what was the last cd you bought?
Posted by: AL4N on 13 March 2004
after a suggestion,i have split up the old topic into this one and what was your last vinyl purchase.I hope it makes life easier.
so to get things off and running
queen--the highlander sound track
so to get things off and running
queen--the highlander sound track
Posted on: 10 January 2010 by Simply Grim
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Posted on: 10 January 2010 by markah
quote:Originally posted by Voltaire:
Ooooooo! Jealous am I
May I ask where you found this little gem?
Gordon, it's only available through her website, via the Righteous Babe store. I've been toying with the idea for a while now, and finally took the plunge. Once you convert $ to £ it's not too bad!
Cheers, Mark
Posted on: 10 January 2010 by MilesSmiles
On pre-order
Posted on: 10 January 2010 by MilesSmiles
On pre-order
Posted on: 11 January 2010 by Voltaire
quote:Originally posted by markah:
Gordon, it's only available through her website, via the Righteous Babe store. I've been toying with the idea for a while now, and finally took the plunge. Once you convert $ to £ it's not too bad!
Cheers, Mark
Thank you Mark...
Posted on: 11 January 2010 by Blueknowz
Posted on: 11 January 2010 by Chris Kelly
Colosseum's 4 disc retrospective. Epic.
Posted on: 12 January 2010 by MilesSmiles
A few Black Triangles
Posted on: 12 January 2010 by MilesSmiles
... and a few silver MoFi's
Posted on: 12 January 2010 by Lee Henley
Brought these on Saturday at the Wolverhampton record fair
Nirvana - Unplugged
Alanis Morresett - Jagged Little Pill
Miles Davis - Birth of the cool
John Coltrane - Coltrane plays the blues
Rubenstein sampler cd from the box set
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot deluxe album
All were brought for less than £25
Nirvana - Unplugged
Alanis Morresett - Jagged Little Pill
Miles Davis - Birth of the cool
John Coltrane - Coltrane plays the blues
Rubenstein sampler cd from the box set
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot deluxe album
All were brought for less than £25
Posted on: 13 January 2010 by MilesSmiles
Elvis Presley - For LP Fans Only - BVCP-5013
Elvis Presley - A Date With Elvis - BVCP-5014
Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis - BVCP-2061
Elvis Presley - A Date With Elvis - BVCP-5014
Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis - BVCP-2061
Posted on: 13 January 2010 by ewemon
quote:Originally posted by MilesSmiles:
Elvis Presley - For LP Fans Only - BVCP-5013
Elvis Presley - A Date With Elvis - BVCP-5014
Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis - BVCP-2061
You didn't buy these by any chance after you watched the Elvis week on Auntie Beeb did you Oliver?
Posted on: 13 January 2010 by ewemon
Some Lyle Lovvett albums to replace my worn out copies.
Joe Beard- No More Cherry- very rare Japanese album.
Joe Beard and Ronnie Earl- Blues Union XRCD. I ahve a copy of the normal disc and I love it.
Lightnin Hopkins- Goin' Away XRCD.
Joe Beard- No More Cherry- very rare Japanese album.
Joe Beard and Ronnie Earl- Blues Union XRCD. I ahve a copy of the normal disc and I love it.
Lightnin Hopkins- Goin' Away XRCD.
Posted on: 13 January 2010 by MilesSmiles
quote:Originally posted by ewemon:quote:Originally posted by MilesSmiles:
Elvis Presley - For LP Fans Only - BVCP-5013
Elvis Presley - A Date With Elvis - BVCP-5014
Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis - BVCP-2061
You didn't buy these by any chance after you watched the Elvis week on Auntie Beeb did you Oliver?
Lol, I watched some of it (not sure if it was the Beeb)but had seen most of the footage already.
Posted on: 13 January 2010 by MilesSmiles
quote:Originally posted by ewemon:
Joe Beard and Ronnie Earl- Blues Union XRCD.
Lightnin Hopkins- Goin' Away XRCD.
I have to look out for these two XRCDs.
Posted on: 13 January 2010 by ewemon
quote:Originally posted by MilesSmiles:quote:Originally posted by ewemon:
Joe Beard and Ronnie Earl- Blues Union XRCD.
Lightnin Hopkins- Goin' Away XRCD.
I have to look out for these two XRCDs.
If the Joe Beard normal disc is anything to go by it should be a great sounding disc.
Posted on: 14 January 2010 by Bruce Woodhouse
Vampire Weekend: Contra
Sunny music amidst the ice. Impossible to play quietly.
Bruce
Sunny music amidst the ice. Impossible to play quietly.
Bruce
Posted on: 15 January 2010 by KeanoKing
Posted on: 16 January 2010 by u5227470736789439
The Well Tempered Clavier, the Two and the Three Part Inventions with the Goldberg Variations in Walcha's estimable recordings from about 1960. On five French EMI CDs, I have never encountered a plainer demonstration of massive superiority that CD has over even the very finest LP reproduction than here.
You would think that the harpsichord was made for the LP, where the medium's significant failings in terms of dynamic range would not be challenged by the harpsichord!
This much is true, but the much vaunted quality of accurate timbre and detail retrieval from LPs is also shown for what is is. A nonesense. The CDs are full of armosphere, of supremely accurate timbre and in this case a most beautifully splendid lute stop contrast to normal plectrum playing on what is now clearly a stupendously beautiful harpsichord, and more than anything a sense of swing and naturalness in the music making that no LP will ever match. Not least the CDs show the value in pitch stabity which also leads to a tremendous sense of nuance in rhythmic details. I suspect that the human ears is tuned well enough to hear rhythmic nuances in the order of thousandths of a second! The wobbly aspect of LP replay dulls this significant aspect of music making.
In other words the original LPs are showen as mere lame representations of highly succerssful recordings, finally now revealing the true greaness of the performances captured all those years ago.
Fascinating that this is so revealing of the quality step-change from LP to CD, when one would have thought the best exemplar would be something on a full orchestra!
What orchestral material shows with respect to LP replay is the ability of a very fine TT/Arm/Cart to keep the plot in CD like style whist a poorer TT set will get muddled much sooner. So I can see the value in very expensive TT arrangements over less fine ones, where the recording is on LP only. Otherwise the sensible thing to do is go digital! Of course modern pop CDs often sound worse than old ones, but that is another story ... For classical the palm goes to the CD every time ...
ATB from George
You would think that the harpsichord was made for the LP, where the medium's significant failings in terms of dynamic range would not be challenged by the harpsichord!
This much is true, but the much vaunted quality of accurate timbre and detail retrieval from LPs is also shown for what is is. A nonesense. The CDs are full of armosphere, of supremely accurate timbre and in this case a most beautifully splendid lute stop contrast to normal plectrum playing on what is now clearly a stupendously beautiful harpsichord, and more than anything a sense of swing and naturalness in the music making that no LP will ever match. Not least the CDs show the value in pitch stabity which also leads to a tremendous sense of nuance in rhythmic details. I suspect that the human ears is tuned well enough to hear rhythmic nuances in the order of thousandths of a second! The wobbly aspect of LP replay dulls this significant aspect of music making.
In other words the original LPs are showen as mere lame representations of highly succerssful recordings, finally now revealing the true greaness of the performances captured all those years ago.
Fascinating that this is so revealing of the quality step-change from LP to CD, when one would have thought the best exemplar would be something on a full orchestra!
What orchestral material shows with respect to LP replay is the ability of a very fine TT/Arm/Cart to keep the plot in CD like style whist a poorer TT set will get muddled much sooner. So I can see the value in very expensive TT arrangements over less fine ones, where the recording is on LP only. Otherwise the sensible thing to do is go digital! Of course modern pop CDs often sound worse than old ones, but that is another story ... For classical the palm goes to the CD every time ...
ATB from George
Posted on: 16 January 2010 by markah
Pretentious rubbish if ever I have heard it.
Posted on: 16 January 2010 by u5227470736789439
quote:Originally posted by markah:
Pretentious rubbish if ever I have heard it.
Thus spake a lover of LPs, though your profile indicates otherwise.
Personally I prefer music to any given method of replay!
ATB from George
Posted on: 16 January 2010 by markah
You know I'm only jesting. I lowered myself to the pathetic personal comments that have been prevalent on this forum lately. I'm a lover of all music and respect every one's opinion on what they like. The slight digs that have come in are un-necessary.
Posted on: 16 January 2010 by u5227470736789439
The slight digs that have come in are un-necessary.
Thanks for the clarification! I have always prefered good digital playback to LP, and was surprised to find the harpsichord the demonstrator that it is! Of course pitch stabilty is crucial to the harpsichord sound as any quiver is totally wrong, and so I guess this is why the timbre is also so much more pleasing. The old [but still mint condition] 1960s HMV Electrola LPs I have [or more accurately had because I transfered them to CD] are actually quivering because of the cutting table. A modern DMM LP might be significantly better, but I was able to listen to my old LPs over Christmas on a multi-thousand pound TT that was not so much better than my Rega P3 on these things though the big TT was obviously better on heavily cut orchestral LPs of any vintage.
A bit of quiver is much less serious on orchestral music becaus all the instrument quiver a little in any case as tuning is adjusted by ear [by the players when they hear what is coming out!] and vibrato is nigh universal nowadays!
I agree that the tone of the Forum has begun to fail to reflect that different views can be genuinely held by perfect reasonable people! The acidity level has risen and has burned away the old sense of respect the holders of differing view-points, whilst quite possibly completely disagreeing with the view itself.
So thanks for your reply!
ATB from George
Thanks for the clarification! I have always prefered good digital playback to LP, and was surprised to find the harpsichord the demonstrator that it is! Of course pitch stabilty is crucial to the harpsichord sound as any quiver is totally wrong, and so I guess this is why the timbre is also so much more pleasing. The old [but still mint condition] 1960s HMV Electrola LPs I have [or more accurately had because I transfered them to CD] are actually quivering because of the cutting table. A modern DMM LP might be significantly better, but I was able to listen to my old LPs over Christmas on a multi-thousand pound TT that was not so much better than my Rega P3 on these things though the big TT was obviously better on heavily cut orchestral LPs of any vintage.
A bit of quiver is much less serious on orchestral music becaus all the instrument quiver a little in any case as tuning is adjusted by ear [by the players when they hear what is coming out!] and vibrato is nigh universal nowadays!
I agree that the tone of the Forum has begun to fail to reflect that different views can be genuinely held by perfect reasonable people! The acidity level has risen and has burned away the old sense of respect the holders of differing view-points, whilst quite possibly completely disagreeing with the view itself.
So thanks for your reply!
ATB from George
Posted on: 16 January 2010 by mikeeschman
I am posting to confirm that I hear exactly what George hears, for whatever that is worth.
Posted on: 17 January 2010 by KeanoKing
Pure Genius from Rhino UK at a very good price!!!