Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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Today I installed the 1" Cellular shades as called for by Rives Audio http://www.rivesaudio.com They are insulating room darkening shades. So, I played the standard large orchestral warhorses:
Mussorgsky "Pictures At An Exhibition" (RCA LSC-2201/Classic Records reissue)
Stravinsky "Firebird complete ballet" (Mercury SR90226/Classic Records reissue)
Mendelssohn "Symphony No. 3, Fingal's Cave" (Decca SXL 2246/Speaker's Corner 45 rpm reissue
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" (Columbia CS 8163/Classic Records 45 rpm reissue)

As good as things have been sounding, the window treatments have taken it to a whole new level. All the residual glare from the 6ft and 10 ft windows is gone compliments of the 1" insulated cellular shades.
Billy Joel - Innocent Man:

Just picked this one up for $1.50 in perfect shape a few weeks ago. Never realized how good some of the Billy Joel albums are. This one is quickly becoming one of my favorite Billy Joel albums.
Ray Brown Trio, "Soular Energy" Pure Audiophile PA-002
Bill Berry, "Shortcake" Pure Audiophile PA-004
(again!)
Whatever Stan Ricker is doing with his revised half-speed mastering process on these Pure Audiophile LPs, the results are simply stunning. I just had to come back to these LPs again tonight both for the superb musicianship and to wallow in the incredible sonics! The inner detail, leading edge transient response and dynamics on these LPs are very special.
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So far today:
Rickie Lee Jones: "Rickie Lee Jones"
Rickie Lee Jones: "Pirates" (thanks Sbank !!)
Sonny Rollins: "Way Out West", Analogue Productions 45 rpm reissue
"Die Rohre - The Tube, A Baroque Delight for the Ears" Tacet L74 (all tube recording and mastering chain, delightful Baroque music in every good sound)
Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman: "Duets for 2 Violins" - a surprisingly good Angel pressing (S-37406) of this 1977 collaboration.