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| Advice Needed on Choosing a Turntable I've had both the Thorens TD-125 MK.2 and the VPI HW-19 Mk.2, and much prefer the VPI. You can pick one up for around $500, or $1000 with an arm. If you find the table without an arm for around $500, you'll have plenty left for an arm of your own ... | |
| Kimber "house sound" To truly ascertain the sound of a length of wire, a bypass test would need to be performed. Sounds like a job for Peter Moncreiff! The output of a pair of mono amps, each placed directly behind one of a pair of speakers, directly into the speakers... | |
| Takes one to know one Great post, @tostadosunidos. I met Levon only once, at his book signing. He was the last man on Earth who would have "gotten above his raisin'". I saw him with his own band at The House Of Blues after his throat surgery (for the cancer---he was a ... | |
| Elac B6 Modification GR Research (Danny Richies' company) offers speaker kits (which include the drivers, x/o parts, etc. Everything you need but the enclosure, which can be gotten from Parts Express) priced below, at, and above the price of the Elac speakers. Of cour... | |
| Magnepan Owners @polarin, go to the Planar Speaker Asylum Forum, go into the Magnepan section, and do a thread search for modifications. There are detailed discussions of what members have done to their Maggies, with pics.Disconnecting the fuse holder and install... | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? @clio09, I have a nice pair of the LFT-4 I could let go. Research that model, and if you're interested maybe we can do some horse trading! | |
| Timbernation Platform Problems $300 will buy a lot more isolation than a piece of maple wood provides. I'm mystified by their popularity. | |
| Takes one to know one Good points, one and all. onhwy61, all The Band albums are quality, but the first two get all the attention because they were so revolutionary and ground-breaking. Plus, they had no filler songs---it was all Grade A material. The last album had on... | |
| Takes one to know one Robbie didn't withhold John Simon's royalty payments, Capitol Records did. It's amazing how often that happens in the music business. When The Dixie Chicks had the number one album in the world, they weren't receiving their checks from Sony. Their... | |
| Takes one to know one @dragunski, I heard Music From Big Pink when it was released, but didn’t "get" it---it was over my head. It troubled me that I didn’t, as the smartest guys I knew loved it. It wasn’t until I saw and heard Dewey Martin (drummer of Buffalo Springfie... | |
| Takes one to know one @jond, isn’t "It Makes No Difference" as beautiful a song as you’ve ever heard?! I love Rick’s voice, it’s so unique. I love how he sang "Long Black Veil---a Lefty Frizzell song (Rick loved Country music)---on Music From Big Pink. As were Levon’s ... | |
| Takes one to know one I’ll be darned, Al! John did a fantastic job producing the first two Band albums. The third (Stage Fright) was done by Todd Rundgren, an odd choice it seemed to me then and now. It was a major disappointment after the incredible first and second, ... | |
| Takes one to know one @onhwy61, I agree about a band sharing songwriting credits, even though it’s a rather Communist idea ;-). The Ramones did it, I’m sure there are others.Levon Helm’s argument was that the instrumental parts he and the others created for The Band’s ... | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? For a while I was searching for a pair of the ET LFT-6, the biggest panel Bruce made. Over 6' tall, each panel contained three of the LFT drivers, two of the ribbon tweeters. The only pair I found for sale were in Asia, and the shipping plus not b... | |
| Takes one to know one For a member of a successful band/group to go on to have a successful solo career is very rare. A group benefits from the members’ combined talents, no one of them having enough talent on his own to make for a solo career. After The Beatles change... |