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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17550 - 03/07/19 at 22:38:18

Listened to the Blu-Spec CD2 version from Japan of Miles Davis "Someday My Prince Will Come". . . sounds great.

"Teo" here got me thinking about the ballet "The Three Cornered Hat" so I had to listen to a few versions of that.

Da Falla "The Three Cornered Hat" Ansermet and Orchestra Suisse-Romande on Decca cd

and Jorda with the LSO on Everest cd

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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17551 - 03/09/19 at 13:24:24

Salena Jones "Salena Sings Jobim with the Jobims"

This one again. Perfect for headphones on a sunny cold Sunday morning.

Listening to the Sennheiser HD800S on the CSP3-25 fed by the Oppo UDP-205. I miss the refinement that the PS Audio DSD brings (that's now upstairs and not connected to a headphone amp) but the Oppo adds a bit of bass heft that helps these particular headphones out, though there's a certain phasiness/edge with the treble that I hear on Sabre DACs. It's not at all bad on these headphones, worse over the HR-1s. I'm hoping a ZROCK2 will help with that. . .I'll find out next week.

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pursuitofnow Seasoned Member Posts: 449	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17552 - 03/09/19 at 18:21:50 8.10.82 Iowa City, IA on The grateful Dead Channel SiriusXM Sound quality of this channel is quite good.
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Dana Seasoned Member Posts: 717	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17553 - 03/09/19 at 18:21:57 Nightsong Artists: Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidsel Endresen Release date: 1995 Nightsong is the only song I know about Daylight Savings. It's worth a listen on any day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0xwO5tVEjY&index=10&list=OLAK5uy_kpveedqViuvtP1...
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17555 - 03/12/19 at 01:51:12

Listening to some of the Beethoven pieces for piano-violin-cello trio in the Beaux Arts Trio complete Decca Recordings box set.

With ZROCK2 in place, in the new system in the living room. This is the first time the music really sounds right as it is the first day with a ZROCK2 in this system. As soon as I set this system up without one I knew I needed one and boy was I right. Just a dab and everything comes into focus--the cello has just the right flesh and bones, the piano resonates and the pizzicato violin is precise and quick. Ah. . . I'm happy.

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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17556 - 03/12/19 at 13:40:42 "The Lester Young Story Vol. 1" Columbia 2 LP set.
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17557 - 03/12/19 at 20:54:01 McCoy Tyner "Cosmos" Blue Note material, via the McCoy Tyner "Mosaic Select"
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17558 - 03/13/19 at 16:00:06 Bobby Hutcherson "Happenings" Blue Note Japan UHQCD
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17559 - 03/13/19 at 17:39:01 The Jazz and Classical Music Society Presents a Program of Music for Brass--Columbia LP
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17560 - 03/13/19 at 18:34:37 Lee Morgan "Sonic Boom" Blue Note Japan EMI cd
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17561 - 03/13/19 at 20:41:21 Pharoah Sanders "Love in Us All" Impulse Japan CD
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17562 - 03/14/19 at 14:00:07 "The Billie Holiday Story Vol. 1" Columbia Records, record 2
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17563 - 03/14/19 at 15:11:16 Max Roach "Percussion Bitter Sweet" Impulse Japan SHM-CD Woke up to the news that the father of one of my very best friends is negotiating hospice care. This album is pounding blue thoughts out of my brain.
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17564 - 03/14/19 at 15:36:04 I needed a total change of pace after Max and all those percussionists and Eric Dolphy. . . . Johnny Holiday "Songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim" Inner City cd
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17565 - 03/14/19 at 16:26:31 Tony Bennett "On Holiday" Columbia cd
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17566 - 03/15/19 at 14:55:20 First off today I listened to the first disc of Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" Columbia 2 LP set, the copy that I bought in '72 and have played over and over. Still sounds great, I have great reverence for this material and have taken care of the LPs over the years.
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17567 - 03/15/19 at 15:07:51 Next up was the very interesting Bill Barron cd on Muse, "The Next Plateau."
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17568 - 03/15/19 at 15:11:20 And playing now is "Inverse Universe" by Claudia Villa and Ricardo Peixoto. Very nice indeed.
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17569 - 03/15/19 at 15:49:00

Now, a new addition to my collection. I don't have many Mosaic LP sets, but plucked this one off eBay at a great price and though I have the music elsewhere (digital mainly) I know that the LPs of earlier jazz music sound so good I couldn't resist. Disc I, the Edmond Hall session with Charlie Christian.

"The Complete Edmond Hall/James P. Johnson/Sidney DeParis/Vic Dickenson Blue Note Sessions" Mosaic Records 6 LP set

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Dana Seasoned Member Posts: 717	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17570 - 03/15/19 at 17:08:52 Let's Get Lost Artist: Terence Blanchard With Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, and Cassandra Wilson. Release year: 2001
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Dana Seasoned Member Posts: 717	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17571 - 03/15/19 at 21:39:03 Do You Ever Think of Me? Fred Neil Release Date August 5, 2003 Recording Date1966 - October 15, 1967
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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17572 - 03/16/19 at 12:02:26
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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17573 - 03/16/19 at 13:32:25 CD #16 of 16...some gorgeous duets with George Cables or as Art called him..."Mr. Beautiful" ...
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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17574 - 03/16/19 at 14:55:37
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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17575 - 03/16/19 at 15:56:41
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MyBlueSky Verified Member An honest tune with a lingering lead Posts: 31	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17576 - 03/16/19 at 16:37:11 Preisner Requiem for My Friend
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17577 - 03/16/19 at 16:57:13 Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette "Standards In Norway" ECM cd Haven't played this in a while and it's great to hear it kick my ass again.
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17578 - 03/16/19 at 17:16:38 Record 2 "The Complete Edmond Hall/James P. Johnson/Sidney DeParis/Vic Dickenson Blue Note Sessions" Mosaic Records 6 LP set
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17579 - 03/17/19 at 11:56:30

I popped in a newly acquired pair of 1967 Amperex Holland orange globe 6DJ8's from a quad with the exact same date codes and extremely well balanced and matched per a Hickok TV-7. I couldn't pass them up at $59.50 plus shipping. This pair has balanced plates and are matched to each other at 2%. I have tried the orange globe 6922s and wasn't impressed but Joe of "Joe's Tube Lore" really liked these 6DJ8s so I thought I'd try them. Bottomline...Fantastic tubes in my Rachel. Joe described them thus... "Amperex 6DJ8, Orange globe logo, Holland (shield, steel pins). Warm, vibrant, lively, grainless, transparent Amperex sound. Killer tube."

CD#2 or 6...

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The motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as Hell. Let no such man be trusted." William Shakespeare

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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17580 - 03/17/19 at 12:56:14
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17581 - 03/17/19 at 13:36:27 Awesome Mark. You sure have a collection of input tubes to be envious of! Right now Charlie Parker "The Charlie Parker Story" Savoy/Denon 20 bit LP facsimile cd.
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17582 - 03/17/19 at 15:11:59

Yes Lon, I have more than one lifetime's worth of tubes. I like the Amperex Family of input tubes so that's mainly what I buy now although the prices have gotten a bit ridiculous since I started buying 5 years ago. It is fun finding bargains...If I were to put my RCA/Cunningham Type 80 back in my Rachel, the very nice complement of tubes would have cost a grand total of $41. Soon I need to take out the Tung Sol 5881 power tubes that I've been running for about 4 months, and put my Siemens/RFT EL-34s back in. But these 5881s are so good, so I continue to delay.

I have read a little about the Sophia Aqua 274B rectifiers you use but at more than 3 times what I've paid for my many NOS Mullard GZ 32's, I can wait for a bargain. I have my doubts that I'd be able to hear much improvement over the Mullards. I still check ebay for tubes but my buying has slowed to a trickle. Mark.

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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17583 - 03/17/19 at 16:23:20

Last week I just did another comparison of a pair of Mullard GZ32 I've had for a spell (bought them late last year due to all the applauds here in the forum for these rectifiers) in the Monoblocks and I couldn't keep them in long, the Aquas went back in. I am using that pair in my CSP2+ and Taboo Mk III until I get more Aquas, which I use in my Monoblocks, Taboo Mk IV and CSP3. They are simply the best rectifiers I've used, so "invisible," doing everything right and not calling attention to their own signature. I hope you can find a bargain one day to check them out. . . . I haven't seen bargains.

Anyway there are so many great possibilities for tube complements. We live in a great time, but grabbing NOS bargains when we see them makes sense in this day and age, they're getting long in the tooth.

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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17584 - 03/17/19 at 16:57:57 Lon, have you tried a 5Z4G rectifier in the past. I'm reading now trying to figure out if it is ok to use in Decware Gear. Apparently similar to Type 80's. Not sure how many pins they have but I have lots of adaptors. https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5z4g.html
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17585 - 03/17/19 at 17:37:11 No I haven't. I'm so happy with the Aquas that I'm not investigating anew either. If it's like the Type 80, okay, good stuff. I have three pairs of those and two single. . . not using them at present.
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Dana Seasoned Member Posts: 717	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17586 - 03/17/19 at 18:29:10 The Manhattan Transfer The Chick Corea Songbook 2009
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17587 - 03/18/19 at 14:02:21

Downstairs, at my wife's request (she was running late and pretty frantic and wanted to chill down and said "play that singer;" that either means Hartman or Jose James, today it meant Hartman!)

"John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman," Impulse Japan SHM-CD this time.

Followed by, upstairs on the main system
"Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins/Duke Ellington and John Coltrane" Impulse 2 Fer, Universal Europe

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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17588 - 03/18/19 at 14:13:03

mark58 wrote on 03/17/19 at 16:57:57:

Lon, have you tried a 5Z4G rectifier in the past. I'm reading now trying to figure out if it is ok to use in Decware Gear. Apparently similar to Type 80's. Not sure how many pins they have but I have lots of adaptors.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5z4g.html

Mark I've been looking at that tube and I'm not sure it's compatible with the Decware amps. Maybe. . .Steve would be the one to know for sure. Here's a spec page in case you haven't seen it:

https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5z4g.html

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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17589 - 03/18/19 at 14:36:14

Yeah, I looked at that page Lon. I was thinking that since it had those 80 tubes listed below that they would work. I decided not to try them since I have so many already...unlikely they would be better, although they sure are cheaper. Also the listing I was looking at seemed to be for tubes made in the early 70's if I'm reading the codes correctly...I passed. FYI...I put the type 80 in the Racheal so I've got my $41 tube complement in now...sounds amazing for $41...actually for any amount of money

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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 24152	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17590 - 03/18/19 at 14:39:30 That's good. I won't encourage you to try the Aquas then as I don't want to upset the apple cart. I like Type 80, I like 5V4 and GZ32 too, keep swapping those three types in and out. . . when I don't have an Aqua. The Aqua though just stays in when it hits a component. Freaking interesting tube that is so open and clear.
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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17591 - 03/18/19 at 14:46:15 I'll likely try the Aqua eventually. I remember in my CSP-3 when I was having trouble with too much highend in my main system/HR-1s, I kept the Valve Art 274B in for a long time...so I'm sure I'd like the aqua... The Valve Art seemed to add warmth in addition to taming the highs, as I recall...
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #17592 - 03/18/19 at 15:28:37

I wouldn't say the Aquas add warmth, everything is just so right, maybe they are it's hard to explain, they are like the ZTPRE in comparison to the CSP3: everything is right but not calling attention to itself, as if it were invisible.

I liked the Valve Art for a long time but then with some complements I really liked they just aren't right. I still have two that I pop in now and then when I experiment with other tubes.

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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17593 - 03/18/19 at 15:30:49 I've decided the next time I fire up Rachel, I'll tube roll to my favorites...RFT EL 34s, Mullard GZ 32 and Amperex White Label 7308's... That's going from a tube compliment that cost me $41 to one that cost about $250...not including postage
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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17594 - 03/18/19 at 17:35:56
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mark58 Seasoned Member Posts: 5647	Re: What's spinning? Reply #17599 - 03/19/19 at 12:51:07
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