The Hi-Fi Life Of Punk Rock Bassist Of Government Issue Tom Lyle

At one point I was using a pair of McIntosh MC-30 monoblock amps that one of my friends “borrowed” from his parents and loaned them to me that ended up driving drove a pair of homemade speakers. They sure sounded good to me at the time when I cranked Humble Pie’s Rockin The Fillmore double album. I was in heaven. But, if I heard that system now, I doubt I would think it was any good….

Yes, I considered myself a serious audiophile, but it sort of bugged me that in the reviews in these publications I was reading that when the reviewers would described the sound of a component by using musical examples, they would always, without exception, use classical music. Every once in a while, they would use some obscure world music, or perhaps a female singer’s very tame, light jazz recording, or once in a blue moon they’d get under my skin buy using Steely Dan’s Aja.  But 95% of the time it was a classical LP or the occasional CD.
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