Snake Farm - Ray Wylie Hubbard
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Location: Suffolk
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I'm Ray.
Snake Farm - Ray Wylie Hubbard
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This is just brilliant, on minty original vinyl from 1960:
Funky-tastic!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and 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. 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.
Senior Member
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 246
I'm Ray.
Senior Member
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 246
I'm Ray.
If you like 50s Jazz and you don't know this album I urge you to try it.
Tragic that Clifford Brown died so young.
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Location: Seaton, Devon, UK
Posts: 13,636
I'm Adrian.
Just sooo Coool....
Miles Davis - Bags Groove
Label: Мелодия – М60 48821 006
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
Country: USSR
Released: 1989
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Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
Analog Inputs: Pro-Ject Signature 10 TT & arm, Benz Micro LP-S, Michel Cusis MC, Goldring 2500 and Ortofon Rondo Blue cartridges, Hitachi FT5500 mk2 Tuner
Digital:- Marantz SA-KI Pearl CD player, RaspberryPi/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro, Buffalo NAS Drive
Amplification:- AudioValve Sunilda phono stage, Krell KSP-7B pre-amp, Krell KSA-80 power amp
Output: Wilson Benesch Vector speakers, KLH Ultimate One Headphones
Cables: Tellurium Q Ultra Black II RCA & Chord Epic 2 RCA, various speaker leads, & links
I think I am nearing audio nirvana, but don’t tell anyone.
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Location: Seaton, Devon, UK
Posts: 13,636
I'm Adrian.
Stan Getz, João Gilberto – Getz / Gilberto
Label: Polyfar – 2494 312
Series: Edição Histórica – Vol. 15
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: Brazil
Released: 1975
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Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
Analog Inputs: Pro-Ject Signature 10 TT & arm, Benz Micro LP-S, Michel Cusis MC, Goldring 2500 and Ortofon Rondo Blue cartridges, Hitachi FT5500 mk2 Tuner
Digital:- Marantz SA-KI Pearl CD player, RaspberryPi/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro, Buffalo NAS Drive
Amplification:- AudioValve Sunilda phono stage, Krell KSP-7B pre-amp, Krell KSA-80 power amp
Output: Wilson Benesch Vector speakers, KLH Ultimate One Headphones
Cables: Tellurium Q Ultra Black II RCA & Chord Epic 2 RCA, various speaker leads, & links
I think I am nearing audio nirvana, but don’t tell anyone.
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Location: Essex
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I'm openingabottleofwine.
Melodiya made some fine recordings, usually of classical music, but I'm sure the high quality was maintained for other genres.Originally Posted by AJSki2fly
Just sooo Coool....
Miles Davis - Bags Groove
Label: Мелодия – М60 48821 006
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
Country: USSR
Released: 1989
Was the Miles Davis a recording of a live performance he might have performed in the USSR? Or are the sleeve notes written in Russian?
Barry
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I have that Getz/Gilberto recording with the original sleeve, as shown in the little picture on your cover.Stan Getz, João Gilberto – Getz / Gilberto
Label: Polyfar – 2494 312
Series: Edição Histórica – Vol. 15
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: Brazil
Released: 1975
Barry
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Canned Heat - 'Boogie with Canned Heat'
The Blues Band ' 'The Official Blued Band Bootleg Album'
Barry
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The Siegel-Schwall Band - First Album (1966)
Climax Blues Band - 'Tightly Knit'
First US pressing on Sire SASD-7517 (1972)
Barry
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