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| What are the 5 most overrated rock albums? So many musically pedestrian and mediocore records and so little time... Can't really disagree w/ the titles named so far. Might add Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick. Most Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons releases are weak, predictable and as tasty as sty... | |
| With Wadia, pre-amp or no pre-amp With most (possiblly all) their designs Wadia recommends balanced ics for the shortest signal path and best performance. I went from Stealth PGS (excellent RCA's) to a balanced pair of Nordost Quattro fils w/ a Wadia 21i feeding a Coda 11 amp. The... | |
| Techno Anyone? Not really sure about where the boundries are on techno as a category (really good stuff isn't usually right in the middle anyway),but the new Squarepusher and his Feed Me Weird Things disc are pretty interesting. Steve Fisk, 999 Levels of Undo is... | |
| Guitar Alphabet. Please fill out unused letters... Some pretty good K's, Volker Kriegel, Steve Khan, Mike Keneally, Ryo Kawasaki and Jackie King also put out some fine stuff. Geez,I must have no life: John Abercrombie, Neal Akchote, Coste Apetera, Toto Blanke, Gary Boyle, Michael Brook, Roman Bunk... | |
| Best XLR cable for Wadia 850? Don't have an 850, but w/ the 21, Nordost Quattros are amazing. Had Stealth PGS (RCA)that were excellent, but not as alive as the Quattro fils. The guy I bought them from owns an improved 860 and has no desire to check out anything else (except ma... | |
| HDCD: What do you like? Erik Friedlander/ Topaz: cello, bass, alto sax, percussion. All the musicians on this one are obviously very accomplished players (and listeners). The harmonics from the bass and cello, the juxtaposition of attack and decay, and the richness of to... | |
| Paul Dresher - worth exploring Saw the Dresherensemble way back in 97 at the Music Recital Hall at Sac State, a couple of the pieces were premiered there and to my knowledge have not been released on CD. Channels Passing, from Dark Blue Circumstance was played there. The work h... | |
| Paul Dresher - worth exploring WOW, it's great to see Dresher pop up on this site. Few musical experinces hold a candle to taking in the Dresherensemble live in a good room. An amazing extension of what Zappa, Stravinsky, and King Crimson were into. It's some of the best stuff ... | |
| Progressive talk Yeah, just picked up the 1st Neu (w/Hallo Gallo), it's a beutifully crude buzz. Another great one (and sonically a little jucier) w/ the same guitarist (Rother) would be Harmonia-Deluxe. It's really kind of a Cluster record w/lazy lysergic guitar ... | |
| Dedicated AC lines??? I used 2 conductor twisted, stranded, silver plated, teflon insulated and jacketed 8AWG copper wire into a Power Port, (had to ream out some plastic on the outlet to accomadate 8AWG). Sometimes (often) my system sounds too bright. Didn't notice th... | |
| Progressive talk Davej857 is an extremely well informed consumer of German psycho active riffage and rightly states that labels and categories are trivial. The Crack in the Cosmic Egg book is a useful (but flawed) map if you want to check out some of the great war... | |
| rock/jazz fusion Buckethead smokes on alot of stuff (Transmutation is one of the best) Jonas Hellborg Octave of the Holy Innocents,is spiff too. I guess Buckethead toured w/ Buns & Hoses, but The Cure? What record is he on? The Jazz is dead stuff is tired old ... | |
| Wall Outlets? Whats the difference? Hi Whknopp, I wanted to try the JPS AC wire for my dedicated line, but at $18 per foot for a 55' run I went for an alternative. Getting 8AWG into the power port was a(probably unnecessary) pain in the arse. If it looks like there's a good possibil... | |
| Rock albums that sound good on your system? Most major label rock stuff sounds like poop (no matter how much it gets polished) when it gets put next to:Can-Ege BamyasiGuru Guru-s/t, or KanguruHarriet Tubman-PrototypeKollektiv- s/tMassacre-Funny Valentine, or MeltdownMelvins-BullheadPolytown... | |
| Quality of recording vs Musical tastes I guess anyone who has been addicted to music for a couple of decades or so is likely to have expanded or changed their musical tastes to some extent. Alot of times before buying if I suspect good (or poor)recording quality I'm influenced as a con... |