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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Got a fairly rare, Japanese Steely Dan compilation from Discogs.

Not bad, but I feel it was visually graded and not play-tested, as it’s very noisy. Making me think about more serious cleaning tools.

+1 on Boz

Duane Allman and the mystique of Muscle Shoals. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 / Various Artists

German rock music (box set). Highly recommended 

Spencer, I was really excited when I saw it was reissued. I'm going to try to return it and hopefully get a decent copy.

@big_greg 

Cake - Fashion Nugget. It's off center and skipped once so far Pretty disappointing.

Aww, man. I really wanted to get it.

Cake - Fashion Nugget. It's off center and skipped once so far Pretty disappointing. 

Hope you like the Big Star, @nicks25. If you do, their other classic "#1 Record" just came back in stock at some online stores. It wasn't available when I ordered yours or I might have picked that one instead. It's got my fav track of theirs, "Thirteen" and the theme from That 70's Show.

I may be biased when it comes to Dire Straits. I had always thought the production on all of the original pressings was great.

Same goes for Steely Dan!

I can still remember my reaction listening to Do It Again for the first time on the Can’t Buy A Thrill album. I thought it made my BSR system from high school really shine.

 

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance. Fire Records reissue/remaster 2018, originally 1978

Phil Manzanera - 801 Live,  with Brian Eno, Bill MacCormick , Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips, & Lloyd Watson. Polydor 1977

@tgilb ,

Always loved Dire Straits "S/T"

Wasn’t till the 45 RPM version until I thought it sounded great !!

Dire Straits - S/T

1978/2019 MFSL 45 RPM Remaster

MFSL may be getting a lot of bad press lately but I can't imagine this album sounding any better. For years I thought my early original WB copy was one of the best sounding records in my collection and it does sound great but the MFSL remaster takes it to another level.

 

Frank Black and The Catholics "Show Me Your Tears" 

2022/box set 

I own another pressing on Diverse from 15? years ago .

CCR - Cosmo's Factory

1970/2014 Fantasy Records Reissue

Super clean pressing from QRP.

 

 

Frank Black & The Catholics "Devil's Workshop"

2022/Cooking Vinyl/ Demon Records 

from the box set

Hey Bill,

This River is my only lp by them. Need to get more. Saw them on the tube one evening....very impressive!

+1 on JJ & Mofro Steve, I see they’re doing a presale of Country Ghetto on vinyl. I wish they’d do Orange Blossoms.

The Rolling Stones / Hot Rocks 1964-1971
1971 abkco/London

Outstanding compilation double LP in song selection but SQ varies widely.

The Doors / S-T
1967 Elektra

Amazing debut album, great content, imaging, decent SQ

I have experience with the box set.  It's a bit bright, at least it was on my system with my last turntable.  I have not yet played it on my Feickert/Kuzma/Soundsmith setup.  I will have to do that and get back to you.  The vinyl quality is excellent, but the mastering does sound a bit bright.  My original was given away many years ago because it was so thrashed.  Awesome high school years with that album, and great memories.  But it absolutely needed to be replaced.  I am glad to have this copy but would rather have paid for the album alone, not the entire box set with all of the CDs.  Although, the packaging is really awesome!  I do recommend getting a copy.  It's probably the best available.  Only if Analogue Productions does a true AAA reissue would I replace the new one that I have.

According to the Acoustic Sounds website the Deja Vu info is below.

Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios

Pressed at Optimal in Germany

It looks like it is the same as what they released in the box sets in 2021 but this release will only be the original single album cuts.

Does anyone have experience with the box sets?