What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2014
On the cusp of 2015, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume X: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-be-interested-vol-x
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Been eagerly waiting for my order of this vinyl to turn up, it just has (along with thins month's Music Matters issues) Interesting take on some jazz standards. The MMs can wait for the moment!
On CD:-
Blake Mills
"Heigh Ho" (2014) SP
Got burned with Sting shmcd albums. But it wasn't enough so i decided to raise pain with this that sounds like recorded into a bucket during an earthquake. A couple of pints leave less regrets.
Gianluigi,
I feel your pain.
I did the same with Speakers Corner classical reissues. :/
So those 50$ CDs are no good?
Hi Kuma!
I thought that the cheap vinyl of this i had many years ago was somehow faulty and btw my turntable wasn't so good. It's exactly the same. Sounds like your TT can't keep speed. I read here about other shcm discs here (dire straits i.e.) and they had good review. So i don't know what to say. Albeit i had it from a shop in USA at a reasonable price i'll avoid to buy them again even for few coins. Call it experience.... 
All down to which ever master tape they use.
Originally Posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
You're right Ewemon. It's not written "remastered" or something else. My fault before anything else. But i thought they were taking the chance to give it a dust while introducing a new enhanced edition of the record. A missed occasion?
Over the years I have noticed that generally Japanese reissue CDs or vinyl pressing are heavily tailored to the local taste. ( sort of many US pressing of UK titles I have encountered have T&A EQ curve for instance )
Plus, they'll never get the masters or if they do, it would be a far away generation masters. So they are disadvantaged to start with.
Even amongst JVC's excellent XRCD varies by titles.
i recoup with this
One of the divine Ms G's three masterpieces, on a rather battered US Capitol first press:
Streaming CD rip in AIFF, great album:-
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
John Mellencamp
"Plain Spoken" (2014) SP
The High Priestess of Southern Gothic again, this time on a US Capitol LP.
Awesome.
G
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
"Hypnotic Eye" (2014) SP
NCAA Men's "March Madness" on TV in the background, more 2014 releases on the replay - doesn't get much better than this. Go Zags.
Haven't had a listen to Neil Young for a while which is strange as I've always been fond of his music.
On vinyl...
John Hiatt
"Terms Of My Surrender" (2014) SP
Utterly magical music & SQ from the Music Matters 33 series..
Utterly magical music & SQ from the Music Matters 33 series..
Yep, the time has come to peel this one open.
Brilliant live album
Ryan Adams
"Ryan Adams" (2014) SP
Two classic albums on one CD, part of the superb 9-CD, 15-album Masterworks box (just £15!). Sounding just dandy. Fantastic arrangements by Billy May too.
You horrible twosome have got me interested despite the fact I don't like Sinatra
For £15 it's worth a punt Gary. Go on, you know you want to...
Having secured a ticket to see Mary Black at Guildford on her last tour I thought I'd celebrate by giving this lovely album a spin. Really looking forward to that concert!
I've been reading the forum for many years and this is
my first post.
Some very mixed artists here, thanks for the inspiration.
Ben Harper, Both Sides of the Gun, listening via my
ND5XS from a ripped CD using XLD.
Can't for the life of me add the picture. Doh!
Hopefully this might work for you. From an earlier post:
*****I may be able to help on a Mac - find the album cover at amazon or wherever, with the cursor on the cover, control/click (same time)and you will get a drop down, scroll toward bottom and choose copy image address.
come to the thread and click post replay, click the icon to the left of the smiley, paste (command key/"v" key same time) the image address into the top URL line, click in the preview window and the image should appear. Click "insert" and the image should show in the reply window, add any remarks and click Submit Reply.*****
*************
adapt as necessary for windows (mouse, clicks, etc)
from amazon
