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Julianne Ankley - With Love from Lake Huron ( Blue vinyl w cover signed by the artist )
Surprise mystery gift in the post, who to thank ?…..
Thank You !,,,
I am a robot fueled by gratitude
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Valerie June "The Moon and Stars"
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Hey!!, Mr robot....
Come to your senses
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Julianne might be my new senseless crush….
Worth traveling to some shaky bar lakeside to catch her live…toes are tapping..
I am a Talking Heads Robot…running the Stop Making Sense…code
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You are welcome Brian ! Enjoy….i always do some Classical bin diving for you…
I am an anomalous human posing as a spam robot
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Nazareth - "Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll"
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Body, Dilloway, Head / ST
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Miles - Sketches of Spain, mono (and unbreakable!).
I've been contemplating getting a mono cartridge but I only have a handful of mono releases. I'm wondering if it's really worth it. It sounds pretty darn good with my kiseki blue with the mono switch engaged on the Heron preamp.
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Aerosmith - Draw the Line
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Fritz Reiner conducts Rachmaninoff - Concerto No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 18. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Van Cliburn, piano. RCA Victor Red Seal reissue, probably mid-70’s, originally 1962
Thanks Jim!
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Recently acquired Coltrane-A Love Supreme 2021 Acoustic Sounds Series
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Dexter Gordon, Doin’ Alright.
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@big_greg
I have a few mono LP”s, and decided on Ortofon’s 2M ‘inexpensive’ mono cart. I like it. I went back and forth regarding getting a phono pre with a mono switch, but after studying the theory of that vs a dedicated mono cart, went for the cart.
I think the Ortofon 2M Mono is pretty good bang for the buck. I believe I paid about $350 for it…..I think.
Of course you can spend much more. I didn’t feel it was justified in the end.
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@big_greg I try to give all the mono disc away…..another tonearm, while an attractive rabbit hole…….
I am a rabbit hole digging spamBot
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@robotboyspamster That seems like a fantastic idea!
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Thanks Brian. I would probably go for the Hana mono cartridge if I went down that path.
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Marc Cohn - S/T, MFSL.
Had a chance to see him with the Blind Boys of Alabama just before the great lockdown. Great show!
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@big_greg
Marc Cohn - S/T, MFSL
+1 That's a great one!
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Stephen Stills Manassas / Down the road
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Kiril Kondrashin conducts Tchaikovsky - Second Concerto In G Op. 44 For Piano & Orchestra. The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra with Emil Gilels, piano. Baroque Records 1966
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My postponed trip from last week to Washington state is on for tomorrow. I am staying with a friend in Lake Stevens and will be at Daedalus Audio on Thursday. I sure hope those speakers live up to everything I anticipate for them. If so I will be placing my order.
Drum roll........
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@big_greg
Nice re: the Hana. Similar to the Ortofon 2M Mono SE, except MC.
I’m not sure I’m thinking of this exactly correctly, but as all my mono LP’s are period pressings (50’s-early 60’s), I didn’t go with the SE as it has a ‘fine line’ stylus, as does the Hana SL Mono (shibata). In my thinking at the time, most those LP’s were really made for conical stylus types. Finer cuts didn’t really become standard until a bit later. Thus, I said, why get a fine line stylus if the grooves were not cut for a fine line or shibata cut?
Anyway…..my thinking….😁
Im sure the Hana would be great, as would the SE, or any mono cart Soundsmith would make.
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Ralph Sutton, Ruby Braff, Milt Hinton, Mousey Alexander – On Sunnie's Side Of The Street (Blue Angel Jazz Club 1968)
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Good luck Joel, and have a great trip. We’ll be awaiting your thoughts….or….decision 😉
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Very cool Joel! Enjoy the trip
Neil Young / Zuma
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untouched groove holds good info, hence the better tip can sometimes be a virtue Brian
Safe trip Joel - Wishing you all the best in the journey….
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Yes - Fragile ( because i believe in symbolism ) and it’s a great disc…
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@tomic601
True Jim, I did consider that as well. Luckily, most my mono LP’s are in really good shape. Perhaps I’m lucky.
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Thanks guys. I hope for good things.
I agree with Brian, the mono cartridge with a conical stylus would better serve mono records. At the most, an elliptical stylus. I could be wrong, of course.
My longer-term plan is for a second tonearm, one with a removable headshell. By that I can easily change between a mono cartridge and some other MC or MM cartridge. The main tonearm would remain as the premier choice and with the premium cartridge. But first, I need to get the turntable that supports two tonearms. That along with speakers are the big plans for early 2022. Fun hobby and I love great music and excellent high fidelity. But man, this can get expensive!
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Then again, Jim's thought makes even more sense. The untouched groove area is a nice surface for a deeper tracking stylus.
Oh, this hobby...er, rabbit hole!
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Fritz Reiner conducts Haydn - Symphony No. 101 In D ("Clock") & Symphony No. 95 In C Minor. Fritz Reiner And His Orchestra. RCA Victor Red Seal 1964.
Reiner’s last recording, two months before his death.
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Yes, this brings back memories of all the reading of mono, mono carts, mono switches et. al. before I made the leap.
Many camps with various beliefs. One thing to keep in mind, there is no vertical information in a mono groove, only horizontal (sides). Unlike a stereo groove where there is info both horizontal and vertical within the groove. Thus, theoretically, if you have a very clean nice period mono LP, all the info is there no matter how high or deep the stylus goes.
But yes, if you have an abused mono LP that was played many many times with a worn out conical stylus, a new fine line stylus would in theory go deeper into (below) the ‘damaged’ grooves, and sound better.
No doubt though, I would say today, most all the carts, even the Ortofon 2M Mono (with a spherical stylus) would have been better than most all carts available when these old albums were released. But I’m sure some would disagree with that too 😁
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Neil Young / Time fades away
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one reason why i lean on both you guys and a couple of die hard vinyl experts that run audio companies and stores…for inputs and advice…last time we were shooting the @#$&$#@, they had 30 k records between three of them…
Baker Street then signing out
best to all on the sane subset of audiogon
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Traffic / Welcome to the canteen
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Love / False Start
1970 Capitol
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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Architecture & Morality
1981 CBS
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Lonnie Mack / Strike Like Lightning
1985 Alligator Records
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Bad Company / Desolation Angels
1979 Swan Song
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Most (if not all) of the few mono releases I have are newer releases, so the Hana (or another with a 0.7mil) should be best. My trusty Jelco 750D makes it easy to swap out cartridges.
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Miles Davis - Milestones. Sublime...
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@big_greg
Most (if not all) of the few mono releases I have are newer releases, so the Hana (or another with a 0.7mil) should be best. My trusty Jelco 750D makes it easy to swap out cartridges.
Absolutely Greg. If you have new mono releases, go with the shibata stylus.
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"13 Rivers"
my other copy
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Neil Young & The Blue Note Cafe
lp 3
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Pink Floyd "Live at Knebworth" 1990
2019/45rpm/dbl lp
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