Your latest music purchase!
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Whoa...congrats! Being a redbook man myself, i have this one which is fantastic...I cannot say it is the best...but i decided to have some fun and read up on the Hoffman forums and elsewhere about the various masterings and CD versions of several specific albums i was looking for (including this one), and it seemed a lot of roads led here.
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Thank you, Bob! Thank you, Lloyd!
No, Bob, I do not have a tape deck. I also do not have, at present, a vinyl front-end or even a listening room! While my house is being repaired, the listening room is being planned and equipment purchases are being researched, the only thing I can have fun buying at the moment is music!
Steve kindly introduced me to open-reel tape a few months ago. I also spent several hours listening to tape at T.H.E. Show in Irvine, CA in May, thanks to Greg Beron. It is kind of depressing how tape often, if not almost always, sounds better than LP, with the tape deck costing a fraction of what a state-of-the-art vinyl playback set-up costs.
I am sure I will get a UHA tape deck at some point in the future, a year or so after the listening room is fixed and the whole stereo is back together with a turntable.
The last time I checked TTP website, they had no stock on that Waltz for Debby tape. I happened to check the website again a couple of days ago, and they suddenly had 4 in stock (now 3). So I ordered one.
No, Bob, I do not have a tape deck. I also do not have, at present, a vinyl front-end or even a listening room! While my house is being repaired, the listening room is being planned and equipment purchases are being researched, the only thing I can have fun buying at the moment is music!
Steve kindly introduced me to open-reel tape a few months ago. I also spent several hours listening to tape at T.H.E. Show in Irvine, CA in May, thanks to Greg Beron. It is kind of depressing how tape often, if not almost always, sounds better than LP, with the tape deck costing a fraction of what a state-of-the-art vinyl playback set-up costs.
I am sure I will get a UHA tape deck at some point in the future, a year or so after the listening room is fixed and the whole stereo is back together with a turntable.
The last time I checked TTP website, they had no stock on that Waltz for Debby tape. I happened to check the website again a couple of days ago, and they suddenly had 4 in stock (now 3). So I ordered one.
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Roger (Dressler) used to post here (Roger's a super nice guy), and he's into open-reel-tape big time. I think of him each time that someone mentions the word "tape" or "tape deck" or "open-reel-tape".
I am a big fan of Bill Evans...CDs.
* Hope your house get repaired soon enough that by the middle of the winter you can listen to some tunes.
Amir also has a tape. ...But he has a tape deck too. And I think his house is functioning right now...just that he's busy here and there and with many cats to take care of.
I am a big fan of Bill Evans...CDs.
* Hope your house get repaired soon enough that by the middle of the winter you can listen to some tunes.
Amir also has a tape. ...But he has a tape deck too. And I think his house is functioning right now...just that he's busy here and there and with many cats to take care of.
Drastic Plastic have reissued the first 3 awesome Love and rockets albums on vinyl. Mastered by none other than Kevin Gray and pressed at QRP. the pressings are superb and the mastering is excellent. Limited edition of 1500 copies on Black 200gm vinyl - or coloured vinyl if you are an idiot 
The price is an absolute bargin of around $20
I can now get rid of my ordinary nice price and old US pressings.
The price is an absolute bargin of around $20
I can now get rid of my ordinary nice price and old US pressings.
Great mix of music there! Also picked up Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage (Esoteric Remaster) as part of a 6-CD set.
Thanks for that. Chris Botti sounds excellent. Including shipping it was $7.09 from Amazon so it got subjected to one-click buying.
So your last purchase just became mine.
Thanks for that. Chris Botti sounds excellent. Including shipping it was $7.09 from Amazon so it got subjected to one-click buying.
So your last purchase just became mine.
I am glad you like it, me too.
Chris will perform a couple of concerts next week in Poland, he is very popular here.
One of our fellows - audiophiles , very active on CA ranks the former live recording of German pianist Michael Wollny among his best 25 jazz albums
http://musicophilesblog.com/2015/10/10/675/
Now on Qobuz the new album is availabe WAV 24/96 :
http://musicophilesblog.com/2015/10/10/675/
Now on Qobuz the new album is availabe WAV 24/96 :
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My music purchasing as of late has been definitively un-audiophile. Quick downloads, a track at a time, from iTunes. There's a method to my madness, I changed bands a couple of months ago and had an awful lot of new material to learn. Then the new band added a female singer a couple of weeks ago, and along came more material to learn.
My favorite discoveries? Susan Tedeschi, a Bonnie Raitt for a new generation. She doesn't play slide, but she's married to Derek Trucks, so she doesn't need to. And Joan Osborne. I was introduced to her through her take on the old Slim Harpo tune, Shake Your Hips, but a bit of searching around found that R&B, not straight blues, is her native language. And she gets it, deep down in her bones.
I'll be obtaining more of the above, in full RB resolution very soon.
Tim
My favorite discoveries? Susan Tedeschi, a Bonnie Raitt for a new generation. She doesn't play slide, but she's married to Derek Trucks, so she doesn't need to. And Joan Osborne. I was introduced to her through her take on the old Slim Harpo tune, Shake Your Hips, but a bit of searching around found that R&B, not straight blues, is her native language. And she gets it, deep down in her bones.
I'll be obtaining more of the above, in full RB resolution very soon.
Tim
My music purchasing as of late has been definitively un-audiophile. Quick downloads, a track at a time, from iTunes. There's a method to my madness, I changed bands a couple of months ago and had an awful lot of new material to learn. Then the new band added a female singer a couple of weeks ago, and along came more material to learn.
My favorite discoveries? Susan Tedeschi, a Bonnie Raitt for a new generation. She doesn't play slide, but she's married to Derek Trucks, so she doesn't need to. And Joan Osborne. I was introduced to her through her take on the old Slim Harpo tune, Shake Your Hips, but a bit of searching around found that R&B, not straight blues, is her native language. And she gets it, deep down in her bones.
I'll be obtaining more of the above, in full RB resolution very soon.
Tim
Fully agree with your opinion about Tedeschi/ Trucks music.
Last year I bought with hdtracks their hires album , first song makes me dancing :
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That's pretty excellent Jazz:
And from another album:
Qobuz still doesn't sell to US customers, does it?
Just tried it on Qobuz and sadly it won't sell it to me. I am amazed at these territorial restrictions for such specialized music.
