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| Cover songs that are better than the originals. Ha! slaw’s Richard Thompson cover of "Oops!...I Did It Again" is genius! Fun topic. And djones51’s The Band’s "I Shall Be Released" is one I wish I had made (maybe I did in the similar thread?). Richard Manuel’s falsetto vocal is really special. F... | |
| A song murdered by someone. Aw geez, how could I have forgotten (I should be so lucky) The Who’s version of "Shakin’ All Over"? The Guess Who improved on the Johnny Kidd & The Pirates original, The Who quite the opposite. Daltry’s vocals set a new standard for hoariness.... | |
| Speed kills.... Yes Erik, absolutely. ESL’s are almost often implemented as dipoles (sound launched forward and rearward), but not always as line sources. None of the Quads are line sources, but all are dipoles (though the rear of the 57 comes covered in felt---t... | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. The Beatles: "Rock & Roll Music" (Chuck Berry original of course).Dave Edmunds: "I Hear You Knocking" (Smiley Lewis original); "Born To Be With You" (The Chordettes original); "Singing The Blues" (Marty Robbins original); "Almost Saturday Nigh... | |
| Bands with great second albums @roxy54---Good call on the 2nd (s/t) Seatrain album. On it they do my favorite version of Lowell George’s "Willin’".Randy Newman’s 12 Songs.Paul Simon’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.Lyle Lovett’s Pontiac.Emmylou Harris’ Elite Hotel.Ry Cooder’s Into Th... | |
| A song murdered by someone. stargazer3, glad you like Nazareth's take on "Love Hurts". It's such a great song, there's more than one way to do it. Taste is too subjective and personal for everyone to agree on everything, so don't take offense when I say that I find the singe... | |
| Pneupod NP-1 Pneumatic Isolation Feet - Feedback please The foot looks very good. Townshend Audio takes a different approach to providing isolation, using a spring inside a bellows-type semi-sealed container. You can see a video demonstrating the Seismic Pod’s effectiveness on You Tube. It sells for ar... | |
| Bands with great second albums Oh yeah, Ram by Paul McCartney. Not a band of course, but that wasn't absolutely literal, right? | |
| Seeking listening help in Austin area What in the Hell is "electroscopic" and "mangetostatic" operation?! | |
| Speed kills.... Erik, did you meant to say "the perception of speed does NOT come from dispersion alone"? Or is that in fact the main tenet of your assertion?For speaker designers who have used the Quad 57 as their standard for natural timbre reproduction, I’ve r... | |
| Bands with great second albums Some great nominations, particularly The Band (big surprise ;-), Neil Young, and Procol Harum. I’ll add Bob Dylan’s The Freewheelin’, Buffalo Springfield’s Again, The Byrds’ Turn! Turn! Turn!, Juliana Raye’s Something Peculiar (great album produce... | |
| SAT Comparison I'm reminded of the room romance novel cover male model Fabio put his very expensive system ($2m says Fabio; Infinity IRS, Krell, etc.) into. Hilarious---all marble and glass! | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it If you want to stay with tubes, it's simple: get yourself a Music Reference amplifier. Roger Modjeski makes push/pull pentode, push-pull triode, single-ended triode, OTL's, direct drive amps for ESL's (no output transformer, no ESL input transform... | |
| Your Favorite Cover Songs? The Four Tops: "Just Walk Away Renee" (original by The Left Banke). Unusual for me to like equally two completely different interpretations of a song (in this case a great one), but, hey, it’s The Four Tops!The Band: "Long Black Veil" (original by... | |
| For those of us over 60.. slaw, I don’t know what you mean by "best describes you/your life as you see it." I’ll just say the band that currently really knocks me out is The Fabulous Superlatives, Marty Stuart’s "backing" band (they are actually more like collaborators), c... |