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A user writes … Err, who? Jefferson Airplane were the first of the 6o’s San Francisco psychedelic rock groups. Their unique sound was cemented by the acid rock guitar playing of Jorma Kaukonen and the soaring twin vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin. Jack Casady (Guild Starfire 2 bass with Alembic modifications) […]
TOM LAMONT The Scottish folk singer on the perils of having a low public profile and the emotional pain behind his latest album. James Yorkston, who for the past decade has been putting out quietly popular albums of modern folk, is sometimes asked to play at the weddings of his most ardent fans. “Extremely flattering, […]
Our tastes evolve when it comes to food, fashion and books, yet we remain faithful to the record collections of our formative years, says Chris Moss. On a recent, carefully audience-targeted BBC4 music show, I was dismayed to see a chubby fiftysomething Morrissey performing ‘Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want’ on […]
Previously published here. Recorded live on November 29, 1989 in Denver while Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble were on tour for their new album, In Step. However, that night Stevie Ray, along with guest guitarist Jeff Beck, did not focus strictly on playing songs from the album, but instead had fun rocking out on […]
Are we experiencing a Golden Age of countertenor singing? The recordings highlighted here would certainly seem to suggest so… Continues HERE
Paul McGowan writes: We all love live music recordings and work hard to get our high-performance audio systems to sound like the real deal. But how can modern music recorded on multitrack machines and studios ever be considered high end or even close to live? Watch Now
It might not make much sense when we see an amplifier’s frequency range specified as 10Hz to 60kHz. After all, this kind of extreme frequency range is unusable to humans. Our hearing is limited to 20Hz and 20kHz (and that’s on a good day). But here’s what might be missing. To be flat at the […]
They tell us ….. 20 classic jazz albums from the iconic label at a great price! To a whole generation of listeners, the name Atlantic actually means Atlantic Jazz. From the mid-1950s, the label founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson started a separate series to embrace what was then called “modern […]
They say ….. A set of headphones with a sealed over-ear design and custom 50mm drivers, the same as the company’s own Mo-Fi headphone. Blue’s default headband design features a four-point multi-jointed linkage system and pivoting arms that allow the headphones to stay parallel at all times. Lola furthers this design with a new slimmer […]
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If this has been covered I am sorry but I want to know how you can measure if your power is dirty and thus evaluate best course of action, I assume no power is perfect but some must have it much worse then others. 26 thoughts are expressed HERE
Sean Olive writes: Most people would agree that headphone purchase decisions are heavily influenced by the brand and styling (size, weight, color, quality of materials). But what is considered stylish and fashionable by me is not shared by my 15-year old daughter (this week donning purple hair), and vice versa. In other words, the […]
by Reverend Keith A. Gordon Updated November 19, 2017 Thousands of blues albums were released in the years between 2000 and 2009, and the decade not only brought us exciting, late-career masterpieces from blues veterans like B.B. King and Buddy Guy but also introduced us to fresh young talents like Nick Moss and Watermelon Slim […]