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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited December 2005
    Star Wars episode 3 soundtrack.
    Darkcity soundtrack.
    SRT For Life; SDA Forever!

    The SRT SEISMIC System:
    Four main satellite speakers, six powered subs, two dedicated for LFE channel, two center speakers for over/under screen placement and three Control Centers. Amaze your friends, terrorize your neighbors, seize the audio bragging rights for your state. Go ahead, buy it; you only go around once.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2005
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    Cookin' Together - Red Holloway with the Brother Jack McDuff Quartet
    1964 (Prestige - 7325)

    Super tenor sax and B3 vibe throughout, by Red and Jack respectively. George Benson showing his finesse as a sideman long before he became "known" in the jazz world.

    I dug this out of the duffle bag of cassette media I've had for years (as in "decades") - very enjoyable!
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  • Dr. Spec
    Dr. Spec Posts: 3,780
    edited December 2005
    Can't Buy A Thrill - vintage Steely Dan.
    "What we do in life echoes in eternity"

    Ed Mullen (emullen@svsound.com)
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  • ntculenuff
    ntculenuff Posts: 1,146
    edited December 2005
    breaks online radio
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  • DAGLJAM6
    DAGLJAM6 Posts: 635
    edited December 2005
    "All vinyl, all day" (continued)
    Dylan- "Blood on the Tracks"
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited December 2005
    Listened to Ricky Skaggs' Solid Ground and the Superpicker's Pickin' on Toby Keith.
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • DAGLJAM6
    DAGLJAM6 Posts: 635
    edited January 2006
    Vinyl day continued:

    Joe Walsh- "So What" on now followed by Roy Buchanan- "Second Album"
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2006
    Dave,

    How are you cleaning your vinyl finds? I have the DiscWasher brush (actually a couple of them), D3 fluid, and a Zerostat gun, but can't honestly say I'm pleased with the results.
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  • DAGLJAM6
    DAGLJAM6 Posts: 635
    edited January 2006
    BlueMDPicker wrote:
    Dave,

    How are you cleaning your vinyl finds? I have the DiscWasher brush (actually a couple of them), D3 fluid, and a Zerostat gun, but can't honestly say I'm pleased with the results.

    Currently using an Allsop Orbitrac on the moderately grimy finds. Followed by a spin or two with the discwasher brush then carbon fibre brush.
    I'm shooting for a vac based set up after checking Troy's out (Simple all manual but effective. He's cleaned several of my favorites and i'm impressed and believe that a vacuum based cleaner is well worth the investment.)

    Next up (vinyl of course) "Let it bleed" - The Stones
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2006
    Vac's are the only way to go...

    I've had a Nitty Gritty for years and love it... Some say the VPI's are even better.

    For "dust" Watt's Disc Preeners are great (I can get one to you, if you like) and the trusty Watt's "Dust Bug" is always on my TT's (also available)... :D
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited January 2006
    Yup, if you are serious about vinyl, a vacuum cleaner is a MUST have.

    Today's selections are:

    Jamming With Edward (LP, Dave, I found a minty copy in Maine so I've got one for you)

    Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by the Cleveland Orchestra on a Telarc LP (picked up in Maine still sealed for a hefty sum of .50 cents)

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • Roy Munson
    Roy Munson Posts: 886
    edited January 2006
    Been listening to some vinyl today between some of the games.

    The Doors - Morrison Hotel..I had forgotten how much I like this LP and how good it sounds. The Doors were one of my very favorite bands!

    Led Zep - Self titled first LP. Sonically not as good as Morrison Hotel but a lot of fun to listen to with a lot of great tunes!

    Someone posted a while back that they had played Johnny Rivers Realization LP so since I have that I put it on also, it's a very good LP. It's been raining all day here in So Cal and Summer Rain sounded so good!

    I don't do a lot of listening to LP's anymore but every now and then I like to break out some vinyl and slip into the "way back machine."
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2006
    DAGLJAM6 wrote:
    Vinyl day continued:

    Roy Buchanan- "Second Album"

    His cover of "After Hours" is firmly anchored as #1 on my best of the blues instrumental cuts. Every time you hear that PU selector switch click it just draws you deeper into the groove.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2006
    TroyD wrote:
    Yup, if you are serious about vinyl, a vacuum cleaner is a MUST have.
    And, I'm afraid, it will just be the tip of the jolly green iceberg.

    Hmmm... serious? When I moved here in '97, I had a grand total of two (2) CDs which received very limited play, and about 1,000 LPs. It didn't take long to balance out that equation (and get lazy in the process.) :p

    Let's see:

    Vacuum record cleaner - $500
    New TT, TA, and cartridge - $500-$1000
    New phono stage (inevitable) - $500-$1000
    Assorted goodies and tweaks - $300-$500

    OUCH! :D
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  • swerve
    swerve Posts: 1,862
    edited January 2006
    Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
    cats.vans.bag...
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited January 2006
    Matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you

    And I'm loving it!!
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
    Klipsch RF-35, RB-51ii
    [Car Audio]
    Pioneer Premier DEH-P860MP, Memphis 16-MCA3004, Boston Acoustic RC520
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  • DAGLJAM6
    DAGLJAM6 Posts: 635
    edited January 2006
    A scorcher....Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan- "In Session" been seesawing on this one but glad i finally picked it up.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2006
    DAGLJAM6 wrote:
    A scorcher....Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan- "In Session" been seesawing on this one but glad i finally picked it up.
    At least you came to your senses and bought it. As I said in post #894
    These guys were really good together and you can tell they enjoyed playing with each other.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited January 2006
    Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

    Awesome.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2006
    shack wrote:
    At least you came to your senses and bought it. As I said in post #894
    Ah... post 894... remeber it like it was yesterday... :D
    BlueMDPicker wrote:
    Vacuum record cleaner - $500
    New TT, TA, and cartridge - $500-$1000
    New phono stage (inevitable) - $500-$1000
    Assorted goodies and tweaks - $300-$500
    You forgot:
    "Hours of musical bliss.... Priceless"
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited January 2006
    Awhile ago I was listening to

    Peter Frampton-Comes Alive

    Now

    Katie Melua-Piece By Piece
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2006
    "Give a Little Bit" came on XM a bit ago prompting...

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    ... and then felt like a party band, so why not go with this J Geils comp disk?

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    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2006
    Tour2ma wrote:
    Ah... post 894... remeber it like it was yesterday... :DYou forgot:
    "Hours of musical bliss.... Priceless"
    Let's hope... first two items on the list will be headed East when Kevin & the Upscale Crew return from CES.

    Now listening to Otis Taylor - Below the Fold. On "the best albums you never heard in 2005" list at NPR. If you like psychedlic banjo blues (and who doesn't?!), original songwriting (neocons beware), and solid vocals -- this may be for you.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2006
    Kevin? :confused:

    Otis counds interesting... Being a Bela Fleck fan, would I be prone to like?
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2006
    Tour2ma wrote:
    Kevin? :confused:?
    Deal
    Tour2ma wrote:
    Otis counds interesting... Being a Bela Fleck fan, would I be prone to like?
    Very original artist. He's been getting a lot of play on NPR and XM with "Government Lied". Do a Google on him. He walked away from music for two decades for artistic differences with producers.

    More mountain than bluegrass with the banjo, no jazz leanings like Fleck. Also a respectable guitarist. Good stuff!
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2006
    Right now I am listening to the most horridly mic'd halftime show in the history of TV...

    Oh God... please make it stop...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited January 2006
    Tour2ma wrote:
    Right now I am listening to the most horridly mic'd halftime show in the history of TV...

    Oh God... please make it stop...

    Are you sure it's not just U2...j/k :) . I like some of U2's older stuff was actually listening to Actung Baby earlier, and yes most of the 1/2 time show sonics leave a lot to be desired.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • Skynut
    Skynut Posts: 2,967
    edited January 2006
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2006
    B. B. King - Live In Cook County Jail
    4-Track Stereo Reel-to-Reel

    Thanks to Dave James for this masterpiece! I've had this album on vinyl for decades. The SQ of this tape blows the vinyl release away and is the absolute best reel I've run through this deck.

    When you listen to Riley B's vocals from this point in his carreer, it's easy to see what his legendary status was built on. As my wife said "It has real passion!" Many of his signature guitar licks here have a vitality, attack, and sense of immediacy that those who became fans later in his career might just be shocked by. The jam he builds from "The Thrill Is Gone" is a prime example. If you've not heard this version, you've really never "heard" this song, IMO.

    Way cool, Dave!
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2006
    BlueMDPicker wrote:
    B. B. King - Live In Cook County Jail
    4-Track Stereo Reel-to-Reel

    When you listen to Riley B's vocals from this point in his carreer, it's easy to see what his legendary status was built on. As my wife said "It has real passion!" Many of his signature guitar licks here have a vitality, attack, and sense of immediacy that those who became fans later in his career might just be shocked by. The jam he builds from "The Thrill Is Gone" is a prime example. If you've not heard this version, you've really never "heard" this song, IMO.

    Absolutely! BB'S "second best" album (by only the slightest of margins to "Live at the Regal") and a must have masterpiece IMO.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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