Agreed. Folk Singer is probably my best sounding LP (Mofi) and CD (Japanese, maybe SHM-CD) , and even it if it didn't sound so good it would be in the rotation for the music.

I've been listening to the earlier piano music of Schoenberg and Webern. I want to call it "modern" but it is like a hundred years old now, older than Brahms' music was when I was playing it in high school. It is atonal, and while some of it sounds like a sugared up 4 year old pounding on the piano, most of it is very interesting. Maybe even beautiful in its way.



16/44 FLAC download

Maurizio Pollini's 20th Century album is a who's who of important piano music. Besides Berg, Schoenberg and Webern there is Prokofiev and Stravinsky, Debussy and even Pierre Boulez.

Donnie- Muddy is epic on that LP.  Recording qualityis fantastic.  Sounds like Muddy is singing across the street and the drums and piano are at my neighbors house.  Country Boy and The Same Thing opened my eyes to a new level. Nice choice👍

Playing this one again. It's so soothing and softly swinging. I like the musical mind of Dick Cary, a lot.

"Dick Cary & his Tuesday Night Friends playing Dick Cary Originals" Arbor Jazz cd

Donnie,

That's a top 3 album/sacd for me. Unbelievable, just picked up a vinyl copy for my brother for Christmas. It's a must have in my book.

JD

Cleaner power has been a consideration for me lately. Currently, I’m mainly using plug in devices, like SnubWay, Mainstream and Venom Defender and am considering upgrades. I ‘d been looking at a few different options, so this thread has been interesting and I want to look into the battery backup solution more. I’m glad this  worked to resolve your hum issues MM.

I  also saw a series of videos on YouTube recently that caught my attention regarding the UberBuss. New Record Day had two recent videos, that I found useful. The first is discussing links to sound files to download and listen, to A/B clips with everything being the same, but one having one specific change made.
https://youtu.be/JmgEN7acYaE?si=Ck_EACE0zLtoAaPC
The second video discusses what was changed.
https://youtu.be/WIWVDNiRCiM?si=xpE3_BTTFGr7-RK4
I wont go into my opinions about much of the content and methodology of this second video, but listening to those sound clips through my system yesterday and determining the differences I heard, then seeing what was changed between the two sets of sound clips caught my attention. I want to listen again through headphones today, to see if those differences are even more obvious. I also checked out the recent video GR Research put out about the UberBuss and saw he did another follow up yesterday, that I need to check out. Anyway, perhaps the video links will be of interest to others as well.

I've been listening to Muddy Waters "Folk Singer".
Wow what an excellent sounding album.
I think that you can hear the bass player's hands sweat!

Revisiting Out Of/Into "Motion II" Blue Note cd

So glad this new "supergroup" have released a second. And it's very good!

Pianist Gerald Clayton, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, vibraphonist Joel Ross, drummer Kendrick Scott, and bassist Matt Brewer

James, yes, "Messiah" was played Easter as well, but it was most notably a Christmas even in our house.

My Dad was not a big Bach fan. He liked the cello  suites a lot, but he was more a fan of PDQ Bach (who was a graduate of Swarthmore College as he was, a few years behind, they met).

More snow, and our furnace is acting funky; beyond my ability to solve though I've kept it going with frequent visits to the root cellar. Waiting on a service call back.

Continuing on with my Yes re-visit with "Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe"