What are you listening to right now?

[eleazar]

Hasten Down the Wind
Linda Ronstadt | Format: vinyl

Hey Bill, this is on Amazon as an 8-track for a penny!

Gene if you want some 8 Tracks PM me for my list   

[tmazz]

The Dark Side of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition [Hybrid SACD - DSD]
Pink Floyd | Format: Audio CD

I can't wait to hear from somebody who has heard the new DSOTM releases that came out this week. The 30th Anniv Editions (Both the SACD and the LP) were IMO both far and away the best SQ ever released in their respective formats. It will be tough to top them, but one can hope.  

Tom - we're waiting to hear from you on the DSOTM release. You need to add to your collection!!! How many copies of DSOTM do you own????

OK Pete, If you really must know the answer is 17.

Full Original recording

Analog

1) Original Capital US release
2) EMI (UK) Stereo
3) EMI (UK) SQ Quad
4) Toshiba Pro Use (Japanese)
5) Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs (Regular release, Not UHQR)
6) EMI 30th Anniversary  180g LP (UK release, pressed in Holland)
7) Pulse – EMI (UK) 4 LP set containing a full end to end live performance of DSTOM

Digital

8 ) Toshiba Pro Use (Japanese)
9) MFSL 24k Gold CD
10) 30th Anniversary SACD Hybrid
11) DVD-A 96/24 rip of the original Quad master tape
12) Pulse - Columbia (US) CD


Other DOSTM related releases

13) Dark Side of the Moon A Cappella – Vocamotion LP
14) Easy Star All-Stars – Dub Side of the Moon (Reggae version of DSOTM) - Easy Star CD
15) Easy Star All-Stars – Dubber Side of the Moon (a second disc of Reggae DSOTM) – Easy Star CD
16) US and Them – The Symphonic Pink Floyd – Point Music CD
17) The Alternate Side of the Moon – " A collection of outtakes and early rough mixes from the recording sessions to DSOTM, Abbey Road Studios, Summer/Autumn 1972" – Thumbs Up Records

The reason I have been sitting on the sideline so far with regards to the new DSOTM release is the complete lack of information about it. Nowhere in any of the promotional material about it have them mentioned any effort to achieve  better sound nor do they even say if it is a heavy vinyl release. The 30th Anniv LP set the bar for SQ and if this new release in fact pushes that envelope I will be right there to buy one, but if it is simply a plain old compressed sounding record for the ipod crowd I'm not interested. I'm just waiting to see what the deal is since the pre-release info was very sketchy.

[etcarroll]

17 copies, sweet googily-moogily! 

[tmazz]

17 copies, sweet googily-moogily! 

What do you expect. "I've been mad for f#cking years....." 

[tmazz]

Lori Lieberman: Letting Go

LP

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Doiuble Trouble: Soul to Soul

Epic LP

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Ron Carter: Etudes

Electra Musician LP

With Bill Evans, Art Farmer and Tony Williams

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John Javis: So Fa So Good

MCA Master Series LP

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Sonny Rollins & Thad Jones

Up Front LP

This album was certainly a disappointment from bot a musical and a SQ basis. It didn't really do anything really wrong, but it didn't do anything particularly right either. It was just kind of blah.

[tmazz]

Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite; Kabalevsky: The Comedians; Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol - Kondrashin/RCA Symphony Orchestra

RCA Living Stereo CD

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale - Reiner/Chicago Symphony Orchestra

RCA Living Stereo SACD Hybrid

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Ten Years Together - The Best of Peter Paul and Mary

Warner Bros LP

Wow, I have listened to this album 100s of times before, but the Mk IV platter upgrade to my VPI brought out the detail and imaging in the vocals like nothing I have ever heard before! 

[tmazz]

Tim Weisberg: Tip of the Weisberg

Nautilus Superdisc LP

[tmazz]

All of that list complining inspired me to close out the night by giving the DSOTM 30th Anniv LP a whirl.

[tmazz]

John Klemmer: Nexus One

(Bluebird CD)

This one surprised me. John Klemmer is known mostly for smooth jazz, but the music on thsi CD is anything but smooth. While it is a trubute to Coltrane it is not the smooth Coltrane but rather the hard hitting avante garde Coltrane.

Not at all what I expected to here from a John Klemmer CD.