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

Mark Knopfler

Kill To Get Crimson - CD Rip

1. True Love Will Never Fade 
2. The Scaffolder's Wife 
3. The Fizzy And The Still 
4. Heart Full Of Holes 
5. We Can Get Wild 
6. Secondary Waltz 
7. Punish The Monkey 
8. Let It All Go 
9. Behind With The Rent 
10. The Fish And The Bird 
11. Madame Geneva's 
12. In The SkyL

Last Album for the night. 

Edward

Who can resist Sandy's wonderful voice especially on "Banks of the Nile" ?

WAV CD rip. Live recording of the punkish bluegrass OCMS playing their take onBlonde on Blonde. The songs are great enough to take almost any treatment, OCMS love Dylan's music and it shows, great fun versions, well played and sung.

1968 - Vinyl - UK 2nd pressing on Island "i" pink label...

This Was - Jethro Tull...

John Coltrane -Impressions- vinyl

I bought this for £4.99 from Oxfam about 9 months ago and found it hard to listen to. Now I have the RCA to DIN SL IC (loan by Naim thank you) and SL speaker cables the texture of the sax sound he produces can be appreciated and the music is coherent rather than being a cacophony.

Would any jazz aficionados familiar with this work like to comment on their experience of getting this LP to sound good?

My dealer visited today just to listen to my system. We cleaned two of his LPs. We listened to the first track before and after cleaning with my Loricraft PRC4 and he was amazed by the difference. He though the improvement was in the same league as the Clearaudio Double Matrix which also incorporates sonic cleaning. 

He had never heard a 282/300DR sounding as good. No waiting for the mains to quieten in the middle of the night. The SL loom (except Which Hat DIN to XLR) and the careful selection of the power cords (PL Lites to SuperCap DR and NAPSC in particular) has opened up the soundstage, brought out the atmospheric qualities of good pop music (its the higher frequency components of a note that convey the emotion of the instruments), and orchestral/vocal has the power, clarity and cohesiveness of live music. He played a CD with incredibly deep bass guitar as a test and it exceeded his expectations.

Right now Tina Turner's Private Dancer LP is giving me goosebumps. Without the SL etc this kind of Naim system has no magic in my experience. I doubt even the 252 or 552 perform without them either even if they might sound better than 282.

Phil

Filipe posted:

John Coltrane -Impressions- vinyl

I bought this for £4.99 from Oxfam about 9 months ago and found it hard to listen to. Now I have the RCA to DIN SL IC (loan by Naim thank you) and SL speaker cables the texture of the sax sound he produces can be appreciated and the music is coherent rather than being a cacophony.

Would any jazz aficionados familiar with this work like to comment on their experience of getting this LP to sound good?

My dealer visited today just to listen to my system. We cleaned two of his LPs. We listened to the first track before and after cleaning with my Loricraft PRC4 and he was amazed by the difference. He though the improvement was in the same league as the Clearaudio Double Matrix which also incorporates sonic cleaning. 

He had never heard a 282/300DR sounding as good. No waiting for the mains to quieten in the middle of the night. The SL loom (except Which Hat DIN to XLR) and the careful selection of the power cords (PL Lites to SuperCap DR and NAPSC in particular) has opened up the soundstage, brought out the atmospheric qualities of good pop music (its the higher frequency components that convey the emotion of the instruments), and orchestral/vocal has the power, clarity and cohesiveness of live music. He played a CD with incredibly deep bass guitar as a test and it exceeded his expectations.

Right now Tina Turner's Private Dancer LP is giving me goosebumps. Without the SL etc this kind of Naim system has no magic in my experience. I doubt even the 252 or 552 perform without them either even if they might sound better than 282.

Phil

Apart from the missing album cover, your post would be better off been placed  on the HiFi Corner part of the forum where you can discuss the merits or not of the different hardware you have been talking about. 

Vinyl

CD

Golden Smog-Down By The Old Mainstream

another good one from Ewemon

enjoy...

ken

Arrival in the mailbox.....

Fink - Perfect Darkness

.....and it opens with 'Perfect Darkness'.....a fantastic track

Chris Robinson Brotherhood-Barefoot in the Head

......following up with another new arrival

Fink - Hard Believer

Great opening track as well.....

Franz Liszt | Transcribed by Carl Tausig:  István Lajkó (piano)

Faust Symphony:  Three Character Pictures after Goethe

1.  Faust | 2. Gretchen | 3. Mephistopheles - Chorus mysticus

World Premiere Recording

1976 - vinyl - us pressing...

1995 - vinyl - UK pressing...

2009 - Tidal...

Karin's debut album is a delight and a follow up is long overdue. "Keep The Streets Empty For Me" is a great track.

Christopher_M posted:

Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971

Great performance, great material. An album that I wouldn't have known about had I not seen it here, so thanks.

"Great performance, great material"  Indeed. I'd also add "great acoustics". Granted there's the entire amplification and recording chain involved, but I consider this the best live material I've ever heard for venue acoustics.

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967). On Japanese CD (circa 1992). The ten tracks seem to go by fast, so I like to give this repeated listens.

Glenn Gould - Beethoven piano concerto No. 1 / Bach piano concerto No. 5

sjbabbey posted:

Who can resist Sandy's wonderful voice especially on "Banks of the Nile" ?

I can't. Love this album and always regret not spending £2.70 to go and see her at the Colston Hall for what turned out to be her penultimate show.

ELO's Greatest Hits (1979). On original US CD release from 1986. Reveling in some of the memorable music from my high school days.