Whats on your turntable tonight?

I just finished listening to "Trouble Man" (Tamla T322L). This Marvin Gaye's outstanding soundtrack to the most forgettable movie of the same title.

Maybe it's just my mood, but this is in the top 1% of all my albums. Just a wandering, fabulously inspired performance with an inexplicable ending. Actually parallels his life, I guess.

Neil Young...On the Beach
Ravi Shanker

An afternoon of music with friends; what a treat!

Ray Brown Trio: Soular Energy (Pure Audiophile)
Laudate II (Proprius)
Menotti: Violin Concerto (Reference Recordings)
Rochberg: String Quartet No 3 (Nonesuch)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8, Borodin Qt (Decca)
Shostakovich: Sym 5, Previn/LSO (EMI)
Holly Cole: Romantically Helpless/One Trick Pony (Grooveland)
Supertramp: Crime of the Century/School

All analogue, all vinyl, all great music to share.
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i just bought 180 lps from an elderly woman for 25$ who just wanted to get them out of the house,sinatra ,tony bennett,anne murrey,johnny cash,classical,country,louis prima@kelly smith,ella,some really good stuff!now i need to buy a record cleaner,,,nitty gritty or vpi?

Ray,

VPI offers the advantage of a platter that fully supports the LP and is sturdy enough to use as a platform for "scrubbing" the surface of the LP using your preferred cleaning fluid and brush (e.g., Disc Doctor or Records Research).

I've used a VPI Model 17 pretty intensively for 18 years, and it still runs like a champ; they are very sturdily built. Either the VPI 16.5 or the 17 would be a great addition.

OTOH, the manual cleaning process with Disc Doctor works pretty well without a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner adds a lot of convenience, but a more important key to excellent cleaning of your vinyl is using a good cleaning fluid and and good brushes, like the Disc Doctor. I say this after having been a dedicated user of home brew cleaning solutions with my VPI for many years, and being a DD skeptic. NO MORE! After an experience at Lloyd Walker's house, where he took one of my "clean" records, plopped it on top of his VPI 17 and cleaned it with Disc Doctor fluid using a DD brush, the improvement in clarity was so immediately apparent that I become a convert on the spot and have never looked back.
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