Recording of December 2010: Blood/Candy

Recording of December 2010: Blood/Candy

Dec 10, 2010
Having a long career in the temporal world of indie rock, as the Posies have, has its drawbacks. Before I wrote this review, someone sent me a quote about Blood/Candy from the all-powerful world of Internet music criticism, where speed trumps knowledge. "A collection that's thankfully a world away from their largely charmless and invariably dull nineties output for Geffen."

Spectator Sports, Good and Bad

Spectator Sports, Good and Bad

Dec 10, 2010

There is something about the performance of music that is in the nature of a spectator sport. By this I do not mean big-arena stagecraft and lights and fireworks and dance routines. I mean the actual making of the music.

To see Eric Johnson's fingers flying over his Fender Stratocaster as he hits "Cliffs of Dover" out of the park one more time is to enjoy something that is every bit as much an athletic performance and a spectator sport as baseball is. There is a thrill to watching people do difficult things exceptionally well, things that most of us can only take random sidelong swipes at.

Esoteric Tube Question

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Submitted by JIMV on

Does anyone know anything about KT90 tubes? By that I mean, is this tube a substitute for an EL34 or KT88 setup? I have read it puts out more power than either of those other tubes and am wondering what it would do in a PrimaLuna Dialogue II, if it would work there at all??

The amps 38 watts does not work well with my existing MMG's or mini monitors..

First audio system- critiques and suggestions?

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Submitted by Miket6583 on

Hello, I am 19 years old at the University of Oregon and I recently just acquired my own audio system. My dad is into vintage audio equipment so he got me started with the following:

-Advent Loudspeakers. They look like this: http://www.gallagher.com/photos/stereo/advents_1.jpg

-NAD Stereotuner 4220
-NAD Stereo Amplifier 3220PE Power Envelope
-NAD CD Player 513

The Advents are sitting on the carpeted floor and the stereo components are stacked on top of one another.

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