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
Remember Brian, you are going down the rabbit hole.
You have mostly new components that need break-in.
lol, I think I got deeper than originally planned. But, that’s why they call it the rabbit hole.
If the cart, and interconnects, sound better after 10-20 hours, I’m OK with that, as it sounds pretty damn good now.
BTW, playing the Karajan/Mendelssohn without the clamp 😉
Between the table, arm, and cart, I think my classical collection will all have new life as well if what I’m hearing now is any indication. Not one bit of ‘over loading’, smearing, etc. it’s handling the big stuff with ease. Full louder portions of orchestration is maintaining great clarity and separation/imaging.
And my ol Vandy 2CE Sigs sound better than ever 👍🏻
Try the minimal microphone approach of Fritz R, DG is super detailed but muddles the launch and arrival times unless you are talking old skool Big Tulip DG
“The Crossing” is very good music with great production values. A mature yet playful, serious yet fun record. Not a lot of records this tight. The downside (if one might care - I don’t really) is the vocals. But we don’t listen to Ry Cooder, or Jimmy Webb ( or some other great songwriters I could name but won’t for fear of argument) for the quality of their voices. Do we.
I mean, there is just something about The message (emotional transfer) of a song delivered by the maker of it. “The Crossing” is very much one of those Experiences.
So what if the songs on “The Crossing” could be covered by a young Linda Ronstadt? Might be a great collaboration. Half the world wood swoon over them and the message would be delivered with Seductive strength but it wouldn’t be, well, as authentic as sung by the guy with the lesser voice who wrote them.
There are a lot of covers vs. originals arguments of course. This is nothing new. +1 slaw on “real”. Human. Authentic. Weight. ————————-
Crooked Still Shaken By A Low Sound Signature Sounds 2006/2018
I am both shaken and stirred by the young Aoife. Greg Liszt, the force behind this band is a fantastic and extremely innovative banjo player genius guy. College Science professor who quit to play music. Seriously, check out The Deadly Gentleman, his last band (he’s recently disbanded it return to teaching but now teaching banjo at Berklee). Deadly Gentlemen are bluegrass formation playing rock, rap, punk, fun stuff.
Going to play The Crossing next.. can’t wait! BTW, I have all his output on vinyl. I believe, I wrote a while back that AE is one of my favorite male artists.
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