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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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.
Some friends over today. The feast:
Crosby, Stills and Nash - CSN "Helplessly Hoping"
Donald Fagan - The Nightfly "Walk Between Raindrops"
Allman brothers Band - Fillmore East "You Don't Love Me"
Louis Armstrong - Satchmo Plays King Oliver "St. James Infirmary"
Eva Cassidy - Songbird "Fields of Gold"
Joni Mitchell - Hejira "Coyote"
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth "Yulunga"
Patricia Barber - Modern Cool "Constantinople"
Stravinsky - "Firebird" Dorati/LSO