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The Wrecking Crew: The best

I’m a big fan of music documentaries, but “The Wrecking Crew: The Untold Story of Rock & Roll Heroes” is easily the best I’ve seen in years. The band was made up of LA studio pros who would show up for a 3- or 4-hour session, and produce hit after hit. Their biggest successes came in the 1960s and 1970s, …

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NAD’s overachieving budget audiophile amplifier

I go way back with NAD amplifiers; I sold dozens of NAD’s 3020 amps in the late 1970s and early 1980s when I was working as a high-end audio salesman. The 3020 lacked the visual pizzazz of the Sony, Onkyo, Pioneer, and Yamaha amps of the time, but the 3020 was hailed by critics and consumers as the best-sounding budget …

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