Eugene Ormandy conducts Beethoven - Concertos 2 & 4 For Piano And Orchestra. The Philadelphia Orchestra w/Rudolf Serkin. Columbia Masterworks 1955 Mono
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I took the plunge and ordered a Puritan Audio PSM 156. Should be here this weekend. From what I've read, it should be killer. Afraid the price would go up substantially if I waited longer. www.partsconnexion.com has a great deal on them. |
Dug out some from the vault. All took a spin in the Spin Clean then a trip to the Degritter. V/A "Bowling Balls from Hell" Clone Records 1980 Swollen Monkeys (RIP Ralph Carney) "After Birth Of The Cool" Cachalot Records 1981 Retro/Trainable split "Double Take" Transcity Records 1981 Dizzy and the Romilars "Daily Dose" Medical Records 1981 V/A "Cleveland Confidential" Terminal Records 1982 |
A bunch of albums over 2 days, evaluating an amplifier. It sounded fantastic! I wish that my speakers were a little more efficient, but a little more on the volume control and I still achieved the SPL and energizing the room as I like. And with plenty of safe operating headroom to spare. The amp operated effortlessly. This is the best sounding amp I have ever had in my possession. Timbre balance is superb, vocals are so real, strings and wind instruments just grace my ears, piano really sounds like a piano (and that's a tough one to do well). The music just floats in the air. WOW!!! John Mayall & Friends Carol King 'Tapestry' MoFi reissue Jennifer Warnes 'Famous Blue Raincoat' Impex reissue Joni Mitchell 'Blue' Rhino/Reprise reissue (Joni sounded like in my room) Jeff Beck 'Truth' Jeff Beck 'There and Back' Eric Clapton 'Unplugged' Fantastic live-concert recording. Patricia Barber 'Cafe' Blue' Impex 1-Step Pink Floyd 'Division Bell' Pink Floyd Records, this is really great! Stevie Ray Vaughan 'The Sky Is Crying' A/P 33 RPM. I almost cried listening to Little Wing. Paul Simon 'There Goes Rhymin' Simon' Paul Simon 'Graceland' 25th Anniversary reissue. Awesome SQ. Jeff Beck 'Truth' sounds better on my solid state amp, I'm not sure why. Everything else was just awesome. This amp is really big so I will need to figure out something in order to make it work in my equipment rack. Those tubes put out a lot of heat... I'll probably figure it out, then place the order, and wait a month for delivery. |
Dion-Yo Frankie Side 1 SQ 4.2 Laurindo Almeida-Duets With The Spanish Guitar Album 2 Side 1 SQ 4.5 Billy Squier-Don't Say No Side 2 SQ 4.3 Emmylou Harris-Angel Band Side 1 SQ 4.3 Billy Joel-Songs From The Attic(CBS Half Speed Mastered) Side 1 SQ 4.5 Liszt-Hungarian Rhapsodies(RCA Red Seal LSC-3085) Side 1 SQ 4.5 Jennifer Holliday-Feel My Soul Side 1 SQ 4.4 Grover Washington Jr.-Time Out Of Mind Side 1 SQ 4.2 |
It"s a grading scale of 5 4.5> Audiophile SQ 4.4 Near audiophile SQ 4,3 Above average SQ 4,2 Average SQ(nondistracting) 4.1 Acceptable SQ(distracting) 4. Borderline SQ 3,9< Unacceptable SQ The most difficult grade is a 4,4. I always grade to a lower end bias, so many graded 4.4 could be audiophile level recordings on your own system. |
Hi Dayglow Like many 1-5 scales yours only uses 3.9-5 You say "Its a grading scale of 5" No, it's 4-5. It's compressed. Why do you all allocate 0-3.9 for unacceptable SQ but only 4-5 for acceptable? How many grades of unacceptable do you think there are? I grade vinyl 1-10, including noise, because noise that doesn't respond to cleaning is part of the listening experience. True I don't give many 1s - I bin them. 3 is noisy as well as poor SQ. Most of my LPs are 5 thru 8. Out of ~3000 discs I have awarded an exceptional 9.9 to about a dozen. Nothing can be perfect. |
Had CD, bought the LP version of Betty Carter 'Finally', the whole thing an all time favorite. https://www.discogs.com/Betty-Carter-Finally/master/404885 Amazing version of 'Body and Soul', features Bass Player Lisle Atkinson. Had to get me some Lisle https://www.discogs.com/sell/order/3064922-12135 |
Hi clearthinker thanks for responding. Yes having a 0-5 scale is slighly compressed but only because many recordings fall in a very narrow window of sound quality(3.8-4,4) which gives 1/10 a point great significance. Unacceptable is 3.9 or < as was posted. Theoretically a record could rate a 1 but being an audiophile more then a collector my scale is biased towards audiophiles. A poor sounding damaged record would never be in my collection or many others. The lowest rated record(non damaged} so far has been 3.4 due only for sound quality. On the other end of the spectrum two recordings so far have received a 4,8 a Sheffield Labs/Harry James LAB 11 and a Mercury/Balalaika SR 90310. I do agree with you that nothing can be a 10 or 5(my scale) but I could run across a 4.9 I have played(graded) about 45% of my vinyl collection which contains around 1400 albums. In conclusion I do place more value between 4-5 on my scale because that is where a majority of modern vinyl resides, so yes its skewed but not misleading. |
Chet Akins-The Other Chet Akins(LSP-2175) Side 1 SQ 4.5 Barbra Streisand-The Broadway Album Side 2 SQ 4.3 Chuck Mangione-Chase The Clouds Away Side 2 SQ 4.4 Johnny Cash-Songbook Side 1 SQ 4.3 Jefferson Airplane-The Worst Of Side 1 SQ 4 ELO-Discovery Side 1 SQ 4.2 John Lee Hooker-"Mad Man Blues" Side 3 SQ 3.8 Rita Coolidge-Fall Into Spring Side 1 SQ 4.5 |
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet – What Is There To Say?
https://youtu.be/cuvd42Z5ngA Gershwin / Andre Previn - Rhapsody In Blue - 45RPM https://youtu.be/-S-f8vBWPIg |
Dave Mason 'Alone Together' pp pressing, this is an original swirled vinyl pressing. I have had it a very long time. And it is in perfect condition. I saw Dave Mason perform about 6 months after this album was released. First up was Arlo Guthrie, next up was Linda Ronstadt, and the lead act was Dave Mason. Great memories! Getz/Gilberto A/P QRP 45RPM. What a great album! What a spectacular mastering/plating/pressing and quality quiet vinyl. |
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line - Mofi 45rpm - outstanding Vanessa Fernandez - I Want You - 45rpm - she is kinda like Patricia Barber to me, her music is not my cup of tea but holy hell is she recorded well. Vinyl is DEAD silent and the range on this record is huge, low lows and bright where it should be. Extremely well recorded, mastered and mixed. |
