Van Morrison – Beautiful Vision (Warner 1982)
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The New Black Eagle Jazz Band – At Symphony Hall (Philo 1982)
Love these guys. Wonderful musicianship. Solid, dynamic recordings.
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Eddie Heywood – One For My Baby (Mercury 1960 mono)
Solo piano.
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Alex de Grassi – Southern Exposure (Windham Hill 1983)
Solo guitar new age "live to two track digital" on Sony PCM 1600.
Sounds great. Clean and sparkling but devoid of any emotion.
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Buddy Guy - Born to Play Guitar
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finishing up Dave Alvin "King of California"
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these arrived today:
Norah Jones "Pick me up Off the Floor"
Molina & Johnson 'S/T" |
Nirvana Studio Out-takes 89-91 bootleg.
Cannot find any information on this anywhere.
Its a double album with plain white labels.
SQ is pretty good if it’s a real bootleg.
Paid pennies for it........ |
Aoife O'Donnovan "Bull Frogs Croon" Yep Roc/45rpm |
Simon Joyner / Heavens gate |
Amazing Rhythm Aces - Toucan Do It Too
The Band - Northern Lights-Southern Cross
Boston - S/T
Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Steve Wilson Remix
Dan Fogelberg - High Country Snows |
Fleetwood Mac - Mystery to Me |
Now I have played tracks of all 4 sides of my Nirvana bootleg this is what it appears to be.
One record is the complete mtv unplugged in New York album with quite a bit better sq. But in a jumbled order from the official release.
The other record is definitely lower quality outtakes and demos.
Still a pretty neat album overall. |
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Angus & Julia Stone "Snow" 45rpm/dbl lp |
Mere pennies.... I shall utter this constantly |
David Grisman / Mondo mando |
Did first mod to FT-3 VTA tower, some easy M6 nuts and lock washers to stiffen things up - no quick VTA with this arm.... still tweaking the setup.... it’s got a ways to go...
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Running back thru Tony Joe White - Bad Mouthin ( 45 rpm )... nice warm analog sound... getting there.... |
The Distance to Here ..... Live.
2017 European reissue. |
Everything is only pennies Tomic.
Just stop counting after a couple hundred...😇😇 |
Took the 12" Well Tempered clone off. Put the Jelco 850L back on.
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Hey Tomic,
Is your arm tower a "stand alone item"? In other words... Do you have your arm tower separate from your table? I do, but don't see many people going that route, so just curious. |
@boxer12,
Happened across this Friday,..
Molina & Johnson "S/T", got it today.
Apparently they crossed paths and decided to record this lp.
I now you're a JM fan. I"ll get to it next weekend. |
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@tomic601 ,
Do you own "Hoodoo".... that one flat out rocks! |
@boxer12,
My tt project will have separate arm pods for my ET 2.5 & Moerch DP-8 |
@boxer12 no the VTA tower and arm ( Sumiko FT-3 ) attach to arm board on SOTA which then attaches to the floating sub platter.
on the Brinkmann Bardo the arm ( Triplaner) in that case Is on the fixed sub platter , there are Brinkmann tables w arms on Pods. |
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Trying out the @slaw My Mat.. certainly tames a bit of glare and improves tonality on this recording....( Jenny’s - Fifteen )
Wild Flowers is So much easier to hear individual voices as they harmonize.... ya man !!!! |
Tomic, Cool, just curious.
Slaw, Let me know what you think of that album please. Almost seems like a "must have" already (LOL). FWIW, I’ve separated everything from the turntable. The only thing attached to it is the belt from the flywheel. In fact, the motor, flywheel, table, & arm tower, are all stand alone components. I like it this way because I believe it makes sense isolating everything, but it’s a pita to set up. Once set up though, there is a lot of flexibility with setting up different arms. I currently have two arm "towers (or pods)". One is set up with the 12" ViRa arm, the other with a 9" Polestar.
The Julie Ruin / Hit reset |
Nice to hear! Jim.
If you can tell that this early on, I'd say your set-up is very good so far. |
Santana - Welcome
One of my favorites for setting SRA by ear... if you get the side one cymbals and percussion to sound correct you are done. A lot of material to employ and it will reward you when it’s right. 20 hours on the new Madake and I think it has a even more to offer with a few more hours. I guess I will have to suffer through it ;) |
Red House Painters "Down Colourful Hill" |
boxer,
Yup, I concur...that's how mine will be set up as well
BTW, Is the Julie Ruin on lp? |
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers |
@drrsutliff ,
I always look forward to hearing a new cartridge broken in, but for me, hearing the changes is a learning experience that I've come to appreciate. |
@reubent ,
Check out "Down Colourful Hill".
Love it!
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Slaw,
The Julie Ruin album is on white vinyl from "Hardly Art". Just picked it up today. The band has kind of a post punk sound to them. Reminds me a bit of Joan Jett. |
Thanks boxer. I've been hoping for vinyl from this band. |
@slaw I’ve been running it in and today did serious testing by swapping arms. While the Jelco has some glare and is a little shouty compared to the WT clone, it is a lot more dynamic, faster, blacker and retrieves fine detail. C’est la vie. |
boxer,
Just ordered "Run Fast" & "Hit Reset". Been watching this band for a long time. I struck while the iron was hot! |
+1 Slaw!
Lee Robinson Machine / Family album |
Played all the albums I played last week again on my old 850L tonearm. Always fun. |
@noromance ,.
Do you have a path going forward? Maybe FO.Q tape or something similar?
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Maybe. Not unhappy! It didn't set me back much. |
The Jayhawks "Tomorrow the Green Grass" OP/American Recordings/1995 |
I was hoping against hope the 850 might end up as surplus, and “ mere pennies “ to boot....
ah well... |
@tomic601 It's made me appreciate the 850L a lot more.
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Well I haven’t installed my "Cartridge Enabler" yet, may be an inexpensive option?
I’ve always had an internal desire to make what I already own, better. |
Jim,
You got to use "mere pennies" again. |
