Whats on your turntable tonight?

Kiril Kondrashin conducts Tchaikovsky - Second Concerto In G Op. 44 For Piano & Orchestra. The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra with Emil Gilels, piano. Baroque Records 1966

I'm enjoying it Tom!

My postponed trip from last week to Washington state is on for tomorrow.  I am staying with a friend in Lake Stevens and will be at Daedalus Audio on Thursday.  I sure hope those speakers live up to everything I anticipate for them.  If so I will be placing my order.

Drum roll........

@big_greg

Nice re: the Hana. Similar to the Ortofon 2M Mono SE, except MC.

I’m not sure I’m thinking of this exactly correctly, but as all my mono LP’s are period pressings (50’s-early 60’s), I didn’t go with the SE as it has a ‘fine line’ stylus, as does the Hana SL Mono (shibata). In my thinking at the time, most those LP’s were really made for conical stylus types. Finer cuts didn’t really become standard until a bit later. Thus, I said, why get a fine line stylus if the grooves were not cut for a fine line or shibata cut?

Anyway…..my thinking….😁

Im sure the Hana would be great, as would the SE, or any mono cart Soundsmith would make.

Ralph Sutton, Ruby Braff, Milt Hinton, Mousey Alexander – On Sunnie's Side Of The Street (Blue Angel Jazz Club 1968)