Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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Hey guys. Regarding the Hydra 8. I just plugged my EMI meter into the 6 that's plugged into the 8 and the reading is now reduced by half of what it was previously. That seems to be proof that it's doing a good job.
@6t5-gto,

Glad you liked "Harvest Moon"!
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@boxer12,

I use the Vinyl Flat. It's not as user friendly as the original pouch has been changed to basically a large heating pad element that was hard for me to adjust to. It works fine if your willing to take it out of it's pouch and turn it 180 degrees every 45 minutes. Make sure it's on low.
Fleetwood Mac "Then Play On"  2017/Rhino/remaster

@uberwaltz,

What about your EquaCore? Does it not gel with the PPT stuff?
@boxer12,

That band name is familiar but I’ve never heard them that I know of.
Mynabirds "Lovers Know" ….again/from last weekend. Just had side 3 to go.
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@ghosthouse ,

Thanks brother.
Welcome @wqgq_641,
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Robyn Ludwick "Out of These Blues"
Uber,

Was looking at your system page. Where's the Musical Surroundings phono?
Going to restart Ten Years After "Live From the Fillmore East"....from last week. (Surprisingly good sonics, very clear like it was recorded recently.)
I felt the need to pull out "Big Station" Alejandro Escovedo before Patricia.

I'm going to try and complete my vinyl outings from AE this Black Friday weekend.
@uberwaltz,

Regarding compatibility.....before I installed the Omega+ mats in my breaker box, I already had Bybee iQSEs inside all major components and 8 HFC MC 0.5s. After reading those two products weren’t compatible with the PPT stuff, I removed all of the HFC stuff to great effect. Dynamics increased. Not to say they are inferior, just not compatible.

The other day I removed the iQSEs out of my phono stage and installed Herbie’s tube dampers. Could tell a slight increase in dynamics.

Last evening, was fooling around with the two iQSEs I had extra and began placing them everywhere in my system. Could easily tell they had a darkening effect except when I put them on top of the VPI motor housing.

Lots of fun!
"Full Moon Fever". This lp has never been my go to TP lp for listening because it was so commercialized. It really sounds as about as good as one will ever hear it on vinyl as it does here, from the box.

Yes, I’m feeling involved in my listening now...…..

Really. I can always count on Tom Petty. No _hit! The first time I've been able to listen and enjoy one record in the last 9 or so hours without starting to think about (life).


On to side 2.
Finished listening to Chicago "S/T" /Rhino  ….no match for Transit Authority my friends. All night, I've been searching for something to get my juices flowing. Well, I just cleaned Tom Petty "Full Moon Fever". While he usually comes through for me, this was the next lp out of the box, I've yet to listen to. I like to go in order. Hopefully, this may get me going?
Did a deep clean on "Pretzel Logic". Picked it up at a record show a while back. Was marked as 1st pressing. It is the ABC black label but I’m not an expert on the matrix numbers. Yesterday, the first track sounded much darker than the rest of the album. I thought overall it could or should be more open. We’ll see.

That really helped.... nodding head/tapping feet now!
Finally, PB. Starting with my least favorite of her first (5 ?) lps, "Verse".  Much more of what I'd call an experimental jazz outing by her band, and less of the artist’ voice.
@pastoriuos,

Well that makes more sense to me, anyway. Usually, however, mono records are fairly quiet IME.
@tomic601,

I guess you meant to write (anybody) instead of (August body)?
Bob Dylan "30thAnniversary Concert Celebration" OP

The Lou Reed set is fantastic!
@bdp24 ,

Yeah! Terry Evans "Puttin' It Down" is on the Audioquest label. All of their records have EX SQ.