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Some very good news--

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August 16, 2010
Museum Acquires Storied Trove of...

There's precious little on Elmore James.

Why not try another James!

No, not hjames.....

Try Skip James. There's some great stuff of his on the Vanguard and the Shout Factory labels.

You can see that in this film about Tom Dowd--

Tom Dowd & The Language of Music

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Music-Ray-Charles/dp/B00011ZBOS

Here’s some video of Muddy Waters & his band prepping for a show at the Ash Grove in 1971. The interview (video 2) is pretty good, especially at the end.
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The fs on my two d130s are also above the published data--

43596

GPA will install a new diaphragm and recharge the magnet for around $95 + shipping.

http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/

Some nostalgia from the web---

"…Ted Bennett was born in Canada, and in 1950 moved to California to establish residency in order to attend the chemistry department at the University of California...

There's some good info on magnet storage here--

http://www.coolmagnetman.com/magcare.htm

"... Basically, store different classes of magnets separately. Keep your ferrites together in one...

Here's a direct link to the Newport Jazz Festival archive at Wolfgang's Vault:

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/concerts/support/newport-jazz.html

I'm listening to the Jazz Messengers right...

A bunch of recordings made at the Newport Jazz Festival will be available at Wolfgang's Vault (Bill Graham=Wolfgang, by the way).

Here's an excerpt from the NYT article on Wednesday:

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Most of my itunes music library is from cds, but I also have some rare tracks from lps and cassettes that were copied using Audacity. Hardly any internet downloads really...except for a few that I...

My aftermarket diaphragms from OC speaker have metal rings and resemble the images that I've seen of OEM aluminums, but without all the numerical and other markings. I don't think mine are the same...

Robert, I exaggerated when I said "widespread problems", and you're right about there not being anything about brand new GPA diaphragms in that thread; but, it's fair to say that both Mr Widget and...

I was about to go crazy...It was a relief to discover that there are widespread problems with diaphragm alignment--
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This might help you--

http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=268258&highlight=altec+802#post268258

I bought the diaphragms over the internet months and months ago. OC didn't perform any work on the drivers.

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In trying to adjust the alignment on my non-factory diaphragm for the Altec...

Thanks for your replies...I think you guys might be on to something here.

Prior to reading your posts, I did some parts swapping and found that the right side dip persisted after swapping the...

For my basement lounge, I put together a 15" two-way system using some vintage drivers (jbl d130f & altec 807 / 511b), along with Zilch's modified model 19 network (which I think has been optimized...

Steve, I agree with you...but I was so enraptured by seeing footage of Big Joe that I really didn't pay that announcer no 'tention.

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jcrobso, I just read that, after working at...

Well, this really made my day...finding some 1960s clips of Big Joe Williams (the subject of Mike Bloomfield’s book in the previous post) playing his mid 1930s song “Baby Please Don’t Go”, and...

I've been listening to WGLT a bit, too. What a great station!

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I'm told that the Scandinavians take their internet radio seriously and enjoy many great programs and live...

I don't think he's been mentioned in this thread, but all of you have heard some of the great albums that the session drummer Russ Kunkel has worked on. Check out this list--...

A year before he died, the guitarist Michael Bloomfield wrote a short little book about his early days in Chicago, and his friendship with the bluesman Big Joe Williams.

The book, "Me and Big...

Clark, It's nice to hear that you had an early exposure to Chicago blues clubs. As a high school student in the mid 70s I had a fake ID and hung out with an older crowd that went often to Kingston...

Here's a little article on the history of the music industry's transition from mostly performances to mostly recordings. It appeared in the Financial Times last week.