Tom Dowd is someone you’ve heard but probably never heard of. Once you know who he is, you’ll see his name pop up throughout your record collection. One of the true great recording engineers, he changed the musical landscape of popular music. There is a great documentary about him called The Language Of Music. Netflix it!

Looks like a punk rock version of Ein Prosit!

I was noticing that the record selection was getting thin so I placed a nice order full of Funk, Blues, Afro Beat, Rock, etc. I have one copy to sell of the new Syl Johnson box set. I kept the other! Get in here quick before I start calling all these new records mine!

The $495 Okki Nokki record cleaning machine is now on demo. Come check it out!

Also just in, the Auditorium 23 DL103 step up transformer. Still waiting on the Well Tempered Amadeus and EMT to arrive. It will be a sweet rig! I’m going to hook it up to the Leben RS-30EQ phono pre / Rega P9 / Dynavector Te Kaitora Rua and see how that sounds. It shouldn’t be a shabby front end!

I’m about to have 100,000 hits for the site! Thanks for reading. Thanks for shopping!

Wired magazine has reviewed the UnitiQute. check it out

The Trash Project
Delta Blues Museum
National Music Museum
Stax Records Museum
Rock & Roll Museum
Motown Museum
Buddy Holly Museum
Rockabilly Museum

It’s a good thing for Mary Ann that Gilligan packed a turntable!! I wonder what her top five desert island discs were?

analogue adventures very cool blog!
ohio players!
BIG CHIEF
second line the real deal!

I don’t like to get political on a hi-fi site but the “Evil Doers” in Washington want to scrap NPR and PBS. I learned my right from my left and how to tie my shoes on Sesame Street!! If we keep this up we are DOOMED. Next will be music, dancing and reading books of your choice. It’ll be John Tesh, Yanni and Amy Grant for your musical enjoyment. You won’t be buying records. You’ll be buying a drool cup.
sign the petition here

I hope John Waters corrupts “The Bieber”. How did these two even get in the same room?

Rollins on Vinyl
Malcolm Steward
8 track tapes
8 track museum
So Much Silence

I wrote a fake doctors note to leave school. Yes, yours truly, skipped out on Catholic school to go interview MOTLEY CRÃœE! As an underage music enthusiast I wrote for Public News a weekly entertainment newspaper (later bought by Patty Hearst!). My plan worked. I could navigate myself into bars and clubs deemed for those 18 or above. I was only 16 at the time but I had press passes. So Ozzy was coming to town for the Bark At The Moon tour and The Crue were opening. I basically wanted to see if I could pull off a interview with them. After many, I’m sure annoying, phone calls to the WEA offices in Houston I got my interview. “Hey kid, I admire your persistence. Vince and Nikki will be here at 2”. I enlisted my friend Paul to take pictures and we headed off to our “dentist” appointments. That afternoon I drank champagne and ate cake (literally) with Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx in celebration of them selling a Gold record. I scored a couple records and two passes for the show that night. We then returned to school.
“Where ya been all day DiFrank?”
“Oh, drinking champagne with Motley Crue”
“Bullshit!”
I then pulled out my “Crue loot” and a cassette recording of the interview..
heh heh…

The only reason I remembered this date is because later that night, while I was rocking out at the Ozzy concert, my sister gave birth to my niece, Heather. Happy Birthday Heather!! A day I will never forget!

Founded in 2000, Isoblue modular hi-fi furniture was designed by company founder, Chris Bampton.
This is a modular system for modular hi-fi and each stack will require a base level (spiked to the floor) and subsequent shelves with the trademark ‘V’ uprights in solid wood. We would suggest keeping the stacks moderately low with a base plus 3 (OK, maybe 4 shelves in total per stack. Standard spacing is 100mm between shelves and additional spacers are available to bring these spaces to 135mm, 165 mm up to a maximum of 230 mm.
The design is of ageless simplicity but it also works extremely well. Isoblue has been a darling of Naim users for most of the past ten years and, whilst it is extremely compatible with the Naim character, not to say dimensions, it is also pretty universal in its appeal. The Series 60 racks are $325 per shelf. Rack pictured is $1300.