Whats on your turntable tonight?

DCC Compact Classics Limited Edition of Queen "At Night at The Opera". I paid a pretty penny for this LP but it is better than 95% in my LP collection (and the collection is excellent in quality and content). Mastered by the great Steve Hoffman on an all vacuum-tube cutting system.

Who, but Freddie Mercury, could have sung "Love of My Life" with so much emotion and precision? Surely, this is one of the most underrated songs of all time. It will always live large in my heart.

Cheers!

Today (so far)
David Gilmour "On An Island" EMI import LP. This is an LP that grows on you with repeated listenings. Very well recorded, excellent packaging, quiet surface, and great sonics. Kind of like an introspective Pink Floyd work.

Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" CBS Half Speed Master. This release has a rounder, less tizzy top end than either my Japanese or standard domestic pressings.

Falla "Nights In The Gardens Of Spain" Rafael de Burgos/Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conseratoire, Gonsalvo Soriano (piano) From the Time/Life 10 volume box set: "The Story Of Great Music" Good sonics typical of many of the Time/Life issues. These box sets represent an excellent way to develop a collection of the basic repertoire in classical music.

New acoustic room treatments and everything is dialed in!

Miles Davis -Porgy and Bess on Columbia 6-eye Mono.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk -Rahsaan Rahsaan on Atlantic.

Cannonball Adderley -Quintet at the Lighthouse on Riverside.

Yusef Lateef- Eastern Sounds on Prestige OJC.
(Just grabbed it up still sealed in the shrink wrap)

Flaming Lips -At War With the Mystics on WB.

Rushton! Good to see you back with vinyl... this must mean you have replaced the trusty 'ol Magic Diamond, may it RIP.

Hey, Have you seen the Danses Anciennes de Hongrie, Clemencic Consort conducted by Dr. René Clemencic is being released by Speakers Corner end of this month?

Thanks to you and Slipknot1 for the many recommends to the Clemenic Consort back some time ago. I'm starting to find a few selections. More later.

Happy Listening!

Hi Foster, yes I *have* replaced the Magic Diamond with another Magic Diamond cartridge. The Magic Diamond does so many things so well I continue to be very impressed with it; from top to bottom it is has a consistency of sound quality that I've never heard another cartridge better. It just makes incredible music. Slipknot got the same Magic Diamond cartridge with his new Walker turntable, so there's certainly some common listening biases being shared in this neck of the woods.

I'm delighted to see Speakers Corner delving in to reissue the Harmonia Mundi catalog. They have several out or on their way. All are superb recordings in their original issues, so given Speakers Corner's track record for quality, I suspect the reissues will be well worth getting if you like the music. The "Danses Anciennes de Hongrie" is one of my favorites. I'm just hoping they will reissue a Harmonia Mundi I don't have in my collection already but have been searching for!
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RFS: That sounds like a playlist I'd make, except I'm missing a couple of those titles (but not artists). What do you think of the new Lips? I once authored an archived thread devoted to them, but I'm mostly underwhelmed by AWWTM although I do like much of it pretty well. Still, IMO not in the same catagory for me as their best recent work, including their last two albums.