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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 18, 2019 13:38:49 GMT
Excellent production and engineering
Like me you will be less keen on track 7
Can only think he's there due to
Shipbuilding
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Post by MartinT on Dec 18, 2019 14:47:56 GMT
...and if you wanted Shipbuilding, Tasmin Archer does a nice cover of it.
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Post by Slinger on Dec 18, 2019 15:42:55 GMT
...and if you wanted Shipbuilding, Tasmin Archer does a nice cover of it. It's not meant to be "nice" though, is it?  Robert Wyatt recorded the definitive version. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 18, 2019 15:53:15 GMT
...and if you wanted Shipbuilding, Tasmin Archer does a nice cover of it. It's not meant to be "nice" though, is it? Robert Wyatt recorded the definitive version. Very hard to beat Mr.Wyatt's version. Amazed me when I found out Costello wrote it |
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 23, 2019 11:12:58 GMT
Interrupting the Ry Cooder list and the playlist I thought of the wonderful
Keef Hartley Band - Halfbreed
Even better than ever before
If this isn't the best blues album ever it runs damned close.
All the vocals and instruments separated like never before. Superb bass, great detail on the drums. Miller Anderson never sounded so good on guitar and vocals
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 1, 2020 14:32:48 GMT
Listened to Ry Cooder's catalogue of which more in another thread after I revisit Back on the playlist I'm hearing even more than last time. Brain getting used to the treatments or what I dunno Wonderful it is - as Yoda might say  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 2, 2020 10:20:13 GMT
Listening to more familiar playlist albums
Nothing has changed since the last time but there seems to be more space and detail.
Do Ion generation and demagnetiser procedures improve after ?!
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 18, 2020 11:35:30 GMT
Visit yesterday from @pjdowns, good to see him again, playing interesting music from
Quinteto da Paraíba - Music Armarial - I like
Boz Scaggs not a favourite previously but I need to listen again. Dig - well made and interesting
Chris Jones also needs investigating
Digging out my super favourites I impressed Paul with
Camper Van Beethoven - Camper Vantiquities
Ry Cooder - Alamo Bay / Borderline
Fragile State - Voices from the dust bowl
Jon Hopkins
Bruce Hornsby - Spirit Trail
Steve Miller - Italian X-Rays
Been a few serious upgrades since I last played them and I was very impressed with the additional detail and music being delivered
The fantastic stand out for me was
Fragile State - Voices from the dust bowl
Could not believe the amount of music being delivered I hadn't heard before
So many favourite albums need to be played.
Which ones will deliver so much ?
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Post by MartinT on Jan 18, 2020 12:28:32 GMT
I'll give Fragile State a listen later.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 18, 2020 13:30:35 GMT
Neil Cowley pressing the keys
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 15:32:01 GMT
Visit yesterday from @pjdowns , good to see him again, playing interesting music from Quinteto da Paraíba - Music Armarial - I like Boz Scaggs not a favourite previously but I need to listen again. Dig - well made and interesting Chris Jones also needs investigating Digging out my super favourites I impressed Paul with Camper Van Beethoven - Camper Vantiquities Ry Cooder - Alamo Bay / Borderline Fragile State - Voices from the dust bowl Jon Hopkins Bruce Hornsby - Spirit Trail Steve Miller - Italian X-Rays Been a few serious upgrades since I last played them and I was very impressed with the additional detail and music being delivered The fantastic stand out for me was Fragile State - Voices from the dust bowl Could not believe the amount of music being delivered I hadn't heard before So many favourite albums need to be played. Which ones will deliver so much ? Excellent afternoon including a ver pleasant muddy walk in the field. Your system is sounding superb Mike and I was introduced to some good music. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 18, 2020 18:29:26 GMT
You are very welcome
and thanks for your introductions to me
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 19, 2020 14:14:10 GMT
Visit yesterday from Tony, Coherent.
Some playing with a Nova Fidelity X50 through my TAD D1000 as Pre Amp.
Sounded good rather than great.
Tony sees the Pre part of the TAD as the limiter so in the fullness of time I shall have a Tony special Pre Amp to try out. "Liquid" I think is the name
Super duper Coherent XLR BD interconnect with Graphene in there, between the TAD Pre and power left to play and sounding good on the playlist today.
Difficult to move around so will stay in, probably for the whole playlist before I take it out and go back to the Coherent 6D.
That's probably best anyway
More as I work my way through albums
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 20, 2020 12:27:01 GMT
Working through the well known to me playlist is a very pleasant task. Retirement is better than working. Was I born to do this ? The Graphene enhanced, super duper Coherent BD interconnect seems to be delivering a little more bass from somewhere, more immediacy in the music, width to the sound stage, more flow. Need to A B test against my existing 6D in a few days time. By the time Tony and I speak next I will know if we have 'the conversation' to ascertain if this is delivering value for money for the price. Good and bad - Tony with his fertile mind keeps coming up with better cables and product churn here at MikeMusic towers is more than I would like ! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 20, 2020 14:29:54 GMT
There's more to this grounding box stuff than I thought
A certain gentleman supplier has pointed out I still have the 6D interconnect in place.
Well, this certainly sounds a step or two up so what could it be ?
User error
Two of the cables into the RTZ were not fully in. I swear they definitely were.
Anyway punters
Make sure you push your ends in !
Free sound improvement may be yours for the taking
Music sounds wonderful
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 20, 2020 16:23:12 GMT
Taking a break from the music walking the dogs around the fields. Useful exercise for the body and the mind, I thought about what happened There has most definitely been a step up in sound quality. I'm listening again to a well know album with more music being delivered. So what happened ? Couple of grounding cables disconnected from TAD, into X50 and back again. Think Tony shuffled a couple on the RTZ, besides firming a couple up. My guess the out / in / out has improved connections. Which reminds me of the last time I moved the RTZ. All cables disconnected. RTZ moved Cables reconnected Didn't do a proper test but my intuition told me the sound had improved, just from moving the RTZ ? No. From the disconnect and reconnect of all grounding cables Feel free to tell me moving the RTZ did it |
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Post by MartinT on Jan 20, 2020 20:47:54 GMT
If the RTZ was like my SGS grounding boxes, I would say 'probably' as giving them a shake often causes a period of resettling followed by an improvement. However, the RTZ is full of ancient magic bloodstone rather than the grated pixie dust mine are filled with.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 20, 2020 21:17:55 GMT
I'm listening now to Rick Springfield and hearing depths never heard before.
Thought it was the Unobtanium crystals realigned with the quantum fields after Tony chanted magic.
The bloodstone has to be a possibility though
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 26, 2020 10:54:46 GMT
Keep thinking of favourite artists and albums I have not heard since the recent upgrades to the system and the 4 CD treatment boxes I now have
Gone back to my favourite Jeff Beck albums and discovering new albums
Starting with Blow by Blow - fantastic. So very well made. So much in there.
New Music comes along to a lesser degree as I keep finding so much more in favourites
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 27, 2020 10:37:42 GMT
Special mention for
Jeff Beck - Who else
Brilliant sound, more music than I have ever heard before.
Much more detail, nuance, bass, sheer presence
Space for the Papa incredible
Peaking at 90db, TAD setting 156
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Robert Wyatt recorded the definitive version.
