Whats on your turntable tonight?

JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS - 
Acoustics, another RSD title. 

Feeling nostalgic. Deep Purple Machine Head.

Led-zeppelin, Mothership yes all of it!!!!!!!

Hello gto!

@slaw hey, Sir

How are you doing? Hope things are great? For you and everyone here. 

Listening more on Sat and Sunday mornings so haven't been posting as much here. 

Janes Addiction - Nothing Shocking - 2013 reissue 

Joanne Shaw Taylor "The Blues Album"

2021/Keeping The Blues Alive

The Best of Earth Wind & Fire Vol. 1

My system is singing tonight. 

Charles Mingus - Ah Um - Mofi One Step 

@slaw did you do anything new to your system recently?

I have a room correction system in place on mine and it is a fairly amazing piece of gear 

Alijandro Escovado "Big Station"

The Move “Split Ends” United Artists 1972

Ultravox “s/t” Island UK 1977

Bruce Springsteen “Born To Run” CBS 1975

Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Trilogy"

I did @6t5-gto. You'd have to read back a few weeks, brother  

Lots of post in the last few weeks. Congrats on the updates, sounds like you are happy with them! 

Little Feat - Time Loves a Hero - Speakers Corner, sooooo good 

Built to Spill "Live" 

2000/Up Records

Yeah buddy, just don't want to repeat them.

@bkeske Good to hear the 5814A worked. As I mentioned, I find the CV400x to be a bit too warm so these are going to seem like a breath of fresh air! 

@slaw I looked at the spec sheets of both and they are virtually identical give or take about 1% on all measurements. 12AU7 | 5814A

More detailed and ‘clear’

MTB - Consenting Adults - RSD release from '21 - without a doubt a phenomenal jazz reference recording - excellent 

Cortez The Killer ...Wow;;!!

Patti Smith "Banga"

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young / Déjà vu
1970 Atlantic

Stephen Stills / S-T
1970 Atlantic

Jimi Hendrix lead guitar on Old Times Good Times, other familiar guests playing on this album.

David Crosby — Graham Nash / Wind On The Water
1975 ABC
Notable SQ, David Lindley, James Taylor, Carole King contribute.

Neil Young with Crazy Horse / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
1969 Reprise
Went with headphones on this one, too cool!

David Crosby / If I Could Only Remember My Name
2021 Atlantic 40th Anniversary Re-issue, orig. 1971

Roger McGuinn-Peace On You Side 1

Genesis-Abacab Side 2

Dave Brubeck-Blue Rondo(CJ-317) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

The Staples-Pass It On Side 2

Climax Blues Band-Real To Reel Side 1

Karrin Allyson-Footprints(#1073) Side C SQ Audiophile

My playlist is from last night. Started a little late so only spun 6 albums. Karrin Allyson-Footprints was excellent in SQ and content. One of a few albums that I have paid at least $100 for. Yet another Concord Jazz recording with Audiophile SQ. "Peace On You" was better then expected, sure made it obvious where Tom Petty was influenced.

@noromance

@bkeske Good to hear the 5814A worked. As I mentioned, I find the CV400x to be a bit too warm so these are going to seem like a breath of fresh air!

It’s interesting as I never considered replacing the Brimar’s after installing them, as they are quite popular and were highly recommended. So, I somewhat ignored the au7’s and concentrated on the ax7’s instead. This was a nice change, but now wonder what an Amperex, Mullard, or Telefunken, etc. might bring to the table. But, for the time being, I’ll enjoy these. Seem like a bargain to me.

"Banga" again

2012/Columbia/EU

Avril Lavigne "Under My Skin"

2017/MOV

Hole "Grease Your Hips/California 1994"

2016/Let Them Eat Vinyl/dbl lp 

Not audiophile SQ. Good performance, always liked her music 

Another ELO party, thanks to @big_greg 

Brian, I've 28 tubes in my phono > pre > monobloc chain. Every one of them makes a difference! 

Hard Working Americans "We're All in This Together" 

2017/Thirty Tigers

Hey @noromance ,

I was always afraid to get that deep into tubes for that reason and the ongoing expense. 

I say this as I pulled out my Quicksilver V-4s to dust off and insert into the system.

@slaw  Steve, amplifiers that don't have tubes are invisible to me! Have fun with the V-4. Thing is about tube amps is that the right tubes will elevate the amp whereas crap tubes will make it sound average. I'm amazed when I see expensive amps with JJs.

Brian, These came with Tung-Sol KT 120 cryo’d from Upscale.supposedly newish. 

Fired them up last night for a while to bias the tubes in anticipation of final install.

Steve, very cool re: pulling your Quicksilver’s out. Very nice.

And Brian, no doubt that every tube counts towards SQ. 

Tubes are really fun, but like Steve, it’s also a huge rabbit hole. But I can see how engaging it would be to work at getting them all to work together, sometimes doing different things in order to achieve the sound you want. 

Joshua Hyslop "Echos"

2018/Nettwerk 

another streaming find.....

Streaming the new Graham Nash Military Madness/Wild Tales Live

His voice has held up better than most from that era.

The LP's are now on order.

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers "Nightroamer" 

2022/ThirtyTigers

Spoon "Transference" 

2010/Merge

@bslon , 

I think Stephen Stills first lp is one of THE best rock debut lps

Jose Gonzalez "Local Valley" 

A favorite from 2021

Ian Noe again after a deep clean. Nice improvement.

Grant Lee Buffalo "Fuzzy" 

MOV

André Previn conducts Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Angel 1978
 

Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria / Sing, Sinck, Sing