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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Freddie Hubbard "Here to Stay" - Blue ST-84135 (45 rpm Music Matters reissue). | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? At a friend's house earlier:Trackin' with Lew Tabakin, RCA 45 rpm dtdCopland, Fanfare for the Common Man, and other piecesSonny Rollins on 15 ips rtr tape. | |
| Kenneth Wilkinson Discography In additiona to so many of the best Decca recordings, virtually the entire Lyrita catalog was recorded by Wilkinson. Superb.Also, the two excellent Readers Digest series with producer Charles Gerhardt: The Treasury of Great Music; The Beethoven Sy... | |
| Which is the best high end passive power filter? The Walker Audio Velocitor power conditioner is the best that I've heard. Jay Audio in Singapore will be your closest dealer, or you can work directly with Lloyd Walker in the U.S.After pursuing this hobby for over 30 years, I agree completely wit... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? We're just pulling on your chain, Joe. As I'm sure you know. ;-) Michael Jackson was a supreme entertainer. For all his personal tragedy, his accomplishments in the music industry are to be respected. Even I have a copy of Thriller (and "Off the W... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ah, see what an aesthetically pleasing evening we enticed you into? Good we don't leave you to your own devices. :-) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Russ, I agree with you completely about this 45 rpm Speakers Corner reissue. It's a shame they didn't continue with more 45 rpm reissues from the Decca catalog because this one is certainly superb. For some reason I can't fathom, it got poor write... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I love the story, Jim! The closest I can come at the moment is admitting to listening to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" in the summer time. I'm currently hooked on the 45 rpm reissue of this classic as re-mastered by Hoffman and Gray (Fantasy 8431-45... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? What a kick! :-)Eat your hearts out if you must. I'm listening to "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" 78... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Orlando Gibbons, "Fantaisies Royales" - Jordi Savall, viola da gamba; Christopher Coin, baroque violin; Sergi Casademunt, harpsichord and organ positif - Astree AS 43 (Renaissance chamber music at its best! Outstanding musicians captured in a supe... | |
| Ac cords or power conditioning first? If you have the ability to run a dedicated A/C line to your system and haven't already done so, do this first. Then improve your power cords. Then look at power conditioning. (This approach sounds boring, but it is effective.). | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Vivaldi "The Four Seasons, op 8" - Marco Fornaciari and the Fone Ensemble on Fone 007 (2LPs) - a muscular, full-tone performace with a "big sound" from this small ensemble, playing with just one instrument per part. This recording is very closely ... | |
| re-burn in? is there such a thing. In my experience, every time my system is down for any extended period of time (e.g., a move to a new home), it takes quite a while for it to start sounding good again (30-200 hours of music playing time, depending on the down time and storage con... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "The Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall" - Mosaic MQ1-321 (Wow!! To think that the tapes of this live 1957 performance sat in the Library of Congress archives untouched and never released for over 40 years is just an amazin... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Jennifer Warnes, "Famous Blue Raincoat" - 45 rpm reissue...I continue to be impressed with just how good this 45 rpm reissue sounds. Just a great mastering job by Bernie Grundman. These are going fast, so if you have any interest in an outstanding... |