Excellent stuff Alex...off to see them next Friday @ the Nottingham contemporary, hopefully I can pick up their new CD too, pre release dateOriginally Posted by Alex_UK
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Excellent stuff Alex...off to see them next Friday @ the Nottingham contemporary, hopefully I can pick up their new CD too, pre release date
Cheers, Will
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I'd love to hear the drums on the title track on a state of the art system. Sounds good on mine but I can imagine on a really top rig it would be incredible.
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Yello ' touch ' . Outstanding recording.
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Some I think are particularly good:
Eric Bibb - most of his releases are great but the Opus recordings are spectacular.
Nick Cave - Boatman's Call
James Taylor - Hourglass
Mike Oldfield's recent reissues, and the original Songs of Distant Earth
Thomas Dolby - A Map of the Floating City
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Indeed. It also contains one of the best system tests for deep bass, I've heard, in 'Nadia'.
Play that track, turn the volume up to some silly level, and when the bass-line kicks in (frequently), if you can't feel its visceral intensity, almost dislodging your intestines, then either your system is shite or you need bigger speakers!!
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I hope my neighbours enjoyed it.... across the roadIndeed. It also contains one of the best system tests for deep bass, I've heard, in 'Nadia'.
Play that track, turn the volume up high, and when the bass-line kicks in (frequently), if you can't feel its visceral intensity, almost dislodging your intestines, then either your system is shite or you need bigger speakers!!
Marco.Suffice it to say I could 'feel' the bass...
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I'll have to listen to that track. I have no neighbours.
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Shot them, eh?
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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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