What LP are You Spinning?

[btf1980]

Interplay 45rpm - Bill Evans (one of the rare times he worked with a horn player outside of Kind of Blue)





Gil Evans - Into the hot!!!


Duke Ellington records, most are original pressings!

[btf1980]

I've been listening to music now for at least 4 hours everyday. I wish this was a full time job.

Max Roach!


Original pressing of This is June Christy.


Original pressing of this Count Basie


Original Living Stereo RCA Victor Red Seals











About a dozen golden mercury imports from the Netherlands.

[wkhanna]

Zubin Mehta & NY Phil _ Pics at an Exhibition
CBS Master Works LP

Absolutely Stunning performance.
The hall acoustics are amazing & the LF surprisingly impressive for a classical recording.

[wkhanna]

After a nasty day at work, and listening all about my wife’s nasty day, it’s time for some chill’n with kings of ‘chill’.

[wkhanna]

More!

[Alaric]

My wife went to a used bookstore and found vinyl. She picked up a copy of The Band (album name) , Beach Boys Endless Summer , and a pristine copy of Bad Company's Desolation Angels. My neighbors left town today so tomorrow We Be Jammin'!
I gave the Bad Co. album a quick listen this morning and it sounds as clean as it looks. Hearing Gone Gone Gone as it was meant to be heard again was a serious blast from the past for me. Tomorrow we'll see (hear) what 95 wpc and my Paradigms can do with it with the volume knob around the 11 o'clock position.

[btf1980]

Just a heads up. A buddy of mine is selling the Analogue Productions & Music Matters lps for dirt cheap prices. These are normally $50 a pop!

Hit him up!

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls....2-Lp-MusicMatt

[btf1980]

Latest haul...



Japanese import of Introducing Lee Morgan. He was only 18 when he recorded this album. The album was recorded literally a day after his debut album as a leader, Lee Morgan Indeed! Crazy.


Afrobeat legend Tony Allen's "Homecooking". Crazy good.




Coltrane kills on the album.


Next 4 are 45rpms from AP & MM.

[wkhanna]

Your passion for great music is inspirational!
& thanks for reminding me I need to add a performance of '3 C Hat' to my library.

[gross30]

I just received the re-press of the Dire Straits first album 180 gm, from Amazon uk. Man, I think I need to dump all my digital and focus on analog. I am just starting to get back into the vinyl, and some of the "new" pressings sound awesome. Why did I ever leave this format ??? Ease of use, well it's time to re-think.....lolol

[David Meek]

Oh man, it's been sooo long since I had the TT out. It's getting closer and closer though, as the sheetrock, texture, paint are all done and the new carpet is coming tomorrow. A few pieces of trim on the walls this Saturday and then Sunday my ol' vinyl slinger will be back in service!

Buhwahahahaha! :dancenana:

[btf1980]

Your passion for great music is inspirational!
& thanks for reminding me I need to add a performance of '3 C Hat' to my library.

Cheers!

This is the best version of 3CH on vinyl imo. For digital, the Esoteric SACD is excellent, but a little expensive.

[btf1980]

Been busy these last few weeks...

Rob Zombie - Demon Speeding 45


St. Vincent




Imperial Tiger Orchestra


White Stripes - Under The Great White Northern Lights (limited ed. vinyl boxset)







The Kills


Maxine Sullivan


Buddy Guy



Hawk




Tons of classical - Living Stereo, Classic Records, original Deutsche Grammaphon pressings...

[btf1980]

Got some SXSW swag.

This is the "Texas Sized" Third Man Records stamped edition of White Blood Cells by the White Stripes that was only available at SXSW. It's larger than a normal sized lp. It's a 13 incher! It says "Y'alls turntables ain't big enough." ha!



Other SXSW goodies from Thirdman Records.






The Noisettes



Cat Power


The Mighty Imperials


Raconteurs 7"


Original RCA Victor mono pressings from the 50s!



Lee Morgan - The Rumproller


Also picked up a few Classics before the prices went up...

[btf1980]

A little bit of this & that...

Original Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience with nude women on the cover

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...SC_0001-74.jpg (NSFW!)

Gatefold....

[btf1980]

Hit up a bunch of local record shops with some friends for record store day. Here's what I picked up.

[r100gs]

Now you guys did it. I went and purchased a turntable. I'm in love! I have not purchased a LP in 30 years. I picked up this Van Morrison album, Astral Weeks: Live at Hollywood Bowl and my speakers are doing things that are amazing!

[r100gs]

I bought this album years ago on cassette, then purchased it on a cd. Found a used copy in good condition and it just sounds right on vinyl! Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs" ;x(

[wkhanna]

Way to go, Jay!!
Welcome home!

I have not been spinning much lately. I took my Carver C-19 pre to our local shop owned by a great new friend who is a master tech with vintage gear. It doesn't hurt that he has a V long and close relationship with Bob Carver himself and speaks with him several times a month.

Anyway, I am like a kid waiting for X-mass morning right now.
A few weeks ago I dropped off my C-19 with Tom for a full, no holds bared R&R along with a conversion to an IEC chassis mount power jack.

Keeping true to form when it comes to taking care of his customer’s, Tom has lent me his Sound Valves tube pre to use while work proceeds on my C-19.

The Sound Valves is nice unit. As you might expect from a tube unit, it needs about a half hour to warm up as the mids and LF are quite soft and vague until it has some time to plane out and stabilize. When it does, the LF is full & decently quick. The mids come up and also fill out decently, but there is some detail missing while voices don’t have that ‘in the room’ sense I’m used to. The HF is as one would expect with a tube unit, smooth and non-fatiguing. But again, there is some detail that I’m used to hearing that is missing. One thing is for sure, this is a very quiet pre, and that is a V important, if not paramount characteristic for any pre. I can turn up the loud knob to 80% before any trace of noise is perceptible from my listening position.

Soundstage is good and imaging not bad at all albeit not tightly focused, & both are less refined than I am used to. What is really noticeable however is the lack of depth. All presentations, whether voices, percussion, massed strings, whatever, are in the same depth plane. And that plane is about one foot in front of my speakers. One comment I often get on my system is its ability to give the sense of ‘room’ to any recording played on it (so long as it’s on the original recording to begin with). I am used to only having voices presented upfront in this way. Again, depending on the quality of the original recording, I expect images coming from as much as three to four feet behind the wall which the system is positioned on (the speaker baffles are ~ 4 feet from that wall). This is most noticeable on classical recordings, and has really taken a huge sense of ‘life’ out the quality of the presentation from anything played.

90% of my listening is via vinyl, but the Sound Valve’s performance is the same with either SeeDee or 12 inch licorice pie media via its phono section. While I’ve only heard one other phono-pre in my system, I feel the performance of this unit is pretty good, but much of the detail and ambiance I’m used to hearing is just not there.

The input impendence of the Sound Valves must be fairly low, as I am only able turn the volume up to between 15% - 25% before hitting my reference level of 75 dB depending on the source. My CA640 v2 CDP can’t be turned up much past the 1st tick mark on the dial (20% assuming the gain is linear) and no more than the 2nd mark when fed the output from my AT-150MLX moving magnet’s 4 milivolts mounted to the arm of my MMF-7 turntable.

Sorry for the rambling, but I miss my C-19 so much I find that I am not listening to music as much as I used to. Some may say that maybe I am more interested in the quality of my music than the music itself & this labels me as the type of audiophile that gives all audiophiles a bad rep.

A recent article in Stereophile set forth the proposition that all of our personal requisites can be broken down to three categories: Music – Quality – Ease of Access. We all score each category to our personal preference but the final tally must add up to 100. And throughout life, our personal rankings of all three changes due to any number of factors. For example my score might be 45 for Music, 50 for Quality & 5 for Ease of Access.

Using this analogy, it becomes obvious that I value Quality fairly high. But at the same, I will ‘suffer’ the inconveniences demanded by vinyl with joy in order to bask in its prowess. If someone who had ten times more music than me, but in digital format, were forced to use vinyl, do you think they would be listening less?

[r100gs]

Way to go, Jay!!
Welcome home!

If someone who had ten times more music than me, but in digital format, were forced to use vinyl, do you think they would be listening less?

To answer your question, I would have to say no. May your C-19 be up and running and perform better than ever. Nice review!

[wkhanna]

To answer your question, I would have to say no.

Well I guess that person had one of these, maybe your are right :E :W

May your C-19 be up and running and perform better than ever. Nice review!

Thanks Jay!
BTW, here is a look at the American-made SV pre:

[btf1980]

Dumped my SACD players. I'm vinyl full time baby!! (OK - I have a server for the digital side plus I got the Squeezebox Touch for 24/96 FLAC)

White Stripes - De Stijl - Special SXSW branded Texas sized edition (13 inches)


The Kills - No Wow



Various 45s by The Kills


Dead Weather - Die By The Drop


The Hives




Karen Elson - The Ghost who walks


Betty Davis (never got out of the huge shadow of Miles imo) - Is it love or desire


The heavy - The House that dirt built


Feist - The Reminder


Cliff Jordon - Cliff Craft


Thad Jones - The mag. Thad Jones Vol. 3


Archie Shepp - Fire Music

[btf1980]

Epic weekend. Took a few quick snaps of the latest goodies. I really love records. You have no idea.

Original Blue Note pressing of Goin' Up by Freddie Hubbard (still sealed - snip on upper left corner)


Two early Japanese King Blue Note Pressing - Jackie Mclean & Stanley Turrentine




Ike Quebec - Connoisseur pressing from the mid 90s.


45rpm of Caravan - Hoffman/Gray mastered







This is an APO 45rpm double disc. Blown away by the depth of this record.


The other big score - 8 Mercury Living Presence original pressings!!



APO Direct to Disc series - Marquise Knox & Wild Child Butler


June Christy - Modern Cool


Wanda Jackson

[Bob]

Wanda Jackson, the first queen of rock and roll!

[btf1980]

I've been busy.

Sonny Rollins & Fred Jackson - 45rpm Hoffman/Gray pressings






A few Japanese imports - these are phenomenal pressings. Dead quiet.




The Au St. Club Germain Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Vol1 & Vol2. A legendary performance.

[btf1980]

Latest goodies...

The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards (def. a lo-fi affair - but it's good music)



Ellington, Mingus, Roach - Money Jungle


Lee Fields - My World


Funkadelic - Maggot Brain


Vetiver - Thing of the past (love the cover art)


Vijay Iyer trio - Historicity



Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz


Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas


Count Basie - Chairman of the Board


Daptone Gold

[btf1980]

Epic score....

45 rpm titles - Music Matters and Analogue Productions















Japanese Imports








Original pressings








New lp

[The Desert Fox]

btf,

What kind of record storage system is pictured above, and where can I get one?

[r100gs]

Went full circle last night. I found the very last lp I bought after I made the switch to CD's. Robert Palmer "Clues". Sounds even better than before ;x( .

[btf1980]

btf,

What kind of record storage system is pictured above, and where can I get one?

It's the music direct md-150 rack in several iterations. Have a few of the 3 shelf version and the 2 shelf version.

Here's a link

http://www.musicdirect.com/category/308

2 shots of what they look like.

[btf1980]

a few goods - glad to have the long out of print 45rpm version of Soultrane!!







The following below are all original pressings.







LZ & Pink Floyd

[r100gs]

Weather Report "Heavy Weather", Great reissue on some heavy duty vinly. A must for anyones collection.

[btf1980]

Latest score. Mostly 45 rpm from Analogue Productions & Music Matters.

Music Matters titles








Analogue Productions titles







Misc. titles

[r100gs]

btf1980, Nice Score! Keep your pixels down because it takes each page forever to load, and no I do not have dial up. :W

[btf1980]

duly noted! Maybe I need to buy less.

[Industrial]

Pics load pretty damn fast for me. Spinning Duran Duran: Rio ATM. Saw the Black Dynamite soundtrack, just watched the movie last night.

[Nolan B]

Great thread..

got my first TT a couple of weeks ago. Since we have had Vinyl parties where evenyone is required to bring and LP, and a vinyl soundtrack party where everyone is required to bring an old sound rack. Since we will in the city its easy for people even not TT owners to pick something up before coming over. There have also been nights where the wife and I just spin records until 2 am and finishing multiple bottle of wine. Here are a few from tonight.

Joy Division






Simple Minds


Something my wife loves.



B&O Beogram 2400 and a brand new (still in original packaging)MMC 20CL cartridge which I picked up. Amazing since it was B&O's best and they stopped making them 25 years ago. I also bought a Cambridge Audio 640p...not form auditioning just form reading reviews since I have no idea about what differences there are.

[Nolan B]

[QUOTE=btf1980]





[QUOTE]

What LP is that? The art is amazing and would be worth having just for that. What kind of music is it?

[Nolan B]

nevermind..found it on ebay and bough it ^^^

But what is the cleaner you have with the white lid? I have the same static brush and stylus cleaner...whats the other container for?

[btf1980]

nevermind..found it on ebay and bough it ^^^

But what is the cleaner you have with the white lid? I have the same static brush and stylus cleaner...whats the other container for?

It's just a stylus treatment. Supposed to be used in conjunction with the cleaner to maintain its life.

[Brandon B]

Well now your loved ones can spin YOU after you're gone:

http://www.gearlog.com/2010/08/turn_your_ashes_into_a_vinyl_r.php

[Chris D]

Now that's funny. Perhaps I could be pressed into a recording of "The Joshua Tree"?

Now... would I want to be a 45, or 33 1/3?

[btf1980]

Haven't posted in a bit, but I've been busy. Doing some system changes, but the vinyl is still spinning.

These are 45rpm titles. Music Matters and Analogue Productions. Click for the full size.

[btf1980]

Japanese imports & misc titles - click thums for the full size

[Hammie]

Listening to a little Eagles - Hotel California right now. Planning on moving to Billy Joel - The Stranger, ZZ Top - Eliminator, Adam Ant - Adam Ant, and then Rush - 2112.