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    Roy Buchanan / The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World

    A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, besides an alleged invitation to join the Rolling Stones which he turned down and which gave him the nickname "the man who turned the Stones down". He recorded five albums for Polydor, one of which, Second Album, went gold, and after that another three for...
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    The Man Who invented Jazz / The Ghost In the Horn

    Charles "Buddy" Bolden This is the only photograph of "King Buddy Bolden" (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) Bolden suffered an episode of acute alcoholic psychosis in 1907 at age 30. With the full diagnosis of dementia praecox (today called schizophrenia), he was admitted to the...
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    The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash

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    SAM PHILLIPS The Man who Invented Rock & Roll

    An A&E Biography Channel UK Documentary of the man who changed the world of music. Profiling Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records in Memphis, TN., who discovered Elvis Presley and who has been called the "Father of Rock and Roll." Part 2
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    Recording and Engineering a Fine Recording

    The Marvel of Recording Technology 1956
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    Pssst . . . Buddy Wanna Buy A Record ? Capitol Records In 1951

    Famous Hollywood . . . entertainment capital of the world . . .
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    RCA VICTOR MANUFACTURE & RECORDING OF VINYL RECORDS ~ State of the Art 1956

    The finest in sound Performance . . .
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    What Was That Piece of Gear I Saw . . . My Favorite Electronic Co-Stars

    During your film or other entertainment viewing do you ever catch a glimpse of some intriguing Electronics ? Whether it's product placement or just adding some class to a scene. What have you seen ? Clockwork Orange ~ Transcriptors founder David Gammon's the Hydraulic Reference. The...
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    The Best Position To Listen ? . . . You Better Sit Down For This.

    I believe our group here and maybe even others out there in the real world, may have an interest in utilizing the very best, to enjoy music. We buy the most harmonious equipment we can afford, spend hours adjusting it to the room, search out the best recorded content. We position everything...
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    The Changing Way We Listen Today

    If you're driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Who's bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on I'm a radio I'm a country station I'm a little bit corny I'm a Wildwood flower Waving for you Broadcasting tower Waiting for you . . . ~ Joni Mitchell Radios have been...
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    The Champions of Conscience

    Can you be a Victor without finishing first ? Yes In "Deed" ! Thanks to you There's a thing I think I know I really mean or variations on that theme Thanks to you I have time to turn, time to cool and time to burn And thanks to you There's something suddenly too good to miss In other...
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    Record Preservatives . . . The Pros and CONS

    at LAST. . . poor Yorick! I knew him, well ! A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the Turntable on a roar ? The question of the hour : What say ye about these Record Preservatives...
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    Into The Great Unknown ?

    When you slip the surly bonds of this Earth and depart for the celestial symphony that awaits us all, what will become of your system and the music you have gathered over the years ? Some of us have garnered quite a legacy of sound . . . to whom or what will this be entrusted to ? Do these...
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    IsoAcoustic Speaker Isolators Vs Speaker Spikes / Component Isolators Vs Premium Products Like Critical Mass Systems

    IsoAcoustics is currently running ads on YouTube promoting their Gaia speaker isolators based on a panel of ordinary people detecting the difference in sound enhanced by their product. Who has directly compared the use of their products to the common use of speaker spikes or other methods ...
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    Call and Response ~ The Nightingale Collaboration

    THE ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE Written by John Keats in 1819, soon after the death of his brother Tom, whom he had loved devotedly and nursed to the end. He was feeling keenly the tragedy of a world "where youth grows pale, and specter thin, and dies". The song of a nightingale, made him long to...
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    The Last Time I Saw Elvis

    Image courtesy of Mdavitt The Incredible Arc The meteoric accession, the kingdom, the falling star. The dreamer has fallen out of step with a kind of energy and they don’t know how to retrieve it. Reminding the dreamer that once a level of innocence has matured or muse has wandered, what...
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    The Beauty of Imperfection Examined We Investigate ...Ourselves ?

    I suggest a certain scrutiny is in order, to determine the nature, condition, or quality of the things we love . What say you? Us with older ears listened through the imperfections in recorded media. And I might say were psychologically "imprinted" with acceptance of extraneous distortions...
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    Fragility Of Life In the Balance

    “We stand on the edge of the abyss, across whose unknowable face we paint meaning so as not to see into it. It is always there. But we’re here too, and we are no less real than the abyss. We are no less meaningful for being transient creatures caught up in something too big for us. There is...
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    What Gifts Did You Receive For The Holidays That Upholds, Serves or Elevates Your Audiophile Obsession ?

    I was grateful to receive: This tiny adapter from Hyper Design serves a simple, but important function: its male lightning jack plugs into the charging port of an iPhone, and terminates in a female USB-C port. It gives users the functionality of a USB-C input—a common port for many...
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    What's an unusual / interesting endeavor a musician you listen to accomplished,that surprised you ?

    Rockford, IL the third largest city in Illinois is the home of power-pop legends "Cheap Trick". Oddball guitarist Rick Nielsen, known for his flipped-brim caps, checkerboard-patterned threads, and multi-neck axes, still lives in the city and is one of its most ardent boosters. “I love...
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    What's everyone's take on the recent microscopic investigation by Michael Fremer of stylus contamination by products like Onzow Zerodust ?

    What's everyone's take on the recent microscopic investigation by Michael Fremer of stylus contamination by products like Onzow Zerodust ? https://www.analogplanet.com/content/time-put-away-onzow-zerodust

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