martykl
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| Favorite 845 tube monoblocks One that was born in the USA: I have Cary 805s driving Verity Parsifal Encores. Joule-Electra pre-amp. | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... Bongo,What's your LA club called? I'm in Calabasas and always looking for interesting opportunities to see live performances. Our local club tends to be more nostalgia driven (good thing I like a lot of the old timers, too). I also get to McCabe's... | |
| Should I try to improve speakers at $2000.00 range BTW, in addition to the Vandys, there are many other $2k replacement speakers that would also get you more bandwidth than the SL 700s. Many small $2k floorstanders (I own the very fine omnidirectional Ohm 100s, which are one example) are available... | |
| Should I try to improve speakers at $2000.00 range I'll take a different approach - and largely steer clear of the value debate (new products vs old products/technology advances vs. high end price inflation) - and point out that you can probably add an octave of bass extension to your system (even... | |
| Danny Gatton & Joey DeFrancesco Rock solid time, crazy whole-tone and pedal steel licks totally honest guitar playing without relying on gimmicks.True, but ironic. There was a time when Gatton was best known for his magic dingus box and looping tricks (that would sometimes confu... | |
| Danny Gatton & Joey DeFrancesco Utterly fantastic stuff. The live Redneck Jazz Explosion CDs with Gatton and Buddy Emmons (on steel guitar) are also mind bending performances.Marty | |
| Two JL F212s verses two Velodyne 18 plus? Clean output capability and damping control would be my top priority, were I in your shoes. I suspect that either of your options will be great in your modestly large room (on that basis), so you probably can't go wrong, but... If you don't have A... | |
| Name 3 under appreciated pop/rock drummers Jean Yves Tola from 16 Horsepower. Not for technique, per se. But, IMHO, few drummers define the sound of their band the way Tola does. This is a particularly difficult trick in this circumstance, since the band's lead singer, David Eugene Edwards... | |
| Best cover songs? I love Fred Froom's cover of Todd Rundgren's "Pretending to Care". It's a really tough song to nail. I've heard several cover versions, but all pale next to Froom's, IMHO. Todd's original comes up short by comparison and even Jennifer Warnes (who'... | |
| Live Performances Gone Awry Aha! Fistfights among band members....forgot about that subgenre. Ray Davies vs. Dave Davies at The Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ on (IIRC) the "Schoolboys in Disgrace" tour. Brief, but notable. Nearly empty house, too.Marty | |
| Best Rock Album in 2011 ..and a pretty good week closer to the middle of the fairway, too. I just picked up new material from Foo Fighters and Wilco on the recommendation of those above. I blow hot and cold on both bands, but these are two excellent records. I also got M... | |
| Recordings with BASS Jennifer Warnes' "The Hunter" features a really well recorded rhythm section. | |
| Stacking sub-woofers It's generally a bad idea that undoes (virtually) all of the benefits of using 2 subs - that idea being that using 2 subs will create 2 different (hopefully offsetting) patterns of reinforcing/destructuve interaction between each sub and the room.... | |
| Live Performances Gone Awry I just remembered another couple of incidents. The first is slightly OT, but maybe close enough.John Lennon hosted a concert at MSG in New York, called "One To One". It was the end of a day on which volunteers spent the day with disabled children ... | |
| ROTEL to PRIMALUNA with SONUS FABER CREMONA M I briefly used my PL 6 monos with Cremonas. The Cremona does need some grunt (I'd call it a "modestly difficult" speaker to drive), but that particular PL model was a very good match. The Cremonas ended up in my living room with a smaller, more "s... |