Whats playing on your system today?
@slaw I use my little Raspberry Pi music server to stream to my main system. I built a killer little streamer/server for under $200 and it could be done for about $100 if you forego a fancy power supply and case. Heck, if you have a USB DAC, you could build a Raspberry Pi dedicated music streamer/server for under $50 and get really decent sound. Also, the MoOde OS is free and super easy to set up and use. It's incredibly robust. I left it running for a week while I went on vacation. Came home and it was still streaming Radio Paradise via a wifi connection. |
So far today... Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, "Outbound" 2000 Columbia HDCD Dexter Gordon, "A Swingin' Affair 1964 Blue Note/Audio Wave XRCD24 Art Blakey, "A Night in Tunisia" 1961 Blue Note/Audio Wave XRCD24 Art Blakey, "The Big Beat" 1960 Blue Note/Audio Wave XRCD24 Horace Silver, "The Cape Verdean Blues" 1965 Blue Note/Audio Wave XRCD24 David Holland Quartet, "Conference of the Birds" 1973 ECM RBCD |
Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" 1967/1999 Capitol RBCD Jaco Pastorius "Jaco Pastorius" 1976/2000 Epic/Legacy RBCD Carole King "Tapestry" 1971/1986 Ode RBCD Sonny Clark "Cool Struttin" 1958/ 1999 RVG Edition Blue Note RBCD Creedance Clearwater Revival "Willy and the Poor Boys" 1969 Fantasy RBCD Hank Mobley "Soul Station" 1960/ 1999 RVG Edition Blue Note RBCD |
@reubent--City to City is a terrific album and IMO the best pop/rock sax solo to make it to the radio. Janis Joplin "Pearl" 1970/1999 Columbia Legacy RBCD Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" 1959/1997 Columbia Legacy RBCD The Band "Music From Big Pink" 1968/2000 Capitol Remaster RBCD (Track 5 "The Weight"--doesn't get any better for 60s song writing) John Coltrane "A Love Supreme" 1964/2010 Impulse/Analogue SACD |
Rory Gallagher, "Tattoo". Track 8 from Tattoo but taken here from Irish Tour '74... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_drl3luuE&ab_channel=Leadhead444 |
@astewart8944 - I just picked up my copy of "City to City" at my local record store - Everybody's Records last weekend for $3.99 and its a really clean, solid NM with an NM cover. What a steal! I've found some great stuff for great prices at Half Price Books. I just wish they were organized better. At my local store they do not separate new and used and they do not alphabetize them or categorize them. You have to look through the whole section every time. But it's still worth it to go there...... |
@reubent Great Deal! Clearly Half Price Books has a chain-wide manual on how to make the chase difficult. But, I'm with you...in there hunting for gold that other people don't value. Makes my head hurt that the current music buying model is to pay $1.29 for one digital song download when a kid (or an adult) can own the whole record, whether CD or LP, in many cases for 20-60 cents a song, and sometimes less. Of course, there is the problem of the newest music model where the buyer never owns any music but simply listens to it via a subscription of some kind. |
John Coltrane "Blue Train" 1958/1985 Blue Note RBCD Miles Davis "Milestones" 1958/2012 MoFi SACD Mono David Bowie "Hunky Dory 2015 Remaster" 1971/2015 Parlophone RBCD Otis Redding "The Dock of the Bay Remaster" 1968/1991 ATCO RBCD Charles Mingus "Mingus Ah Um" 1959/1998 Columbia/Legacy RBCD This Mingus Ah Um album is magic! The arrangements are varied, musical and memorable. If you haven't heard this album because jazz is not your thing, it's a good bet you'll enjoy the record. |
Accept, Blood of the Nations. Check out "Kill The Pain Tonight". https://youtu.be/SzCYh5pKFYw I'm also cruising through several tracks with a female vocalist named Floor Jansen. Some of her recent bands: Nightwish, After Forever, ReVamp, and pleanty of colaborations. Here's sample, she is fantastic. "Energize Me". https://youtu.be/fjm4BrNAf6s Ronnie James Dio, with ELF. "Crosseyed Mary". https://youtu.be/StS2i2WG1UE N |
Another record show purchase... Tommy Bolin "Private Eyes". This lp has quite a bit of sub 35H bass info and comes across very clean and musical. I could only imagine an audiophile label getting a hold of the masters if they're available. It would move the foundation! Anyone have other TB recommendations? |
