Guys,

With the 'What's Spinning' thread causing crashes, (when posting from an iPhone, which,  out of convenience, is my preferred method) , this is an alternative (and experimental) new thread to see if something new might work better.

If this results in no change (which I imagine will be the case), it can be quickly ignored.

Let the experiment begin - go forth, and be photo postful...

Easy, peasy, with no issue from my iPhone.

i haven't done any serious listening. My new DSD DAC Mk2 from PS Audio was supposed to be here by FedEx on Sunday. As we were not necessarily going to be here all day Sunday to sign for it, I paid 12 Dollars to have that moved to Monday. Monday morning it showed on the truck and then a few hours later an "operational delay" which turned out to be an all day one and it is supposed to be delivered today, hasn't shown up yet.

In preparation for this new one I moved my modded DSD DAC from the main system and moved it into the place of my OG DSD DAC that in my headphone system. That was a decided improvement in sound as I suspected; that OG will go back in trade for the Mk2--I'm being given full price for the OG, 2/3 in a discount and 1/3 as a credit towards a future purchase.

When I'm back to listening I'll probably contiune in my OG listening thread.

It IS frustrating. But it's not as frustrating as waiting many months for a product to be built and shipped.

Oh. . .wait a minute. . . .;)

Yes, I think this is going to be a fantastic DAC by all reports so far. I have high hopes.

Now it suddenly went to delayed--expected by end of day tomorrow.

&^%$

This is the worst I've experienced from FedEx.

I'm shrugging it off. I'll just dart out for groceries first thing in the morning and then hunker down and wait (AGAIN) and hope that it arrives earlier rather than later and I can get some set up.

Gives me a chance to listen to my living-room system a bit more . . . not a bad thing, sounds pretty darned good.

I feel your pain about the brake parts. My worst brake part scenario was when I was trying to redo the brakes on my '64 Alfa Romeo at the end of the 'seventies. They had not imported Alfas to the US until '66 or so and all parts had to be ordered from Italy. I waited three months for the parts to come in. . . and they were not correct. I was lucky and found someone who did have the parts in a few weeks but. . . man that was a drag. I loved driving that car (1600 Spider Veloce).

Mine didn't look this nice. One day I may have a mid-sixties Italian again. That's my kind of car.

I'm 6' and I was comfortable as heck in it, even with the removable hardtop on. It actually had only storage space behind the front seats and they went back pretty far. What a car that was. It got great gas mileage and had a 25 gallon tank. The worst downside was. . . it had no heater!

Wayne Shorter isn't my favorite thing on the menu, but I'll order it once in a while:

The last music played a couple of days ago was Dead Can Dance "Into the Labyranth".
It seems that is where I'll be headed with the weather breaking and the Charoit just becoming an access corridor to storage of outdoorsy stuff

John

Took advantage of the PS Audio’s March discount and ordered Zuill Bailey’s “Bach Cello Suites” from Octave records on vinyl.   I originally streamed this to become familiar with the recording.    Yes it’s all the rave… phenomenally recorded and mastered.  It’s dead silent with black backgrounds and nice decay.  The music filled my large room with vaulted ceilings with big sound.   This album is well worth the money.  

Surprisingly…..when I ran it through the Spin Clean before it’s first play… I found a hairline piece of vinyl approximately 1/2 inch long that came off in the water, as well as a few small vinyl bits.  Didn’t expect that!

Dom

Lon…I’m currently on album 2 of 4 and I’m truly enjoying it.  Very detailed and captivating.  I decided to switch things up, and play it through my Torii.  Can’t wait to hear this again through my Zen amp!!

Hi, Dominick.
Living under a rock, I had not heard this selection, Zuill Bailey’s “Bach Cello Suites”.
However, Tidal came to my rescue once again. I let it stream for a while, but it did not take long for a kind of "permanance" to set in for me.

It's almost like there should be a seperate genre for “Bach Cello Suites” since there are SO MANY recordings out there.

Very nice indeed! I feel the warmth of a future purchase building.
Thank you.

DD,

Yes there are many renditions of the Bach Cello Suites…this one….esp. on vinyl was a real treat.  If you are considering vinyl…PS audio is running a special for March on a nice discount.  I would grab it…it’s worth it.

Now I’m just streaming through Roon  Joe Pass & Ella Fitzgerald “ Easy Living”.  Very intimate session… it’s just a guitar and vocals.  Very good recording and Joe Pass doesn’t overshadow her vocals.  Two legendary performers team up to give you great listen.  

Dom

With the right recording my 300B amp makes the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Recorded or in real life. This is one of those recordings:

I am not sure what my favorite is. . . this release of the suites is among them.

I found this one to be presented as intimate. Finely detailed and nicely laid back.



Warning up the system in prep for Glenn’s tube A/B video.

John

Things are working well for me on the site this morning! I hope it improves for you.

Hi Geno! Yes, the forum seems to be operating quite well today. My OG Listening thread is humming along.

Yeah Geno, I noticed something off here two days ago. Must have been an overload of traffic on the net. There was a lot of prank phone calls to schools about active shooters in PA that day.

How about DD LonJon. Sounds a little catchy

Oh man DD! The Zombies! It has been a while but "Time of the Season" was one of my faves back in the early 70s. Spirited organ playing and smooth harmonies was cherished by I. Even though it is a compilation it surely would have been snagged by me rooting thru the boxes.

My home team when I was growing up: Mehta and the LA Phil. Lots of great (mostly late romantic) music well played and recorded.

Björk - Debut

Listening to this at work this morning - hope I don't get fired, cause it must be played loud

https://youtu.be/KqpWTC-rvhQ

It's been a while since this one was played. Good mood set for the upcoming sunny spring day. Rip to flac.

I had to share this.
I have lots of new music to explore and one box was full of jazz with half of it being Duke Ellington.
Since I only owned three Ellington LPs before, this box multiplied my Ellington collection by a factor of eight!

This one I had to clean up and play right away. There was nothing in it - it was clean.
I know it's not one of the more desirable releases, according to Discogs, but I am pleased to have it. It sounds wonderful!
It's their pic.

This one is a "Six Eye" Columbia release as well.
Most of the other Ellington albums are mono and I am not as averse to mono as I used to be.

I mean I deliberately made my garage system full mono for a number of reasons.
One of which, when you have a large "voice" even in mono, it still fills a room floor to ceiling, past the walls and even farther beyond sometimes, depending upon the recording.

I know many would not listen to Eddie Arnold, but one recording I have I swear his "mouth" is twenty feet tall, establishes itself below the floor and his piano is forty feet wide, from a mono recording.

I sometimes look up and have to pause a minute because I heard something fabulous coming from behind me. I know it's a phasing trick of how the recording came out and the way the reproduction interacted with the room, but the depth, height, width we can achieve with pure mono can not be discounted.

I am anxious to continue my exploration of this stack of stuff. Most of what I have pulled out has proven to be quite a bit above a VG or a VG+ grade, you might find commonly.

My grading system, I call them closer to "cherry" meaning they do not look touched for the most part.

It seems that the ones he archived in this way and placed in special boxes are a measure above the typical old record grade most people expect from a sixty year old recording.

Almost "A Capella" all the way :

A really nice Verve. Duke Ellington is hard to beat, but with Ella? Wow.
This one is the double LP.
Amazing condition, except for some scuffing on the jacket. It has obviously been shuffled around some before it entered caring hands. The discs are perfect.

"Mack The Knife" starts this one off. I love it!

I have actually enjoyed and sometimes even preferred many modern remasters of classic LPs.
I'm guessing that your CD collection sounds great.

I wouldn't call myself a Duke nut, but I don't want to miss one either.

There is a local university radio station that does an afternoon "big band" show and it is coincidentally on during my drive time. If they are on the air, I'm playing that while I commute!
I slow down and just listen.
Radio does not often do much for me, but in a car, yeah. Especially with some BB music playing!

This show kind of brought me back to Duke after I thought I had heard it all. Boy, did I have some lessons ahead!

Ellington's influence can never be ignored.
When I first began "trying" to get into jazz in addition to my electric hard rock and acoustic bluegrass influences, I was mostly put off and it took years for me figure out that is/was because all my "friends" were trying to get me to enjoy smooth stuff.
I mean I've heard enough Earl Klugh that I get an almost Pavlovian vomitous response if I'm not prepared to be disgusted.

I know I am attracting hate by being so cruel and singling out one artist I'm done with, but it took me a while to find what good jazz was. I'm talking about my early twenties.
I love all the bop guys and most any sax player worth his reeds and brass players worth a fresh spit valve cork.
Singers came later for me and Big Band orchestra, even later.

I have "discovered" Duke Ellington in several ways over time, get full and leave. But, I always return and find something I had not experienced before.
I'm here now and I have quite a lot more music to play, right in my hands.
I don't see myself "leaving" again.

 

I love Yes, Geno. Been a few years since I’ve listened to them. Thanks for the reminder. The Lii’s reproduce that drum in the intro of this track with uncanny realism. Going down a Yes rabbit hole now.

mathématique fraction

Geno, I also love Yes!
I'm going to dig some out and have a listen later today.

I played "Close To The Edge" recently and enjoyed it quite a lot!

Good morning DD and Manny. One of my favorite groups for sure. For me, the trio is The Yes Album, Fragile, and Close to the Edge.

John, following the Yes post with King Crimson was very appropriate.

DD, I love me some Chili Peppers too!

Nice. I love music

Elina Duni
Partir
Released: 2018
Engineer: Gérard De Haro

From the shelves



Art Hodes Back Room Boys "Low Down Blues" Blue Note/TOCJ Japan cd

Fantastic music, really good sound on cd.

This is one of the best acoustic recordings I’ve heard. They are in the room with me😉

This is a great one to use for testing bass - it has a fat bottom

Joyce "Language and Love" Verve Forecast cd

Early Joyce, full orchestration on some tracks. MELLOW.



Brazilian LP cover


From the shelves

Thelonious Monk "The Classic Quartet" Candid cd 2023

After waffling I decided to order this new cd even though I do have a budget early cd of this in storage. This new remaster certainly would sound better than that cd in a side by side comparison. And it's a great performance.

On the same day in Tokyo the Monk Quartet did this tv show performance, and a concert released by Columbia/Sony as a 2 disc set. The latter is stereo, this TV performance was recorded in mono.



From amazon.com

From the shelves

Listening to this beautiful cd

From the shelves

"Jacques Pelzier"


While thinking of my Dad.

Mario Adnet "Um Olhar Sobre Villa-Lobos" Adventure Music cd

Graceful and pastoral sound. Great way to start a cool summer morning.



From the shelves

Chet Baker Trio "Live in Paris" Elementary Music cd, disc 2



This is one of my favorite Elementary Music releases. Chet is mellow and focused and the sound is very "you are there". . . .

From the shelves

Jure Pukl "Doubtless"

A husband and wife two tenor lead, bass and drums quartet. Rather "harmelodic" to my ears at least so far in.



In from bandcamp

TONG LI ....Probably one of the best Chinese singer presently. Beside her own songs, she has taken back many of Teresa Teng's repertory ....beautiful !




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYf0kcFzGgY

If you are interested, some albums are available here :

https://www.yesasia.com/global/search/%E7%AB%A5%E4%B8%BD/0-0-0-q.%E7%AB%A5%E4%B8...

Carlos Santana/Alice Coltrane "Illumination" SACD



Beautiful sound for this crisp summer morning. Fall is coming!

From the shelves

Milt Jackson "Used to be Jackson" Solid Records Japan 2 cd set, disc 2

Milt jackson, Cedar Walton, Ray Brown, Mickey Roker



From the shelves

Lucero- Live from Atlanta.
Streaming after King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Iron Lung.
Super stereo 3-d surround sound, courtesy of two Lii F15s and 2 Decware monoblocks.

Listening to some Christmas music today, of recordings my family played when I was a "youngster" in the 60's.

Joan Baez, "Noel," from 1966, with orchestral accompaniment.  Peter Schickele did the arrangements and conducted the orchestra.  He is perhaps best known for his humorous shows on the works of "P.D.Q Bach," a made-up member of the Bach family (I actually saw one of his performances with my parents in the early 1970s).  In his liner notes to the reissued CD, he talks about "the sound on Joan's album would be reminiscent of the musical periods in which the various carols were written," and that he had been selected because he "had shown, in the P.D.Q. Bach music, a certain amount of dexterity in evoking the flavor of bygone styles without trying to slavishly write" in exactly those historical styles.  It has some songs I really like that I have not heard elsewhere (like "Down in Yon Forest", maybe my favorite on this recording).

Chet Atkins, "Christmas with Chet Atkins" from 1961.  For some reason, we never played this record a lot when I was a kid.  It has a vocal group accompaniment on some songs that to me seems typical for late 50s to early 60s popular recordings.  I liked those vocals on this record (even though I think some may find it dated and "corny") - a couple of my favorites in that style were "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Little Drummer Boy."

Hope everyone here has a good holiday weekend, and good music (whether holiday music or otherwise).

Teskey Brothers
Black Pistol Fire
Kaleo
Peter Green

Listening to some Clifton Chenier zydeco music today.  Started with "Bayou Blues," which I think may be a compilation of singles.  As the title says, lots of blues on this one (and I think blues was always a large part of his music), with a mix of vocals and instrumentals.





Then to an anthology "Chess New Orleans," which has tracks from Chicago's Chess records foray into Louisiana in the 1950s through the early 1960s.  It includes some Clifton Chenier tracks - the instrumental "Bayou Drive" is one of my favorite Chenier songs.

Pete Johnson. . . quite a piano player!

Right now
Miles Davis "Miles +19" (aka "Miles Ahead") This is the mono mix on Japanese Sony cd

Listening to something different this morning - Tito Puente, "El Rey de la Salsa."



I got this at a Tower Records outlet a long time ago.  I would call it latin jazz, and all the vocals are spanish (no liner notes on the CD, which I guess is OK because I wouldn't be able to read them anyway!).  This is pretty much the only recording I have in this genre.

It is pretty fun music to listen to - it has lots energy, and even without understanding the words it feels pretty compelling to me.  My favorite is an instrumental version of "Ran Tan Kan" that has vibes, and all sorts of rhythms going on (a quick look at youtube shows lots of versions have vocals).    

John Pizzarelli "Bossa Nova" Telarc cd

A nice Saturday morning cd. Paul Braga's drums really help to anchor this one.

Yes, Tito wrote "Oye" possibly borrowing from the great bassist Cachao. . .and Santana did a version that knocked me out when I first heard it on the radio and led me to exploring some Latin jazz.

Cha cha cha!

Bossa Nova is a genre I really started listening to and exploring in the mid-eighties and then got seriously into when exchanging emails and tapes with a California guitarist named Jim Rowan, an expert in the genre. This led me to a deep reverence for the music of Jobim, which lasts to this day and I don't see going away. Those Getz albums are classics and those cd versions in that box set are very well remastered and presented.

Yes--one of the best selling jazz albums of all time and perhaps the most influential bossa nova album ever. I don't play it often. . .as it is sort of seared into my mind. I have a mono version on cd that is nice for me to hear as I have heard the stereo so often!

It is a marathon. Cleaned 270 albums this week, listened to 82 so far. Out of the 82, 12 are either excessively worn or have unrepairable skips. The eighteen pictured are good out of the 23 auditioned in the last 20 hours.

A great record!

I think I have all the work that Moore did with the Cole Trio, and another record of his as a leader. As I used to play along with the Cole Trio recordings he was an influence on my own (ragged) guitar style. Quite a guy! I'm glad he made some coin.

Another great guitarist that played with Cole (after Moore) was John Collins.

It's still a bit hard for me to get back into classical music . . . I still associate that so much with listening with my Dad, who I miss so much. . . still. I'm taking some baby steps into the genre successfully this year.

Right now

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Just Coolin'" Blue Note cd

This was a rejected session that finally saw the light of day this decade. Not as polished as some sessions but good tunes and playing and sound.