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These guys keeping guard..

The ‘F’ word I believe - interjection from Tubbs. By typical present day standards, pretty mild.

This Board is getting as bad as the Hoffman Forum. I’ll take either - but as my best source component is the turntable/arm/cart/phono stage the preference is always going to be vinyl. As I get lazier in my old age though regarding changing the sides I’m playing more CDs though. Having said that. a well set up deck spinning a choice vinyl platter is a thing of joy! As for those decks e.g.with USB inputs, forget it ! I hear you - not so long ago you could buy a fair bit of choice stuff for a fiver a shot and new LPs were not much more than a tenner. Now, everything seems to be £20 and up, with the Tone Poets at a pocket-emptying £35-40 each. It was probably a ‘golden era’ though - I remember those French DMMs being £7-8 in the early 80s, quite expensive for the time.

Yep, ‘Contrasts’ got a recent CD release on ECM but I don’t think ‘Sizzle’ on Impulse has ever been issued on CD. Certainly never seen it in that format.

Saw them in 1983, this was likely recorded the same tour.

Yep - an unlikely combination but seems to work well enough. I am unfamiliar with her ‘schlager’ material/style, it is about as well known here in the UK as TV showings of ‘Dinner For One’ i.e. pretty well unknown.

My loft has been known to have bats at various times - but no Incus LPs or Shepp !

No problems that I could hear on the NY mono pressing I listened to the other night. For this particular title I also have a NY stereo - rare luxury. Don’t recall any issues with that one either.

The Hoffman Board ‘Tone Poet’ thread is my daily light entertainment. If I was in the US I would take you up on the ‘Black Fire’ just to hear what the deal was all about. Sadly, shipping and tax would probably run at 3-4 times that !

Wow !

Is that the place I think it is?

Ray Russell ‘Dragon Hill’ (Sony, promo)

Riverside, stereo

Turtle Records 3CD

UK Fontana Sheila Jordan spectacular on side 2 !

Decca stereo