I own 14 vintage cassette decks, JVC, Sony, Nakamichi, Pioneer. I record new and used LPs straight to Maxell XLII or XLIIS Blanks (New Old Stock), I have about 1,000 tapes with roughly 2,000 LPs on them, and about 1,000 blanks still left for future records. I put the records away to save their mintyness and just play the tapes, which sound so good it is impossible to tell the difference between the LP or the Tape.
A great album that I use is Supertramp's "Brother Where You Bound" mastered at Masterdisk by Bob Ludwig. It has great transients and ambience, bass, high end etc... a really great test record and a really great piece of music. Congratulations on your new turntable!
I got that Satchmo plays King Oliver from a garage sale. I had no idea how good it was. I had never heard it. My system was pretty special back then. It was the 90's and i had Watt 3 Puppy 2's, the whole system was incredible. Anyway, i put that album on and i will never forget that moment.
A couple of my favorites that aren't necessarily audio file tracks, are "Stardust" by the Branford Marsalis trio.. incredible symbols by Jeff Watts and the bass is so realistic and marvelously played by Milt Hinton. Another one that I love that maybe people don't think of is a track from Sonny Rollins and the contemporary leaders, "How High the Moon" and it was recorded when a couple of the musicians were running late so it's just Sonny with Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinegar, you can hear amazing dynamics and all the space around the instruments and all the articulations and nuances. It is one of the amazing Roy DuNann recordings. An album that just got re-released that I haven't heard many people talk about especially for it's amazing recording quality is Billie Holiday's "Songs for Distingue Lovers" the new acoustic sound series reissue of this sounds amazing the first thing you'll notice is the kick drum and then just how natural each of the instruments sound easily the best sounding recording of sweets Edison and Ben Webster, you can hear all the nuances in the touch of the pianist Jimmy Rowles, Kessel is also in this one, and of course Holiday's fragile near the end of her life vocals are incredible on this
My go to Albums for new equipment are Alice in Chains unplugged, U2 The Joshua Tree, Eric Clapton Unplugged, Norah Jones come away with me, Tracey Chapman
1. Stardust - the Willie Nelson version, 2. Live at the Sands - Sinatra, S Davis Jr, Dean Martin (aka The Rat Pack), 3. Diamond Life - Sade (aka My future wife), 4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd, 5. Charlie Brown's Christmas - Vince Guaraldi
70’s Oil crisis resulted in a slightly different hydrocarbon mix in raw materials for pressing plants. So it’s definitely likely that vinyl of this era would have had a different feedstock mix globally.
First record is always East Side Story by Squeeze or perhaps Trust or Imperial Bedroom or maybe London Calling, or petty well any Porky cut from that time. If the favourites don't cut it then it goes back - end of. Then and only then are the jazz LPs. Time Out 2x45 perhaps...
I would mix up some genre if I had a new component in my rig and wanted to check it out First would be America debut album Japan-FirstPress, love that band, love that album, love the sound of the singers and the accustic guitars, mega, my fave Daft Punk - Giorgio Moroder Metallica - One and Enter Sandman Alan Parsons - Some other time from iRobot America in concert Pink Floyd Pulse concert Judas Priest - Live
Every time I buy new equipment, the first album played is always Norah Jones Come Away with Me. Last week I finally received my new copy from Chad Kassem. Wow!!! I just put all my other copies in the bin.
When I was upgrading 6-7 years ago I looked for an "affordable high-end" table. After reading lots of reviews I ended up with a VPI Prime and have been very happy with it. I don't know if the original Prime is still available and how much more expensive the newer versions are.
To me the point of having great equipment is to make mediocre recordings enjoyable and to thus increase the overall "value" of my record collection. Therefore new stuff gets tested on "torture discs", material that I know is difficult to play in a way that makes the music enjoyable. A good recording well cut and pressed does not present a serious obstacle for the TT/arm/cartridge.
I own 14 vintage cassette decks, JVC, Sony, Nakamichi, Pioneer. I record new and used LPs straight to Maxell XLII or XLIIS Blanks (New Old Stock), I have about 1,000 tapes with roughly 2,000 LPs on them, and about 1,000 blanks still left for future records. I put the records away to save their mintyness and just play the tapes, which sound so good it is impossible to tell the difference between the LP or the Tape.
A great album that I use is Supertramp's "Brother Where You Bound" mastered at Masterdisk by Bob Ludwig.
It has great transients and ambience, bass, high end etc... a really great test record and a really great piece of music.
Congratulations on your new turntable!
I got that Satchmo plays King Oliver from a garage sale. I had no idea how good it was. I had never heard it. My system was pretty special back then. It was the 90's and i had Watt 3 Puppy 2's, the whole system was incredible. Anyway, i put that album on and i will never forget that moment.
A couple of my favorites that aren't necessarily audio file tracks, are "Stardust" by the Branford Marsalis trio.. incredible symbols by Jeff Watts and the bass is so realistic and marvelously played by Milt Hinton.
Another one that I love that maybe people don't think of is a track from Sonny Rollins and the contemporary leaders, "How High the Moon" and it was recorded when a couple of the musicians were running late so it's just Sonny with Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinegar, you can hear amazing dynamics and all the space around the instruments and all the articulations and nuances. It is one of the amazing Roy DuNann recordings.
An album that just got re-released that I haven't heard many people talk about especially for it's amazing recording quality is Billie Holiday's "Songs for Distingue Lovers" the new acoustic sound series reissue of this sounds amazing the first thing you'll notice is the kick drum and then just how natural each of the instruments sound easily the best sounding recording of sweets Edison and Ben Webster, you can hear all the nuances in the touch of the pianist Jimmy Rowles, Kessel is also in this one, and of course Holiday's fragile near the end of her life vocals are incredible on this
Great discussion! And nice to see the old background again Michael!
My go to Albums for new equipment are Alice in Chains unplugged, U2 The Joshua Tree, Eric Clapton Unplugged, Norah Jones come away with me, Tracey Chapman
Good call on aic. Jar of Flies and unplugged for me
House of the rising sun by Cyndee Peters and Eric Bibb, Opus 3 recording (my go to test track) and a brilliant arrangement and performance.
Hello Michael, For me also Satchmo, then Prokofiev « Bilder einer Aussstellung, Reiner and CSO » (both bought via your Shop)😎
In A Silent Way by Miles Davis then Future Day's by CAN. I know them so well!
1. Stardust - the Willie Nelson version,
2. Live at the Sands - Sinatra, S Davis Jr, Dean Martin (aka The Rat Pack),
3. Diamond Life - Sade (aka My future wife),
4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd,
5. Charlie Brown's Christmas - Vince Guaraldi
Wow great choices. Thx for sharing LS
70’s Oil crisis resulted in a slightly different hydrocarbon mix in raw materials for pressing plants. So it’s definitely likely that vinyl of this era would have had a different feedstock mix globally.
My 1973 copy of Three Dog Night - Around the World With is so thin it’s practically see-through.
First record is always East Side Story by Squeeze or perhaps Trust or Imperial Bedroom or maybe London Calling, or petty well any Porky cut from that time. If the favourites don't cut it then it goes back - end of. Then and only then are the jazz LPs. Time Out 2x45 perhaps...
I would mix up some genre if I had a new component in my rig and wanted to check it out
First would be America debut album Japan-FirstPress, love that band, love that album, love the sound of the singers and the accustic guitars, mega, my fave
Daft Punk - Giorgio Moroder
Metallica - One and Enter Sandman
Alan Parsons - Some other time from iRobot
America in concert
Pink Floyd Pulse concert
Judas Priest - Live
Every time I buy new equipment, the first album played is always Norah Jones Come Away with Me. Last week I finally received my new copy from Chad Kassem. Wow!!! I just put all my other copies in the bin.
I would start off with Mahler's 8th symphony!🙂
my first would be Talk Talk "Colour Of Spring", "The Return Of The Durutti Column" and Muslimgauze "Gun Aramaic"
Colour of Spring is a great recording. I only have on CD, I can't imagine any vinyl being better. I'm this case.
@@1104kdd the 1997 EMI Centenary pressing is better
Return To Forever ROMANTIC WARRIOR
Dark side of the moon and in a silent way.
Are the first 2 records I played when I got my new turntable
For me it is always DSOTM
Then any of my Chain Reaction 12s ❤
Aja by Steely Dan
What was the youtube channel at 18:00 ?
Can you please share Volker’s test records?
The last time I played „Welcome To The Machine“
I love your turntable, have a lot of fun with it!!! What turntable will you recommend for €5000 a €6000?
I would love to give you a godd advice, but when it comes to HIFI equipment i can not ... so sorry
When I was upgrading 6-7 years ago I looked for an "affordable high-end" table. After reading lots of reviews I ended up with a VPI Prime and have been very happy with it. I don't know if the original Prime is still available and how much more expensive the newer versions are.
To me the point of having great equipment is to make mediocre recordings enjoyable and to thus increase the overall "value" of my record collection. Therefore new stuff gets tested on "torture discs", material that I know is difficult to play in a way that makes the music enjoyable. A good recording well cut and pressed does not present a serious obstacle for the TT/arm/cartridge.
Speedy recovery Hartmut.
When I get a new piece of gear in my system, I start with Touch from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memory
Probably Gaucho
Steely Dan
I’ve got two versions so I play both
No Einstein cassette deck?! 🤣😂
Seriously though, I’ve got a Nakamichi deck, but it doesn’t see much use. It sounds good enough, but it’s not as engaging as vinyl, imo.
Don't see many people smoking in videos 😅
Not an uhqr to test a new turntable ?supposed to be the best mastering,and pressing,no?
😂 clowns as usual