Ian & Sylvia - Early Morning Rain (Vangard 1965)
Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Roomful Of Blues (1982 Muse)
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@slaw I listened to Elephant by Jason Isbell.
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Hank Locklin – Bummin' Around (RCA Camden 1967)
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@slaw No problem. Hopefully all is good. Wishing you the best. It's not easy getting older.
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Jefferson Airplane - Flight Log (Grunt 1977)
Jorma Kaukonen With Tom Hobson - Quah (Grunt 1974)
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@tomic601 Re the Croft, I replaced the power cord (cheap OFC rhodium from ebay) with good results and don't forget the fuse (PTFE tape on glass only). |
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All (Discreet 1975)
I played this twice. Once with my Decca Gold (newly retipped Decapod Garrot Microscanner) and then with my Decca Super Gold with a Paratrace tip.
It was as if I listened to two different recordings. Nuts. |
Aled Jones - The Best of... (1987)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement Live in Montreux (Atlantic 1969)
The Red Army Ensemble (Vox 1964)
Eddie Haywood- One For My Baby (Mercury 1960)
Goat - Commune (Sub Pop 2014)
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Al Stewart - Past, Present & Future (1973 CBS)
Fairground Attraction - The First of a Million Kisses (1988)
Gem of an album. I played the US RCA and UK BMG versions expecting the American version to be an inferior version. Well the pressing was noisy but the sound was way better. A nice surprise.
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Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle - One From the Heart (1982 CBS)
Great album with some reference-grade songs.
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band - New Orleans (1977 CBS/Columbia)
Fantastic music. Wonderful recording. In the room with you. |
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Jean Ritchie – High Hills And Mountains (Greenhays Recordings 1979) Love this NM album. Nice recording. English McShee/Denny vocals meets Kentucky-Irish country replete with barndance banjo and mournful fiddle ballads. Recommended if this is your thing. Here you go. |
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade Op. 35 Munchner Symphoniker - violin Schneider (Zafiro 1977)
Very good recording with the sweetest and most colorful instruments.
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Prokofiev - Symphony No. 7 Paris Conservatoire Orchestra (Decca 1971)
Dvorak - Cello Concerto Rostropovitch RPO Boult (HMV 1958)
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My two copies are both UK Harvest originals in NM- condition. They sound very good but not "clean" if you know what I mean. Is the 2016 remaster less vinyl sounding?
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I sent my 1987 Decca Super Gold (Paratrace) back for the second time in its life to the UK for a re-tip. I figured that it was due as 6 years had passed since the last replacement stylus. At a very conservative count of 2 three hour sessions a week, that is 1872 hours. John Wright emailed me to say it was barely worn and did I want to go ahead with the work! I did just because it took a lot of hassle getting it there. I clean every side with a Magic Eraser. |
@slaw Sounds like they ran the E.L.6 for 2000 hours! (VG) |
"Give me an F"
Saw them in 1980. Awesone. |
Jethro Tull – This Was (Reprise 1970 [RE 1968])
Tull before they became Jethro Tull.
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Cozy Cole, Buddy Tate, Wallace Davenport, Vic Dickenson – French Festival, Nice, France 1974 (Classic Jazz 1979 RR 1974])
Killer $2 NM treat. Excellent sound quality and music. Take your $60 Jazz at the Pawnshop and make it into an ashtray. |
Clive Gregson & Christine Collister – Mischief (Special Delivery 1987)
Bought new when released as it got great reviews. Not bad.
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Hawkwind – Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (Charisma 1976)
This is an old friend.
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Eddie "Blues Man" Kirkland – It's The Blues Man (Tru-Sound 1962)
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Hey @slaw Yeah, I tested before and after on an album > SpinClean > US. There was a clear improvement with each cleaning with the US yielding an improvement like a new power cord etc. The new bearing is a revelation taking the 401 to a new level. |
Carol Kidd (Linn 1986)
Always been a fav. Very Linn/Naim sounding.
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive (Virgin UK 1987)
Great recording. Avant garde new romantic.
Simply Red - Picture Book (Elektra 1985)
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Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes
(Sounds so much better since I replaced the 401 bearing. The drive, bass plucking, the rhythmic drive is so on point. Rim shots, accordion buttons, his voice. I've seen them live and this is close to that.)
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The Beatles –
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone 1967)
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Billie Elish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)
This is great. A LOT of bass and it goes low.
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The Fleetwoods – The Fleetwoods Greatest Hits (Dolton 1962)
Lovely stuff. Kids in convertibles driving from the diner to Lover's Lane. |
The New John Handy Quintet With Bobby Hutcherson - New View! (Columbia 1967)
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The Beatles - Abbey Road (Anniversary Edition 2019)
Very good but not great. Cymbals too recessed. The out-takes LP I heard was more enjoyable.
Current 13 - Thunder Perfect Mind
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat |
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Erroll Garner – Concert By The Sea (Columbia 1970 RE [1956])
Love this live piano gig with sparse accompaniment. Wonderful recording. Applause is a little hot though. |
Where did you get turned on to All the records you own? @slaw Not sure what you mean. I dunno. Just like stuff. In part, it's because I love acoustic instruments recorded in the pre-digital era. Live jazz is magic. I put it down to my rig just lighting up most everything I play. Does that make sense? |
Billie & De De Pierce / Jim Robinson’s New Orleans Band – Jazz At Preservation Hall II (Atlantic 1963)
Magnificent. I’ve a soft spot for New Orleans Dixieland jazz. It’s a party in your damned soul.
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@slaw I guess. Just tryin' to spread the joy!
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The Jazz Corps, Under The Direction Of Tommy Peltier Featuring Roland Kirk – The Jazz Corps (Pacific Jazz 1967)
Psychedelic jazz. The first jazz album I’ve ever heard with flute that’s musical and not annoying. Sax and awesome percussion. Great recording too. Good stuff. |
Various – Still On The Line: A Tribute to Jimmy Webb (Flannelgraph 2015)
Jim Toth (Wooden Wand) gifted me this when I bought Death Seat. He has a song on it. The record has grown on me. Worth checking out. Some odd mixing which is a little quirky. Check out the finger slides on S1T5.
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@slaw Just thought you should know that the MyMat has taken up permanent residence on my second rig. Without it, the subwoofer is incoherent. Cleaner and faster all round. Everything comes together with it. Yay!
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If anyone sees the tip of my Decca Garrott Brothers Grey Export stylus flying by, let me know. |
Peter Gabriel - 2
The The - Mind Bomb
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Conor Oberst - Salutations
The Black Swans - Don't Blame the Stars
Santana - Amigos
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Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico |
Roy Harper - The Sophisticated Beggar (Big Ben 1977 RE [1967])
Recorded in a shed. A gem. The original on Strike is worth a lot.
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An Pierlé - Strange Ways (PIAS Belgium 2013)
Female voice and piano. Like Kate Bush without the shrieks and fantastics.
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Sarah Vaughan – All Time Favorites By (Mercury Wing 1963 mono)
I'm lucky to have a NM copy.
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Thanks tomic601.
The George Lewis Band Of New Orleans – Jazz At Preservation Hall 4 (Atlantic 1963)
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@bdp24 Thanks man. I dunno TBH. It's on the seconadary rig. Probably a LC. I’ve gone off the Paratrace. In my main rig, in the SuperGold/Decapod, while it has more emotion, it’s unforgiving and noisier than the LC on my Garrott Gold. I swapped in my backup Audio Technica VM750SH and it’s surprisingly silent in the groove.
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Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (Darkroom 2019 orange vinyl)
This is a fine album. It has subterranean bass like you've never heard from a record.
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The Kinks – Preservation Act 1 (RCA Victor 1973)
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse (Verve 2006)
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I must dig out some 'Heep. I know I've ten or so albums in there.
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (Island 1983)
Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends, A Porter's Love Song (Jukebox 1985)
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@tomic601
From Roy Halee the engineer on Graceland:
"The amount of editing that went into that album was unbelievable," Halee asserts. "We recorded everything analogue, so it sounded really good, but without the facility to edit digital I don't think we could have done that project. The first thing I did was take the material to New York and put it on the Sony machine. Then we edited, edited, edited like crazy, put it back on analogue, took it to LA to overdub Linda Ronstadt or whoever, brought it back to New York, put it back on digital and edited some more. We must have done that at least 20 times, and if not for digital we could have ended up with just as many generations of recordings."
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