Best Album Purchase, or Best Evaluating Record

jazz at the pawnshop. if a component can't play this,especially the last track on side 1 without everyone in earshot dancing, it's no good.

best purchase has to be about 300 - 400 classical records, for $300, that contained many mint shaded dogs, Living Presence, and blue Backs (among others)

You are so mean :)
Unsurpassable

best purchase has to be about 300 - 400 classical records, for $300, that contained many mint shaded dogs, Living Presence, and blue Backs (among others)

You are so mean :)
Unsurpassable

I recently bought 70 Deutch Grammaphone classical LPs at $190. They are all in new/mint condition - no scratches, no molds, no play noise, no warps. Most of them not in popular category, which I prefer. I don't want to add another Beethoven Symphony #5/#9 into my collection. ;-)

bought an original Casino Royale in nm shape for $5 at a record show. Also bought a nm Die Beatles HorZu from the same guy for $5. He was going to knock a buck off the pair as well.

Whenever I do a tweak or an upgrade, I reach for the Diana Krall Christmas Songs LP, and not the 200g black version, but the 150g transparent red version. It sounds wonderful. It has everything--SOTA analog source recording, great mastering, female vocals, lush orchestrations, sleigh bells and assorted percussion.

I also have to give mention to "Class of '78," a direct-to-disc of the Buddy Rich Big Band. That's the record that launched my latter day vinyl craze. I took that LP and its companion SACD to my local high end store and had the sales guy spin them both through a pretty expensive all-Linn system. That was that and I haven't bought any digital music since, and I didn't even listen to any for over a year.