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Ordered the new box set from Amazon uk.
Ordered the new box set from Amazon uk.
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Two new near-White Hot Stampers arrived, Elton John Honky Chateau and Fleetwood Mac Rumours. Not a lot of time last night but you don't just play one of these its a production so a little Al Stewart goes on to warm things up. Then I got some cool high voltage ceramic insulators off eBay to help route cables. Same as Cable Elevators only a lot cheaper. Compared with and without and sure enough they work just like the Cable Elevators and so with the system warm and tuned up its time for.... Honky Chateau! This nearly White Hot Stamper (both sides A++ to A+++) has a sticker saying its from England. Whatever. The cover like all my Hot Stampers is pristine. The LP so crisp and clean it has an almost otherworldly look to it. Packaged in the best sleeves on the market its an experience just pulling it out and putting it on the platter. Carefully. Very, very carefully! LOL! And I know what you're thinking: its freaking Elton John? How good could it be???! Which is what I thought too. Never known for SQ, Elton. 'Cept, turns out the brilliant Ken Scott (The White Album, Crime of the Century) was on it. Which each side, damn, from the very first note you feel it. The piano, the bite of the violin, the way even the loudest most crowded passages that everywhere else you have heard it congeal here each and every instrument and voice stays clear and unmolested in its own right. What an experience. But oh, sorry guys, "This item is no longer available." lol! https://www.better-records.com/product.aspx?pf_id=john_honky_1903 That was last night. Tonight: Rumours! |
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