Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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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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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)