Jim, I’ll be up in a couple of weeks. It’s Greg’s birthday around the 4th or 5th. Maybe the 3 (or more) of us could get together and celebrate his birthday.
@tomic601
@big_greg
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The Sibelius Academy Quartet plays Sibelius - String Quartet In A Minor (1889) & String Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 4 (1890). Finlandia Records 1985, European release
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Eddie Heywood – One For My Baby (Mercury 1960) |
Helen Merril - S/T
AAP / EmArcy APJ-127
op 1954
the op would be right in @noromace wheelhouse of musical bliss |
James and Greg let’s coordinate via PM, love a birthday excuse |
Al Stewart – Past, Present & Future (CBS 1973)
Sounded great until the last minute of Nostrodamus when it got somewhat congested. IGD? Anyone else experience that with this? |
Eleanor McEvoy - Forgotten Dreams ( Chasing the Dragon / Nordost D2D )
VaLDC006 |
Yo-Yo Ma / Chris Thile / Edgar Meyer - Bach Trios
The liner notes by Timo Andres are a luxurious wonder, a phd in listening skills grounded in musical ability and knowledge….a joy |
The Music Group Of London plays Vaughan Williams - String Quartets Nos 1 & 2. His Masters Voice 1973 UK release
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@tomic601
Jim, very interesting trio |
thx Brian, hard to not trust any of those three… |
Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and the Ravens |
i am sure there will be
crowding throngs
in heaven
to hear and see Sandy
i will juggle
for that chance
to hear sweet honey
from the rock |
WAR - The World Is A Ghetto, from the RSD box set. Great pressings. |
Mark Almond Band 'To The Heart' This is the last of the 3 albums I have of them. Great album.
Buffalo Springfield S/T
Buffalo Springfield "Again" These are from the box set. I sure am glad that I got that box.
Rickie Lee Jones S/T MoFi issue. Really good!
Dire Straits "Love Over Gold" op issue, not bad, but I would rather have the 45 rpm issue. Maybe some day. |
+1 on the Bach trios. I really like that album.
Joel, I never thought the op Love Over Gold” was lacking but the 45 rpm is really good. |
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels featuring Lucinda Williams - Vanished Gardens |
+1 Jim for "10 new songs"
Steve,
Electro-shock blues is my favorite from the Eels.
Been a busy day, finally getting to listen...
Can / Ege |
Bach
Starker
Suites For Unaccompanied Cello
Decca/Ap 1964/2020
Smith manually controlled groove margin and depth on his Neumann VMS-80 lathe, working with no preview signal and bypassing the lathe's margin-control computer. In doing so, he cut these sides the same way the original LP was cut by George Piros, who was Fine Recording Inc's VP and head of mastering. As with the original LP, no "sweetening" equalization or dynamic range control was used.
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Bardo Pond / Dilate
Surprised this album isn't worn out :-) |
@boxer12, surprisingly, they don’t really wear out. Unless you loan it to your brother in law with his bastard stylus… |
LOL spiritofradio
Songs OHIA / Ghost tropic |
John Scofield: Blue Matter
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Afternoon session with The Guess Who - Share the Land. 1970 RCA pressing. Haven't played this one in a long time. Great album.
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Beethoven Sinfonie NR.3 Es-Dur OP.55 Eroica.
Felix Weingärtner
Wiener Philharmoniker
German pressing on EMI/Dacapo.
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Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op 55 Eroica
Bruno Walter
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 6-Eye 1959 Mono pressing.
Far superior SQ over my Dacapo pressing. |
Arrived today,
Rose City Band "Summer-Long"
My new favorite band. |
Arrived today….my Soundsmith MIMC Star.
Mounted earlier. I gotta say, I think Soundsmith carts are some of the easiest to align. Set azimuth, VTA, tracking, and took it for a quick spin before getting back to work. Initially I think I have settled on 1K loading (Peter recommends min 470-1K). Tried 470, but didn’t have the high end sparkle as 1K. 64db is what Peter recommends for gain (actually 63). I tried 60, but think 64 provides more ‘easy heft’ across the all the ranges.
It’ll take about 100 hours to fully burnish.
Very nice initial reaction, and the Hagerman has no issue handling this cart (.4mV output). Will be giving it a closer listen this evening after dinner with some LP’s I’m very familiar. |
Very cool bkeske! Glad it arrived safely
Bowie / Hunky dory |
Natalie Merchant - Motherland. MOV reissue 2013 European release. Originally 2001 |
Thanks Tim. Fun playing around with the different options available to me now. I keep going back and forth….just what I need, something to tinker with 😁 |
Grateful Dead / Reckoning
Another album that should be worn out :-) |
Joni Mitchell - Hejira. Asylum 1976 |
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Brian - good on ya :-) enjoy in good health |
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Thank you Jim. Ya know I will. Trying to fine tune everything. Lots of variables now. |
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief. Island repress 1970. Originally 1969 |
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Neil Young - Harvest. Reprise 1972 |
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@bkeske Thanks for the report. Congrats.
New music tonight from:
Christone KINGFISH Ingram
662
Pretty good
Garland Records
Pacific Northwest Pandora’s Box
Ridiculous - but I went to High School with some of these guys and all the way through K-12 with a friend who was the keyboard player for one of the bands.
Jackson Browne
Downhill From Everywhere
Is on now and so far it sounds really good.
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@laviathon RCA LSC 1903 is that the op? Very nice regardless. Excellent. Most excellent. How is the AP version of that record? |
The Oscar Peterson Trio - We Get Requests. Verve reissue 2019, originally 1964.
Oscar Peterson - piano, Ray Brown - bass, & Ed Thigpen - drums. |
+1 on We Get Requests Brian. I think That would be a great test record. |
@spiritofradio
Yep indeed. All have sounded great. But that has been a favorite for many years.
I think this is the (a) cart combo the Hagerman needed to shine. Funny, after listening more, I thought 64db gain may be a bit too much of a good thing, although incredibly full in sound and lively, was on the ‘razors edge’, and so was going back and forth between 60 and 64 db. 60 being a lot more like the Trumpet and my hi Zephyr.
Then I remembered I had taken the dampers off my AX7’s a couple weeks ago. Put them back on, and it was like everything smoothed out, and still get the full lively presentation of the music. Wowzers. 64db is now just fine and dandy. The little things. |
Finally messing w loading….
Lloyd and the Marvels..Gardens
glued to the platter, side B is a microdynamics festival… |
Sir Elton: Diamonds
Great song selection, so-so overall quality. Listenable, but not amazing. Nice wine and chill record. |
I don’t have the option, for loading that is. I just have a button that you press when you buy a fancy moving coil that can’t pull its own weight…
Steve says the button on this device detracts from the experience. He might be right. Midrange was more “liquid” with a less expensive MM cart - all things being equal. But the sublimity of the Hana MC is alluring. Maybe the next phase for me is into moving iron. Then I don’t have to press the button…. |
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