Marshall Tucker Band - S/T
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The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here
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The J. Geils Band - Bloodshot
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Jules And The Polar Bears / got no breeding
1978 Columbia
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Russ Ballard / At The Third Stroke
1978 Epic
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@rvpiano
Vinyl Rules!!!
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus AP/QRP Prestige Series, mono reissue. Outstanding, in every way!
Tania Maria - Forbidden Colors Really a fun album. Great SQ and a fusion of Latin/jazz/samba. Excellent bass, really deep with great imaging and very wide soundstage. Highly recommended. Available on Discogs in NM condition ranging from $4 to $10. Be sure to get the Capitol Records issue, C1-90966
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The Clientele / Bonfires On The Heath
2009 Merge
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Made an amazing discovery today. I played the very impressive sounding Telarc CD of Frederick Fennell conducting Gustav Holst’s Suites for band. Then I played the digital LP of the same performance. The record sonically totally blew the CD away in every way even though it was a digital original.
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J. Geils Band - Nightmares ...and other tales from the vinyl jungle
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The Pop / Go!
1979 Arista
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mammothguy54 - I went to at least one of those Zubin H’wood Bowl fireworks concerts. Tons of fun. I’m probably mixing stuff up here, but I remember one Zube/L.A. Phil pops concert that had Zubin wearing a gigantic white shirt so that the psychedelic light show would better bounce off him.
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Code Blue / S-T
1980 Warner Bros.
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Great Buildings / S-T
1981 Columbia
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Divinyls / Desperate
1983 Chrysalis
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@mammothguy54
I happy to hear the music brings back enjoyable memories to you also.
In Chicago the fireworks were over the lake a great black background , I enjoyed them from the late 60's thru the late 80's .
@bkeske
You forgot sitting on a blanket holding your viewing spot for hours while drinking with friends. That's why I took the L train or rode my bicycle .
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Hey Brian,
I sent a PM.
I was reading through my manual'. MC loading is resistive. MM options are said to be capacitive. I think this is the standard. The loading "dock" area in back allows for two inputs with a r/l channel for each input. You can do 2 MC carts, two MM carts or one of each. The front panel button switches between input one and two .
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@mammothguy54
Zubin Mehta, cannons, and fireworks.
sounds like a lethally dangerous combination 😁😱
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@vair68robert
FYI, I was able to see the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta, perform the 1812 Overture at the Hollywood Bowl. The concert was titled as "The Tchaikovsky Spectacular". That was a long time ago, about 1980, but I remember it to this day. The canons did produce a good wallup. The fireworks were set off from behind the Bowl. Really a spectacular show and wonderful experience.
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Szell conducts
- Samuel Barber - Concerto For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 38, John Browning piano
- William Schuman - A Song Of Orpheus, Leonard Rose cello
The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks reissue 1970, originally 1964
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Sweet Relief - A Benefit for Victoria Williams
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Reiner & CSO. Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture "
Classic Records 200 gram
I would go to Grant Park in Chicago to listen to the 1812 with cannons and watch the fireworks that were timed to the music .
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Juilliard String Quartet & Aaron Copland. Copland - Quartet For Piano And Strings / Sextet For Clarinet, Piano And String Quartet / Vitebsk — Trio For Violin, Cello And Piano (Study On A Jewish Theme). Columbia Masterworks reissue 1970, originally 1967
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Arrived recently,
The Delines "The Sea Drift"
2022/El Cortez Records - Jealous Butcher Records
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Finish up Ives with this….
Juilliard String Quartet : Ives - String Quartet No. 1 & No. 2. CBS Records Masterworks reissue 1985, originally 1967
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More Ives…
Harold Farberman conducts Charles Ives - Orchestral Works : Robert Browning Overture For Large Orchestra / The Circus Band March / Set For Theatre Orchestra / The Unanswered Question. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Vanguard 1967
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Art Garfunkel - Watermark
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Here's to Sandy on the 4th of July!
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As it is the 4th of July holiday, re-pulling this as a little celebration….
Harold Farberman conducts Charles Ives - The Four Symphonies. New Philharmonia Orchestra. Vanguard Cardinal Series. 3LP box set,1968
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One thing I do not quite understand is as that phono pre has two inputs, they did not allow settings for each, at least from what I can understand? Are those two MM and MC options R&L, or for inputs 1&2. Which would allow for two different carts/tables to be used.
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@sbank
Thanks Spencer, as I have never had a phono pre with capacitance setting options, I did not know it was only used for MM.
The MIMC and Sussarro are still MI (moving iron), but as they are both lo output, I believe work more as a MC carts vs MM.
If Steve is using the custom 400 jumper at the MC resistance slots, that may be a tad low per Peter’s recommendations. Again, I prefer my MIMC at 1K, and have read other lo output SS (MIMC, Sussarro, Voice, etc) users prefer the same. But as I said, if I had the option of 800-850, I have a feeling that may be perfect.
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@slaw @bkeske Agree w/Brian that trying the various loading resistance options can't hurt any more than turning a tone control would. I'm pretty sure that capacitance settings only affect MM; that's why Soundsmith doesn't have a recommendation for it regarding their MIMC & MCs.
Most MM phono stages have only one fixed value that is so common that almost all MM carts are built with it in mind. OTOH, I've seen old threads encouraging tweaking capacitance on certain models if you have that flexibility. So Steve, you have that flexibility if you ever experiment w/MM.
https://www.sound-smith.com/articles/transformer-use-soundsmith-mifixed-coil-designs is worth reading, SLOWLY ;-)
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Dave Mason / Split Coconut
1975 Columbia
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The Clientele / Bonfires On The Heath
2009 Merge
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Roxy Music / Avalon (half speed master)
2022 Virgin, orig. 1982
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Dylan - Blonde on Blonde. Columbia 2LP gatefold 1972 repress, originally 1968 (of this mix)
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Flag Day Soundtrack
2021/Seattle Surf/Republic Records
day appropriate, recommended
Glen Hansard & Eddie Vedder. Two male voices that continue to impress me.
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Back to ‘Merican groups 🙂
The one, the only….
The Band - S/T. Capitol 1969
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Love that period in time!
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The Incredible String Band - The Big Huge. Elektra 1969
Got this one from Moles for 50 cents. Guess it beats the Garcia LP
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Sinatra -- Strangers in the Night. The title cut is compressed, cut in mono, and pretty obviously the same mix as the hit single. The rest of the cuts are in luscious stereo, with Nelson Riddle and the Orchestra providing sterling back-up.
Le Orme -- Uomo di Pezza. I bought it when I was on a kick for Italian Progressive Rock. Great surrealist album cover. Music is second rate Emerson Lake & Palmer.. I'll be generous and rate the SQ as maybe a 7 out of 10.
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Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
2001/YepRoc
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