Joel - Fantastic news ;-) As you know, I have listening time w both the Dr. Feickert and Kuzma 9” 4 point arm but w a Lyra…and i was very impressed. I think w Soundsmith rebuild value, you are indeed setup for a lifetime of analog bliss and joy !
IF anyone needs a loaner cart for diagnostic work or a hot spare during rebuild, let me know. When Joel is done w MP-110. Fun
Jim
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@mammothguy54
Wonderful Joel! Keep us posted after you get everything setup. Nice rig indeed!
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The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
Congrats on the new table Joel, that sounds like a sweet setup!
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@sailmed
Bach/ Art of the Fugue
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner
Have that box, wonderful indeed. 👍
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Bach/ Art of the Fugue
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner
Philips
Wonderful, just wonderful.
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Steve Conte / Bronx Cheer
2021 Thunderdog
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Tom Petty / Full Moon Fever
1989 MCA
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Joel,
That sounds like a great analog set up!
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The Traveling Wilburys / Volume One
1988 Wilbury Records
Featuring Otis Wilbury, Nelson Wilbury, Charlie T. jr, Lefty Wilbury, Lucky Wilbury and others lol!
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George Harrison / Brainwashed
2002 Parlophone
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Savoy Brown - "Street Corner Talking"
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Craig Leon “Nommos” Takoma 1981
Spacemen 3 “Playing With Fire” Fire Records 1989
Maki Asakawa “s/t” Honest Jon’s Records UK 2015 (2 LP compilation)
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@mammothguy54 - Hey Joel. Congrats on the new TT. I hope it bring you much joy!
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Screaming Trees / Sweet Oblivion
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Hey guys... I've been out skiing and have had a blast. I'll be back at it again, soon.
Yes indeed, I am a die-hard skier!
Nevertheless, I have also been spinning some vinyl and comparing between two phono cartridges. My Lyra Delos, which I have thought to be having a problem, and a Nagaoka MP-110 that Jim (tomic) lent me for the trouble shooting process. I believe that I have some conclusions, but more to follow. However, the good news is that I will truly test out everything (phono stage, in particular) because my new turntable/tonearm/cartridge has finally all arrived off of backorder and is being set up today/tomorrow. I should be able to pick it up by later Thursday afternoon. Thus, I will have it all here for setting it up in my system Friday morning and begin the cartridge run-in process.
Feickert Analog, model Blackbird, turntable. Kuzma, model 4-Point 11, tonearm. Soundsmith, model Sussurro MKii ES, phono cartridge. This is a really big upgrade for me and I hope it will provide many years (the rest of my life) of analog pleasure.
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Quiet Sun-Mainstream
Christmas-Lies to Live By
Porcupine Tree-Signify
Porcupine Tree-Coma Divine
Anthony Phillips-Wise After the Event
Le Quatuor De Jazz Libre Du Quebec
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PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
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James - I got it from a Discogs seller Purepop115 ;-) Glad you picked it up. Very enjoyable. Something in my system is power bumping tge NAIM into shutdown / restart. PITA to tear down the nook to isolate but that is my task tommorow….no more music tonight….upside is this will get me off A to install the hospital grade Hubbels i have had sitting here for a year….
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Donald Fagen-The Nightfly 1982 WB
James Taylor-JT 1977 Columbia
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers-Indestructible 2019 Blue Note
Got an email today with tracking for the Art Blakey-Live in Scheveningen 1958 from The Lost Recordings label. Ordered this a while ago and I had forgotten about it. Pumped to get that spinning when it shows up! Acoustic Sounds shows it as backordered right now, so they had more pre-orders than they could fill. Glad I got in on that!
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I had that sweet album on CD Jim, never imagining it also would have come out on a record. Just found a sealed copy and the seller had other things on my list so I saved on shipping. I sound like Lucy telling Ricky “But I got it on sale”….
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Newly arrived and spinning:
Dave Douglas Quintet - Be Still featuring Aoife O’ Donovan
Pressed on 180 g, cut from 24 x 96 digital master. Nice sonics.
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Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Schubert - The Complete Symphonies. Staatskapelle Dresden. Philips 5LP box reissue 1972, originally 1967

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Wishbone Ash - Argus
1972/1977 Reissue on MCA Records
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Dave Mason / It’s Like You Never Left
1973 Columbia
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Peter Frampton / Frampton
1975 A&M
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@reubent Good call keeping the Go Go’s.
Bob Dylan / Blood On The Tracks
1974 CBS
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Le Forte Four “Bikini Tennis Shoes” etas-unis 2017 reissue of Los Angeles Free Music Society 1975 release
Peter Brotzmann/Heather Leigh “Sparrows Nights” Trost Austria 2018
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Montibus Communitas / Pilgrim
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Yes: Union- for the night. One of my favorite Yes albums!
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Dire Straits / Communique + Brothers in Arms
Pat Benatar / Crimes of Passion
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So, I'm keeping The Go Go's - "Beauty and the Beat". It's better than I remembered, and it nostalgic, from a fun time in my life.
Up now:
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - "American Dream"
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Parquet Courts / Light up gold
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The Go Go's - "Beauty and the Beat"
From the cull decision pile. Trying to decide. Does it stay, or does it go?
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Black Sabbath - Mob Rules 40th anniversary edition
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some fine, fine tunes being played…. I snuck in some hard drive surfing before an upcoming zoom call….duty calls.
Man, Steve that is a pile o vinyl !
Bill - Laid Back is perfect ;-)
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Eleventh Dream Day / Stalled parade
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Szell conducts Two Musical Fables : Kodály - Háry János Suite & Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé Suite. The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1970

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Klaatu-Hope 1977 Capitol
Miles Davis All Stars-Walkin’ 2021 erc
Everyone having a wonderful listening session I hope.
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Depeche Mode / Some great reward
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Lorin Maazel conducts Rimsky-Korsakov - Night On Bald Mountain & Ravel/Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition. The Cleveland Orchestra. Telarc 1979

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@sbank +1 for Tom Waits! My favorite from him is typically whichever one I'm listening to at the time. 😁 A lot of bands are like that for me though.
Depeche Mode / Construction time again
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The Hot Spot - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal and more. Not on different tracks, playing together.... Pretty good stuff...
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Boulez conducts Ravel - Daphnis & Chloé Suite #2 / Rapsodie Espagnole / Pavane For A Dead Princess / Alborada Del Gracioso. The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks reissue, originally 1971

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John Mayall - Blues from Laurel Canyon
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Tom Waits – Small Change (Remastered by Waits/Brennan). maybe his best? top3? heck, it entertains visiting relatives and it turns a sandwich into a banquet and it's only a dollar!
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penguin cafe orchestra s/t
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Billy Preston – Everybody Likes Some Kind Of Music
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