Alex de Grassi – Southern Exposure (Windham Hill 1983)
Solo guitar new age "live to two track digital" on Sony PCM 1600.
Sounds great. Clean and sparkling but devoid of any emotion.
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Took the 12" Well Tempered clone off. Put the Jelco 850L back on.
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Maybe. Not unhappy! It didn't set me back much. |
@tomic601 It's made me appreciate the 850L a lot more.
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New Black Eagle Jazz Band - Live in New Orleans.
Roy Harper - Born in Captivity.
The Violin Prelude And Allegro as Paganini - Instruments Of The Orchestra
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@mammothguy54
Yeah, probably a stamper like you say. I've never heard anything like this type of distortion. Like the hi-hats overloaded the chain. It could have also been someone playing it with a busted stiletto before I got it.
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Stan Getz Quartet Featuring Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go (Verve 1964)
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Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
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@spiritofradio Hats off to your memory.
Larry Coryell / Philip Catherine – Twin-House (Elektra 1977)
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Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts ll&lll
(Who gives a fzzz anyway?)
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The Bathers - Unusual Places To Die
The Triffids - In The Pines
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Helen Humes - Sneakin’ Around
Fairport Convention - Rosie
Loudon Wainwright lll - More Love Songs, first album
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Van Morrison - Sense of Wonder
Jerome Sabbagh/ Greg Touhey - No Filter
Conor Orberst - Salutations
Itzhak Pearlman - Stravinsky Divertimento
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All the First Aid Kit albums.
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So apparently
The Tallest Man on Earth
is 5'7"! Love it!
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Jonah Tolchin – Clover Lane (Yep Roc 2014)
Solid album. Worth picking up.
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Robert Calvert - Hype, The Songs of Tom Mahler
Melanie Safka - My First Album
(musty old cover for $1. Turned out to be Near Mint and a great recording.) |
It's Immaterial - Life's Hard and Then You Die
Timbuk3 - Greetings From
Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park to Memphis
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Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band – This Kid's The Greatest! (Good Time Jazz 1962 mono)
Superb recording. |
@bkeske I've been clamp free for... um, forever. Always found it deadened the music, especially, as you've noticed, air. And attack speed (rise time).
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Lotte Lenya – September Song And Other American Theatre Songs Of Kurt Weill
1958 mono Columbia Masterworks
Always blown away by this record. The music is wonderful and sound quality is like they used to make before they lost the plot. |
The Joe Wilder Quartet - Jazz From Peter Gunn
Columbia 1959 mono. Breathtaking recording quality and music. In the room real especially with my Decca. |
Bob Wilber & Kenny Davern - Soprano Summit
Walt Disney - Mary Poppins (original mono 1963 Beuno Vista)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band - New Orleans Vol ll
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Skeeter Davis – Blueberry Hill And Other Favorites (RCA Camden 1965)
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@bdp24 Dude, I swing by after a TV-only evening and here's you writing a book! Great story (again). |
The Weavers - Reunion 2 at Carnegie Hall (Vangard 1963)
Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome at Carnegie Hall (Columbia 1963)
Various - The Music of David Lynch Live
Peter Paul And Mary - Moving (Warner 1963)
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Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett – All Shall Be Well Again (Folk-Legacy 1983)
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Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Weil/Brecht - Threepenny Opera (New York 1976)
Ketty Lester - Love Letters (ERA 1962 mono)
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Aldous Harding - Party
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Frank Patterson - same title (1981)
Rod McKuen - Greatest Hits
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Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
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The Osbourne Brothers - Ru-be eee (Decca 1970)
Julie Andrews - The Lass with the Delicate Air (RCA -Victor 1957)
June Christy - This is June Christy (Capital 1958 mono)
--- Unbelievable how mono can have such presence. Wonderful cavernous recording.
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes
Thin Lizzy - The Adventures of
@slaw These are the albums I listened to when using the mat tonight.
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Cochise - Swallow Tales
Canned Heat - Hooker 'n' Heat
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@uberwaltz No. I have 3 Decca cartridges and mono records sound great on them. I'm not a mono aficionado! |
Jackie Gleason - Music for the Love Hours (Capital 1957)
Trumpet by Bobby Hackett.
Bing Crosby - Christmas Classics (Capital 1977)
Chris Connor - Sings Gentle Bossa Nova (ABC-Paramount 1965 mono)
I'm continually amazed at the quality of these old recordings. It's not that I even like this type of music. It just sounds so freakin good. Bing's voice with its somewhat hard wooden tone is 3D in the room.
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Edmond Hall Sextet - Rompin' In '44 (Circle 1983 mono)
I played this with 4 different cartridges.
1. Audio Technica VM750SH
2. Decca Grey Export Garrott Bros with new line contact stylus and side screw Decapod
3. Decca Gold Garrott Bros Microscanner with new line contact stylus and Decapod.
4. Decca Super Gold with Paratrace stylus.
Holy crap! The incremental difference between these was nothing short of ridiculous. Each step was like a different record. I used the first 3 tracks on side one for the comparison. All I can say is if you are in the market for a $400 transducer like the AT, don't buy it and save for longer and get the Super Gold. It is so much better.
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@uberwaltz I may have got that Grey. It was cheap and unknown but turned out to be practically unplayed.
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Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow Quintet - Classic Jazz New York 1945-47 (1976 - good but bright midband typical recording of that era.)
Saxophone and clarinet, upright bass and piano, by a black man and a white man with soul. You can't help smiling.
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@slaw See Systems. The slate 401 with upgraded platter and idler. |
Gong – Angel's Egg Radio Gnome Invisible Part 2 (Virgin 1973)
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@slaw Re First Aid Kit. Um...not sure they're your scene. Their best album is The Lion's Roar so you could start there. It sort of grows on you and their voices sound good. Second best is Drunken Trees. It's earlier and cute. |
@mayoradamwest You might look at the Degritter US cleaner instead. |
The Elliot Lawrence Band – Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (1956 Fantasy mono)
@uberwaltz I dug out Uriah Heep Live (1973 Bronze). Haven’t played them in years. Gypsy and July Morning live are great. |
Donovan - In Concert at Anaheim Convention Center 1967 (Epic 1968)
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I'm reading Paul McGowan's @psaudio autobiography and he was around bands using the Moog monophonic synthesizer. So I thought I'd check out an old live Uriah Heep album.
Uriah Heep - Live January 1973
Ugh. What an instrument of torture. |
Loudon Wainwright lll - A Live One
William P. Corgan - Ogilala
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Roy Harper - Lifemask (Harvest UK 1973)
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Roger Waters - When The Wind Blows (Virgin 1986)
Buy. Listen. Watch movie. Vote for an anti-war liberal.
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Pink Floyd - The Wall. (Harvest UK original)
Haven't played it in decades. Sounds great. Holophonic.
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@slaw Hey man!
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Paul Tortellier - Plays Encores (EMI 1972)
You like cello? Your friends will love this as a demo. The Swan made me weep when a friend was taken by cancer too young.
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@slaw Maybe this will help you to respect me a little more. I've no idea what this means. Why would I not respect you? Your mindset reminds me that I'll never do a deal like I did for you again. Have I offended you in some way? |
