I’m a guitar player (both acoustic and electric), and my Martin D-28 Herringbone keeps company with several Telecasters. Much of the Tele’s appeal has to do with its simplicity, and this parallels the tonearms I gravitate to. Quite simply, the Telecaster gets the job done across a wide range of musical genres – from country …
History has pretty much forgotten both Quicksilver Messenger Service and John Cipollina, slotting them into the second tier of San Francisco bands along with Big Brother, Country Joe and the Fish, etc. The two YouTube clips below, capture both Cipollina and Quicksilver’s raw energy, and it’s my humble opinion that they belong in the pantheon …
From time to time, we like to revisit our design assumptions – to see whether they still have validity. Several months ago, we demonstrated various drive belts for a customer (link here). In this post, we’re going to cover some design considerations for selecting a drive belt for our turntables.
All too many audiophiles think of vacuum tubes as being unreliable, and this rant, along with the attached video attempts to discuss why this doesn’t have to be the case.
The photo of the Feickert may lead you to believe that I’m clueless as to it’s use, but rest assured, there’s a method to my madness. I’m a big fan of arc protractors in general, and the Mint LP in particular, but I’ve come to rely on the Feickert protractor for both quick and easy …
Molly’s guitar wizardry is up there with Tony Rice. While I wish her material were available on vinyl, I’m grateful we have access to so much music at the click of a button.
This one got to me. I can’t say it better than the pianist about this rescued elephant: “Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in the Thai forest.
We’re approaching that time of the year in the the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere where static electricity is beginning to show itself. There are two approaches to eliminating (or at least minimizing) static electricity in your vinyl playback system.
Two great guitarists having a fun time together. That’s all she wrote, follks! Kick back and enjoy (if only they were on vinyl). Listening to these two bluegrass shredders, I feel just a bit inadequate (my guitar playing), but the world is a richer place because of talents like this, and they certainly set an …
It’s late at night, and a drunk (on a street corner) is apparently looking for something he lost. A passer by asks what he’s looking for, to which the drunk replies: “my keys”. The passer by asks where he last saw them, and the drunk points to a distant spot: “somewhere over there”. The passer …
