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
@bkeskecongrats! The Belles stuff is so beautiful. Hope to hear some of it someday!
Jaco Pastorius-Jaco Pastorius 1976 Epic
Carlos Santana-Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! 1972 Col
Love Santana, seen him live several times and the performance with Buddy is excellent. The sq on this record leaves much room for improvement though. Has anyone heard the Speakers Corner remaster?
Thanks Tim. I’m hoping to be pleased. As much as I loved my old Belles 400A, I’m sure this will take things to yet another level, and still pair well with my new Belles Sig pre. Probably better.
Seller already shipped it out today. Should have them Wednesday.
I have very early pressings of Face The Music and A New World Record. I love them both, musically, and sonically they are pretty darn good. I never owned Eldorado but should probably get it on MFSL 33rpm while it's still available. Darn it, tgilb, you just made me tap into the monthly vinyl budget early in the month. That's a good thing, though.😃
I bought Axis Bold As Love a couple of years ago, the reissue that's the Authorized Hendrix Family Edition. It's pretty good. I bought the album when it first came out in 1967 but that was thrashed during high school years. I bought it again in 1973, just out of high school and after getting my first real hi-fi. Therefore, it's a fairly early repress. I didn't realize that I had it in excellent condition when purchasing the Hendrix Family Edition a couple of years ago. In the Degritter it goes and I will play it later, tonight. Should be some fun for a Saturday night.
"Georgia Blue" is incredible, musically! Some of their interpretation were surprising...surprisingly good! I think that sonically not their best but the high quality songs/performances are superb.
Thanks Steve and Bill. Had a great talk with the seller yesterday, he’s had most everything David Belles has sold except his newest stuff. So, after a nice talk, I have a pretty good feeling about these, their capabilities, and why I should not consider any older Belles I was looking at. Probably won’t make Johnny Rutan happy as I was talking to him about new Belles models. Just could not stop thinking of these.
Awesome record, played the other night and realized I bought it new 55 years ago <sigh>. It still sounds fantastic and past memories flood back, love it!
Well, it’s been an eventful last couple days. Finally decided to purchase a couple Belles MB200 mono blocks to replace my old 400A. Sent the money to the seller this afternoon, so hopefully they arrive next week.
So, on to music…
Richard Thompson - Rumor and Sigh. Capitol/EMI 1991 European pressing.
My original copy with just a bit of background noise in a few spots but absolutely great SQ. Thinking of picking up the remaster from QRP but concerned it won't match the great sound of my original copy.
Nectar - A Tab in the Ocean
Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
Lamb - What Sound
George Crumb - Lux Aeterna for Five Masked Musicians
George Crumb - Four Nocturnes
George Crumb - Dream Sequence
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