What Are You Listening To? (Part Deux)

billbillw
billbillw Posts: 6,803
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What Are You Listening To?...
Continued from the old, malfunctioning thread...
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    Let's post here now folks!
    Let the old one fade to the archives.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,114
    It's about time! Thank you sir!

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    For everyone who thought this would sound exactly like Steely Dan...
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    You weren't wrong 😁

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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    Steely imitation wasn't worth finishing.
    This, was one of my first SACDs, back when BMG sold them cheap.
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    I didn't appreciate it at first, but Elton's recordings were pretty freaking awesome 👍
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,547
    edited September 5
    Elton's SACD's are phenomenal. When I first got my super audio CD player I did the same, I bought every SACD I could of Elton's. I never listened to any of his music or had any of it on CD or vinyl previously to my SACD purchases.
    At $8 a SACD it was a no brainer back when the sacd's started coming out. My second purchase was Aerosmith's toys in the Attic, that thing is worth a small mint now.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    Some may recognize this song...
    Used as an "Intro" for some sporting events or at the beginning of big blitzy movie scenes.
    Amazing dynamics. Not a fan of the whole album, but the intro song is a blast!
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    edited September 5
    Ok, I'm hitting the Radom Selection feature from Daphile...
    I freaking love this from 1990. Right smack in my rebellious college days. Not appreciated by as many as they deserved. (This is a whole album experience)
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    edited September 5
    Ok. Had to hit the time-line rewind and hear the earlier album. Sonically not as good, but this is where my live for PWEI started...
    In the gap years between 80s metal,-New-Wave and Grunge-Gangsta Rap 🤣
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    Still listening to the same tunes from part uno.
    Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    Then your job is done here! :D
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    here is a really nice redbook Japan for MCA to seek out. Sounds great.
    Barcode (Printed): 0 76732-1613-2

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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,948
    billbillw wrote: »
    Ok, I'm hitting the Radom Selection feature from Daphile...
    I freaking love this from 1990. Right smack in my rebellious college days. Not appreciated by as many as they deserved. (This is a whole album experience)
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    Nice, haven't seen any PWEI mentions here for a while (or ever?)! I have this CD from them:
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    edited September 6
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    Family - Fearless w/ John Wetton
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    edited September 6
    SIHAB wrote: »
    here is a really nice redbook Japan for MCA to seek out. Sounds great.
    Barcode (Printed): 0 76732-1613-2

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    That's another SACD I grabbed for less than $10 back when BMG was dumping them. Another fine recording from Elton.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    Clipdat wrote: »
    billbillw wrote: »
    Ok, I'm hitting the Radom Selection feature from Daphile...
    I freaking love this from 1990. Right smack in my rebellious college days. Not appreciated by as many as they deserved. (This is a whole album experience)
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    Nice, haven't seen any PWEI mentions here for a while (or ever?)! I have this CD from them:
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    They are definitely a love or hate group and it's always cool to find someone else who appreciates them. 👍 to you.
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
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    2023 pressing. First listen.

    Recorded live at The Village Vanguard, New York City; June 25, 1961.

    All-analog mastering from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
    Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI. Single tip-on jacket with obi spine wrap.
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    looks like I'll be pulling out important Jazz LPs tonight...
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  • WagnerRC
    WagnerRC Posts: 2,158
    https://play.qobuz.com/album/r622nvhsgbvla
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    Another first listen slab of vinyl;
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    "Philly" Joe Jones played on the Coltrane blue train release as well.
    Another Kevin Gray mastering here and he kills it.
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,304
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    Every song on this album excels.


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    Saw him when I was young. Saw him a few years ago when both of us were older+, and the concert was one of the best concerts I have experienced. What a performer!
    First time in two years posting in part 1 or part deux.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"

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    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    I felt like a Goldfrapp evening. Another 4hrs cued up after this.
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    edited September 8
    Yacht rock -> and now arena rock
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    Wally mastered repress, and super clean sounding.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    Not audiophile, but it's a lot of fun 😬
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    SIHAB wrote: »
    Yacht rock -> and now arena rock
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    I gave that a listening a few nights ago.
    Ended up reading a bunch about the band. Didn't realize the dude was an MIT engineer grad that made his own effects and started a tech company making pro audio electronics.
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    edited September 8
    That Tom Scholtz guitar sound was new and he could play. Didn't he come up with a lot of this in his
    basement or something. (Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Guitar [Special Effects], Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Organ, Clavinet, Percussion) Got to see them at the Richfield Coliseum in 1977. The drummer wore black leather gloves, had a huge fro, (Sib Hashian) and put on a show. I'm trying to remember
    who opened. Was it Jay Ferguson? I think so.

    Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Guitar [Special Effects], Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Organ, Clavinet, Percussion
    billbillw wrote: »
    SIHAB wrote: »
    Yacht rock -> and now arena rock
    ryhhba3hito8.jpg

    I gave that a listening a few nights ago.
    Ended up reading a bunch about the band. Didn't realize the dude was an MIT engineer grad that made his own effects and started a tech company making pro audio electronics.


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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,803
    Man, this was special to me as a kid (born '70). My parents had this on quad LP. They didn't really have a quad system but it was still great. I remember being lost in this.
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,950
    Holland pressing from 1978. Needs ultra sonically cleaned to get rid of
    the few ticks on it. From memory, I like it better that the ABKCO DSD CD.
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