Whats on your turntable tonight?

Foster, if you're ever in the Philadelphia area, I'd enjoy having you over here to share some music and share with you how things are sounding here.

I, too, am not a big tweaker in the sense that I'm not inclined to experiment with a lot of different variations. Redkiwi amazed and impressed me with his dedication for trying so many different variations to determine what he thought worked best. And I love that he shared so much of what he learned in the process since I don't have that degree of patience or willingness to fiddle.

Nonetheless, I sincerely believe that great sounding systems get that way because someone IS paying attention to all the small details in fine tuning the set up. And that does include the right combination of tweaks, vibration/resonance control, etc. So in that sense, I am a tweaker. If I can get a 1% improvement here, and 2% there, pretty soon I've accomplished a pretty significant improvement in the overall sound of the system.

I've become convinced over the years that many people just don't get the full benefit of the sound their systems are capable of delivering, and it's because they don't pay attention to the details of system set up and fine tuning.

Thanks for sharing your endorsement of the DCC reissue of ANATO!

Regards,

Smw30yahoocom (Sandra), glad to see you continuing your posts! Thanks for sharing. It's really good to hear from a fellow traveler along this path.

Rushton,
Thank you for the gracious offer, I may take you up on that some time in the future. The last time I visited your fair city was for a Paul Cezanne retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in August of 1996. You share quite the beautiful city and museum.

Happy Listening!

Björk -Deput on One Little Indian
...thanks Elke for the S/S copy all the way from Antwerp!
sounds great

Humble Pie - Town & Country on A&M

Spencer Davis Group -Gimme Some Lovin' on Island UK

Traffic -Mr. Fantasy on Pink rim Island UK

Free -Fire and Water on A&M

Rolling Stones -Beggars Banquet on London/King records JP
(another fine engineering job by Glyn Johns!)

Over the last couple of days...

Neil Young: Greatest Hits (Classic Records reissue) (OK, I admit I just don't get it. I'll listen to this one more time and see if I connect with this any better.)

Smetana: Ma Vlast (Ancerl/CzechPO, Supraphon SV 801) (From about 1954 and atill one of the great performances of this work)

John Lee Hooker: Burnin' (Get Back 7502) (grainy sound, and overloaded by too much backup, but great performances by Hooker.)

Stravinsky: Firebird Ballet (Dorati/Mercury/Classic Records 45 rpm reissue) (Our standard recording to pull out for critical comparative listening with new equipment, amp stands in this case...)

Vierne: Sym 6 (for organ) (Sanger, Meridian E77067)

Grieg: Sonata No 3 for Violin & Piano
Brahms: Sonata No 3 for Violin & Piano
Olav Thommessen: "Please Accept My Ears" (1981, for vn & pf)
...(Milanova -vc & Smebye -pf, Simax PS 1015) (One of those digital recordings on LP that prove digital can sound very good indeed, one of the best sounding recordings in my collection. The Thommassen piece is a beautiful work that deserves more attention.)

Leadbelly: "Leadbelly Sings Folk Songs" (Smithsonian Folkways SF40010)

Woody Guthrie: "Folkways: The Original Vision" (Smithsonian Folkways SF40001) (The musicianship on both these Smithsonian Folkways recordings is outstanding, and the sound seems about as good as the mastertapes are likely to allow.)

Haydn, Cello Concertos (Christophe Coin, Hogwood/AcademyAM, L'Oiseau Lyre DSDL 711)
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