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
slipknot1
Sorry to hear about the broken cart. It happens, and I remember standing there thinking is this real - did I just trash hundreds of dollars in the blink of an eye. This audiophile stuff can turn brutal quick. So, I upgraded so that I wouldn't feel like I wasted money even though I did ;)
just out of storage: kenny burrell "guitar forms" on original-yet-NM verve, wes montgomery and jimmy smith "the dynamic duo" ditto, albeit a stereo copy, coltrane "stellar regions" on impulse reissue, kenny burrell and john coltrane OJC reissue, wes montgomery "full house - live at tsubo" OJC reissue, charlie byrd "blues sonata" japanese mono and lastly herb ellis "softly....but with that feeling" on japanese verve
Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle -One From The Heart (Soundtrack)of the Francis Ford Coppola movie, on Columbia
If you don't have this record, it's a beauty, maybe you should do yourself a favor before their all gone...

Tom Waits -Small Change on Asylum

Tom Waits -Bone Machine on NL Island Records

Tom Waits -Mule Variations on Epitaph

Happy Listening!
Rushton, My sympathy on your mishap. It has happened to me too. It was a number of years ago when I could hardly afford it, having squeezed all the juice out of my finances to purchase it. I had a Sota turntable with MMT arm and an Audioquest 404B cartridge. I loved that cartridge. The synergy with everything else was just right. I remember shouting something a little more severe to myself than 'BONEHEAD". When I attempted to replace it, it was no longer made having been replaced with another model. The newer model never measured up to my beloved 404B. Your experience just brought back this long buried painful memory. It sounds like you are still able to replace your cartridge. That's a good thing. In the end its still only money. As ancient King Solomon put it "there is nothing better for a man than to rejoice and to eat and drink and see good for all the hard work which the Lord has given him to do." The love of music and having the audio tools to bring this pleasure to life is costly but eminently rewarding.

BTW I don't recall ever seeing in any of your past post that you own a CD player. Do you have one as a backup?

Also I hear that on the Klimo label there is an all Harpsichord album. Do you have it? If so is listening to this harpsichord only record endurable? This is one instrument it is not usually easy for me to sit through. I've only forced myself to endure it when listening to my favorite flute player Jean Pierre Rampal when he performs duets with Robert Veyron Lacroix on harpsichord.

Kind regards,