Whats on your turntable tonight?

Rush-
I had that same Vaughan Williams in my hands earlier this evening, but slid it back in the rack in favor of "Golden Dance Hits of 1600" (Archiv 2533 184)

Others this evening:
Haydn "Symphony No. 99 in E Flat" Woldike/Vienna State Opera Orchestra (Vanguard SRV-129)

Beethoven "Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61" Bernstein/New York Philharmonic/Isaac Stern (Columbia MG 31418)

Rick Wakeman "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (A&M SP 4361)

Benjamin Britten "Peter Grimes Highlights" Britten/Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Decca/London OS 26004)

Ry Cooder/V.M. Bhatt "A Meeting by the River" (Water Lily Acoustics/APO APW 29) 45 rpm reissue.

Makes three of us then... Had a couple for friends over and one brought the Vaughan Williams on CD not realizing that the system here was set up for vinyl only.

I had that same Vaughan Williams in my hands earlier this evening...

Celtic music tonight so far...

Patrick Ball, "Secret Isles" - Fortuna FOR 029 (Celtic harp)

Battlefield Band, "The Battlefield Band" Topic 12TS313
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Ravel "Bolero" Munch/Boston SO (RCA LSC-1984)

Beethoven "String Quintets, Opp. 4 & 104" Suk Quartet and Karel Spelina (viola) (Supraphon 1 11 2128)

Shostakovich "Symphony No. 12 "1917" Mravinsky/Leningrad Philharmonic (Melodiya SR 40128)

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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