Whats on your turntable tonight?

Gary Myrick And The Figures / S-T
1980 Epic

Both sides. Holy Myrick! 😎

Gang Of Four / entertainment!
1979 Warner Bros.

The Pretenders / Learning To Crawl
1982 Sire

Josie Cotton / Convertible Music
2020 Kitten Robot, orig. 1982

Garbage - Strange Little Birds

@mammothguy54 

Sounds great Joel! Looking forward to you receiving them, a long time coming, but sure it will be worth the wait 👍🏼

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

CSNY - Deja Vu

The Wallflowers "Bringing Down the Horse" 

2016 UMe/Interscope 

20th Anniversary, first time on vinyl

Just recieved some new power cords for my preamp and mono amps, so playing something I know well. Sounds very nice already.

Szell conducts Sibelius - Symphony No. 2. Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. Philips 1965, Netherlands release
 

The High Keys "A Little Too Heavy" 

2022 Sundazed 

Orange vinyl

Hey Brian,

Did you go with all, one brand?

@slaw

Yep Steve. My first foray into more expensive power cords. After much deliberation, I decided to go with GR Reasearch B16’s. Knowing Danny creates bargain price products of very good quality, I jumped on his offerings. Really quite a good deal for 2 4’ and 1 6’ length. I can see ordering a couple more for the DAC and CD transport.

Danny says 200 hours break-in, but right off the bat are more detailed and revealing, thus more ‘air’ in the presentation. I know that Szell album well, and although it’s an incredible recording, is a bit ‘soft’ overall. Played the album an hour before these arrived, and then after, and yea, it’s noticeable in a good way. Will be interesting to see how things change during break-in.

Brian,

I was almost ready to go for some of Danny's cords but he didn't offer 20 amp IEC, so I went with Noteworthy Audio. He may now.

@slaw

Good question. I bet he would get some 20 amp plugs. It is odd it isn’t an option though. All mine are 15 amp.

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers "Moanin'" 

2021/Blue Note/Kevin Gray

I emailed him about it and his response was he didn't offer them, Brian.

That’s too bad Steve. Wonder what his reasoning is. I believe his plugs are Furutech, but he brands them.

I'm not complaining Brian, the Noteworthy's are wonderful. I do wish I could have heard them though.

The Blasters "Live 1986"  

2011/ Rock Beat Records 

War on Drugs "I Don't Live Here Anymore" 

2021/Atlantic/France

Brasil 66  " Stillness "

A & M  Japanese pressing 

All the Brasil 66 albums have fantastic recording engineering , it's fortunate that 3 of their releases were pressed by Speakers Corner .

Santana, Abraxas

Journey: Look Into The Future 1976 (pre NS)

Ray Charles True Genius Sides Of Ray.

 Bill Evans Trio : Portraits in Jazz 

The Magnolia Electric Company "Songs:Ohia"

Highly Recommended!!!!!

Beautiful jacket art.

Boulez conducts Bartók - Concerto For Orchestra. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1973
 

Molina and Johnson "S/T"

Boulez conducts Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2 / Pavane For A Dead Princess / Rapsodie Espagnole / Alborada Del Gracioso. The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1971
 

Szell conducts Brahms - Double Concerto In A Minor. Oistrach & Rostropovich with The Cleveland Orchestra. Angel reissue 1980’s, originally 1969


 

Jethro Tull - Benefit

1970 Chrysalis 

@bslon 

+1 on Thick As A Brick

I had just played my early Reprise Records copy and thought the SQ was excellent and it has held up well over the years with minimal noise.

I noticed there is a 50th anniversary version coming out but I'm skeptical that it won't match up to the original pressings. I'll wait for some reviews.

Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls

Allan Holdsworth - "Metal Fatigue"

Hollies - S/T

Procol Harum - Home

1970 A&M

@tgilb 

+1 Benefit

I’m looking forward to the Thick As reissue, my copy’s running some mileage. I hope they get it right. That Steven Wilson Aqualung re, they got it right.

Moon Martin / Escape From Domination
1979 Capitol

Mark Knopfler "Golden Heart" 

2021/ Box set/

Beth Hart "Better Than Home" 

2015/Provogue 

The Textones / Midnight Mission
1984 Gold Mountain

Just got a new phono preamp today: Sutherland 20/20. Blown away by it. Listening to some of my favorite records and it’s like hearing them for the first time. Among others, played Debussy Nocturnes with Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1981. Magical!

Nice! I’d say enjoy, but you already are! 😁

Jethro Tull / War Child
1974 Chrysalis

Rolling Stones / It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll
1974 Rolling Stone Records

Well this was on last night , July 1st is to  Canada   what 4th of July is to us,

I'm in my 80's and have lived all life in states  that border Canada, and I  have 

a great respect for our neighbors to the North . the music is O'Canada , the National Anthem , at first are thoughts of the O'Canada in  , then anthem sung in 

Native Indian then French and at last in English , it's all beautiful !

Wings - Back to the Egg

@rvpiano 

congrats! 👍🏼

@bkeske 

Szell conducts Sibelius - Symphony No. 2. Concertgebouw 

That's like your personal musical version of Charlie's Angels!

Been sampling lots of Qobuz stuff the last few days, many based on suggestions from many here: 

Joan Shelley (The Spur, S/T, Like The River Loves The Sea)

Father John Misty (Chloe, God's Favorite Customer)

Sarah Jarosz (Blue Heron Suite)

Joss Stone (Soul Sessions Vol2)

Flaming Groovies (Shake Some Action)

Brian Jackson (This is...)

Jack Johnson (Meet The Moonlight)

Strand of Oaks (In Heaven)

Danish String Qrt. (Wood Works)

It's a vinyl-cleaning morning here w/ fresh LRS pickups jumping out of their jackets! 

Congrats on the new phono stage @rvpiano.  Such an important part of the analog chain.

Thanks, big_greg

@sbank

Szell conducts Sibelius - Symphony No. 2. Concertgebouw

That’s like your personal musical version of Charlie’s Angels!

😁 That, IMO, is the best recorded and performed Sibelius No. 2 Spencer. Also a great LP to check out the new PC’s. A great recording for 1965, but not ‘perfect’, (like, let’s say, compared to Ray Brown’s Soular Energy), so any differences could be exposed. And it did just that. Immediately sounded more detailed and refined vs the slight veiled presentation with my old PC’s. Well, I guess it’s not quite as veiled as I thought actually. Fun with cables.

Looking forward to more improvements while burning in.