Whats on your turntable tonight?

Steampunk

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA  - Out of the Blue
Electric Light Orchestra- Evil Woman
...one of my favs...

JETHRO TULL...Stand Up.  Came across this gorgeous-looking LP at a flea market for a dollar. Diggin’ it!

1959 Decca Porgy and Bess with Sammy Davis Jr and Carmin McRae. It is not in good condition. It is clean but it had not been treated well. Who cares? The sound (notwithstanding Sammy's strident vocals) is fantastic. The stage depth is insane and the balance is spot on. No bloated bass. Brass is colorful and mass strings are sweet as a nut. There is nothing in digital that can touch what we have thrown away. 

--1976 Japanese pressing Denon PCM early digital recording of Beethoven Symphony No.9 Choral. It’s in mint condition. Shame it sounds so bad. Flat. Compressed. Unemotional. Crap.

-- Mozart String Quartets 14 and 15 KV387, KV421 Alban Berg on Telefunken. 1970. Silent vinyl. Beautiful recording. You can feel the cello bow rosin leaving the horsehair. Melodic and colorful. Sit up and listen insightful. It actually sounds like their old tubes! Maybe I'm imagining it.