Whats on your turntable tonight?

Bill Evans, Shelly Manne, and Monty Budwig
Empathy

1962 Rudy Van Gelder Recording
1973 Verve Jazz Classics Japan

drums all on the right and bass right in the center both sound fantastically real.   Piano all on the left sounds just horrible.  Like a spinet on am radio.   
Setup in gatefold jacket photo has the positions reversed.  Wonder if that means anything.  
Record looks mint but could the LH grooves be worn from a bad stylus or something.  
Kind of a shame.  Records can be a fickle mistress.  

Spirit.
Are they stereo but from mono originally?
If so that is pretty common , listen to some of the early Beatles stereo that was originally mono.
Same type of stuff occurred on a lot of early stereo records that were recorded as mono originally.

And nope to the Dr Carbon snake oil.
Going to have to order some.......

I need a listening recliner at the condo, I have a butter soft Stickley in Seattle... recliner comes out of different budget than audio.... war Dept does get to vote....

Richie Beirach
Elm
1979 ECM

Jack DeJohnette!

@slaw platform hit a snag, Mike the genius at HRS is contemplating what feet and how to attach, loads of torque...

and the RM-9 needs bias pot work, so I am off to Brooks Berdan in Monrovia today 120 miles each way to drop off amp w Tom the master tech there - @bdp24 will be glad to know Tom remember you and I will be buying Tom lunch in your honor! Tom seems to love the mod DL-103.... interesting ...