Soul Coughing..on of my all time favorites, who would have thought 2020 would be exactly that..soul coughing..

 

Some of Mr Wellers finest tonight,

 

Changingman. Outstanding.

 

Love the simplicity of one guy and one guitar.

 

Michael Franti’s New Years live broadcast

 

Taking me back to carefree days & crazier nights ,

 

Great collection!!!!

Regards to you with that:

 

An evening with some Classics of British Rock , and it doesn’t disappoint.

 

That is my even older hobby......still have 680 long play vinyls, 400 CD's and a few cassettes , taped in the 80's......vinyls cover late 1950's rock to mid 90's rock, RB, jazz and classic. A few very rare pressings and every vinyl was put from day one in an antistatic Nagaoka sleeve. Result: scratch free. No dust. Quite perfect. The whole system is matched and from the 80's. Yamaha NS 1000 studio monitors with Berrylium mid and tweeters. Balanced by Amp Quad 909 for everyday listening. and for better performance a second Amp, a custom built valve amp with 60/60 Rms. Tuner Yamaha's best T 85. Cassette: Nakamichi BX 300 E. CD: musical fidelity Elektra. Hafler pre phono. Pre amp: maybe the best ever made and not well know: Apt corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holman preamp. Amazing natural sound, only the best electronic parts used. To show these pesky Japanese , what is possible, when money is not the driver.....went broke soon. Turntable: big Kenwood KP 7010 with Benz SLS wood. Plus good quality cabling between everything. It is poor joy, to listen to it. It is basically built around the speakers, who are quite unparalleled. And for listening to old cassettes in a modern car: bought the best Sony cassette player for record/playback for journalists. Sony walkmanWM6DC. Dolby B and C. And that's about it. Setting in the living room is not the best..... But the sound is still great. Daily joy and listen to the radio music channels daily between 8 am and midnight.....

 

David Hafler was a genius

I have Mc30 amps and C22 pre, MR78 tuner.
Technics 1210 M5G
Vintage 50-60’s Telefunken 12ax7 long smooth plate.
GEC KT66 grey glass( one black glass)
Siemens 12AU7 bright silver plate

1976 Klipsch LaScala speakers

2-3000 records
Hundreds cd, SACD’s
KLAUDIO lp cleaner

happy to have had this hobby in place during this pandemic, picked up my C22 from dry-dock in middle Feb prior to our first Isolation In Place recommendation.

 

Indy band from Montreal...

 

The new Cribs album. It has another collaboration with Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth.

 

That is a very well balanced system ! the horn with the warm sounding Mc`s should be a perfect match. what pickup do you use with the technics?

 

Ortofon 2M Black


Love the LaScala's!

I bought them through a classified ad(newspapers were ALL the rage back then) circa 1985. They had been used as stage speakers for a local band.....Flat Black......but I had a carpenter skin them with oak veneer when he built me some custom cabinets and tables. Stock other than the tweeters, one finally crackled to pieces last year and I had my TT guy track down the diaphragms still being produced from the same manufacturer that supplied Paul Klipsch. Both crossover's still stock and test within spec. The quality army surplus parts that Paul insisted upon still amazes me. But, I have not let them sit, in use just about every day since i bought them

Yes, you are correct, warm and synergistic, just my plan. The vintage 12ax7 Telefunken's clarity and airiness couples nicely with the inherent warmness of the Mc gear.

They producing a wide, deep and enveloping soundstage doesn't hurt either.

on to the music

 

A rare outing for this gem of a album, bought new by me in about 2003 and played it about 3 times on vinyl . But about 300 times on CD .