Whats on your turntable tonight?

Rushton and Slipknot1, I write bearing very interesting news apparently Elusive Discs' server said the album "il cornetto" was out of stock. Truth was, one copy remained and by entering an order anyway (yesterday), I will receive this last copy. I called to confirm the email that had me on the edge of my seat today! Let this be a lesson to all of us in ordering from Elusive Disc, some times if the record is still listed, there is one left regardless of the notation to the contrary. I'm elated to share in the experience of this sound recommendation from you. I would also like to thank you both again for all of the recommendations most recently. I will research each of these and hopefully find a few nice copies to expand on my classical catalog and mostly on our enjoyment here in Detroit. Winter's not over yet and with a set of ten Sylvania NOS 6SN7 GTB’s for my Atma’s in the mail to me it sounds as if next weekend will be a grand one.
Happy Listening. Cheers!

Great news about this LP, Foster! What a surprise, I'll be interested in your reactions to it. As Slipknot cautions, it is fairly quiet and subtle.

Congratulations on the Sylvania NOS 6SN7 GTBs for your Atma-Sphere. I run these in my MA-2s and love what they do for this amp.
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A favorite teacher of mine in high school was fond of gently pointing out my errors in papers I submitted. He had various sized stamps with the word "BONEHEAD!>>" on them that he would use to subtly mark my papers. The more egregious the error, the bigger the stamp. I think the biggest I saw had 1" block letters.

Well, last night I just awarded myself the 5" tall BONEHEAD!>> stamp as I managed to snap off the cantilever to my beloved Magic Diamond cartridge. Oh, was it ever so easy! and ever so quick! A moment of carelessness, a misplaced waive of the hand, and zip - gone! Snapped clean off.

We're ordering a replacement, but vinyl will sit quiet around here for a while until the replacement arrives. Take what lessons you will for your own purposes, my friends.
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OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!

How many of you have had an LP in your collection that you thought was just mediocre until you played it on some different equipment?

This just happened to me yesterday as I listened to the Khatchaturian "Gayenah Ballet" listed in my post above. I'd always enjoyed the music on this LP, but consistently thought the sound quality was indifferent, if not decidedly disappointing: muffled, indistinct, completely lacking is resolution and transparency. Definitely not what I expected of a Bob Auger engineered mastertape! I remember being sooo disappointed when I first got it years ago.

Well, not any more...

In listening to this LP last night for the first time on the current turntable, what I now hear is a very low-level signal encoded on the disc (typical of many English pressings), but with incredible resolution, detail, soundstaging and harmonic integrity. The former turntable simply was not capable of resolving the magic that was really on this LP.

For me, put this in the category of "lessons repeatedly re-learned..."
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