what are you listening to?

[Fishoz]

E.L.O.

Out Of The Blue

 

[BlazeES]

New discovery ...

Took the leap of faith at the San Jose watering hole today and picked this up.

I'm actually surprised how quickly I took a liking to these guys.

 

[Elite-ist]

Been playing this one a number of times in the past few days. Van Morrison's "Live At The Grand Opera House Belfast"



Nando.

 

[Fishoz]

Robin Trower

In City Dreams (Roached jacket but the vinyl is good)

 

[Fishoz]

Nando....one of the few Vans I do not have. Gotta make an effort to obtain. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[Fishoz]

Pink Floyd: Original Soundtrack from the film "More"
Pink Floyd PFRLP3

The VISA card patiently awaits "Atom Heart Mother" and "Meddle"

Saw this at 1/2 Price Books the other day - How is it?

 

[R1200S]

New York Rock and Soul Review

I was giving this CD a good loud listen today and it has to have some of the best dynamics, for a Live album, I've ever heard. You've gotta love the last comment in the liner notes:

"This program was edited down from material recorded at the Beacon Theatre on March 1 and 2, 1991. Editing, resequencing and minimal post-recording were done to enhance home listening."
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This is mainly a Donald Fagen production with heavy doses of Michael McDonald thrown in. You'll also hear Pheobe Snow, Boz Scaggs, Charles Brown and a few others. Very comprehensive liner notes for a change. Of course it was 1991 and they didn't know any better. I think you can find much of this on Youtube.

 

[laatsch55]

Nice table....

 

[roccus]

Favorite Movie track

I wanted to get in on the fun of pic of TT with album this is my favorite movie track album

 

[laatsch55]

Your table pic reminded me of my old Denon DP 1500TT with the Black Widow tonearm and ADC Astrion cartridge........and a little research on the cart, and I came up with this post in an old AK thread.............




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Wow. I stumbled onto this today in the process of trying to find an old vendor that I used to use on.....the Astrion. My name is Eric and I was the designer of the Astrion. I worked as a cartridge designer at ADC from 78 to 82 and was responsible for the redesign of the pivot block suspension system that took the XLM II to the XLM III (a much hated change for some, loved by others).

The Astrion was an evolution. The ZLM attempt to recapture the combined warmth and sparkle of the XLM II was only partially successful and the Astrion was conceived to solve the perceived lack of stiffness in the ZLM's tapered tube cantilever. The lawyers wouldn't let us use beryllium because of the toxicity hazard so I ended up going with a laser slotted single crystal sapphire with the modified elliptical diamond bonded in the laser slot.

I'd be happy to answer any question that folks here may have about these very cool cartridges. It was the peak time at ADC. We were doing some real research into the rubber compounds used in the pivot blocks and were the first company (outside the US govt labs) to purchase the then brand new Spectral Dynamics SD-350 Real Time Spectrum Analyzer. It would like like an incredibly slow bus today but it was screaming fast bucket brigade processing at the time. We changed the means of testing cartridges with that machine from swept sine wave records to impulse testing with the spectrum analyzer. Pretty heady "high science" stuff for the audio business in 1980.

Glad to see there are still those of you out there with happy thoughts for that product. I keep a marketing sample encased in a triangular pyramid of lucite on my desk to this day. BTW, still using one, have plenty of spare stylii, a carbon fiber LMF tone-arm (which I also designed as the liason between ADC and some Japanese). I also have a Denon 103D which I considered as my hardest competition actually.

Well, cheers and I look forward to tagging back on here. Blast from the past for me today. Thanks!!
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OldADC, Jul 26, 2010
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[R1200S]

Nice table....

Thanks Lee. I bought that setup back in the late 80's. Denon TT with a Stax UA-7cf arm. Grace cart. Looks as good today as when I bought it. I'm currently looking for a good cart. match for that arm and another "standard" for my Dual 1217.

 

[Northwinds]

Both those tables are sweet, glad your up and spinning Ray

 

[BlazeES]

Here's the another album I picked up used the other day:

My initial reaction is that these guys benefit from a lot of engineered, production effort,
because the live performance doesn't match the studio grade sound.



Still digging the $3.95 used copy of 'Fortress' I picked up the same day.

 

[Fishoz]

Kenny Loggins
with Jim Messina
Sittin' In

 

[orange]

[video=youtube;E0LAs7X5ybE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LAs7X5ybE[/video]​

 

[Fishoz]

Scratch that last one...too many pops...going in the clinker pile.

Supertramp

...famous last words...

 

[Elite-ist]

Nando....one of the few Vans I do not have. Gotta make an effort to obtain. Thanks for the reminder.

It's a pretty good album. I think it's an import, however. Typical Van Morrison in concert, though. Sometimes can't understand the words of what he's singing. That's an old tactic I thought only Stevie Nicks could pull off and have fans still love her. I do love Stevie Nicks.



Nando.

 

[Fishoz]

She's a bit more pleasant to look at...but I get a kick out of Van.

 

[speakerlabfan]

Man - Maximum Darkness
(1975, UA) UK pressing, "A Porky Prime Cut" in the deadwax, mastered by George Peckham

w/ John Cippolina from QMS. Back from vacation in Europe. This LP is a recent pickup while on vacation in Switzerland, found at the Lucerne Saturday flea market by the river.

 

[Fishoz]

He's back...