What are you listening to now?

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Love the glow of vacuum tubes in the evening...

[Doctor Phibes]

@mark said in What are you listening to now?:

Love the glow of vacuum tubes in the evening...

That Wayne Shorter album is really a classic. I used to play the title track from time to time back in the day.

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@Doctor-Phibes I picked up both of those today. The Wayne Shorter is a Blue Note release and has incredible sound quality. Totally surface noise free and it's like they are in the room with me. Love it. The Coltrane pressing is the same. I also picked up a 1965 pressing of some Telemann played by Jean Pierre Rampal. Was blown away by the sound quality and quietness of that piece of vinyl as well.

[George K]

It's remarkable that one can buy a recording and one of the best things (besides the performance) is how "quiet" the vinyl is, and how there's no surface noise. It's almost as though you expect it to be flawed and are surprised when it's not.

Yeah...I'll get off your lawn.

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm never going back to vinyl. I did used to really enjoy buying it, but it's too much of a PITA.

Then again, I did used to really enjoy buying it, and the album covers are great, so who knows....

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@George-K What is so hard to understand? It's the hunt and the pursuit of sound in a medium that's, well, fun! Streaming is not fun. There is no going to a mom and pop record store and hunting for something that might not even be available to stream. To find, clean, and place a piece of vinyl on the turntable that is older than you are and listening to it for the first time or even having it played for the first time in 50-60 or more years.

Reading the gatefold or liner notes and caring for something that can be older, much older than you.

It is the pursuit of trying to get such a noise prone medium to be noise free and marveling at it when it happens.

And sometimes, when it is unavoidable, the noise brings back memories of days gone by.

Yes! You get off my lawn, with your newfangled, soulless, digital bits and bytes.

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[Aqua Letifer]

@mark said in What are you listening to now?:

It's the hunt and the pursuit of sound in a medium that's, well, fun! Streaming is not fun. There is no going to a mom and pop record store and hunting for something that might not even be available to stream. To find, clean, and place a piece of vinyl on the turntable that is older than you are and listening to it for the first time or even having it played for the first time in 50-60 or more years.

Reading the gatefold or liner notes and caring for something that can be older, much older than you.

It is the pursuit of trying to get such a noise prone medium to be noise free and marveling at it when it happens.

And sometimes, when it is unavoidable, the noise brings back memories of days gone by.

I think what you're describing is beyond fun. I think you just described why experiencing vinyl is more meaningful.

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1960 $4 Pristine condition.

Sounds so good. The basement of Toad Hall Records in Rockford, IL is an amazing labyrinth of treasures just waiting to be discovered. I could spend days down there.

[Copper]

Sometimes you hear a song that takes you right back there - 1969.

Maybe it is because I haven't heard this for decades.

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[Doctor Phibes]

That guy sure could play.

Some analysis from Rick Beato...

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[taiwan_girl]

In honor of my Ireland trip.(Though the song does not mean me, but the style is fun and what is heard in the pubs.)

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The below is not my video but similar to what I saw in the pubs. Lots of fun

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[Renauda]

https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=CDS466

Sample:

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Original 1959 pressing. A little crackling. Having it deep cleaned next week on a machine that costs $6,500 and some change. Should quiet it right down.

It's one of the jewels in my collection.

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I searched Spotify and Amazon music for this collection of the earliest Brubeck recordings and came up empty.

Bought from Discogs in Near Mint condition. 3 LPs of music I have never heard and apparently cannot stream.

Wonderful stuff.

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Another cheap purchase from Discogs in mint condition from 1974. Again, unavailable in digital format or on streaming platforms.

Recordings from 1946-1947.

[Doctor Phibes]

@mark said in What are you listening to now?:

Again, unavailable in digital format or on streaming platforms.

Not to be a buzzkill, but based on the song titles and recording dates I'm pretty sure those are actually Charlie Parker Dial recordings with Miles as a sideman. You can stream them under Parker's name.

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@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you listening to now?:

@mark said in What are you listening to now?:

Again, unavailable in digital format or on streaming platforms.

Not to be a buzzkill, but based on the song titles and recording dates I'm pretty sure those are actually Charlie Parker Dial recordings with Miles as a sideman. You can stream them under Parker's name.

Interesting. You are most likely correct but I wonder what this album is all about? It has this text on the back cover.