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Don't know, it might well be that 'she' is going to 'persuade' you to build that freakin' hut and rescue boat...

Then you'd need a socket to plug all that stuff in...the instruments I mean

I second this. I had a problem with a set years ago, purchased directly from Mosaic, actually I broke it, (or my cat did, don't remember now), mailed to them and they promptly replaced it. First Class Service. The name of the guy at customer service should be Scott.

Well, I am not in New York and I am an open-minded hetero guy (I hope), so I thought that this thread would be about wich music...not babe

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 - Maazel, Vienna Philarmonic, DECCA.

True. I've got few classical mono records, DG and Philips, and they sound great, with my mono cartdrige.

Not a big expert, but I got some experience about it. Those Mercury Living Presence Aloc named are highly regarded among collectors, as the RCA Living Stereo, though I never found one at good price and in good shape, so I never heard them. The sound I prefer is from Decca, Uk or their U.S. counterpart, London. They had that famous sound engineer Kenneth Wilkinson, the 'Du Nann' of classical recordings, IMHO. His work with Solti are great, I was even tempted to buy some Wagner, then I remembered W. Allen's lines: "I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." And I passed on. Early pressings of Decca, the so called 'Wide Band Label' suffered from a bit noisy vinyl and are usually more expensive then later reissues. I have to say that even late seventies, early eighties, Decca's bargain series sound excellent. Philips and EMI can vary from excellent to poor, depends on the recordings and the pressings, usually quiet vinyl in my experience. Telefunken, I've got only the Bach from Harnoncourt, gorgeous sounding, if you like the philogical, someone would call it 'cold', interpretation of the early Haroncourt Archiv, I've got only Bach's orchestral music of Trevor Pinnock, excellent sound and dynamic. RCA, I've got only the Chopin of Rubinstein big box set, bargain series, mediocre sound, but I've got it for free, so... Deutsche Grammophone, ah! Who knows? From great to almost unlistenable. They had such a huge output during the years that is quite difficult to generalize. Anyway in my experience early pressings, the 'Tulip Label', have a bigger sound then later recordings, their reissues of early recordings are often bad sounding: thin and cold, though great vinyl quality. Lot's of collectors and experts blame Karajan's took over on the label for that. I never investigate the issue, though the huge enthusiasm of Herbert for the CD as medium, since the day ONE, could suggest something. For instance, quality of performances a part, the first Beethoven Symphonies Karajan recorder for DG, 1962/63 I think, (tulip label) are better sounding then later recordings 1977, after that Karajan became the artistic Führer or the label. Obviously there are exception now and then. Early 'Tulip label' pressings are sought by collectors and usually worth the search and the extra money, if the performance worths, like Bruckner/Jochum or Emil Gilels for instance, later pressings are a bet, usually a very cheap one, so I bet often, for ten euros I've got big box sets, 10/15 NM records and I've got some nice suprises like Beethoven Symphonies of Böhm with Wiener Philarmoniker, great performances and nice sound. If you are going into serious collecting you'll probably need this books: http://www.phil-rees.demon.co.uk/prrbook2.htm And maybe some of the old Grammophone's guides. Back in the days The Absolute Sound had pretty decent lists of good sounding records, though I think they never realized a book, so probably you should look for the TAS old issues in a library .

A triple moka, that means a moka three servings size with a hint of milk and sugar.

I feel your pain. Expecially about letters. The fact is that e-mail is some sort of BIG BLOB where everything is 'Dazed And Confused': everything in the same place at the same time: job, friends, advertising, communiques. Once upon a time you went to your mail box, opened it, throw away all the BS, piled all the bills and the job's annoyance in a dusty and hidden place, and grab THE letters you really cared. Writing a letter to a friend/fiance/relative/ was an emotional journey that took time and love, I still remember the hundreds of letter I wrote, actually I still have them, as well as the answers. It was an active emotional behavior, that gained me some of the best friends I still have today. Now it's so damn easy that I have the feeling that, despite the global communication, I have to look at them right between the eyes. Though I am not totally negative about e-mail. One problem is the speed, I mean I wrote an e-mail to friend, or I received one. Damn, I feel obliged to respond, or I want a quick response. With e-communication we lost the time, because when I send a physical letter, it tooks days, maybe weeks, and I don't pretend a response the morning after like e-mail. Anyway writing letters isn't a lost art. Like every art it needs devotion, patience and weariness.

Let's put in this way, I am not a classical music expert nor I am deeply into it, though I appreciate and love it. I have some records I bought in my youth, and inherited more records from my dad, and bought and still buy, when I got the chance, classical NM vinyls for ridicolous prices, .99 per record, or less, in case of big box sets. Often I got them for free, because friends of mine want to clear out the shelves, I got basically all the Glenn Gould's Bach recordings this way. So I am slowly building up a classical collection saving a coffe per week. Obviously we are talking of classical mid/late XX century performances: Karajan, Solti, Kempff, Walter, Harnoncourt. Klemperer, Jochum, Quartetto Italiano or Rubinstein. I am asking myself if there are anybody's else doing it.

Actually they should had, let's imagine: Ludwig Van Beethoven - Guitar Concerto op. 139 - J. Hendrix, guitar, and Toscanini or Furtwaengler or Walter as director. Whoa!

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony # 5 - Bhoem, Wiener Philarmoniker, DG box set. Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun - MCA

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony # 6 - Bhoem, Wiener Philarmoniker, DG box set.

Randy Weston - Piano A-la-mode - Jubilee, mono.

Auguri Bill!

Same here, since I bought the set, (at full price ) I was satisfied with sound, though I bought most of the original vinyls since then...and I am even more satisfied. I admit that I have some of those 2K cds, not Coltrane, and they sound very good, IMHO.

Ah, yes! Also the Stones in italian: Quite exilarating. Love it!

Have a nice party!

Enzo Iannacci? I DUE CORSARI!! But hearing them sing in English is a VERY acquired taste! Yep, I just posted the stuff suitable for a party. I avoided the most "artistic" ones.

And 'our' Marianne Faithful: Patty Pravo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oirbEBugH-E...feature=related Night and Day? MINA! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG8QGJl11tI...feature=related

Paolo Conte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJ_ifT4y0Q Or Enzo Iannacci http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M92vvbF-Mt4...feature=related Some sixties and soul? Fausto Leali http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfh8jBVvzs...feature=related California Dreamin? Dik Dik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3399J8H_jV0...feature=related I Corvi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DxWggs7ZA...feature=related The Rokes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfHJ5b9VVEA...feature=related Equipe 84 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESG038zpMUE...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-ltwe6Dng...feature=related

Yeah, those V-Discs weren't wasted over here.

Is this what I think it is? Yeah, listen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmobBHa4wyk...feature=related And what about the Great Fred Buscaglione? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF113hyi0yI...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vgzyLAYLYQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlINPwHP0DU...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR8NwPygjMc...feature=related

Early italian rock'roll stuff: Adriano Celentano, Little Tony, Bobby Solo, (look for early records, aka pre 1970) Italian beat rock, (Beatles style) : I Giganti, Equipe 84, Mal and The Primitives, Dik Dik, Patty Pravo, (pre 1970 too) More refined stuff, with a jazzy taste: Renato Carosone, Paolo Conte, Fred Buscaglione. Lucio Battisti, Domenico Modugno and Mina worth a research too. (both for slow and fast tempos).