The new Damien Jurado album "Maraqopa" is beautiful. Checked it out this weekend on Spotify, and have now ordered it on vinyl.
Did also get me John Hiatt's new "Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns", Randy Newman "People Dressed Like Monkeys", Neil Young "Cow Palace 1986" and Robert Wyatt "Around Robert Wyatt with Orchestre National de Jazz". Some great listening ahead.
My hifi system:
Turntable: Technics SL-1200 MKII, Ortofon 2M Bronze cartridge, Mike New bearing, MCRU PSU (c), Oyaide HS-CF headshell, Oyaide MJ-12 TT mat, Vantage Audio Copper mat, Isonoe Isolation Feet, Isodek IF-2 isolation platform, Furutech Monza LP stabilizer, Herbie's Hal-O JR damper Phono Stage: Hagerman Cornet 3 (prototype) Amplifiers: EAR 868L Preamp, Transcription Audio 211 Heaven Power amp, Bob Carver Cherry 180 power amp CD Player: Ear Yoshino Acute Tuner: Magnum Dynalab 90T Speakers: Vandersteen 2CE SigII, Townshend Audio Super Tweeters, Transcription Audio Speakers Cables and stuff: LFD Audio interconnects and speaker cables, Mark Grant G2000HD, BlackCat Electronics, Van Den Hul Clearwater, Black Rhodium mains cables, Black Rhodium mains block, Finite Elements Resonator, Townhsend Stella Speaker stands, Pro Audio Bono hifi rack, Herbie's spike gliders, Herbie's Ultravox and Hal-O tube dampers, Super Black Hole CD mat Record Cleaning Machine: Loricraft PRC4
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All very well guys, I'm sure everything listed so far will be enjoyable for you, but the one I'm waiting for is "Focus X" ... Thijs van Leer; Pierre van der Linden & Bobby Jacobs with recent addition Menno Gootjes on guitar.
The tour starts in May - another opportunity to see & hear the Dutch masters at work!
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Saw em in 2002 i think it was down the Road from us..
Well I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for a new album by Sleep Research Facilty - Stealth
Kind of odd that such chilled out stuff can get me freaking out so much, bloody ironic I'd say
Must ring the distro as I want one of the first 1000 CDs as they'll be two disc editions & I also want a nice XXL T shirt to go along with it
I kid you not...
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The new Orbital album is in the post, probably be Monday. Not sure it'll live up to some of the old stuff but should be decent all the same, wish they'd take that annoying lyric out of Wonky though. Snippets...
Orbital - Never
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktgzn...QsUdMeJlVBpmc=
Orbital - Straight Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9USC...4D3B47BEB&NR=1
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My most anticipated album is the one I have ordered from Burning Shed - unfortunately, I can't seem to remember what it was at all - all I can remember is that it was a pre-release order and some sort of ambient music (I think)....
Apparently the postman tried to deliver something today - I wonder if that was it?
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Nope, it was your Batman outfit.
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Nope - got that last week.
(but it could also be some copper shielding I've ordered)
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