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Grateful Dead - Mars Hotel Friday Music 180g reissue 2012, originally 1974  
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Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing  Caroline Records 2016  
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Nick Lowe - Nick The Knife Yep Roc Records reissue/remaster w/45rpm single included. 2107, originally 1982  
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Pere Ubu - Lady From Shanghai  Fire Records (2) 45rpm LP, 2013  
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The Heifetz & Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario And Guests Mendelssohn - Octette In E Flat Major, Op. 20 Jascha Heifetz, violin Joseph Stepansky, violin Israel Baker, violin Arnold Belnick, violin Virginia Majewski, viola Willi... 
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Bernstein conducts  Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 With Trumpet Op. 35 with André Previn, piano Poulenc - Concerto For 2 Pianos And Orchestra In D Minor with Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale, piano The New York Philharmonic Orchestra Co... 
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Erich Leinsdorf conducts Beethoven  Piano Concerto No. 5 In E-Flat, Op. 73 ("Emperor") Boston Symphony Orchestra w/Arthur Rubinstein, piano RCA Victor Red Seal, reissue possibly late 60’s, originally 1963    
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart Konzert Für Klavier Und Orchester Nr. 20 D-moll KV 466 Konzert Für Klavier Und Orchester Nr. 12 A-dur KV 414 (385p) The London Symphony Orchestra With Rudolf Serkin, piano  Deutsche Grammophon 1982    
Any love for the Gentalex Gold Lion 12ax7 gold pin?
I have four Gold Lion 12ax7 gold pins in storage, they were the first I switched to over the stock tubes in my phono pre. A nice upgrade, for the money, but as @noromance inferred, I then replaced those with four old Telefunken smooth plates, and ... 
Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit.
@tunehead @kota1  I agree with the Parasound 200 option. I ran the small form factor Parasound ZPre3 in my main rig for a while and was pretty impressed. For the money, I think hard to beat, and the 200 should be a step-up to that, but didn’t rea... 
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Don’t play too much Wagner, but have a desire today. Not wanting to spin a full box of one of the opera sets I have, deciding on this instead: Szell conducts Wagner Wagner Orchestral Music Prelude And Love-Death From "Tristan Und Isolde" "Die... 
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George Szell conducts Dvořák - The Three Great Symphonies Symphony No. 7 In D Minor, Op. 70 (Formerly No. 2) Symphony No. 8 In G Minor, Op. 88 (Formerly No. 4) Symphony No. 9 In E Minor, Op. 95 ("From The New World") (Formerly No. 5) The Cl... 
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David Thomas & The Pedestrians The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian Rough Trade 1981, 45rpm  
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David Thomas & The Wooden Birds Monster Walks The Winter Lake Twin/Tone Records 1986  
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@noromance  That Beecham Scheherazade LP is pretty darn good. First time I listened to it as I had not mounted my mono cart in a while. Good stuff.