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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13260 on: June 26, 2020, 06:48:54 PM »
Steely Dan: Aja



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13261 on: June 26, 2020, 06:50:13 PM »
The Wonderful Sounds of Female Vocals



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13262 on: June 27, 2020, 09:35:36 PM »
My wife is out of town nursing her little sister so I used the kitchen table as a work space, and brought an old project back to life.
Glowing in the dark, playing Sting's  Ten Summoner's Tales.
A Fisher 400 receiver from the mid to late 60's.  All US made, all tubes.

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13263 on: June 28, 2020, 06:32:41 AM »
My wife is out of town nursing her little sister so I used the kitchen table as a work space, and brought an old project back to life.
Glowing in the dark, playing Sting's  Ten Summoner's Tales.
A Fisher 400 receiver from the mid to late 60's.  All US made, all tubes.


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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13264 on: June 28, 2020, 09:07:44 AM »
I'm pretty happy with the way it turn out.  The most labor intensive thing was getting all the cigarette smoke out of it!  I swabbed all surfaces, inside and out, with naptha then alcohol.  Cleaned the pots, all tube sockets, changed a few caps.  Not bad for a $100 find.  I still need to do a more thorough restoration.... one day.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13265 on: June 28, 2020, 08:58:48 PM »
Steely Dan: Aja



DSD sourced from a Japanese SHM SACD

How did you rip it from the SACD? I have a few hybrid SACD titles, but no SACD player. I'd like to do this as well.

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13266 on: June 28, 2020, 09:07:38 PM »
I'm listening to the soothing sounds  :thumb: of Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" album from 1982!  FLAC from a CD reissue. I once had the cassette but I don't know where that ended up...



Are there any hard rock / NWOBHM fans here?

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13267 on: July 01, 2020, 11:16:53 AM »
Admittedly, it took me quite a while to appreciate Miles Davis, but I think my ears have finally matured enough to grok his music. I began the morning listening to a TIDAL mix of mellow Jazz songs from various artists. The third or fourth song was Generique by Miles Davis. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to listen to the entire "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud" album. WOW!  :shock: Holy shit!! This is fantastic.

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13268 on: July 08, 2020, 08:19:55 AM »
  Charlie Daniels Fiddle Fire to start. Streaming Qobuz lots of selections.


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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13269 on: July 11, 2020, 05:00:18 PM »
Anne Bisson: Portraits and Perfumes



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13270 on: July 11, 2020, 05:07:14 PM »
Anne Bisson: Keys to My Heart



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I listened to these two Anne Bisson albums because I liked the Direct to Disc LP of hers called "Four Seasons in Jazz Live at Bernie's" that I heard last year at CAF.

Unfortunately neither of these albums really did anything for me musically. But nothing ventured, nothing gained. At least they were both a free listen on Tidal.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13271 on: July 11, 2020, 05:12:15 PM »
Al Di Meola: Across the Universe



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A collection of Beatle covers in that unmistakable Di Meola style.

I give this one a  :thumb:
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13272 on: July 11, 2020, 05:18:05 PM »
A Decade of Steely Dan



44/16 FLAC sourced from an MCA Ultimate Masterdisc Gold CD
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13273 on: July 14, 2020, 06:35:02 PM »
A 1957 London pressing of the operetta based on Granados "Goyescas" with the National Orchestra of Spain.  Very clean recording.
Kinda strange to create an opera from a handful of piano pieces, but that's what they did.  I like the piano better, but I'm not really an opera guy.
It's got the booklet of the lyrics in Spanish and English so you can follow along. 
Granados went to NYC in 1916 to perform these little pieces.  Returning to Spain his ship was torpedoed by a German sub.  He drowned trying to save his wife.  He was in his prime as a composer and the world lost no telling how many masterpieces from his early death.
This is an interesting version of one of them...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jo8S6mTbfs
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #13274 on: July 15, 2020, 04:41:15 PM »
Qobuz... re-release...



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