And in 1979 was there a bigger record than side one of Damn the Torpedoes?
Finally, can Tom Petty actually be gone at the age of 66?
The idiotic dance that the LAPD and TMZ did throughout the night aside—He's dead. Oh wait, he's not dead. Yet.—Tom Petty did indeed pass sometime during the night after suffering a heart attack yesterday morning.
Always reminiscent of Bob Dylan and The Byrds, Petty and the Heartbreakers was first and foremost a…
Remasterings of recordings make me angry—they mess with my memories of the songs I love, especially songs from the 1960s that I played in my bedroom on a cheap Garrard turntable through Lafayette speakers. Like my first girlfriend, these songs permanently entered my psyche and modified my DNA.
When songs I've heard a thousand times are remastered or remixed, they sound wrong and weird to me. They make my inner hard drive skip as I try to figure out what was changed, and why. This is…
The AMG…
Because the AMG turntable sits rigidly on three adjustable spiked feet, it seemed wise to repeat my auditioning with the Giro G9 sitting on my PS Audio PerfectWave PowerBase isolation platform and power conditioner ($995, discontinued). Normally, I use the PowerBase passively—not as a conditioner, but only as a platform for my Linn LP12, to prevent footfalls on my bunker's ancient wooden floor from becoming part of my music.
The PowerBase worked some unanticipated magic with the AMG Giro G9. Besides making the turntable noticeably quieter, it sharpened…
Record collectors felt differently. The prices of cutouts were right—usually, from 99õ to a penny under two bucks. And cutouts were better than digging through crates because the records were still sealed . . . even if the jackets were a bit mangled. The beauty of cutouts was that they were so cheap, you…
Between 3 and 5am the next morning, again using the Pye truck and the Neumann mikes, saxophonist Chris Mercer was recorded in the…
Even at full strength, my family didn't need 3000-plus square feet of living space, let alone four acres of outdoor frolicking space, much of it wooded. But in 2003 that's precisely what we bought, partly because our deal fell through on another, very different house, partly because living next to a dairy farm was an appealing novelty, and partly because the hill on which the house is poised seemed defensible. On our very first morning in our new home—a Saturday in early June—we awoke to gunfire and puffs of smoke…
Description: Three-way, floorstanding loudspeaker with sealed enclosure. Drive-units: 1.1" (26mm) diamond-coated beryllium-dome tweeter, 6" (152.4mm) graphene-coated Nano-Tec–cone midrange unit, two 10" (254mm) aluminum-cone woofers. Frequency range: 20Hz–50kHz. Sensitivity: 88dB/2.83V/m. Nominal impedance: 4 ohms. Recommended amplification: 50–1000W.
Dimensions: 48" (1220mm) H by 15" (380mm) W by 14" (360mm) D. Weight: 220 lbs (100kg).
Finishes: Metallic gloss or high-gloss paint.
Serial numbers of units reviewed: 00739, 00740.
Price: $38,000/…