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Some quick shopping today....found me

U2-Joshua Tree: Remastered/remixed edition, analog at it's finest. There was always something about the CD version I bought back in the '87 when I think it first came out. Love this album but now it sounds as it should...

J.Geils Band-Love Stinks: Bought this album when it first came out in '81/82, lost in a box during moving. Glad to have it back...

Toto-Hydra: Had this on cassette only and wore it out.......Sounds perfect on vinyl.

Soft Machine-Volume Two: This is the 2010 reissue on Sundazed Music.....nuff said.

Lightweight Quebecois fusion .. will probably be demoted to "standby" status.

Edited by Argonaught - February 08 2015 at 05:52

Thank you, Fripp, for our daily Prog (Red 39:54)

Thrift store vinyl finds today:

- soundtrack: un homme et une femme (Francis Lai)

- The Fabulous Shirley Bassey

- ABC - All of my heart - Overture (from the lexicon of love) i have this 12" already but this was an import - mint

- Quincy Jones - Sounds

Edited by Walton Street - February 07 2015 at 14:18

"I know one thing: that I know nothing"

- SpongeBob Socrates

^ Still waiting for my batch to arrive - V is but 1 of 18 LP's headed my way......

Catcher10 wrote:

^ Nice haul Sam......I need to get Miles and Bess.

Looks like a great weekend for you on the turntable!

Thanks! I still have some LP's I didn't listened to from last week and the blu ray copy of Grace for Drowning, so it's probably not this weekend... kind of a busy month musically Smile

I'll let you know how Miles spins on my TT Tongue

I love those stan getz covers

"I know one thing: that I know nothing"

- SpongeBob Socrates

My Jazz albums arrived today, even before Fly By Night Wink

Oh, ok

Walton, please let me also know about your vinyl doubles: Beatles original copies are not very easy to find around here.

Walton Street wrote:

Catcher10 wrote:

Walton Street wrote:

I love bowie - pretty much have everything except for a few of the later ones.

Station to Station is my absolute favourite but I think everything he does is great.

Got to see him live in Toronto on the Earthling tour in a surprisingly small venue ... fantastic show

I suppose being from the 70's those albums sounded pretty good on vinyl?

man - I don't have your ear - everything sounded good to me - on some half assed stereo :)

I think you're probably a 90 - 100% guy when it comes to knowledge/expectations/commitment to high end audio.

i'm about 50- 60% I want something decent - that will last. not absolute crap but not the highest end either because I could never afford it ... plus I enjoy my listening experience.

not saying either is wrong or right - but it helps you to know where I am on the scale when you ask a question like that :)

Sony was always good enough for me hahahaha

(I do have infinity speakers though)

so - yeah - it sounded good but it was all I knew! :)

Ur funny

I too cannot afford the gear that I would like, this is a hobby so I pay cash for anything I buy. I am more into matching gear for best performance...system synergy. What I have sounds as good in some cases better than system costing 2x as much. I have been to every audio store in Tacoma/Seattle and other places, I have heard systems costing $50k+. Sure some sound insane, so realistic and revealing that you cannot believe what you are hearing.

I sat and listened to a $35K system once and was dumbfounded as to why it sounded so bad....More money does not always equate to better sound.

I don't care what you have just as long as it sounds good to you. I buy what I can afford comfortably and what sounds good to me.....I read and research everything I buy, over and over, whether I spent $1500 or $150, I educate myself.

My system is not considered high-end audio, but that is a label and I don't care. It sounds brilliant to me and that is all that matters, brings a smile to my face when I sit down and listen.

We all know that vinyl in the 90'-00's sounds bad in a lot of cases, compared to vinyl of the 70's...in general. Vinyl has gotten much better, better than I think digital has gotten which is a shame because I think digital should be hands down the best audio you could hear.