Whats playing on your system today?

Black Porch Acoustic Sessions....Dark New Day

Tony Rolletti - Live at the Vacation Inn in Fernwood

Time for a classic

Celebration Day by Led Zep
On BluRay Audio.......

Always interesting to come here and see what peeps are playing.
I get an insight into stuff I have never heard of never mind heard!

Yusef Lateef Live at the Pep

A couple from Jerome Sabbagh, read a Stereophile profile on the fact he's an audiophile and dialed up a couple of his releases on Tidal. Listening to "The Turn" now and "North" next. Pretty solid stuff.

slaw,
I love that Angel Station! 
"Dont Kill It Carol"
https://youtu.be/Fzq8m47OiRw

N

Manfred Mann "Angel Station"

(LP)


Up now... "Watch".

Joe Satriani - Ceremony (Track 8 from Crystal Planet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLPWnH0cECw

Monte Montgomery, Mirror. - CD
Great guitarist and a very good recording. 
"When Will I"
https://youtu.be/p21U1-JLDoY

N

Right now..

Drive-by Truckers  "American Band"

Can I get a H-ll Yeah!?

Putting in the US cleaner...

Phish  "The Story of the Ghost"   OP/lp

Maurice Jarre movie music various scores. Have very many. Doctor Z as well. 
Enjoying every single his work 

The Church "Sometime, Anywhere". (lp) original pressing

In the US cleaner..."Starfish".

@slaw 

Because I cannot change the room, can't even help it much as the waf does not allow.
Things will be different in the next life, I mean house!

Present speakers play very nicely in my shite room so all is good for now.

..the following comments are meant to be funny...

@nutty,

I’ve had this lp in my mind for several months. I thought about you for some reason when I was cleaning it today. While NOT an audiophile lp, it is one great rockin’ lp. My personal favorite!

Def Leppard "High ’n’ Dry" .   Especially.."Switch".

Enjoy!!

@mapman ,

I’ve (finally) got the Johnny Cash "America Recordings" box in route as I write this. I bought one of these lps when it was first released. Thought it was about time I sprung for this great release from his final years! 3 cheers for Rick Ruben!

Been re-listening to several lps I’ve had on recently because of my recent US cleaning change.

Now... Allman Brothers "Eat A Peach" Abbey Road/1/2 speed....

The musical equivalent to "comfort food".

@uberwaltz,

I gotta ask...why change speakers when the room may have been THE issue... if indeed that’s how it all went down???


My Ushers still flip my trigger!!

Start the day of with 
Out of time.... R.E.M

For about 3 years I owned a pair of Usher cp-6381 in gorgeous ivory with wood side panels. Stunning waf for sure but always felt they just did not gel harmoniously in my poor acoustic room.

Still a great bang for the buck speaker company and very underrated.

@Slaw-I moved from the Usher Mini Dancer 2’s with the DMD tweeters, which I’m now selling. For the money you can’t beat Usher. My other rooms have Usher speakers too.

@rbstehno ,

Welcome! I own Usher speakers. Have a pair of BE-718s and Mini-One Diamonds aka: Tiny Dancer.

Koan

This album is amazing! You wanna hear your speaker do some magic? Then this is it!

The Sleeping Voices of Subartica 2015

"The Wanderer". U2 featuring Johnny Cash. 

Mick Jagger’s She’s the Boss. On Chrome CrO2 cassette. Wow, wow! Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, Carlos Alomar, Herbie Hancock, Michael Shrieve, G.E. Smith, etc.

Welcome Larryowens!

One thing I find amusing is this thread has like 2700 posts or so but only 47,000 views.
Whereas the turntable thread has 10 million views but only 3300 posts.
Quite some disparity in post to view ratio!
Granted it has been around since 2004 but obviously a lot of viewers did not feel inclined to actually post.

ATM, Parkway Drive, Carrion. No sofistication, but I like it... 😁

Paul Thorn, Hammer and Nail 
"A Heart With Four Wheel Drive"
https://youtu.be/k5KkEkWtWyE

N

Just purchased a pair of Usher X-Towers so I have been going thru acoustic alchemy, Diana krall, joe bonamassa, Spyro gyro, and Yellowjacket albums to set them up. After many hours, setup is finished.

@uberwaltz,

Interesting how these recommendations/mentions work...your mention of DS, reminded me of "On Every Street". I wanted to clean and compare my copies. I have the UK, the one from the box set and the one from the Back To Black series. Wooo! I'm going to have fun!

ghosthouse- slaw,
Your very welcome! Thanks for the positive feedback. 

Julian Sas, "Is this what they call the blues"
https://youtu.be/fhsdx6ICCmY

N

@slaw 

Good to hear. Got to get my US setup and get busy too, at some stage. All my vinyl just hand cleaned so far, its the thought of going through them all again....

Anyway just mellow listening tonight
Brothers in arms, Dire Straits on sacd.

Talking of J.S, I caught him on his g3 tour Tuesday night at Raleigh.
What a wall of guitar with him, Collen and Petrucci!
Truth be told it was a little too intense for me....must be getting old!

Thanks nutty!

@slaw

Glad you liked it but, honestly, Nutty deserves credit for that. He’s the one that got me listening to Satriani (finally) and that release in particular.  A good one!  (I musta been living under a rock, I guess).

The Guess Who- Anthology.

ozzy

@ghosthouse ,

I finally checked out the J Satriani song you recommended. I loved it! Thanks, I’ve had a lot of experimenting going on here...sorry for the delay.


@uberwaltz,

I just finished listening to "Radio Kaos" after a fresh clean with my latest US method. What a difference! A relaxed presentation..along with a bigger soundscape, much more enjoyable! I remember thinking the last time I listened, it seemed somewhat bright and not nearly as immersive as it is now.

Natalie Merchant  "Tigerlily"  MFSL/45rpm

Tonight nothing but Christian McBride(Live at Village Vanguard) and Donald Byrd (A New Perspective)

Roy Orbison  "Mystery Girl"  (lp)

@uberwaltz,

I have the UK/lp. Another one I need to clean again on my latest set-up.

Enjoy!

Mr Postman just delivered a mint copy of Radio Kaos on vinyl so its on the deck.
The Tidal version was good, this is Very good!
A very well engineered recording, 1987.

@reubent

These 3 are essential and the place to start
Private Revolution
Goodbye Jumbo
BANG!

Egyptology
Dumbing Up
Both worth owning but a little more uneven or possibly just more varied than the first three OR possibly just not quite as consistently accessible and take a little more time to "get". High end on Dumbing Up is a bit hot...kind of tizzy though ripping it tamed that somewhat.

ARKEOLOGY
An interesting 5 CD collection of new, demos, out takes and live (to quote from Wikipedia). Maybe not "essential". A lower priority "buy", in my O-pinion.

I don’t own and don’t plan to get "Best in Show" or the other greatest hits compilation.
Don’t have World Party Live! but maybe I should.

Hope you will not mind my unsolicited advice for how you spend your money!  :-)

@ghosthouse - Thanks for the additional information. I will probably expand my World Party collection. Not sure if I'll start with the ARK collection or the original albums. I'll probably sample the albums on YouTube and decide from there.

@uberwaltz

@reubent

I suspect you know Karl Wallinger and Mike Scott were bandmates in the early days of The Waterboys but the old creative differences bugaboo ensued leading to KW forming his own band: World Party. As far as that WB track being inspiration for KW’s band’s name, this wouldn’t surprise me (he’s credited as co-writer of it). BUT I’ll also point out that "World Party" is used as band name and/or song title and plays an important role at the end of Phillip K. Dick’s 1976 novel, Radio Free Albemuth (Fisherman’s Blues was released 1988). Personally, I suspect THIS is the ultimate source for both track name and KW’s band name. BTW - long time World Party fan myself. WP is one of the very few bands I’m "completist" about (not that their/his output is all that large). I’ll pretty much buy without audition anything KW does. FWIW you might enjoy the ARKEOLOGY collection.

Tidal has been a godsend for me if go no other reason than when I see somebodies recommended music here or their current choice of play I can quickly go and have a listen without buying CD or vinyl.
For $20 a month it is worth it many times over just for that alone!

@reubent 

Fisherman's blues...... The Waterboys.

In fact this contains a track called World Party, wonder if that is where he got idea for name for his next band? 

@uberwaltz - Can you recommend a record from The Waterboys? I missed that boat when it was sailin'....

@reubent 

You are most welcome!
Just had to give it a spin since it was talked about...lol.
I think I would say it is worth $25 for sure, I think you will be impressed with the vinyl sq of this album.

Mind I still used to prefer The Waterboys tbh.