what are you listening to?

laatsch55 said:
Who makes the racks Spence?
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I built them, designed them and had a company called Framing Technology cut everything for me. They are aluminum T slot frames and I used black vinyl car wrap on the outside surfaces. Had a local glass company cut all the tempered glass and I tinted them with limo tint. I use rubber disks between the glass and the frame. The three frames are bolted together, there are felt furniture slider disks between the frames and the floor. I needed something that I could adjust the shelving heights as my systems changed and could support a lot of weight. I am very happy with the results.
 
Off topic (surprise!), but what table and arm were you using for broadcast? I’ve seen a few different decks for the purpose but no first hand accounts of any.
 
Parks Hall put 3 speed Russco Cue-Masters (idler drive) with the pretty Micro-Trak 303 wood tonearms into WSIM, Jim. Stanton 500 cartridges which could withstand the backcuing abuse. 1/4 turn to get from stop to full speed so you left no dead air; the original high-torque turntables, based on the tried-and-true Gates/Harris broadcast tables from the 50s and 60s with better specs. We played all of our music off of them; the cart machines were mono only for the commercials.

The adult contemporary station where I worked after that had the ancient Gates tables with the big honkin' arms that Andrew likes. When the Adlai Stevenson family bought the big FM stick from Ted Turner in 1977, they kept me and a couple of other jocks and we got to see them install Technics SP-10s with the Micro-Trak 303 arms as well to go with the pair of ITC 3-deck cart machines which played the music in rotation along with the commercials. Turntables in that operation were only for the album cuts that came up three times an hour on the format clock.
 
George S. said:
I happened to pickup Billy's autobiography "Dancing With Myself" several years ago. It's a good read.
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He was right for the times. Bold n' brash. A punk with great songwriting skills, and the added genius of innovative approach by his guitar players, [ Steve Stevens, or Mark Younger-Smith], was nothing like anyone else, even Eddie [RIP].
They gave the high energy music all the space as well as fill the gaps with monumental fills and licks.
They were just the next thing of the times. AND, the bonus is, it's still not outdated 30+ years later. [Well, for me at least.]
My other fave player, Steve Vai, is much the same, and really helped David Lee Roth come back with a mind splitting album, which was Skyscraper. Some of the playing on that was just totally un-freakin'-believable. Absolutely nothing out of place.
Damn there's real virtuoso talent out there. It's more than just practice. It's a genetic gift.
And then there's Jeff Beck. Sh*t, I don't even want to go there. My mind'll explode........
 
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I've had about 20 albums out and couldn't figure out why my system sounded muddy. I had it in my Zona house with vaulted ceilings and the Livingroom was 15 x 30. Now, my speakers are ported, limited room and tucked into the corners, shitty acoustic ceiling and knotty pine tongue and groove walls............. Shit, I need a bigger house. I had to bring Ronnies WOPL back into the shop to make sure it was OK. It tests out excellent but even a world class amp in a broom closet will sound like mud. Plus rear ported speakers 6" from the walls aint cutting it. I'm going to pull out my Epicure 20+ speakers and give them a listen. If they sound better than my Klipsch Heresy's, I'm getting out the chainsaw and making an addition to the house.
 
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