bkeske
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Mehta conducts Buckner’s 9th. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. London 1965 in just excellent condition, and great recording.Unfortunately, I’m not a big Bruckner fan, but gave this a shot to see if Mehta could begin to change my mind. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Zubin Mehta conducts Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'. Los Angeles Philharmonic. London 1979.A bit of surface noise, may need a more aggressive cleaning. | |
| What was your most fun and rewarding upgrade? The most rewarding was my last : A used SOTA Sapphire III TT, a new Jelco 850 MK II arm, and a Soundsmith Zephyr III cart. No doubt, the most satisfying upgrade, to date.Prior or that, my Vandersteen 2CE Sigs. It will take a serious upgrade to rep... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Where's @uberwaltz?Not sure slaw, but just assumed he is traveling on business. Hasn’t posted anywhere for a couple days, so hope he is OK. Or perhaps he is just tired of us 😁 | |
| Vinyl collection, now what? vinyl is a big commitment and don’t even think about it unless you are planning on being all in. dipping your toe into vinyl will never get that music effectively into a digital format.While I agree with that, you have to start somewhere to see if... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Another from my new acquisition’s....Szell conducts Mozart Piano Concertos No. 15&17. Casadesus with ‘members of’ The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1969 | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw My MK III is HO @ 2.4mV, so 47K loading, of course , and 42db gain. Right in the upper middle of where Peter recommends (38-43). | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Juilliard String Quartet plays Charles Ives String Quartets No. 1&2. CBS Masterworks 1985Wonderful | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? ‘New’ vinyl arrived....first up...Leonard Bernstein conducts Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 w/Andre Previn & Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos w/Gold (not Gould) and Fizdale. New York Philharmonic. Columbia Masterworks 1962. EDIT: Dang, t... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Karajan conducts Beethoven - The 9 symphonies, box set. Berliner Philharmonic. Deutsche Grammophon 1975Started at the beginning....Symphonies 1&2Have a batch of ‘new’ vinyl arriving any minute. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601 War Dept was under weather, got tested = negative..... music therapy later :-)Good news Jim. And yea, try without a clamp. And try to be objective 😁 | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @noromance Also glad you got the pink cable. The dark green one is crap.Well, all in all, compared to where I came from, it ALL sounded fine. But. Like anything, you are always inquisitive about any weak link. When I found that cable on eBay, it w... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @boxer12 If you don't have any of their stuff on vinyl, check out the boxed sets that were released. They are good & not stupid expensive (yet). They are the studio releases (mostly). Wow, just checked those out on Discogs. I wasn’t even aware... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @boxer12 Glad to hear it's coming together well for you Bkeske, enjoy!Better than I could have imagined boxer.Now need some of that Pere Ubu you have on vinyl. Keep eyeing a copy of The Modern Dance on Discogs. May have to pull the trigger and get... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Benjamin Britten conducting English Chamber Orchestra - English Music For Strings. Purcell, Elgar, Britten, Delius, & Bridge. London 1969 |