What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)

Led Zeppelin III

SHM-CD

Cantelli/Philharmonia's Unfinished Symphony.

In the shadow of Toscanini, from the top, there is a human presence behind the notes. There are sweetness, drama, suspense and excitement all rolled up in a neat compact package. There's a lot going on especially the 1st movement and Cantelli demonstrates how creative Schubert was. 2nd movement has a Mozartian touch with Requiem like feel. Even this is a mid century recording, his reading is amasingly fresh and does not feel out of date.

A decent reissue from the EMI vault. Natural timbre and has a good presence as well as low in distortions and self noise. I'd imagine that the original would even have a better frequency extension and dynamics.

I wish Testament would reissue this title as they did on Cantelli's Beethoven's 7th.

12 Etudes

Maurizio Pollini (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Larry,

Are you running the 5x bare and hilined into the SN2? Mine never sounded better that way . Hope you are having fun.

Raising Sand

Robert Plant, Alison Krauss | Format: Vinyl

Joe, First I tried CD5X with FlatCap 2X. I now have CD5X connected to HiCap-2. Both times using HiLine. I have yet to try CD5X bare. I am still experimenting. Like you I agree using SN2 AUX2 to power the StageLine is the way to go. SN2 is going through it's ups and downs being new out of the box mostly ups and getting better by the hour. Hope you are enjoying your SN2 as much as I am.

Cheers,

Larry

I've got Boston on vinyl going Larry. I've kinda fallen back in love with my 5x again though, bare and HL'd into the SN2 is sweet and smooth to my ears. I think the FC made it edgy. Maybe it's the SN2's DR smoothing it out . Have a fun evening.

Boz Scaggs: Hits!

Collection of happy tunes.

I usually do not care for his ballads but on the last tune of Side B ''You can have me anytime" there is a solo guitar riff at the tail end and thought it was unusually tuneful. I checked the credit and sure enuf, it is Carlos Santana!

Brandi Carlile. Self-titled first album. Revised release on CD.

Went to see this in The West End last night.

Excellent stuff. Not an acting masterclass but there's barely any acting anyway. Far more like a concert really, the bits where they're not singing just link the bits where they are! But fabulous music, very well played and truly excellent singers.

So have I !

On CD. Superb quality recording of the September 1971 BBC concert (Fat Old Sun/One of These Days/Echoes/Embryo/Blues):

Hi Pat, what's it like? '74 was a very interesting year for the Dead...

1974 was a good year.....

Clive, I've got that record as well, and while it's OK, it's difficult to see why it garnered all that praise back in 1984. The music is alright, well performed and so on, but lacks the street energy that is vital to the piece; and Dame Kiri and Jose are just wrong - too old, bloodless, and they don't seem to understand the material.

I think Seckerson was right when he said that Bernstein had been bamboozled by some record company execs into thinking he'd written an opera, when in fact he'd actually created (with Robbins, Laurents and Sondheim) the greatest musical of all time.

Inspired by both Steve J & Tony 2011 Byrds posts yesterday plus this mornings sunshine 

Ist press vinyl.

Pink Floyd, at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam 17th September 1969, as recorded by Dutch radio. Awesome quality on CD:

Tracks (the titles are from the "Man & Journey" tour programme, not an invention of the bootleggers :

1. Intro [spoken, in Dutch]
2. Daybreak [Grantchester Meadows]
3. Work [band bangs things, saws bits of wood etc above a Mason drum solo]
4. Tea Time [band brews up on stage]
5. Afternoon [Biding My Time]
6. Doing It! [Drum solo, tapes]
7. Sleeping [eerie electronics, quad tape of guy snoring etc]
8. Nightmare [Cymbeline]
9. Daybreak [Grantchester Meadows reprise]
10. The Beginning [Green Is The Colour]
11. Beset By Creatures of The Deep [CWTAE]
12. The Narrow Way
13. The Pink Jungle [Pow R Toc H]
14. The Labyrinths of Auximenese [bass riff, electronic etc]
15. Behold the Temple of Light [electronics, organ]
16. The End of the Beginning [Last part of Saucerful of Secrets]

Prompted by another thread.

Not the biggest fan of country rock but this album is ground braking - 

 1st press vinyl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBSnPMORpTQ

On Vinyl