[GreyOldMan]

Ok another question. It is a cold evening, those of you in warmer regions can pretend. The lights are low, candles are lit, glasses of a fine red wine are in hand. What album do you enjoy with your wife, girl friend, or significant other? I am considering Boz Skaggs Silk Degrees and the song We’re All alone but what do I know? (It turns out he and I share the same birthday, as did Nancy Sinatra and Frank Lloyd Wright. )

Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories / Lamentations, Trinity College Cambridge Choir, Marlow.

Haunting, languid, mournful, peaceful.

"Tenebrae" means "Into the Darkness" as the music was written by Tomas Luis de Victoria (1568-1611) for the Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday services, but in more secular times and settings is, through its pacing and sheer enveloping beauty, the music we choose to be intimate to. (At our age, experience and consideration count for more than enthusiasm and energy - hence my comment about pacing. You'll understand when you listen to it.)

 

[bcowen]

Speaking of which. What is a favorite MM phono cartridge for under say $500?

Hmmmm....cartridges are so preference dependent, and I haven't used a MM in quite a while. I always liked Grado's wood body cartridges though.

Best bet is to get a couple Jensen step-up transformers and build an external box for them yourself, and then get something like a Koetsu Black.

 

[FLTWS]

I liked Grado's a lot. Now days you can buy a house for the price of some of the Japanese made ones.
My favorite was the Decca line.

 

[BraveNewWorld]

Currently, the best rock drummer on the planet, imo.

Big fan of Danny, but also love Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Blackfield and The Pineapple Thief).

 

[liamo]

I made a solid state audio system for my wife's pottery shed, that is where she usually listens to music. I rarely hear it since I am generally working in my own shop. For serious listening it is tube amps.

I happened to notice this today for a mere $15-16, 000, available for pre-order.

https://www.westernelectric.com/91e

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to check out that puppy. But the thought of dropping 16k on that then using Bluetooth gives me a bit of cringe.

 

[Charente]

Which of those recordings? Many years later, I heard Motian at the VV with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano at what turned out to be one of his last live gigs before he got too sick to play. Another session in the same run of gigs was recorded for NPR: https://www.npr.org/2008/09/03/9420...isell-joe-lovano-live-at-the-village-vanguard

Motian was a true great of understated, subtle, unpredictable drums, a wonderful composer from bebop to avant-garde, superbly sensitive in his interplay with the rest of the band. I have many of his later recordings, so many gems that I'm having difficulty choosing. But since it's so close to Monk's anniversary (gag, I had to miss Miles Okazaki at SFJAZZ soloing Monk) what about the delight below, also with Lovano and Frisell (some of this played at the VV gig I attended in awe back in 2008):

Not on QOBUZ ... not that I can find ! Pity

 

[bcowen]

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to check out that puppy. But the thought of dropping 16k on that then using Bluetooth gives me a bit of cringe.

As does the sorcery involved to get 20 watts out of a single 300B. But who knows, maybe it's the greatest new thing since sliced bread??

 

[wout31]

Gadget is done, has been done, other crazy stuff has been done, just trying to figure out how to package it all so it isn't another Sol adventure (as in something you actually want to buy), then the whole deal got sucked into the DSP abyss, now we think we know how to package it. Expect next year. Expect to be surprised. Very surprised.

And just like that there is the Gadget after years and years of very little info, there is the text "Gadget is done"
Only held back by supply chain problems? Next year is Urd year. Next year is Gadget year. Next year is <insert crazy new Schiit product> year.
I'm dreaming of a ......... wonderful 2023.

 

[FLTWS]

https://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/phono-cartridges/?sort=bestselling&_bc_fsnf=1&brand=137

Or you could buy a Koetsu

 

[Ripper2860]

Surely, at that price it must also include installation/setup and a concubine.

 

[US Blues]

Surely, at that price it must also include installation/setup and a concubine.

I don't have a turntable. How much for just the concubine?

 

[Ableza]

I don't have a turntable. How much for just the concubine?

$22.95

 

[Roy G. Biv]

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I need to learn to shut up/not post...

 

[Paladin79]

Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories / Lamentations, Trinity College Cambridge Choir, Marlow.

Haunting, languid, mournful, peaceful.

"Tenebrae" means "Into the Darkness" as the music was written by Tomas Luis de Victoria (1568-1611) for the Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday services, but in more secular times and settings is, through its pacing and sheer enveloping beauty, the music we choose to be intimate to. (At our age, experience and consideration count for more than enthusiasm and energy - hence my comment about pacing. You'll understand when you listen to it.)

I need to check that out.

 

[earnmyturns]

Not on QOBUZ ... not that I can find ! Pity

That's unfortunate, it's such a great set of Monk covers. I own the actual CD, which I ripped when I started doing everything digitally. -- F