Marky,
      Ah its Saturday night everything is all right spin'em. How much ahead of eastern standard time are you? its 5:45 here just got dark. Hope your enjoying your evening.


David Gilmore  (About Face)

Marky,
     No Digger mansion here!   . No need for one. The Gilmour album was good. I do believe I like the 1978 Gilmour Album just a bit better though it may have been his first. This new one is David Gilmour About Face is from an 1984 cut. I may need to spin it a few more times who knows I may end up liking it better. Some music takes a few times through to grow on you. Mumford and Sons was one that took a while but now I really do like it. There new album hasn't grown on me yet. Funny how that works. Hope you get some sleep!





I think this maybe one of their best efforts!

Just got home and read what others have been listening to.  Marky, Love, Love, Love Freddie King...Great!  Lon, "The Bridge" is sooo fine...I'm going to have to listen to it again tomorrow morning.  The Beethoven String Quartets Box I ordered Wednesday morning was in the mail Box when I checked it on my way in tonight.  You guys talking about David Gilmour...I saw the below LP at Half Price Books and Records for $10 it was in good condition.  Wasn't sure why 10 when everything else I bought was $6 each...even the double LP. Is there something special about this LP?  I've never heard it.  Mark.

PS...found this LP and three others on Spotify...will listen to it tomorrow.

Here in Dallas on PBS,  they Just finished the Hendrix Doc and are now running Stevie Ray Vaughn with Albert King.  Another of my three favorite Kings....BB, Freddie and Albert.  It's 1 1/2 hours long.  I really need to get some sleep...I'll watch for a half hour.  Mark.

That's some good TV.

Right now

Mark, thats Gilmours first I think and is a regular spinner here. I must get Syd Barrett on the deck tonight. I`d like to play like Freddy King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ONyukSLqA
Albert makes me smile though I dont have any material....left hooker with strings upside down.
My next splurge on records is writing itself.
Lon I was trying to remember the Miles `witches brew` from listens in the `70`s and the `live` cover is it.

Marky,  Freddie back at you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAz_lVLIJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVirtodd05k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXkD7Dvq_E

Staying warm, and kind of lazy today. I should be working in the garage getting the workshop put back together, but I'm just so not motivated. Was up late last night (obviously).

This morning, I think I found the first DSD album I'm going to download.

http://thedriftless.downloadsnow.net/long-for-the-dory?utm_source=Blue+Coast+Rec...

I like what I'm hearing so far. (hope the link works)

LR,  no links?  Well, I can't add them to your post but here are a couple.  Very cool instrumentation.  As soon as I saw the photo with stand up bass and violin, I had to hear some. Nice but I won't be running out to buy any just yet.  Mark.  PS...the first link is to several complete songs
http://www.reverbnation.com/thedriftless/song/18812714-seasons-orig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXHRO6hC_n8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKxMOGHtskk

I'm in the listening Cave once again.  This session will only be a couple hours then I have to go. I'm listening to the same Beethoven String Quartet (C sharp minor op. 131) I recently heard the Cleveland Quartet perform on  LP, only now with the Vegh Quartet on CD.  I read the reviews on Amazon.  One was especially negative from a fellow who has listened to 17 different versions.  Well to my non-expert, layman's ears this is very pleasant including the recordings sound quality...no complaints here. Mark.

Right now, Beethoven, piano sonattas this time by one of the very best (imo).

Lon, I think I'm going to stick with this Vegh box for the full two hours I have to listen.  It's rare that I'm in the mood for classical and even rarer lately that I play CDs rather than LPs. That Bernstein recording...does he have a box set out of Beethoven  piano sonatas?  As you can tell from all the piano trio jazz I listen to...I love the piano.  The LP of Beethoven's #13 and #15 piano sonatas I recently listened to and posted was great.  I've already forgotten the players name.  Mark.

LR, sorry.  When I looked at your link, I thought it was to buy only...I went back and you are correct...even more songs than I found.  I'll listen more later.  The Vegh Quartet Box you ordered is very good...per Lon and I both.  So if you don't like it...it's you...hehe.  Mark.

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No worries. I just thought my link didn't work or something. I went and bought the album. I'm interested in hearing DSD on my Oppo.

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LOL - True Dat!

`Blue jeans and moonbeams`

I won't get to the Listening Cave until later this afternoon but i thought I'd give you a little early Christmas Cheer.  I was actually looking for something the DSO performed yesterday in their Christmas program. I couldn't find it but this is excellent. I love this Mel Torme song. This group was part of one of the Christmas programs I saw at the Meyerson Symphony Hall a few years ago.  You see the hall with it's huge Pipe Organ briefly in the video and the photo I've included.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej-9SYG-TPc

Lon,  I've got a brief question. What 12Au7 tube are you using in your ZP3?  And which input/signal tubes are you using in your Torii's?  I'm assuming you have stuck with the EL34's and not gone to the KT66's...correct?  Mark.

Lon, as you know I love that music.  Only recently did I take out the two Ella/Gershwin CDs from the 4 CD remaster...from my car.  Only so I could listen to it with the Decware system.  Soon I'll put some back in. For now the car is loaded with Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Keith Jarrett and Chet Baker. Mark.

Mark, sorry, missed those questions.

I'm using a Raytheon that shipped with the amp from Steve. I went through a whole box full of 12AU7s I'd collected through the years for use in my EICO, ZBox and DEC685 and there were a lot of possibilities. I really didn't like this Raytheon when I first used it and the ZP3 was new. I had some good hours with an old Mullard that came out of my EICO HF81 and a Telefunken. I was using Raytheons in the 12AX7 positions (bought from Mike [tgarden] when I bought the ZP3) and when the ZP3 was finally broken in I popped that Raytheon from Steve back in, let it cook a while, and it's stayed in ever since. The three Raytheons give the ZP3 a very clear and powerful character.

In the Torii Mk III I've tried all kinds of input tubes and just don't think the 6922/6DJ8 etc. family works for me. I've stuck with a number of 6N1P over the years and like this one best, and have been using them a few years in my Toriis and my CSP2+ preamps.

http://www.cryoset.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_24&products_id=263&osCs...

I'm using JJ 6CA7 tubes as the power tubes. Others have had reliability problems with them, I haven't. I love the sound. I haven't tried the KT66, maybe one day, I still have another set of the cryo'd JJs on the shelf to use this upcoming year. I use early 'fifties coke bottle shapped 5U4G rectifiers, early fifties coke bottle shaped RCA OB3s and RCA OA2 tubes in the other sockets.

Lon, in that 12AU7 spot I will have rolled a lot but in other positions in the other Amps I haven't.  Once I made one change to a NOS tube it stayed.  But I do still need to get some  RCA 5U4G's in the Torii and RCA 5Y3G's in the Taboo and CSP-3, maybe try something NOS in the input spot in the Taboo and CSP-3.  Once I get the HR-1's, I'll quickly settle on a tube complement and just sit back and listen.  I think you can tell that I, like you,  put the Music above the gear in importance.  To me getting the gear right is a chore...the Listening the reward.  Mark.

The second LP of this set now...