Franz Schmidt
Symphony No. 4 In C Major
Zubin Mehta
Vienna Philharmonic
1972 London (US)
Beautiful
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@sbank
do you recommend the remastered 2017 Circles or the OP? |
@sbank
Thank you much for the reply. I enjoy the dialogue and direction. Turns out I’d downloaded Room a few years ago, played it and forgot. Thanks for the reminder. Have it on now. It’s great really.
I’ve been familiar with some of Nels work for awhile. Out of, what, 1,000 recordings, I do have a couple of his records and records he’s contributed to. Nels Cline Singers is one version of his music that I particularly enjoy. But I either forgot or possible didn’t ever know he played for Wilco. I am not a fan and tend to avoid that band. I tried (even bought the beautiful Whole Love LP package) but the music to me was never interesting enough to overcome all the bad feeling. No explaining my strange taste I guess.
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One or two members of Wilco are in The Autumn Defense.
Ah, thanks Steve. But not Tweedy? Will check it out. |
Streaming “In The Skies”. Very Groovy. |
@sbank
For the rarer gems:
The Autumn Defense - Circles is must have on vinyl for any Wilco fan. John & Pat's masterpiece with glorious harmonies, lyrics and tone reminiscent of Simon & Garfunkel, Crosby/Nash and Fairport Convention.
Nels Cline & Julian Lage - Rooms, acoustic guitar duo of avangarde jazz that will reward your attention with complex tunes masterfully played with extreme clarity
Great post here. Will check these out. Are these records related to Wilco? |
I don’t have the option, for loading that is. I just have a button that you press when you buy a fancy moving coil that can’t pull its own weight…
Steve says the button on this device detracts from the experience. He might be right. Midrange was more “liquid” with a less expensive MM cart - all things being equal. But the sublimity of the Hana MC is alluring. Maybe the next phase for me is into moving iron. Then I don’t have to press the button…. |
+1 on We Get Requests Brian. I think That would be a great test record. |
@laviathon RCA LSC 1903 is that the op? Very nice regardless. Excellent. Most excellent. How is the AP version of that record? |
@bkeske Thanks for the report. Congrats.
New music tonight from:
Christone KINGFISH Ingram
662
Pretty good
Garland Records
Pacific Northwest Pandora’s Box
Ridiculous - but I went to High School with some of these guys and all the way through K-12 with a friend who was the keyboard player for one of the bands.
Jackson Browne
Downhill From Everywhere
Is on now and so far it sounds really good.
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@boxer12, surprisingly, they don’t really wear out. Unless you loan it to your brother in law with his bastard stylus… |
Bach
Starker
Suites For Unaccompanied Cello
Decca/Ap 1964/2020
Smith manually controlled groove margin and depth on his Neumann VMS-80 lathe, working with no preview signal and bypassing the lathe's margin-control computer. In doing so, he cut these sides the same way the original LP was cut by George Piros, who was Fine Recording Inc's VP and head of mastering. As with the original LP, no "sweetening" equalization or dynamic range control was used.
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+1 on the Bach trios. I really like that album.
Joel, I never thought the op Love Over Gold” was lacking but the 45 rpm is really good. |
Jim, I’ll be up in a couple of weeks. It’s Greg’s birthday around the 4th or 5th. Maybe the 3 (or more) of us could get together and celebrate his birthday.
@tomic601
@big_greg
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Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
RealLive! Vol. 2
2021 RSD
This might be the most poorly recorded album ever. Horrible. Really a shame ‘cause the guy can be a really interesting guitar player. He mixed this record himself off a hard disc recording through the board. Atrocious. The guitar has no tone and the rhythm section is barely audible. |
@tomic601 You are an aficionado, to be sure. Terri Garrison - Only Love ( Vandersteen Records 1992 - for lovers of two microphone direct to tape , Tim De Paravicini, Kavi Alexander recordings… )
Lovely mix of blues and spiritual features arrangements and playing of David Lindley
Far as I can tell this is not available to stream anywhere (I tried). Checked on the price of the vinyl and it’s expensive! So, you have a treasure. I would like to hear it sometime. |
Oscar Peterson
Exclusively For My Friends
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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
...And His Mother Called Him Bill
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Steve, Brian, Tom, I’m doing the same while puttering around doing chores. What a fine sounding album. Thanks. |
Steve, I’m pretty much a novice at this and probably shouldn’t even try to comment around here with all the experts hovering but I guess whatIm saying is I appreciate what you’ve done to create a system and that I’m guessing I would probably prefer yours. |
Steve, Are they the Golden Ear with the built in powered subs?
Aside: When I hear good solid state systems (I’ve never owned a really good one) I admire the transparency, linearity, and other capabilities but good tubes are to me by comparison just more human. I often think that other people with ss gear and high end tweeters can hear better than I can and know more and that their stereos are probably “better” than the horns and lower powered tubes that I like, I admit that. I think a lot of this is psychological and not just physical. |
Händel
The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner
1979 Argo (Netherlands)
3 Record Compilation in a Box |
@slaw
Steve, I’m surprised to hear you say your friends system sounds better than your own. Maybe it just sounds different. Speakers? |
MozartSix Quartets Dedicated To Haydn, Vol. 2 Quartet No. 16 In E-Flat, K. 428
Quartet No. 17 In B-Flat, K. 458 ("Hunt")
Guarneri Quartet
RCA 1974
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Turning in after side 4. Will read about your records tomorrow though. Good listening. |
Welcome @starwarrior. That’s a beautiful cartridge. What did it replace and what did it change? |
I like the sound of this record “Tone Poem” but there is something different about it. Not sure what it is. Maybe the room(s). Maybe digital effects. Perhaps Jim could say.
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Hey Steve. Good on you for helping your friend with setup. How did the sound of the Ray Brown record played there compare to how it sounds on your system? I assume you used the same record, but not the same headshells….
Been watching Olympics. Maybe tomorrow she’ll be ok with watching it with the sound turned off and the stereo on but I kinda doubt it.
Problem with watching tv is, well there are a lot of problems with it all right, but I don’t really pay attention to it and so I get on my phone and shop for records.
Today I ordered a batch of 26 records off my want list from one store on Discogs and made another 3 pre-orders from Acoustic Sounds.
Should I be posting this…
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Berliner Philharmoniker
Musik Für Blechbläser
(Music for Brass)
DG 1982 Germany
(Digital)
Sounds good. I mean, it’s supposed to be bright.
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Here’s something for a cool bright Saturday morning over breakfast.
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartets op. 20, nos. 2&4
Quartetto Esterházy
Original Insturments
ProArte 1973
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@bkeskeLooks like it goes for just 20-30 bucks online. Probably not on the audiophile radar for Sonics. Anyway the Sonics are good if not exceptional but the performance, by DO and especially by the music made by father and son together is exceptional. Very moving (on music everyone’s heard a thousand times). |
Where? In my mind hanging on the ledge of a gilded concert hall stage?
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Beethoven
“Emperor”
Solti & The CSO
Ashkenazy
Phillips 1981 Compilation
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@slaw Kansas "Monolith" Great choice Steve zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Johann Sebastian Bach Violinkonzert In A-moll Und E-Dur Konzert Für Zwei Violinen In D-moll David and Igor Oistrach Wiener Symphoniker & RPH Georg Fischer & Sir Eugene Goossens Deutsche Grammophon 1963 Germany Stereo This was a dollar and is one of the most beautiful records I’ve ever heard. NM/VG my corner horns put me on the stage between the orchestra and the Violin(s)so sweet highly recommend |
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@reubent
Hey there! Welcome back. Going on are discussions of turntable cartridges and vinyl archeology findings. Many new members becoming regular posters. Also, some most excellent platters being spun. Here in the strange town of Portland, Oregon we’re outside in the exceptionally sweet evening air where alas, there is no record player.
Streaming Mike Greene - “Pale Pale Moon” and pretending we’re in 1975 Los Angeles. |
@gmercer. Welcome back! No backup cart? Maybe nothing would compare.
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Beethoven
String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Amadeus Quartet
Deutsche Grammophon
1970 Compilation |
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Oh Me Oh My:
Aretha Live In Philly, 1972
Atlantic/Rhino 2021 RSD
Really cool story about this record and it’s fun music and the vinyl is well produced with transparent sound but it was a mess of a recording with the band out of balance and Aretha only occasionally singing with the benefit of the microphone. |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Music
Charles Rosen, Piano
fonè 2020
Sonata in A minor KV 310/300d
unfinished suite KV399/385i
Sonata in A major KV331/300i
The Piano is an 1884 C.Bechstein
made in Berlin and it’s not like other pianos. It’s beautiful and beautifully recorded but it sounds different, hard to describe, maybe smaller and dryer sounding than concert pianos I’m accustomed to.
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Brian, @bkeske, Mike Greene - Pale, Pale Moon. GRC 1975
Blast from the past One of his guitar players sounds a little like Andrew Latimer of Camel. Which is a good thing. |
@tomic601 , et. al. I just saw that the complete catalogue of records on John Prince’s own label (Oh Boy!?) on a 20% off sale now. Not certain how many of his own records are in print on that label though. Just FYI. |
Amoeba running 2-day 15% off on Vinyl sale w free shipping.
I don’t think they’d have that Mike Greene record though. Seek it elsewhere, a lost west coast jazz rock gem.
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@flennon Sinatra
Swing Easy/Songs for Young Lovers
Capitol 1955
Wowzers! +1 Oh Yeah. |
Beethoven Violin Concerto
David Oistrakh
Andre Cluytens
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise |
Santana
Marathon
(1979 and sounds like it and I mean that in the best possible way)
You can hear the bell bottoms. |
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