John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part III

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Here’s a couple ‘real deal’ examples.....they were harder to find (with good sq) than I would have thought.

Enjoy!

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These recordings still does the fiddle absolutely no justice, but at least you can get a better idea......it’s something to behold up close in person. Bobby Hicks was a local where I used to live and I got to see him play many times.
 
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As someone who has studied and recorded a lot of bluegrass fiddle (basically the same style) I can tell you that 01 sounds the most realistic of those recordings. If you ever heard that style up close and personal it’d be easier to understand........it has many odd (compared to classical violin) things going on.

mountainmanbob,

As an observation, a lot of early recorded bluegrass fiddle music was played on fiddles purchased from the Sears-Roebuck mail order catalogue with their own very distinctive sound that could cut through anything in a dancehall.

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Are you on goop or something? The link was clear.

I'm playing in the DIY audio engineering league, therefore I'm an amateur here, without any plan or intention to penetrate peoples home, other than hopefully by disseminating some knowledge and common sense, rather than bullshitting them with Quantum Purifiers, magic goop, audio grade cables, Shakti pebbles, CD green markers, myrtle block risers, and the kind. I'll leave the latter in your trustful hands, please don't expect from me anything but a good dose of kicks in a shadowy place, when the BS meter pegs on red.

The generality of belief in unsubstantiated claims

Sound familiar? 😀
 
Interesting, but I probably would not mix it with a trust to the people. As I am getting older/old, I am less and less willing to believe in unsupported pseudoscientific "theories".

Yeah, my personal experience is that people become more skeptical with time/experience. Until cognitive decline starts, anyway. Senior citizens as a group are disproportionately vulnerable to scams of all kinds.
 
And, Pavel, some huge gaps in what we know for scientific facts are bugging the heck out of me. The main one being that the origin of species may be explained, but not the origin of life. Not by a long shot.

How where these countless intricate molecular machines formed, that together make a cell work? Even is there were a vector to produce such machines as a result of a random process, how could they ever self-assemble into the concert of life? I find it very uncomfortable that there is no real scientific debate that I am aware of on this issue. From all appearances, the basic building blocks of life must have been engineered.
 
ATP cycle is exactly one of those examples.

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I have generally been untrusting from an early age. With age I have merely become a slightly better judge of character.

I had a sheltered upbringing, a good friend of mine from an entirely different background told me "I don't trust anyone, never have" but the context of our discussion and the way he said it was not at all negative. He is a much better judge of character than me.
 
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