stuff of dreams....3000 classical records inbound.
- Thread starter Mike Lavigne
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You guys are amateurs.
Try storing all that PLUS 3k laserdiscs, lol.
"Where will we put them?"
"To good use!"
Well, I doubt you've seen 1.5 million records. Thomas Chandler had a few warehouses filled with records on shelves, row after row, 8 feet high. His short lived store (premature death) had I assume 150,000 records, maybe 300,000, I didn't try to count them. 3,000 laserdiscs, I have about 300 but also about 200 R2Rs and 200+ original recordings of mine. I know I have too many CDs and LPs. The 7,000 78s include about 800 ethnic recordings which I will never want to part from. I don't have time to transfer them all.
I didn't mention Michael Lane who had 250,000 only mint 78s in Hollywood then Vista, CA. Unbelievably superior pressings/condition records. Former Cal-Tech engineer who helped develop the Burwen noise reduction system, had 30-35 stylii, built his own equipment. Listening to him play a 1903 Grieg 78 sounded like a mono LP (with restricted frequency of course). Playing a Remington LP known for their inferior surfaces sounded like a modern LP pressing. Phenomenal experience being at one of his music soirees.
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so i'm in the 'B's, about half way through Bach, actually C.P.E. Bach right now. lots of Baroque music, and as i read these jacket covers and listen i'm becoming a big fan. i've enjoyed it prior, but now i'm 'getting' it. about 20 or so straight Baroque pressings in a row has me connecting and in a sense understanding what is going on. it's irresistible. delightful and effervescent.
right now one pressing in particular has captured me. it's a 1983 Philips pressing that initially i suspected might be a digital source, and i still don't know for sure, but as i listen.....unlikely. it's Ton Koopman "Concerto for Harpsichord in A" (Philips 6514 249). the tone, tension and liquidity of the music is perfect. there is a fire and sparkle in the playing. this one i'm playing on the CS Port linear tracker with the Audio Technica MC-2022. sounds real, sounds live. side one especially. side two a step less magical.
yes; i'm excited about a harpsichord recording. very!
right now one pressing in particular has captured me. it's a 1983 Philips pressing that initially i suspected might be a digital source, and i still don't know for sure, but as i listen.....unlikely. it's Ton Koopman "Concerto for Harpsichord in A" (Philips 6514 249). the tone, tension and liquidity of the music is perfect. there is a fire and sparkle in the playing. this one i'm playing on the CS Port linear tracker with the Audio Technica MC-2022. sounds real, sounds live. side one especially. side two a step less magical.
yes; i'm excited about a harpsichord recording. very!
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so i'm in the 'B's, about half way through Bach, actually C.P.E. Bach right now. lots of Baroque music, and as i read these jacket covers and listen i'm becoming a big fan. i've enjoyed it prior, but now i'm 'getting' it. about 20 or so straight Baroque pressings in a row has me connecting and in a sense understanding what is going on. it's irresistible. delightful and effervescent.
right now one pressing in particular has captured me. it's a 1983 Philips pressing that initially i suspected might be a digital source, and i still don't know for sure, but as i listen.....unlikely. it's Ton Koopman "Concerto for Harpsichord in A" (Philips 6514 249). the tone, tension and liquidity of the music is perfect. there is a fire and sparkle in the playing. this one i'm playing on the CS Port linear tracker with the Audio Technica MC-2022. sounds real, sounds live. side one especially. side two a step less magical.
yes; i'm excited about a harpsichord recording. very!
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There does not appear to be a CD release of this, so hard to understand if it is a digital recording.
Is there a recording date?
both the pressing and jacket show 1983. i don't see a CD release for this recording; but i do own a few Ton Koopman recordings and they are all digital.
at that date, mostly you find a digital source, but not 100%. more than a handful of late 70's/early 80's recordings are digitally recorded but without a CD. it happens.
1983.
For Baroque, I also really enjoy Vivaldi, Corelli, Rameau, Couperin, Scarlatti, Handel and of course Bach.
Baroque music was rooted in dance and the body. Baroque period also started to free up composers to express themselves and not create solely for the church. Musical instruments flourished in the Baroque periods - especially all the innovations in keyboard instruments.
Many musicians learned each other's compositions by hand copying since publishing was limited. They got a chance to analyze while copying. Ideas and styles started to migrate and morph.
And then there's Bach (JS). Wow. He wrote from such a cellular organic level - artistry wrapped around form. It's fun learning his keyboard works. One hand at a time just to be able to read and play it and then integrating hands together. The Brandenburg Concertos and the Orchestral Suites are really fantastic. The Well Tempered Clavier, Cello Suites and Violin Partitas and Sonatas are also superb. And then there's the keyboard concertos, organ music and of course the cantatas. So much Bach.
I favor original or period instruments for the orchestral music, modern piano or harpsichord for keyboard music.
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very well. completed about 60 pressings (almost done with Bach
) in the last 2 weeks or so. switched the water twice. things are looking and sounding good. contemplating adding a Degritter MKII to have a secondary stage (more pure water) while not slowing down my process. i review each one upstairs, and stage them downstairs. clean and listen (new pressing sleeve + plastic jacket cover) at the same time, the cleaning in the hallway outside the listening room. window with natural light behind the KLAudio. listening/sampling/reading at least a half side for each pressing prior to deciding to add the pressing. so far i've kept each one brought downstairs that i've cleaned. sometimes i'll listen to the whole pressing so the cleaned one's stack up. no hurry. right now i have a dozen cleaned stacked up waiting to be heard.this collection is uniformly mint/excellent, looking/sounding un-played, and without anything but light dust. so more touch up than serious cleaning issues. no mold or any such things i've yet seen. so far about 10-15% digitally sourced which i'm setting aside.
in the back of my mind is a more serious deeper cleaning process. i do have a kitchenette space and lots of counterspace where i could do it if i decide to go there. not ruled it out, but pretty happy with where i'm at with this group of pressings.
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