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| Best Female Vocalists Ballads Ooh, good one Peter! Another incredible female is Julie Miller, a great songwriter and singer, wife and partner of the best producer/singer/guitarist/bandleader (for Emmylou Harris) working today, Buddy Miller. | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads Mass popularity and my tastes are usually mutually exclusive, but there is a fairly recent new singer who has sold a lot of albums whom I really like. She's British, goes by the name of Adele, and is a great singer of ballads, even one by Dylan. S... | |
| Another Best sounding room Marty, I'm jealous! Santa Monica is beautiful, and hard to find a vacancy in. I come in once a month from the desert, bringing my mother-in-law to 20th and SM Blvd. for her Chemo treatments. I bring my dog and we walk along Pacific Coast Highway o... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has It's Richard Manuel of The Band I miss the most from my lifetime, but who wouldn't want J.S. Bach walking around! By the way, if JSB were, it would be Garth Hudson he would be hanging with, not Keith Emerson. | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Shows what I know! It's the first I heard of it, but I don't follow developments in the world of MC's. ALL those guys named are brilliant, glad every one of them is working in the field of our passion. Music in our homes at our whim---how fortunat... | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Keith Herron's championing of infinite loading is just one example of his creative mind, free of doctrine and dogma, but informed by knowledge and experience. Plus he's a musician! | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? Random thoughts: Not into wine myself, but I understand professional critics of the juice have been known to pan expensive stuff and praise economy-priced products. It may not be impossible to fool an educated palate, but harder than an ignorant o... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? The talk directly above brings to mind a couple of things: Seinfeld. It pretty much reflected where society and culture were at the time, and music was rarely mentioned though movies often were. Of course, the show was about actors. My sisters nev... | |
| Tubes, old and new Fantastic! Thanks Tom. | |
| amp or preamp to extend upper end Yeah, the Quattros, 5's, and 7's are much better speakers than the 2's and 3's. For their prices they'd better be! Brooks Berdan was a long-time Vandersteen dealer (until he was seduced by Wilson---the money?), and I've heard the old models a lot.... | |
| Which phono preamps among these three? There is now a BAT phono stage listed for $1295, I believe it is. | |
| Planars/ Electrostats benefits over box speakers? The interaction between speaker and room can effect apparent image size. But the components upstream of the speakers? I can see how they could make things smaller, but the speaker is the final arbitrator. The sound is being squeezed through those ... | |
| turn off... My problem is I can no longer fall asleep if there is no music playing. So I put a CD on the bedroom system, fall asleep, and the system is on all night, just idling. At least that system isn't tubed! When I was a kid living with the dad, I'd fall... | |
| BEL 1001 service in 2013? Though Brooks Berdan did indeed pass away, his tech Tom is still in the shop (Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia, CA) on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Tom is a great tech and great guy. | |
| Where does your user name come from? bdp is Black Diamond Pearl, the drum shell wrap I love and collect. 24 is the size bass drum I prefer and play, 24 inches in diameter. |