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| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Sealegs, Yes, Rounder did put out some nice sounding records with interesting music. One of my favorites is Michael Hurley's "Have Moicy" --very funny lyrics and quite interesting music This is one of my personal top record in my collection. S... | |
| Tubed preamps and Power amps- How old is too old??? There is no simple answer to this question. if it sounds good, i would not do anything to it until it shows signs of needing work. I know of many amps and linestages that are decades older than yours that work perfectly well. A friend has a ter... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs The original YHF had a beautiful, textured paper jacket. I liked the recording quality of that album too. This is good reminder for me to pull it out and give it a spin. Thanks for the reminder. Another good sounding album issued during the ag... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs When it comes to reissues, it is sometimes quite hard to say whether the reissue is better or worse than the original--opinions may vary greatly. When Classic Records reissued some Led Zeppelin albums, I bought them and a friend and I compared th... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs One of my favorite records is one I found in the $1.00 section of a used record store. It is the very first recording of Ariel Ramirez's "Missa Criolla." (first Vatican approved mass in the vernacular following Vatican II). The recording is on t... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is commonly cited as a great sounding album. It has, to me anyway, great music and pretty good sound, but, it is not their best sounding album (there are also too many issues of the album to sort through, the ... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs I really like "At Seventeen," and consider its good sound as a bonus. Her "Breaking Silence" album is even better in recording quality, but I still prefer "At Seventeen." More pop/rock albums with good sound: Warren Zevon (self titled) Chris I... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs The Eva Cassidy album is one of the greatest live albums ever recorded—beautiful sound and great performance. I have the Toneff album and I agree about it being a great sounding album. The My Funny Valentine and the Moon’s a Harsh Mistress track... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs While folk music is far from my favorite genre and the several truly great sounding albums I am about to list are not musically my favorites, they are nonetheless enjoyable and the recordings are stunning; it must be the Carnegie Hall venue: "Bel... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs itsjim, We agree on Sheffield D-to-D recordings, although I find some of the music to be so-so. The same goes with other D-to-D recording companies, such as M & K Realtime. I like the other non- D-to-D records you recommend, particularly t... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs If you want to immerse yourself in great controversy, google "hot stamper" or the company selling these records--Better Records The claim is that, even within a particular issue of an album, there are certain stampers that are better than others... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Great sound AND good music do not often go together in a single record. This is an example of one record having both: Richard and Linda Thompson: "Shoot Out the Lights" Hannibal Records. | |
| surprising comparison of tube preamps It is very much a matter voicing of the equipment designer and the buyer's personal taste and matching of components. To me, Audio Research gear has a somewhat lean and analytical sound. Their sound has consistently been that way, so it is a hou... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Two more spectacular recordings that I have heard, and own, only in reissued versions: 1) "Satchmo Plays King Oliver"--1960, Audio Fidelity (original issue), Classic Records reissue. 2) "Alternate Blues" (Gillespie, Terry, Hubbard, Peterson)-1... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs For classical music, consistently very good sounding records were produced by the label Lyrita (exclusively British composers); I have never heard even a so-so Lyrita. For 1950-60’s, RCA and Mercury recordings are also mostly good. Some of the b... |