Daddy Dom
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Terror Twilight - near mint, the odd minor vinyl-scuff, cleaned and still has plastic wrap on cover.
Brighten the Corners - same as above
Wowee Zowee - not quite mint, very tiny tear on back cover. Cleaned but unwrapped.
Would prefer all three to same buyer, PM with offers. Collect Central Ak or I'll post at cost, sent in proper mailer.
Cheers,
DD
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Interesting. I got 75% and danced to most of the examples.
Niiiice.
DD
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Well I'm thrilled it supposedly "went away". When vinyl hid behind the bushes it enabled me to grab an excellent cheap t/t and the best bits of record collections formerly belonging to the digitally-enamoured.
Oh, to relive those golden smash-and-grab opportunities of the mid-'90s!
DD
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Sorry about the upside-down one, I don't use it that way.
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This is the more desirable Akito Mk2, not the old Japanese Mk1.
Recently professionally rewired in Cardas silver, including removal of the headshell join so the wiring is now single-run straight from the cartridge to the arm-socket.
Usual minor wear on headshell. Just given a clean bill of health while t/t was in for service.
PM me if this floats your boat.
Cheers,
DD
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At 'A', of course!
That said, I must admit, a little shamefacedly because I really want to support these events, that I just can't stomach the Auckland record fairs because when I first tried them, nothing much was in any kind of order.
That's great if you're a random kinda collector but my mind works in a different way.
Is it still that way?
DD
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My understanding is that one immediately became part of a collection in the NY Museum of Fine Art.
My own aesthetic senses completely agree, Graham. When I think back, I'll never forget my first B&O moment.
I was 16 or so, visiting a friend whose dad was a doctor. He had an entire B&O mothership sitting on the sideboard and we boys must've spent an hour playing with the soft-touch buttons. I don't think we even considered what it might sound like!
DD
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I went to Hawaii for Bacharach, to Liverpool for the Bunnymen but where will this event find me, should it actually happen? :eek:
DD
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/227320/abba-reunion-next-year
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Early '80s - crap Sanyo walkperson.
Mid '90s - tired s/h Sony Discman in the car.
In-between those and onwards - the music in my brain. Once I heard good audio systems pushing serious notes through the air I just couldn't bear to confine them to headphones. Still can't.
DD
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Great! Tell me how you blew it and I'll do the same :-)
DD
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What's the purpose of modifying the LP12 at great cost so that it sounds just as good as other readily available turntables?
Good question, Stanley. My Linn journey began with a bargain, used, low-spec Sondek back in the CD-loving mid-90s and so Linn's policy has enabled me to upgrade a real score along the way as I can.
And as an aside, here in NZ we don't have used Linn parts growing on trees and the "tyranny of distance" as Tim Finn put it, means new Linn stuff is sometimes priced in the :eek: region. Ebay is not much help, either, for a number of reasons.
Remember that you lucky Londiniumers have a far greater range of everything, including turntables, available to you by just walking in off the street. Last time I looked, the Sondek was far better than some readily available t/ts and not as good as some others. Can any other brand be more easily owner-improved with top-quality OEM parts purely by adding more funds? I guess I'll die wondering.
And as that great 20th Century philosopher, Sly Stone, opined: " Different strokes for different folks." Born tinkerers always will and Linn caters to those as well.
Cheers,
Dom
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I once saw a doco on Deutsche Welle TV that featured a large 1960s 2-door Mercedes convertible with a t/t in the glovebox. Can't remember what brand, though!
DD
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I have owned and fiddled with my LP12 for a number of years. When I got it the first thing I did was fit a Cirkus then poverty helped me leave it well alone. In that time I got very used to the sound having changed houses, changed amps etc.
A few years later a used Akito 2 came along and the sound became a better version of what I was used to - changing carts upwards seemed to bring out the best.
The only non-Linn changes I have made since then are a Mose/Hercules (which TBH apes a Linn product) and a tonearm rewire which got rid of an unnecessary connection.
Apart from Eichmann Bullet plugs (which I highly recommend), I've removed every little after-market tweak I have tried from Vibrapods to support tables and cartridge isolators.
So, you need to assess how much of what you like is intrinsically the Linn sound and go from there, but try not to do anything reversible.
I was always messing with my LP12 for 25yrs, trying to get it right. I sold it and bought a Nottingham Analogue deck, and I've never felt the need to mess with it since.I should add that I probably only mess with mine because I can. :rolleyes: Most other decks just don't have such a range of after-market temptations and Linn's own upgrade path is attractive to me with every Lotto purchase.
Next on the aspiration list is a Kore.
Cheers,
DD
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Ah, sorry, it was Blue.
Lucky man, wish I could find a really good Blue.Dom
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Yes Owen, the piano was either My Old Man, Blue or River - nevertheless, it sounds like a real one, not over-compressed.
MW, there are a few copies in RGAK if you'd like help in getting one?
DD
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First off, Joni's guitar tunings are unconventional, wierd even, she has wide tonal & dynamic vocal range & pushes her voice hard. Even though the mix is simple & spare, the dynamics can be unrestrained, uncompressed, so it still needs power & weight to sound solid, right. It can sound lean & bright & dynamically difficult to track in vinyl.
Owen, I bought a nice-ish UK pressing of Blue last week, my first foray into JM despite my always thinking it would be via "Hissing."
I also find it challenging on a number of levels (some good) but I have to say I stopped and stared when I heard the side 1 piano song (??). I thought it was an amazingly natural recording - unusually so. As you said, some other guitar tones and the ups and downs of her voice were both marked as quite harsh by both listeners at home. The nice bits overcome those, though.
A keeper.Cheers,
Dom
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I believe there is a definitive book (or 10!) that describes each Beatles track in detail. I saw it years ago in a recording studio but can't remember who wrote it or what it's called.
Any suggestions welcomed.
Cheers,
DD
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Rockshop is not my favourite store
+1 in perpetuity.
DD
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I grew up listening to Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads
Me too
I now have my Dad's copy, the very one. Only now do I question the extremely vivid pinky-fuchsia cover - not very cowboy at all!And all together now, "Out in the West Texas town of El Paso ...."
DD
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Admitting may be the first step ,but after that embrace it and buy some more:D
That's what I'm talkin' about!
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Yes, we really are a privileged generation to have lived through this phenomenon. In 100 years the view of what social changes and pushed boundaries we have witnessed will be interesting.
Incidentally, I think when Ike Turner and the other constructors of pre-rock-and-roll heard Elvis they might have asked the same question.
Same day, different bananas!
DD
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It would still be an interesting exercise to do, though. Go on!
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Keep going, Newbie. Who knows what tomorrow brings?
I love buying records.
I refuse to feel guilty.
Music is beautiful not only for me but for others I share it with.
The world needs more music.
We must buy it.
Music is vital brain-food.
Try spending a day without humming something.
Rescind the control.
Admit to the addiction.
Music IS your kids' education.
But hey, don't listen to me!
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning." Plato
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." Ludwig van Beethoven
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The outrageously talented Teddy Thompson (son of Richard) doing "You finally said something good when you said goodbye" and of course, that old anthem of tantric hatred, "Every Breath you Take".
Here's Teddy: