I'm fortunate to have a Subratek Chardonnay tube preamp and a recent purchase of a Hattor Big with a New Class D opamp and the Amtrans AMRG resistors. After having the Chardonnay in for a few weeks, I put the Hattor back in tonight and am very much enjoying the additional detail and purity of tone.

I did a search on utube and happened to find this brief clip with an Indian audiophile visiting in Japan with the president of Amtrans.

https://youtu.be/irFHeIEfPhw?si=UQ0osLyeS4D3s8S2

Update!

Finally pulled the trigger on the 'spectrum analyzer' display I've been wanting to try.




Got an upgraded LPSU for the streamer, coax upgraded from Belden/BJC to Geistnote Apogee Wyde Eye and Oyaide Silver.

The braided cable dc cable is a guitar effects cable also from Oyaide.







Great fun! The best upgrade was the light display!

Paul

Pink Floyd: Live at Empire Pool
Wembly, London UK during the
British Winter Tour of 1974

Title: No Room Upon the Hill

Date: Performed November 16, 1974

SQ: A (outstanding audience recording)

Source: 1st Generation copy of the
master discs

Liberated in its lowest generation
form yet, in SHN-only format, by
Man of Leisure Music (MoLM) May, 2004
using the FloydArtifacts listserv
and Sharing the Groove.  MD5 codes
listed at bottom.

Mastering: Transferred to disc by a
close friend of the taper.  Someone
who obviously knew what they were doing.
(Thank you)  This is one of the few
departures from our signature re-mastering
methods; MoLM has not performed any sound
alteration, nor speed correction to this
phenomenal recording.

Background: Obtained in a trade with the
taper, Man of Leisure Music (MoLM)
has secured a 1st gen clone of the
master discs.  We're ever so grateful.

This is the very well known concert
performed during the British Winter Tour
in late 1974.  This night, the BBC recorded what
many Pink Floyd fans consider to be the finest
live version of Dark Side of the Moon.
To my understanding, the BBC did not record
the first set of this timeless concert.

Here it is, the full concert, and one of
the better audience recordings you will
ever hear of Pink Floyd.

Recently, the pre-FM broadcast soundboard
edition of the BBC-recorded second set,
including the Echoes encore, was liberated
on Sharing the Groove and the FloydArtifacts
listserv. (thanks Boss Binth for grabbing it!)

Man of Leisure Music would like to now
share this audience version with the Pink Floyd
Trading community to compliment the pre-FM
broadcast soundboard roio.  Together, they
represent the two definitive recordings of
this historic date in Rock and Roll history.

ffp:
101 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-9).
102 - Raving and Drooling.
103 - You Gotta Be Crazy.
201 - Speak To Me.

202 - Breathe.
203 - On The Run.f
204 - Time-Breathe (Reprise).
205 - The Great Gig In The Sky.
206 - Money.
207 - Us And Them.
208 - Any Colour Tou Like.
209 - Brain Damage.
210 - Eclpise.

Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced
Studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Back To Black Pressing.flac2496
Released May 12, 1967
Recorded October 23, 1966 – April 4, 1967

Santana
May 13, 1968 [date uncertain]
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco, CA

The sound quality is very good FM from low gen. off-air reel.

CD#1: 1st set 47:04
01 Waiting  8:21
02 Treat  10:22
03 Evil Ways  8:45
04 Shades of Time  3:40
05 > Savor  5:03
06 > Jingo  10:19
07 announcer & crowd noise  0:41

CD#2: 2nd set  40:29
01 announcer intro & crowd noise  0:10
02 Persuasion  3:47
03 Soul Sacrifice  3:31
04 > drums  11:36
05 > Soul Sacrifice  20:44
06 talk: "Don't Go No Further..." & crowd noise  0:38

Carlos Santana: Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Marcus Malone: Percussion
David Brown: Bass
Gregg Rolie: Keyboards, Vocals
Bob "Doc" Livingston: Drums

Probable lineage: 1st or 2nd gen. copy of off-air reel master.
KMPX-FM > ? > Sony SLH-180 7 inch Dolby B 1/4 track reel recorded at 3.75 ips (Tandberg 9241XD) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools > AIFF > FLAC level 8 (created with xACT with sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

Nothing has been edited out or eq'd, but there were lots of dropouts - mostly in just one of the channels. Since this is basically a mono mix, the dropouts and levels changes could be almost entirely eliminated - either by pasting in from the good channel or with manual level adjustments in Pro Tools. The finished result is very clean sounding overall. This version is less cut up and better sound quality than the previous version seeded.

The date is uncertain because of the announcer comments at the end of the first set about 5 nights coming up of benefit shows with 5 bands a night. There is a poster for Santana playing at the Avalon from May 17-19, which would be the last 3 nights of that "5 day benefit" if the date of the 13th was correct but only 2 bands and no benefit are listed on the poster for the May 17-19 run. Some people think that this is from that May 17-19 run at the Avalon, but that comment about the benefit still messes things up, because there are Avalon posters with the typical 2 bands and no mention of any benefits all the way up to the end of November 1968. After Chet Helms "Family Dog" stopped booking shows at the Avalon another promoter, "Soundproof", put on more shows at The Avalon starting in January 1969. Jerry Abram's Headlights are mentioned also by the announcer, and they did do both the '68 Family Dog Avalon shows and the '69 Soundproof shows.

Based upon all of this information, I would put the probable date as being close to the end of Chet Helms run at the Avalon. The posters for weekly Friday thru Sunday shows stopped at the end of November, 1968. Soundproof took over in January '69, so I would speculate that this show here is really from December, 1968. That would be when benefits to keep Chet Helms going at The Avalon would have been probable. The announcer doesn't say that the benefit shows would be for any other cause, and the regular scheduled weekend shows apparently had ended, so there might have been time for a 5 day wednesday thru Sunday benefit before the Family Dog completely stopped doing shows at the Avalon...

So I am listing this as 5-13-68 [date uncertain - might actually be from December, 1968]

But I'm sure you will enjoy this however you decide to label it!