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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Garbage - S/T. One of my favorite albums. This is the first time I've heard it on vinyl. This is a 45 RPM two disc copy and sounds great so far.  
Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito
In my experience, it's been the Japanese SHM SACDs that are on the "bright side".  All of the MFSL SACDs I have are much easier to listen to.  The MOFI Gold CDs and even the MOFI SACDs were and are completely outclassed by the Japanese SHM SACDs... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Moby - S/T. I'm questioning why I bought this. The sound quality is pretty good but it's very generic electronic music.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
The Crusaders - Scratch (live), nice Japanese pressing. @slaw Steve I would second Mingus Ah Um.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Grand Funk Railroad - Caught in the Act.  This is an excellent live album, it rocks and is well recorded.  
Solid state or Tubes preamp phono stage.
What, tubes make heat? Who knew? The thing is, in a phono stage you’re barely going to notice it. They aren’t going to tax your A/C or keep you warm in the winter. This is kind of like asking which type of DAC is better - R2R, delta-sigma, or FPG... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Grand Funk - We're An American Band, great album!  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
I guess all that Grand Funk record needed was a good cleaning! Went from VG to VG+.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Grand Funk - Closer to Home.  This copy isn't as nice as the one I played yesterday.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Steve, that's interesting.  I couldn't find what record of hers he played on,  It would be interesting to hear.  According to AllMusic Joe Walsh has 1,732 credits!  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Donna Summer - Bad Girls, Japanese pressing   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Rickie Lee Jones - S/T, MFSL 45 RPM   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Bill, at first it was daunting, but I'm making good progress.  I've been putting all my new records into Discogs for the last 3 or 4 years, so I often hit big chunks of records that are already catalogued.  It's also fun to re-listen to things I h... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Grand Funk - Closer to Home @bslon that’s a great record Bill. I have a number of copies of it.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Santana - Amigos