation Is Belden 8402 usable balanced? My main inter-connect (between pre and power) is balanced, standard three pin. Doesn't that require co-ax cable? Is the Belden two-conductor with shield? | |
| The Band: S/T and/or Music from the Big Pink I just again watched the clip of Clapton and Harrison talking about Music From Big Pink. Here's the great quote about it from Eric: "I listened to this album (MFBP), and I thought, this is it---this is where music was supposed to have gone for a l... | |
| Scratches on acrylic platter Clearaudio Emotion The circles could be from the polishing of the surface during manufacture. You could try to remove them with the Novus plastic products. | |
| My apologies to all... I didn't see the post or the reaction to it, but I know from hanging at Brooks Berdan's shop on Saturdays that some audiophiles will spend great sums of money to maximize their system's capabilities in that one area---"soundstaging". The obsession... |