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Not compared directly, but after listened to my first Tone Poet, I think that MM are very very slightly better, sonically speaking, but not so better to justify their price, the art and the quality of covers are almost the same, again MM has thicker cardboard but who cares. Edit I mean 45rpm MM, never heard 33rpm.

My first Tone Poet, excellent, bought in a record shop close to my home. I think I'll get the few records I miss. Overall they cost like a japan reissue, considering shipping, and they are brand new.

You can't go wrong with Sviatoslav.

Too many, BUT agree about Stanko, no sloppy records AFIK, I would add Charles Lloyd, Paul Motian and Dave Holland in the same league. Trovesi and Coscia strong records too. Both records of Jarrett and Haden are excellent IMMV.

I liked very much his Beethoven's Concerto.

Frohe Weinachten

J.S. Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium, Harnoncourt. From this set:

Same here, I bought very very few stuff in the last 5 years, I am pretty fine with my collection.

Over here Landis’ Trading Places got the job as Christmas Movie replacing the classic Capra’s It’a a wonderful life.

I sold on discogs for a while and was ok until they forced sellers to adopt a buy it now policy. I spent several time in order to fulfill this requirement but the interface is badly designed so I quitted. Anyway lots of sellers did it so maybe I am not smart enough though there were lots of complaints about the mandatory shipping policy, so I wasn’t alone.

58 jazz lovers aka ok boomer?

Fair, I stand by my opinion.

Don’t think it may damage recent reissue. The weight is on average and the stylus is a spherical one, anyway I didn’t notice any problems. It might be that some esoteric mono cartridge damages stereo records but I haven’t notice about it.

BTW it seems to me that even the more recent mono reissues sounds better with my mono cartridge, and my mono is less expensive by far then stereo. And sometimes I play stereo LPs with mono and it’s fun.

Yes and it tracks better then a stereo. BTW I have a two arms TT, so I saved space, at a high price.

I strongly disagree, there is no ONE WAY to correctly design amplifiers, class A, class A/B, mosfets, vaccum tubes, transistors, ecc. The same performance on test bench doesn't implicate they sound the same. In order to "sound" they have to be hooked with speakers, preamplifier and one source. Sound is the result of an interaction. I quote what I wrote in another thread: "I think hifi is a system, like a car, that includes the room where it sounds. Consider one element alone would be like consider only engine or brakes or suspension to judge a car. Testing a single element is okay but it will not tell you exactly how it will sounds in your room hooked with your amp, speakers,etc. likewise the results of an engine on test bench will not tell you how it will works a car drives by you on a common road. I was lucky enough to test single gears in my system and often results surprised me."

Never had the cd, but my King pressing sounds sweet.

Long time since I played this set.

I think he destroyed his Lamborghini in an accident, don’t know about the others.

I think Miles has had always the nicest cars.

Of course, I was joking. I have had few old bikes (BMW) in my life and I know what a pain was to keep them in order, and a motorbike has lots of parts less then a car.

Anyway back in the days the guys who designed and built that Mercedes Benz, were the same guys who designed and built the cars that ReichMarshalls' chaffeurs drove on war fronts, for sure is an indestructibile piece of mechanics that should last for 1000 years like the Reich, so 60 years old? It's still a baby.