Whats on your turntable tonight?


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
slipknot1
Amadeus-Quartett plays Franz Schubert - String Quartet In G Major. Deutsche Grammophon 1974 Australia , originally 1965
@reubent

"Alive She Cried" record club version/NM/freshly cleaned

Sounds great!
@slaw  - Agreed. A nice copy of  "Alive She Cried" is a pretty great sounding recording compilation of live recordings. The band seemed like they were really on their game at that time. Good stuff.
Antal Dorati conducts Charles Koechlin - Les Bandar-Log, Op. 176 & Olivier Messiaen - Chronochromie For Orchestra.

and

Pierre Boulez conducts Boulez - Les Soleil Des Eaux

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.  Angel 1965

Zubin Mehta conducts Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht (Op.4) & Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy. Los Angeles Philharmonic. London 1967 gatefold
The Sibelius Academy Quartet : Sibelius - String Quartet In A Minor (1889) & String Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 4 (1890). Finlandia Records 1985
Hilary Hahn, violin : Prokofiev - Concerto For Violin And Orchestra No. 1 In D Major Op. 19, Chausson - Poème Op. 25 For Violin And Orchestra, and Rautavaara - Deux Sérénades. Mikko Franck conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France. Deutsche Grammophon 2LP 45rpm gatefold. 2021
The Gabrieli String Quartet : Britten, Early Chamber Music - Temporal Variations, Phantasy In F Minor (For String Quintet), Alla Marcia, Three Divertimenti, Two Insect Pieces, and Phantasy Quartet Op. 2 (For Oboe And Strings).

Unicorn-Kanchana 1983 UK
I've been blessed...

In my time as an audiophile, I've had opportunities to listen to various components. In this day and age, components equal power cords and interconnects..

I've had my share of all. In addition to these, I've listened to many power conditioners. Also, many other power add ons.

I currently replaced my long held Shunyata with the Puritan Audio PSM 156. WOW!!

A game changer for sure.

So, what I wanted to share is the best way to move forward with power cords and or conditioners.

Replacing power cords without the benefit of clean power is a fool's errand. 

I recently realized this with the introduction of the Puritan PSM 156 into my front end components.

more to come......

@slaw  Shunyata makes a good number of power conditioner units.  Which one is it that you have been using?  I recently got an Audioquest Niagara 3000 so I am not about to change any time soon.  But I am interested and very curious on what the differences are of your Shunyata (which model?) and this new Puritan Audio PSM 156.

James Taylor  'Flag'  Promo copy, in excellent condition.  Sounds really good.

Emitt Rhodes  S/T  Solo artist, does all of the instruments on this recording.  I have had this since 1970 so it was played on my parents Magnavox console.  After a good US cleaning it's rather quiet.  Still, the overall SQ is not great.  But it does bring back high school memories.  It's a good album.  I have his second album as well, 'Mirror'.  I'll play that later or tomorrow.
Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield

2021 Rhino reissue. Sounds good! 
Carpenters-ST Side 2 SQ 4.4
AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Side 1 SQ 4.3
Muddy Waters-I’M Ready Side 1 SQ 4.2
Dave Mackay & Lori Bell Sextet-’Take Me To Brazil" Side 2 SQ 4.5
Judy Garland-Judy At Carnegie Hall Side 4 SQ 4.3
Nils Lofgren-ST Side 1 SQ 4.4
Bartok-Suite No,1/Two Pictures(London CS 7120) Side 2 SQ 4.6
Eric Dolphy-Out To Lunch(Blue 75 reissue) Side 1 SQ 4.4
Dayglow, Love that "Eric Dolphy out to lunch" album

Grails / Burning off impurities 
@mammothguy54, 

Joel, I wrote on the previous page about the units I have and what the Puritan replaced.
The increase in clarity as a result of a lower noise floor is amazing. I measured it with my Alpha Labs meter.