what are you listening to?
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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 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.
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."
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.
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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!!
</article> 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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