bdp24
Responses from bdp24
| What is the Best LP Cover Art for you Wall Meet The Beatles, Dylan Bringing It All Back Home, The Band s/t ("brown" album). | |
| BEST FEMALE VOCAL EVER Tammy Wynette, runner up Brenda Lee. Newcomer Iris Dement (listen to "Walkin' Home"). | |
| BEST MALE VOCAL EVER Howlin’ Wolf, runner up Big Joe Turner. Then Ray Charles. | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? Even better is no cantilever (Decca/London). | |
| The current best band in the world? Keith and Jerry Lee Lewis, last men standing. | |
| The current best band in the world? I think Weezer are a great band. They strike me as being a blend of The Ramones and AC/DC, with their own approach and personality. I love 'em! | |
| The current best band in the world? @n80, so you consider The Stones the "current" best band/group in the world? I can see a person wanting to bestow upon them best "all-time" (whether I or anyone else agrees with that or not), but current? I'm not sure even they would still be self... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Me likey, ghosthouse. The verses are very similar to Albert King's "Born Under A Bad Sign" (same lick and groove), written by William Bell and Booker T. Jones. Cream also recorded the song, but Jack Bruce was no Albert King! | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @tzh21y, unfortunately, Buffalo Springfield were history by the time of CSN&Y. If you think about it, they had to be, as Stephen Stills and Neil Young were in both. | |
| Platter mat insanity Everybody I knew dumped their rubber mat when the Audioquest Sorbothane mat came out. Then companies started exploring, as Thom @ Galibier put it, impedance matching materials like Acetal (Delrin), Graphite, even lead. | |
| Substitute for Shindo in the UK EAR-Yoshino. | |
| Coupling vs Decoupling @jdeickhoff, to see and learn more about mass-on-spring isolation, go to You Tube and do a search for the Townshend Audio Seismic Pod video, on which that product is explained and demonstrated. | |
| The future of new music....... Young, modern engineers have been trained in very non-audiophile/purist recording methods and techniques, the term high fidelity meaning absolutely nothing to them. There is no absolute, all is relative. The idea of recreating an acoustic event is... | |
| Questions about my system. Tubes have to me always meant freedom from grain, dryness (lack of liquid transparency), and thinning of the harmonic complexity of instruments and voices. Also superior depth reproduction, the physical palpability of instruments and vocal cords, ... | |
| Questions about my system. "Warmth" is a coloration. A really good pre-amp, whether tube or solid state, sounds neither warm nor cold, neither soft nor hard. |