Whats on your turntable tonight?

A good part of today was spent doing some turntable finetuning in anticipation of making a few additional changes in the system in the next few weeks (rolling some tubes, adding a Velocitor, power cord, and HDLs). So, today's listening was to multiple repeats of Ravel's "Rhapsodie Espagnole" with Reiner/CSO on RCA LSC 2183 ("The Reiner Sound" Classic Records 33 rpm version). (Yes, the 45 rpm version is better, but we used the 33 which sounded pretty phenomenal after a careful cleaning with Prelude.) Final result after 3 hours? No changes, just satisfaction that we already had everything aligned as optimally as we could achieve. Is this anal retentive or what? ;-)

We also spent some time confirming for Ann my earlier conclusion that the Walker Prelude 3-step cleaning process makes a very material improvement over our long term standard cleaning fluid and that the Talisman makes a consistent improvement and is well worth using before each play.

Tannahill Weavers "Tannahill Weavers" - Green Linnett SIF 3101

Dvorak "Cello Concerto" - Dorati/Starker/LSO, Mercury SR 90303 (Speakers Corner reissue)

Rimsky-Korsakov "The Tale of the Tsar Saltan Suite" and other pieces - Ansermet/OSR, Decca SXL 2221 (Speakers Corner reissue)

"The Reiner Sound" Reiner/CSO, RCA LSC 2183 (Classic Records reissue)
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Looking at Storm Thorgerson's book "Mind Over Matter 4 : the Images of Pink Floyd" (Omnibus Press, ISBN 978-1-84609-763-8) and listening to

David Gilmour "On an Island" (EMI 0946 3 55695 1 3)

Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" (30th Anniversary reissue)

Pink Floyd "Delicate Sound of Thunder" (Columbia PC2 44484)

Cannibal Corpse's Eaten back to life, original Earache pressing.

Murcof's "Rememberanza"
Cat Power's ' The Greatest'
Quartetto Italiano

original version of nick lowe's jesus of cool. have both new 180 and original, original blows remastered away.