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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acker_Bilk?wprov=sfla1 I bought this album in the thriftstore because it says 'sansui system q.s.' Was curious how it would sound on my system... Very mellow and liquid...

I have 4 versions of Stravinsky's Firebird. It's quite interesting to learn how different directors and orchestra interpret this powerful piece, each with their own temperament and the style of the era: Pierre Boulez with the BBC Symphone Orchestra, Pierre Boulez with the New York Philharmonic, Eugene Ormandy with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Claudio Abbado with the London Symphony Orchestra. My favourite is in bold.

Things just seem to happen in the music business. Lil back story her name is Valerie and Dion was watching her just dancing alone between the tables in a bar one night in South Florida. He said he HAD to write a song about her, which he did on the ride home. Then asked Mark Knopfler to join him on the song. His new album "Stomping Ground" dropped recently. Yes, that is her in the video. Might wanna check the list of artists on that new album of his too. Enjoy!

A new sealed record came today by Amazon, and I was so happy to see it arrive - I just cleaned it and started playing within 10 min 🤘 I had to also check the pressing version Its the Bernie Grundman mastering version based on the dead wax runout. Typing in the number on the cover was a different version and was relieved that it was the pressing I was after But again no record protector sleeve ( lucky I have some archive antistatic sleeves on hand ) Artist - Nirvana Title - Nevermind Album ID - https://www.discogs.com/release/12885936-Nirvana-Nevermind

Found a band that's new to me and from fifty years ago. First song I know from Metallica's Garage cover tune LP. Second from Ted's repertoire of encores, or AC/DC's encores... Saw MWM's just for fun a minute ago so this goes along with and would ROCK with the set @geoff. did after the hook-up.

My goodness, both inlaws reported testing pos with it yesterday. They are in their 70s and isolating at home with symptoms similar to having the common cold. No other symptoms at this time. No fever.

I've been blessed...

she´s reserved for @dirtmudd

That's a cool story, great song and the girl is Hot!👍

The D-28 was indeed a great guitar. The Guild is the Jumbo body shape, with the round lower bout. It probably should have been listed at a JF model, but the label was an F body shape. I had to have the bridge re-glued in the mid '90s, and the guy who did the repair said the intonation was about as perfect as it gets. EDIT: just took these pics this weekend 01/20.of it.

I don't know how they compare to your current setup, but I do know a pair of 8000F and a 600C for $500 is a steal. Just how damaged are they?

Seems we think similarly I use a Fender Super Champ, or s Marshall Reverb 12 The Marshall is an incredible SS amp Rumour has it that Billy Gibbons mainly recorded all ZZTop albums with one

Well, I'm late to the party but that's nothing new. I've pretty much been a class AB guy all my life or at least since I've been into audio which has been a while. I can't comment on the original ncore amps but i recently purchased an amp with the Purifi modules. Im absolutely in love with it. The way it controls the woofers is nothing short of amazing. I wasn't expecting that. The micro detail it reveals it the recordings was a nice surprise as well along with the dead silent background. I'm impressed to say the least. No way I'd characterize the sound as dry or sterile. The amp came with the option to return for a refund. No way I'm sending it back.

Since he is mentally "pretty good," I think he should decide what equipment is to be sold -- unless he already has. Will whoever sees him give him our regards and thank him for his years of wisdom on the forum?

Quad of some ugly tubes for my DAC Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Order from whomever decides to respond to email or pick up the phone.

I see no advantage to bi-wire unless you have a very long speaker cable run. Then, in this case you can run an very large gauge wire for the woofer for good damping, this wire will now have enough inductance to possibly effect the high frequency response so you run a smaller gauge high strand count wire for the mids and tweeter that doesn't require the amount of damping the woofer does. Other than that I see zero advantage to bi-wire.

just picked up Close to the Edge and Fragile to play on my new MOFI TT!!!

Them. It's always them.

While on the search for a low budget acoustic I came across this early 80's Sigma DR-28S, made in Japan. After everything settled out it worked out to a $100 guitar. Laminated rosewood back and sides but a solid spruce top that had been in guitar form long enough to forget about being a tree and it was now used to making music.

Eric Burdon declares " WAR " 1970, LA Records

When it comes to the type of jazz guitar accompaniment (in this case, also the type of soloing) I would like to share the piece below in the link. Surely some of you will know him but some may not so much. The Canadian Ed Bickert, one of the most exceptional jazz guitarists in my view, the recording is from 1974 with Paul Desmond, Ron Carter and Connie Kay. Here the guitar has to do a bigger job because it is the only harmony instrument and no wind instruments. Sometimes Ed sounds like a Fender Rhodes (the chord play, not the „sound“), sometimes like violin pizzicato e.g. at 2:52. He has a beautiful jazz sound that comes from the heart but ironically for decades he only played his Telecaster (with humbuckers) as in this recording. I read somewhere the story that Jim Hall was supposed to play on this record but he suggested that his old friend Ed take over the part. So we have this beautiful recording with Ed. Also, I absolutely agree with you, CBM, one should not "fill up" everything with too wide fat chords. Gives the recording a try

Don't see about it yet in the lounge RIP Ronnie Spector

Not in HD but don't need that for the great atmosphere this old one makes.

The top is spruce, the back and sides are indian rosewood. The top was nearly white when I bought it, but has mellowed into a nice color over the past 47 or so years.

Class A is still class A, the most linear of all the choices. This is not to say other forms do not sound good but technically still class A is class A. In other words it is the standard to compare other forms of amplification. I have not followed the thread too much on the new ACA mini but unless I am mistaken it is a PP and the older ACA is SE. I did build an ACA a few years back and it did sound really good considering it's cost. Tube sound in a SS amplifier is the best way I know to call many of Nelson's designs.

Is there an echo in here?

It's basketball season.

Family in Peru are fine so far, knock on wood. They've all been vac'd...3rd booster blah,blah ,blah. Thanks for asking. My nephews fiance did catch it, but was just a mild discomfort for her.

Not long after I lost the Taylor 310 I started looking for another acoustic. See, there are a number of nights as I put the kids to bed where I will sing and play songs with them. I'm not a great singer or guitarist by any means but it brings us a bit of joy and when their mom destroyed my guitar she took that away from us for a time. So I found this Fender F310-12 just down the mountain over in TN and went and picked up one Friday afternoon. The moment I walked in the door with it, my younger daughter exclaimed "Boys, it looks like we're getting the band back together!"

That Mofi/Fender Precision Deck drew me in - just beautiful in person and the TT with the 10" tone arm, Cardas wiring and Ultratracker cartridge sounds fantastic. I am enjoying dropping Needle often!

The mids and highs are pretty great too!

@the real Duke Spinner https://reverb.com/news/bringing-back-guild-a-look-at-the-new-factory-and-the-builders-behind-it All about Guild's move to California

Well after about 2 weeks of being out of it with Covid (pretty sure the Omricon var.) I am going to attempt to go back to work tomorrow. They will test me before allowing me to enter.

I already had the the First Yes album and I also have 90125 on CD but did not have Fragile or Close to the Edge. I also have Emerson Lake and Palmer. For whatever reason I was just very light on my Yes Vinyl but that is being remedied now! Close to the Edge has Roundabout and thats a great classic Yes song!

BTW it is sometimes a pity when famous guitarists change brands. Sometimes it goes well. The great sounds George Benson had when he played Guild guitars on his early CTI albums. I also liked him on his Super 400. When he started playing Ibanez...I wasn't so sure. Of course, Benson is an outstanding guitarist for me who is as at home in jazz as he is in pop. I just think of an album (in the 90's?) with McCoy Tyner as an outstanding jazz album. Of course he also sounds good on the Ibanez because it's GB, his fingers make the sound. For me it was a big disappointment when Eric Clapton switched from Gibson to Stratocaster. His sound and playing on the Beano album with the Lespaul is unforgettable, and his ES335 in the time with Cream was also great. Shortly after that he played Stratocaster. Sorry this is just my personal opinion but EC sounds absolutely awful on Stratocaster and that for many decades. I love the sound of a Strat in the right hands but EC and Strat is for me a big disappointment to aversion.

I am lucky enough to have the choice to use a Guild AA where we practice as my good friend is an avid collector with quite a collection of guitars and amps. I have learned to playing with certain people that less is more, those big jazz chords are great when playing solo or a duo but with a full band I find that using inversions of chords emphasizing the melody within while keeping the inversions to 3-4 note maximum. The bass player fills in a lot so I am lucky and the wind instruments are on the melody and head most of the time, when I get a solo the AA certainly stands out. It is a tough instrument to master for sure, and I won't lie the Collings I have is much easier to master as it's so forgiving and easy to play. I still keep the mindset of less is more and stay away from jumping around chord forms blindly, I dissect each song melody and rhythm and as mentioned move my chordal rhythm inversions depending on the melody line and which voicing works best in the larger context. Get rid of the notes not needed that can 'muddy' the sound. In a duo I need to work much harder in filling in the context of the piece both rhythmically and melodically, it's really all about playing in the band your with at the moment. Gibson ES175 is another gorgeous jazz box to play (which he has also), he uses that a lot though so it's hard to get my hands on. I have found laziness has got the best of me which is why I have been just playing one guitar as it gets to be second nature when you play the same instrument all the time. Same neck, same scale, same action, etc... easy for muscle memory.

This is a very sad story. The picture of your destroyed guitar moved me emotionally. Of course, life goes on but this is one of the things that do not have to be.

I totally agree. I played a lot of Yes back in the 70s but somehow did not realize how incredible they truly are. The Yes albums bring me so much joy and sound incredible on my current system. Just WOW!

In no way were they underrated. At least among musicians. Close to the Edge, btw, is often the top and always in the top 5 of best prog lp's of all time.

If you enjoy Yes try some Emerson Lake and Palmer. Tarkus would be a good choice.

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That today almost every ordinary and many of the more expensive speakers provide a division of the bass and treble connections is good for the perhaps 2% of customers who bi-amp. For the 98% who don't it has rather disadvantages. For manufacturers, it's a catch-22. 35 years ago, bi-wiring terminals were a USP for a few manufacturers. Today many consumers without technical knowledge look during the purchase decision whether the "option bi-wiring" is there or not...Simply: "Is it there"...but not "does it make sense for me". For some consumers, disadvantage 1 is that manufacturers and Hifi magazine tempt them to spend money on expensive superfluous cables. For many unsuspecting consumers, it must seem like a "norm" or a "standard", with the constant call to supposedly "upgrade". Most manufacturers naturally want to offer this option to customers who want to bi-amp, which is understandable in the competitive market. The final winner is the cable industry. Disadvantage 2 is a technical one so that the split ports do not sound as good as a single port for the whole freq. region because of the additional contact zones when you connect only one cable. Here's a tip. When long thin connecting rods between bass and tweeter input are given it has helped me if I tighten the threaded connections very! very! carefully with a pair of combination pliers. Between the pliers and the threaded connection (where you put the bananas in) I take a thin kitchen towel to not scratch anything. The goal is to turn only a little tighter than your fingers can do, but not to break anything. As a result, the treble sounds noticeably silkier when I plug the cable into the bass. The reason will be that the connectors vibrate less and there is less micro-interruption of the contacts. For connectors that use flat plates between bass and tweeter input I would suggest the same principle. But here I would recommend even more to try a short piece of speaker cable, bare without solder at the ends, instead of the flat thin sheet and tighten it in the same way. I have had better results when the cable is in the bass clamps. Some companies, like Tannoy, recommend plugging the single run cable into the tweeter. Here I would just try what is better in your case and to your ears. The completely crazy thing is that many people prefer the sound of bi-wiring only! because for the first time the four contacts are right due to the cable plugs. The most stupid (or the most clever) thing is that now short pieces of cables are offered that make a divider before the speaker terminals for people without bi-wiring, two inputs and four outputs. This gives you four additional superfluous and quality-reducing contact points. Such very short distribution cables can cost hundreds of dollars each. So the cable industry also benefits from some consumers with a single run of cable.

In the past I have tried bi-wiring many different speakers & wire combos. And IMHO unless you are using a wire gauge that is too small for your wire load/run it made no difference what so ever. Now if you were to bi-amp we are talking about another thing all together.

Nope! Only had that one summer of `79 ( a decade later than yours!) before I decided teeny tiny pills and little squares of paper were no good! There are pics of that house in here somewhere... hang on.

Chilly & Overcast Still calling for around 1 foot of snow here Sunday! I'm stocked up on needed stuff and have natural gas heat... Early Frampton to me just has no other peers as far as the music goes. 🔔ding round two.

Gary , Gil will be back on the Forum , no doubt in my mind , it's just a question of time .

Agreed. As far as I know, Heresy crossovers do not have a high pass filter limiting the low end of the woofer. In fact, I don't know of any speaker manufacturer that does that. The low frequency cutoff of the Heresy is limited by the cabinet volume.

Just got over it. It was a mild case of the flu for me. Everyone is going to get it eventually, and that’s a good thing…

Those K-43's are the way to go in MWM's and La Scalas. You give up a couple hz in bass and pick up astonishing mid range. You DO realize that you have doomed yourself, right? Once you hear big you can never UN-hear. La Scalas are not even close to those MWM's. Single fold horns rule. To bad you have not heard the real deal though. You still are running those plebian regular size bins.