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She was a true professional who not only knew how to write a great song, but did the best performances of anyone I ever saw of that genre of music. Well, she may still be working, but I haven't seen anything from her in years.

Nancy Griffith: One Fair Summer Evening

All I can say is, most journalists, especially audio related journalists, are simply idiots. About 20% of what he wrote was truth. About 30% of it was flat out wrong and could lead people to be dumber than before. Of the 50% which was accurate, or the truth, most of it had nothing to do with the...

This isn't a debate about you being right or wrong. This is just a debate that is fun to talk about. I don't want to prove you wrong, I want to debate with you in a pleasant way. We are debating, not fighting. And it would be really boring if we suddenly agree and have nothing to talk about anymore.

I mean, that Johnny Cash cover album was a far cry from the originals, yet it was one of the best albums released that year.

Why bother making a cover at all if ut is an exact duplicate of the readily available original?

Another bit of evidence that Rock & Roll has died... In a debate with a good friend about the death of RnR, he sent me a link to the video below: This guy does an amazing job of recording a cover of Jethro Tull's brilliant "Nothing is Easy," making a note for note copy of the original...

Based solely on your comments, I restate what I said before. Star Trek was never an action show, other than "Enterprise" and "Discovery." The interesting stuff in nearly all Star Trek series were ideas, concepts, allegory, and classical struggles of the human condition.

Maybe, "Baroque-esque"

I believe that's called "Baroque-like" or "tribute to the Baroque era".

Another dead music genre.

Well, thank you, brother. I've been listening to quite a bit of Power Pop today, things like Jellyfish, Cheap Trick, Bangles, Bleu, Fountains of Wayne, and Jason Falkner.

You are reminiscing about the past. That is perfectly fine. I also listen to 50's jazz combo music, baroque music, and romantic period opera. Don't confuse comment about a genre of Rock & Roll being dead with saying that period of music isn't great.

There is an industry producing new Reel recordings, but they are expensive. Most hard-core reel-heads make their own live recordings of performances they attend, and there's a tape trading community out there (one reason most reel-heads own two machines, to make copies).

Have any of you noticed that audio nerds who own a Reel-to-Reel always always own four to ten Reel-to-Reel machines?

Sometimes it is just time to retire. I just feel sorry for Phil.

There's some useful and trustworthy measurements here: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/buchardt-s400-on-and-off-axis-measurements-and-the-benefits-of-manufacturer-data.10075/

I'll add, I believe they are so popular right now mostly because they don't obviously color the sound sound in the midrange and still have a strong, boosted bass which gives them the perception of being much larger than they are.

This week I got the opportunity to listen to a pair of Buchardt S400 bookshelf speakers, which the hip audiophile crowd is going ga-ga over at present. https://www.buchardtaudio.com/shop/s400-white The pair I was able to hear were setup in a nice large performance room in a recording studio...

I've said it before, and I'm saying it now: The most important technology of our lifetimeis the Lithium ION Battery. Here's a great discussion about that and what's coming next. I did not know the guy responsible for Li-ION batteries was also core to the invention of RAM.