what are you listening to?

MarkWComer said:
Starting with a melancholy mood, and then a call for the return of Spring:Aldo Ciccolini plays the piano music of Erik Satie (Volume 1). This series spans over 5 or 6 volumes, I just have the first.Mischa Dichter plays the original piano score of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". Philips digital master LP.Malcolm Frager plays Chopin. Telarc digital master LP.Pierre Monteaux / Paris Conservatoire performs Stravinsky's "the Rite of Spring:.
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Finnaly another Member with class in a Universe surrounded by Cylons
 
Live From The Met
Puccini's La Boheme
on MPR
thru My MacIntosh Tuner
onto My Yammie
to My !010s
to the ears of Gods Favorite Minnesota Transplant
 
Green Bullfrog Decca 1st press Sample Copy. Ritchie Blackmore plays on this mix of blues and funky jazz lp

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MarkWComer said:
Starting with a melancholy mood, and then a call for the return of Spring:

Aldo Ciccolini plays the piano music of Erik Satie (Volume 1). This series spans over 5 or 6 volumes, I just have the first.
Mischa Dichter plays the original piano score of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". Philips digital master LP.
Malcolm Frager plays Chopin. Telarc digital master LP.
Pierre Monteaux / Paris Conservatoire performs Stravinsky's "the Rite of Spring:.
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Mark, have you considered any of the old school Rek O Kut turntables?
 
John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette - Gateway 2
(1978, ECM) MASTERDISK RL in the deadwax

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classic fusion on the ECM label. A great trio and well recorded. Dave Holland's double bass is deep and booming!
 
Barry Altschul - Another Time/Another Place
(1978, Muse) MASTERDISK in the deadwax

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Crepescule: Suite For Monk is tasty. with Dave Holland on the side 2 sessions.
 
Gepetto said:
Mark, have you considered any of the old school Rek O Kut turntables?
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If you're talking about the old Rondines, the K33s, the B12s and so forth, yes- they're nice. Very heavy flywheel to eliminate the effect of the puck drive, nice stable speed. Along the same lines would be the Garrard 301 and 401. Another consideration would have been the original AR turntable or an Empire 698 / Troubador. All massive beasts. If I were to go in that direction, I'd like to couple it with an SME tonearm.

(On the side: If I could get an original R-O-K cutting lathe to go with it...)

The only "modern" R-O-K that's worth mentioning is the new Rondine III or the Trovatore. http://esotericsound.com/turntableA.htm

I guess you're asking because you saw the R-O-K logo on the cheap POS I have. Piepan platter, crummy tonearm, direct drive, and wildly prone to acoustic feedback. It's absolute junk. I bought it mainly because of the collection of shellac 78s that I have, not many others have 78 speed. I was considering a Dual 1229 which had a heavy platter and puck drive, but I don't like the headshell.

Money, money, money... Trying to scrape money together to build a pair of Klipsch knockoffs.
 
MarkWComer said:
If you're talking about the old Rondines, the K33s, the B12s and so forth, yes- they're nice. Very heavy flywheel to eliminate the effect of the puck drive, nice stable speed. Along the same lines would be the Garrard 301 and 401. Another consideration would have been the original AR turntable or an Empire 698 / Troubador. All massive beasts. If I were to go in that direction, I'd like to couple it with an SME tonearm.

(On the side: If I could get an original R-O-K cutting lathe to go with it...)

The only "modern" R-O-K that's worth mentioning is the new Rondine III or the Trovatore. http://esotericsound.com/turntableA.htm

I guess you're asking because you saw the R-O-K logo on the cheap POS I have. Piepan platter, crummy tonearm, direct drive, and wildly prone to acoustic feedback. It's absolute junk. I bought it mainly because of the collection of shellac 78s that I have, not many others have 78 speed. I was considering a Dual 1229 which had a heavy platter and puck drive, but I don't like the headshell.

Money, money, money... Trying to scrape money together to build a pair of Klipsch knockoffs.
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Correct Mark, I saw your modern day R O K table and thought I would ask. One of these days, I will have a K-33 belt drive or one of the close belt drive variants. I like tables with 14# platters on them :-) I am not into the idler drive tables
 
Gepetto said:
Correct Mark, I saw your modern day R O K table and thought I would ask. One of these days, I will have a K-33 belt drive or one of the close belt drive variants. I like tables with 14# platters on them :-) I am not into the idler drive tables
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I'm not 100% against idler drive as long as the platter has a huge mass and the "tire" is in excellent shape. Belt drive is preferred, of course. Another one I drool over is the EMT 900 series broadcast turntables. Outrageous prices, though. Idler drive presents the most torque to the platter, but how much torque do you need when tracking an LP at <2g? Or ~4g for shellac?

I bought the R-O-K from Esoteric Sound (which is what R-O-K has become). They don't answer email unless you're buying something. I wanted to replace the arm with something better, but second guessing told me that if I did, the arm would be better than the whole damned thing. Tinny piece of feces, I would have been better off with a Technics SL-1200 DJ table. Two things keep me from dumping it in the bin- it plays 78rpm, it plays 16" transcription discs. NO--- three things- the longer tonearm has a little bit less tracking error (NOBODY expects the Spanish inquisition...).
 
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Quantegy 456 tape @ 7.5 ips; side 1 is a Clash mix taken from HDTracks files burned to hi rez disc for playback, and side 2 is a reggae mix all taken off DVD-A discs. I'd never heard DVD-A discs but came across a a place getting rid of a series of DVD-A reggae discs cheap and made a mix with 'em. They sound pretty good, but in some cases you can tell whatever source they are from has inherent distortion Still good sound for this stuff.

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Cyrus Faryar - Cyrus
(1971, Elektra) WLP/Promo

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with lyric insert. includes R. Towner, P. McCandless, C. Walcott from Oregon; Cass Elliot, Rodney Dillard, Bob Gibson
 
The Doors - The Soft Parade
(1969, Elektra)

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I also have a copy with the red label with a large stylized E - according to goldmine both were '69 issues and the 1971 release was on the butterfly label
 
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