So, what music are you listening to now?

[icenine]

[BlueStreak]

I picked up the new Mazzy Star---Seasons of Your Day on Lp, today.

The music is excellent Hope Sandoval fare, soft, dreamy and ethereal. The recording quality is also very high quality.

However, I'm thinking the CD version might have been a better (And cheaper,) choice. This has to be one of the noisiest new Lps I have ever encountered. I have 40 year old Lps with a more quiet background than this.

Also of note, is the fact that the sticker on the sleeve says "180 gram pressing with Colored Vinyl".

Ummmmmm......both discs are.....black. As I recall, when it came to Lp vinyl, "colored" meant red, or green, or blue.....WTF?

Anyways, I plan on running them through the SpinClean tomorrow and giving them a second listen.

Associated Equipment;

Turntable; Pro-Ject 6.1

Cartridge; ClearAudio Aurum Beta "S" Wood MKII

Phono Pre; Pro-Ject Tube Box "S" with RCA Blackplate 5751 triple mica tubes.

Headphone Amp; Bottlehead Crack Speedball with RCA Blackplate 12BH7 driving RCA Blackplate 6AS7G.

Headphones; Beyerdynamic DT880 600 ohm.

Dave

[Rajoo]

Coldplay Parachutes and X&Y

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[icenine]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Coldplay Parachutes and X&Y

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I think Xylo Myloto is great.....especially Charlie Brown

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by icenine

I think Xylo Myloto is great.....especially Charlie Brown

You had mentioned this before and I will check it out this time.

[icenine]

I found the LP at Savers...looks and sounds like it has never been played.

[Rex E.]

Failure ~ Fantastic Planet

[donquixote99]

Did a project this evening, comparing four recordings of 'The Four Seasons.'

Am keeping the French National Orchestra (a very bright, precise rendering) and a relatively recent Italian rendering (very lush and warm). The old Vox of a Milanese orchestra goes--a ponderous Spring is just wrong. The too-sprightly and unlovely version by a Lucerne orchestra would go, but I love their Pachebel's Canon on the same LP--that they did with a old-type arrangement of great warmth and beauty.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Did a project this evening, comparing four recordings of 'The Four Seasons.'

Am keeping the French National Orchestra (a very bright, precise rendering) and a relatively recent Italian rendering (very lush and warm). The old Vox of a Milanese orchestra goes--a ponderous Spring is just wrong. The too-sprightly and unlovely version by a Lucerne orchestra would go, but I love their Pachebel's Canon on the same LP--that they did with a old-type arrangement of great warmth and beauty.

What about Frankie Valli's version?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by JJIII

What about Frankie Valli's version?

EVERYONE ELSE has recorded Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, I can't imagine why he hasn't....