What's been playing on your turntable and what turntable is it ?

"Sunday at the Village Vanguard" -- Bill Evans Trio

On a Palmer 2.5i with the Audio Origami PU7 arm and a Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum

My Clearaudio Performance DC Wood with Tracer arm and Ortofon Caenza Bronze cartridge last entertained me with all four sides of Joe Bonamassa's Blues Deluxe album.  This is an excellent recording for anyone who loves the blues.  Before that it was Percy Sledge, Greatest Hits.  This is a mediocre recording as was the case for many soul artists, but the music and the singer are great.

Queen's Greatest Hits - Hollywood Records... just bought it a week ago.

Excellent recording.

 

Heybrook TT2 /slightly modded LVX arm, Ring Mat and AT33PTG/II

Countdown to Ecstasy.

 

Koetsu Blue Lace Diamond -> Triplanar -> Grand Prix Monaco 3.0 in Speed Gelb. First time listening to the legendary Koetsu in the equally legendary Triplanar arm. Big sound with subterranean bottom.

Elbow-Little Fictions / LP12, Aro, Linn Kandid

Since my post back in December I’ve been through a few cartridges. I thought the Benz I was using just needed some break-in time, but it turned out to be defective. Got a Lyra Delos that had excellent top end extension, but lacked enough bottom for my tastes. Picked up an AT33Sa I really like on the SME 20/2 , IV.Vi combination.
In rotation today were two from Royal Southern Brotherhood. heartsoulblood and The Royal Gospel. Gregg Allman’s son Devon is in this group.

Father John Misty - I love you honey bear - nothing good ever happens at the goddamn thirsty crow

In the midst of a cartridge comparison between a Paradox Pulse DL103r and Lyra Dorian.

Music Hall mmf.9.1 thru ARC PH8

This morning before work I listened to both sides of Linda Ronstadt "Hasten down the wind".  A fabulous way to start the day.  Turntable is an Origin Live Resolution with Encounter Mk 3 arm and Ortofon Quintet black cartridge. 

I am listening to Jeff Beck's There and Back on my Dual 1229. It has an AT120e cart fitted with an ATN140LC stylus.

Hello No Regrets,
Must have been brain dead, but I just noticed your inquiry.

First, I absolutely LOVE the Amazon Grand Referenz/Moerch DP8 combo.
Incredibly  sublime analog reproduction.

Second, I can't directly compare w/ absolute certainty the Amazon to the Feickert Blackbird. I never mounted the Moerch on the Feickert, so I don't have a direct comparison between the two decks with the same arm. On the Feickert I had the Jelco and my FR66s. On the Amazon only the Moerch ( though I am thinking of fabricating an arm board to mount my FR66s on the Amazon for future comparisons ). That said, however,

The Feickert is a GREAT deck. I completely loved what it did with either arm mentioned above, though of course the FR66s did trounce the Jelco arm. I was completely happy and enjoying the music immensely. That said,

The Amazon( and I believe the difference is due mostly to the Amazon and not the Moerch ) is in another league entirely. There is a blackness, STS, on the Amazon that the music seems to spring forth from that the Feickert simply cannot match. The noise floor, to put it plainly, simply does not exist on the Amazon ( to be fair, I would have said the same about the Feickert had I not had the Amazon for comparison ). The music, for lack of a better descriptor, seems to come forth out of the abyss, and the Feickert cannot match that sense of nothingness under the music. The Feickert simply cannot match that sense of utter realism that the Grand Referenz conveys.

I'm very seriously considering taking a leap of faith and selling both the Moerch and the FR66s, and getting one of Pete Riggles Woody ( 12 inch version ) and calling it a day. Probably would go with the SPU version ( I have a lot of very high quality SME type headshells ).

Anyone out there, please feel free to offer any thoughts on the Woody. There's just something about that arm that is calling me.

Thanks for any advice,                         Crazy Bill

Jack White acoustic recordings...VPI HW-19, SME 309 ,Dynavector 10x5. Audio eargasm!

Upstairs, Monk at the Blackhawk on a Technics SP10 Mk3 with Reed tonearm and ZYX Universe cartridge.
Downstairs, Sarah Vaughn, any of several different LPs, on a PTP Lenco with slate plinth, Dynavector tonearm, superbearing, and Phoenix drive system.
This was in the last 2 nights.  Right now I am sitting at a computer writing this and listening to nothing.

Original Marvin Gaye What's Going On
PTP Audio Lenco
Riggle Woody tonearm
Reto Andreoli EMT TSD cartridge

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave. Awesome album. Nice recording.

  The M Squad 2s living stereo,Stravinsky Firebird Dorati LSO Merc living presence 1st press.Perpetuum Ebner 2040, Signet AM 50.I paid 2 bucks for the NM low 2s1959 M squad last year,Lee Marvin,like pre Peter Gunn.Some interesting tracks on it.

Stevie Nicks, Bella Donna, reissue. VPI Classic Signature. Ortofon Cadenza Red. 

Cembalowerke II on the Sota Cosmos and Keb Mo's eponymously named album on  the VPI TNT (different systems).  Impossible to compare sounds as the speakers are so totally different (ML CLS and Wilsons respectively)

Today I compared side 4 of Tift Merritt's "Traveling Alone" on the initial release at 45rpm vs. the box set at 33rpm.

The 33 rpm box actually sounds the best being more open, more air, bass lines easier to follow and lower registers are more fully fleshed out. Tift's voice here, allows you to hear more into it thus appreciate her natural, mellow, fluid texture than the 45rpm.

Townshend Rock 7, Funk Firm FXR II, Dyna Karat 17D3

Sara k waterfall by stockfish Germany. Vpi tnt Jr./ sme5/van den hull colibri xgp

smctigue1- How is the three from the vault on vinyl. I enjoy both 1 and 2 from the vault on CD, but haven't heard any of these on vinyl.

"Positive Touch" by The Undertones.  "Walton: Piano Concerto" on Nonesuch.

A new Rega Planar 3 with Lejonklou Phono pre-amp, bought a week ago and first turntable in over 20 years.  Now I find myself only listening to LPs.

Luna "Pup Tent"

same as before........ Townshend Rock 7 etc............

Grateful Dead - Three from the vault

Townshend Rock III - Ortofon M20E

gshepardbuster- Thanks very much.

@fjn04  Yes that is a pretty accurate description of the Cadenza Red. 

Abraxas UD1S , Dire Straits Brothers in Arms ,Chambers Brothers  Time has Come ,Country Joe & The Fish  Electric music for the Mind and Body -88'vintage LP 12 , Lyra Kleos 

My turn again. Yes: Fragile, early press. My buddy brought over the new Radiohead. It's interesting stuff..... May not run out and buy it, but glad he brought it. WTL Amadeus GTA and Emt Tsd-15. gshepardbuster- I have heard the Cadenza RED has a nice balance for Pop/Rock music. Full bodied, bold, yet smooth and rather forgiving in the upper frequencies. Would that be fair to say, in your opinion. Cheers -Don

Cream-Disraeli Gears
Don Henley-Cass County
Tom Petty-Damn the Torpedoes deluxe ed
21 Pilots-Blurryface (excellent new band)
VPI HRX, rim drive, superplatter, 3d arm Lyra Atlas cart.  Re Blurryface:
Sounds superb for what is very likely digitally sourced recording---it beats the cd by a large margin.

Stevie Nicks, Wild Heart. VPI Classic Signature. Ortofon Cadenza Red .  

Mahler Symphony No.1, Ravel Bolero played through an Artisan Fidelity Technics Sp10Mk3NGS direct drive, Kuzma Airline and Lyra Atlas.  Pure bliss.

Ahmad Jamal: Digitalworks. Played on a Marantz Esotec TT1000, SME M2-9 and Technics EPS 305 MC cart. Good stuff! Happy new year all!

Michaeljbrown...Please tell me your LB is an original!  Or is it one of Vinyl Nirvana's masterpieces?

Thorens TD-125 Long Base using a Denon 103r and EAR 834P doing justice to Dave Brubeck "Time Out"...

Billie Holiday,"Songs for Disingue Lovers"; Verve Records, (Living Sound Stereo). Using Transcendent Grounded Grid Preamp with the Vinyl Nirvana Thorens Long Base, Ortofon SPU MC cartridge..

New day, same setup.  My daughter is home so it is Americana night: Jason Isbell "Sirens of the Ditch", Anderson East "Delilah" and Lake Street Dive, Side Pony.  N

Benny Carter, Jazz Giant (Analogue Productions 45 RPM)

Rega RP6, Ortofon Quintet Black into EAR 834P phono.

Frank Zappa   One Size Fits All 

J A Michell Gyro SE HR Power Supply Moerch DP 6 Benz Ruby Z

John Coltrane, "My Favorite Things" 

LP12, Radikal, Aro, Zu Audio DL-103

Sota star, playing David Sanborn. 

Toto IV, Classic Signature, Ortofon Cadenza Red, Mcintosh C1000 phono. 

Nothing on my Oracle Alexandria for the past week! My daughter's dog is visiting and guess where the beloved, but shedding beast sleeps. So I've been confined to CDs.

I want to encourage any and all rock and R&B fans to buy INTRODUCING DARLENE LOVE, a 2015 release on Columbia produced by Steve Van Zandt. This album (CD) is truly a labor of love and respect for one of the great ladies of pop music who was basically screwed out of her royalties and recognition. Her first solo single was released as a Crystals song without her knowledge or consent, for example. Her music was an inspiration for the overall sound of Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run album. There is original music written for her by Springsteen, Van Zandt, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Webb, Linda Perry, and - get this! - Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil. There are performances by Costello, Van Zandt, Jake Clemons, Paul Schaffer, and Bill Medley among others.

Even if you've bought all of Darlene's oldies and best of collections; the odds are that she never got a dime of your money. This one is different. It is available from Amazon in CD, Vinyl, and MP3 download. There is also a DVD/Blu-ray of the Oscar winning documentary, "20 Feet From Stardom" featuring Ms. Love and some of her peers that I Think I must get. And by the way, that's Darlene doing back-up on U2's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)".

Rainbow Brite Christmas (seriously) Clearaudio Concept with Lyra Delos.
The, um, adult children thought it was funny.

Herbie Hancock - RIVER on my Clearaudio (Marantz TT15) with Lyra Delos MC.

jhills,

I was given, as a very young lad, the Herb Albert (lp) "Whipped Cream & Other Delights". I'm going to pick it up over the holidays from my parents house. Thanks!

Brandi Carlile "Bear Creek"  / Townshend Rock 7/Funk Firm FXR/Dynavector Karat D3

Neil Diamond  "Hot August Night" - Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recording; Pink Floyed  "Dark Side of The Moon" - Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recording; Journey "Escape"- Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recording; Al Stewart  "Year of The Cat" - Mobile Fidelity Origional Master Recording

Vintage, Thorens TD105 w/ Audioquest B100M MC

Even though these and several other of my 80s collections are more than 30 years old and played many times over the past years, they still sound incredible. One of my favorite is an early recording of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" (mind blowing)
Gotta say - I'm still in love with the old analogue.
Happy listening,
Jim

Jazz Party, Claude Bolling,on my 'ancient' Goldmund Studietto. Anyone else have this record. Happy holidays. Pete

Marillion FEAR(F**k Everyone And Run) into Soundsmith OCL-retipped Lyra Helikon> SME 3012R> Luxman PD444.  Probably Marillion's best(and most cleverly titled) album since Brave. My favorite working prog rock band. 

"Jazz Party" on my "ancient' -but still appreciated- Goldmund Studietto.
Does anyone reading this have that album by Claude Bolling? Happy holidays. Pete

Otis Redding - "Dictionary of Soul" (Sundazed), "Otis Blue" ( Rhino mono), Walter Trout - "The Blues Came Callin' " (Provogue).  TT is Music Hall MMF9.1 with Dynavector 10x5 cart. Phono stage is built in  (Marantz PM-11S3).