Thanks for the suggestion, @slaw Loving this on first listen!
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David Grisman
"Hot Dawg"
1979 Horizon Records
A little Dawg music...
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Just arrived a few minutes ago. I’m planning to replace all my Beatles collection with newer releases, primarily because my original releases are in such poor shape. The first replacement was because this LP had the most damage on one side, because of my carelessness with a cigarette while flipping and chatting during playing it a long long time ago. So, really, I haven’t really played my original copy at all.
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour. Capitol reissue/remaster 180g. The remaster was from 2009 (digital), this, I believe this was released in 2012, but confusing. It closely aligns with a US release at the time, but the shrink was stamped ‘made in Germany’. I cannot find a Discog release that really matches it. Originally 1967.
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@slaw
Jazz is sounding especially good on the Grados.
I just got a pair of Grado 325’s Steve. Surprisingly good. Nothing close to speakers, but better than the Sennheiser they replaced.
I’m just not a headphone guy, but, thinking way ahead when I could be forced out of my home for potential health reasons (yes, I’m seeing it in my 87 yo mother as you are). So, checking out whether the Grado sound may be acceptable for that use in an apartment, should it ever come to that. Purchased an inexpensive tube Bellari headphone amp, which is pretty good for the cost. Replaced the crappy stock tube with an EI Smooth plate 12AX7 tube, manufactured with Telefunken machinery. A nice tube actually compared to other I have, including my old Tele smooth plates.
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better to burn out than it is to rust…… who sang that ?
My, my..hey…hey..
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@sbank Hey Spencer. I was listening to "Hey What". Their latest but in the running for my favorite by them.
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Hey Brian. The Grados are my first headphones. Always wanted a pair and happy to support the company. I felt like open back phones would be more like normal listening? and I can still hear what's going on in the house to some degree.
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Brian, regarding The Beatles.......I can highly recommend the UK Blue Box if you can find one in good shape. I paid $300 for mine a couple years ago. It was unplayed. For that price, I think it's a good value.
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@slaw
Yep, I look for a good blue box copy all the time. It seems the cost has gone up quite a bit in the last couple years for a VG+/NM set. Most I see are in the $500~700 range.
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Luigi Cherubini - Requiem in D Minor
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Igor Markevitch
1963 Deutsch Grammophon - Germany
Beautiful quiet recording picked up at Half Price Books many years ago.
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Gogi Grant – Welcome To My Heart (RCA Victor 1958)
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Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere. Reprise reissue mid-70’s, originally 1969
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Ella Fitzgerald – Sings The Gershwin Song Book Vol. 1 (Verve 1959 mono)
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Various – The Music Of David Lynch - Benefiting The David Lynch Foundation (Communion 2016) Sides A and D
David Bromberg – Wanted Dead Or Alive (Columbia 1974)
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Buddy Weed – Piano Solos With Rhythm Accompaniment (Coral 1957 mono)
Awesome.
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Lou Donaldson - Midnight Creeper
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The Doobie Brothers – Toulouse Street (Warner Bros. 1972)
Sounded crap. Few skips. Realized this was filthy. 20 mins in US. Transformed. Wow. Went from Good+ to NM. Sounds great.
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Stabat Mater
Rossini
Istvan Kertesz
London OS26250
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Swans / Soundtracks for the blind
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@bkeske I’ve been doing the same upgrading with many of my records as well. Swapping OP stuff with newer “audiophile” pressings when it is reasonable to do so. Matter of fact, listening to this recently upgraded disc right now:
Herbie Hancock-Head Hunters 2021 Analogue Prod RE
Which will be followed by:
Donald Byrd-Places and Spaces 2021 Blue Note
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Just got done with Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates. Sonics on that album are incredible! Next up: Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die.
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Welcome vuch!
The Magnetic Fields / 50 song memoir
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George Duke - Reach For It
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@vuch add my welcome. Keep ‘em coming.
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Arrived today,
Joni Mitchell "Archives Vol 2/Reprise Years"/box set
Spoon "Hot Thoughts" "Lucifer on the Sofa"
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bit in arrears;
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature, Thelma Houston - Music In Me ( Sheffield ), Genesis - Duke, Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
Still running in the Mazda Silver 12ax7….. promising…but early….
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Miles Davis Sextet - Someday My Price Will Come ( Analogue Productions APJ - 8456 )
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Low - The Great Destroyer
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Been out skiing and not much vinyl spinning. Back at it today.
Welcome @vuch I took your enthusiasm and selected Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates today. It is a great album and, as you stated, the sonics are just incredible.
Procol Harum - Broken Barricades I was fortunate to have seen them, back in the day. Gary Brooker sounds even better, live!
The Police - Ghost In The Machine Always loved this album. It has never sounded so good as it does now, on my new analog front end. Bad-A$$
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers-Indestructible! 2019 Blue Note
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Ya Joel ! Spinning Ghost now from the box set….
Caught them live on that tour, by then it was arena rock with sonics to match…
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Brian Eno / Music for installations
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The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe, MFSL. That was a treat!
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AC/DC - Fly On The Wall. Far from one of my favorites, but better than I remember.
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Walter Carlos / Sonic seasonings
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George Duke - Follow The Rainbow
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Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5
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Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
Still smitten…..
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Egberto Gismonti Group - Infância
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Jim, The Lady Blackbird is an experience on the Quads/REL setup.
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"Nights In the Gardens of Spain"
Falla/Rodrigo
London CS 6046
Ataulfo Argenta, conductor
TAS list
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@tubegb Hey there. Nice to see you back on the thread.
Hilary Hahn - Paris
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Streaming Black Acid Soul on my desktop.....entranced!
Would be a killer One-Step.
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Arrived today,
Ian Flemming's "Live and Let Die" Soundtrack/pp/1973 UA/sealed
Hole "Grease Your Hips/California 1994" Live/Let Them Eat Vinyl
Joshua Hyslop "Echos" 2018/Nettwerk
Davis Ramerez "Fables" 2015/ThirtyTigers
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Circles Around The Sun / Interludes for the dead
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