Over on the asylum people like to post what they are spinning that evening. Not looking for that so much, but what are you listening to lately on vinyl that you can't get out of heavy rotation? For me Alison Krauss is always a winner (thanks to Grainger) as well as the National's "High Violet". Love the albums and think the pressings are pretty good too. So those are some that seem to make it out often. You?
Eros (Seduction) Spinning
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Lately, I've been playing a 180-gram reissue of P-Funk's Mothership Connection from 1975, and boy does it sound funky on my BH gear (Seduction +C4S, choke-loaded Quickie, S.E.X. amp with C4S, and Klipsch Heresy III). Also have seen Donald Fagen's The Nightfly (1982) on the turntable a few times lately, along with a mono reissue of Charles Mingus's Pitheccanthropus Erectus from 1956.
Grainger49
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Seduction Spinning:
I drug out a perennial favorite today Santana Abraxas. I was doing some work in the listening room working on the floor boards that are loose but some times I just had to sit and listen.
I ordered an Eros after too long a wait.
I drug out a perennial favorite today Santana Abraxas. I was doing some work in the listening room working on the floor boards that are loose but some times I just had to sit and listen.
I ordered an Eros after too long a wait.
Grainger49
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Thanks!
Your welcome but don' thank me. Thank the Doc and Paul.
I'm sure you will enjoy it. The real question though, is if your's could top the splendor of my bright mint green Eros?
And to try to keep with the thread, while I can't spin a record until I get home, I am enjoying Damian Rice, O this evening via my macbook and AKG 702s.
I'm sure you will enjoy it. The real question though, is if your's could top the splendor of my bright mint green Eros?
And to try to keep with the thread, while I can't spin a record until I get home, I am enjoying Damian Rice, O this evening via my macbook and AKG 702s.
Grainger49
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I remember the mint green Eros, probably won't top it. I'm bad about finishes, both the bases and the top plates.
matthewmckay
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Seduction Spinning:
Hello all,
I recently picked up a copy of George Benson's White Rabbit. My knowledge of jazz is very limited, so I often find myself disappointed with the selections that I bring home from the record shop. That is very much not the case in this situation. The album is very enjoyable.. toe-tappingly so. I envision it is going to stay in rotation for a very long time.
BTW, great idea for a thread.
Hello all,
I recently picked up a copy of George Benson's White Rabbit. My knowledge of jazz is very limited, so I often find myself disappointed with the selections that I bring home from the record shop. That is very much not the case in this situation. The album is very enjoyable.. toe-tappingly so. I envision it is going to stay in rotation for a very long time.
BTW, great idea for a thread.
Grainger49
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Not only do I like Benson, I was/am a fan of classic Jefferson Airplane. Sounds like I need to give it a listen.
Scored a Japanese early pressing of Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa in like new condition at the local record shop today. Will definitely be in the rotation tonight. Also picked up mint copies of Van Hallen 51/50 and 1984 plus Miles Davis, Bitches Brew. Man I love that record shop. And I'm pretty sure I am putting the owner's kids through college almost single handedly.
Grainger49
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The Beatles Love album. Two LPs remastered and remixed. For Beatles fans the new mixes bring out some of the stuff that has laid buried in the muck for oh, so many years.
There are few tracks with strings, most of the strings have been skipped (thank you!). Elenore Rigby still has the strings which I think seems appropriate. The only new music added to the old master tapes is a string accompaniment to George's While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Nicely done, much less intrusive than all those other mixes before. (I'm a fan of Let It Be Nude)
There are few tracks with strings, most of the strings have been skipped (thank you!). Elenore Rigby still has the strings which I think seems appropriate. The only new music added to the old master tapes is a string accompaniment to George's While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Nicely done, much less intrusive than all those other mixes before. (I'm a fan of Let It Be Nude)
Grainger49
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Recently received, Richard Thompson's Hand of Kindness. Richard is sounding fine!
Grainger49
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Just a few minutes ago:
The Tony Rice Unit, Backwaters
I tried my Sonata-1 versus my old (1986) Denon DL-103C (on a {need I say vintage?} Dual 1219) with the Denon SUT that was sold with the DL-103 in those days. The Denon placed some instruments in the speakers where the Sonata placed them just inside and a foot or two behind the speakers (I prefer that placement). The Denon brought out some details the Sonata didn't.
Lunch now, more music in about 15 minutes.
P.S. Does no one else have a Halloween avatar? No comments????
The Tony Rice Unit, Backwaters
I tried my Sonata-1 versus my old (1986) Denon DL-103C (on a {need I say vintage?} Dual 1219) with the Denon SUT that was sold with the DL-103 in those days. The Denon placed some instruments in the speakers where the Sonata placed them just inside and a foot or two behind the speakers (I prefer that placement). The Denon brought out some details the Sonata didn't.
Lunch now, more music in about 15 minutes.
P.S. Does no one else have a Halloween avatar? No comments????
Grainger49
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Eros, listening to the old favorites.
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
AK & US New Favorite
Beatles Love (see Eros In The House review)
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
AK & US New Favorite
Beatles Love (see Eros In The House review)
Grainger49
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Ok, probably the LP I know best, CSN first LP a Classic reissue. And it is amazing sounding. Denon/Dual combo into a Denon SUT and my New Eros.
Edit: How do you know if you have an original pressing of CSN? The response to "Can I have some of your purple berries?" is extremely low, almost inaudible. The phrase, "Yes, I've been eating them 6-7 weeks now, haven't gotten sick once." is muddled. I have too many pressings of this album. Some will go out to friends in a future thread.
Edit: How do you know if you have an original pressing of CSN? The response to "Can I have some of your purple berries?" is extremely low, almost inaudible. The phrase, "Yes, I've been eating them 6-7 weeks now, haven't gotten sick once." is muddled. I have too many pressings of this album. Some will go out to friends in a future thread.
Grainger49
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Jim,
I have heard often of Goldberg Variations, I have just never heard it.
This afternoon Paul Simon, Rhymin' Simon. A DCC remastered version. There is sibilance. I returned the first copy of this to DCC with an explanation of the problem. They sent back a copy as bad as the first. Then they went out of business. Hmmmm.... Regrets to S. Hoffman, I expect the pressing problems are not his. I have way too many albums mastered by him for it to be his problem.
Less sibilance on the Denon DL-103C and Dual combo, but...
Next I go to my original pressing of this album. We will see....
The original pressing (OP) is cleaner although the images are not as well defined. The sibilance just goes right through my head. So the DCC will end up on the block.
Edit: The OP has some edge to the "S" sound but only 10% of the DCC pressing. It could be that the Columbia mastering squelched the sibilance, but PS had been recording with them for a long time. He would have rerecorded bad tracks. The OP is also more warm and inviting.
The DCC has improved instrument placement and better detail. But for overall listen-ability the OP wins.
Let's see, I have compared two pressings of the same LP on two different table cartridge combinations. I need to get a life. I think I should say it before you guys do.
Tomorrow I'm participating in a Habitat For Humanity build. See, I do have a life!
I have heard often of Goldberg Variations, I have just never heard it.
This afternoon Paul Simon, Rhymin' Simon. A DCC remastered version. There is sibilance. I returned the first copy of this to DCC with an explanation of the problem. They sent back a copy as bad as the first. Then they went out of business. Hmmmm.... Regrets to S. Hoffman, I expect the pressing problems are not his. I have way too many albums mastered by him for it to be his problem.
Less sibilance on the Denon DL-103C and Dual combo, but...
Next I go to my original pressing of this album. We will see....
The original pressing (OP) is cleaner although the images are not as well defined. The sibilance just goes right through my head. So the DCC will end up on the block.
Edit: The OP has some edge to the "S" sound but only 10% of the DCC pressing. It could be that the Columbia mastering squelched the sibilance, but PS had been recording with them for a long time. He would have rerecorded bad tracks. The OP is also more warm and inviting.
The DCC has improved instrument placement and better detail. But for overall listen-ability the OP wins.
Let's see, I have compared two pressings of the same LP on two different table cartridge combinations. I need to get a life. I think I should say it before you guys do.
Tomorrow I'm participating in a Habitat For Humanity build. See, I do have a life!
Grainger49
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Today I am torturing myself with The Pentangle's Cruel Sister. I have used the first side, second cut, When I Was In My Prime for demonstration since the early 70s. The solo female voice will sound "chesty" on almost all systems. But, not on my Servo-Statik I system, and, sadly, my current Triangles are like all other speakers.
I have two copies of this Transatlantic English import LP. The newer one is a little more crisp. So I have gone from turntable to turntable, first to second copy and listened. Even though the voice continues to have that chesty sound the album sounds great. It prefers the Dual table/Denon cartridge combo because of the cleaner, more extended high end. Or maybe that is what the sound in my foggy memory that it should sound like since I knew it best with the Denon.
Just got the mail and a new LP in it.
More later...
I have two copies of this Transatlantic English import LP. The newer one is a little more crisp. So I have gone from turntable to turntable, first to second copy and listened. Even though the voice continues to have that chesty sound the album sounds great. It prefers the Dual table/Denon cartridge combo because of the cleaner, more extended high end. Or maybe that is what the sound in my foggy memory that it should sound like since I knew it best with the Denon.
Just got the mail and a new LP in it.
More later...
Grainger49
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Today's new LP, yesterday's mail delivery, is Miles Davis, In A Silent Way. A new Columbia Legacy 180g remastered version. It is clean! And the personnel! Miles, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Josef Zawinul and John McLaughlin. Those are the names that jump out at me. That's 3 keyboard players!
A great LP and great music.
A great LP and great music.
