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Jackie McLean "Let Freedom Ring", NY stereo

McCoy Tyner "Today and Tomorrow" Impulse mono.

I suppose your friend was affected by that recession.

You got the point! Original pressings, jazz and rock, are more musical for me. Maybe I loose something in term of musical detail, but the experience is more satisfiyng. I have some Classic reissues of Led Zeppelin, they sound great, I can even listen to the hand of Jimmy Page sliding on the guitar, but in term of emotion the original Atlantic stereo pressing (1841 Broadway) are unbeatable. If you want to hear some of the greatest mono pressings try to find some unboxed Decca lps (UK) of the Rolling Stones and John Mayall.

Congratulations! Where are the.....

Used condoms. I started collect them more than twenty years ago when I was a teenager. I put them in a plastic bag with the name of the girl written on it. I hope to get the second piece of my collection in the next few weeks.

Does this actually count as a job? Yes, if you aren't allow to drink, but you have to spill countless pints!!!

1 barman 2 worker in a slate factory, (do you know that under the green cloth of billiards there is a slate?) 3 underpayed factotum for an eviromentalist association 4 projectionist in movie theater 5 camera assistant for underwater and overwater photography (documentaries) 6 sound recordist for documentaries 7 run a company of documentaries production 8 sell the above company at the best price, the hardest job of my life! and at last 9 free lance film editor for broadcasting in companies owned by other people

Roland Kirk "DOMINO", Mercury

For a funny concidence I have two copy of SPLHCB, Parlophone mono pressing, and I enjoy them very much. I have an original mono pressing of "Hard Days Night" too, and it sounds great. I do not totally agree about MFSL, I own some of their stereo pressing of the late Beatles albums, and IMHO they sound good. I am not a fan of japanese pressings in general, they sound great, but they are not cheap and lack the "smell of history" of original pressing if you can understand what I mean. Talking about rock music I try to find US original pressing for US artists and UK pressing for UK artists, when the prices are impossible I go for cheaper reissue in decent condition (usually european reissue). Anyway the Beatles discography is pretty small compared to most of Jazz artists, I would go for originals, consider it a presents for you birthday, in a few years you will get all Beatles Lps.

Bergenfield Prestige

I am a film editor for documentaries, commercials and tv broadcasting. I am also writing a crime novel in my free time.

Yeah, so long Jim.

Rev. Gary Davis "At Newport", Comet reissue

Coltrane's AFRICA BRASS, RVG Impulse stereo

Wasn't Wagner's music once described as moments of sublime beauty, interrupted by hours of tedium? B-) Here you have an opinion about Wagner's music: W. ALLEN: I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Wayne Shorter SPEAK NO EVIL, NY stereo

WITH HIS MATCHLESS STYLE ARIC CONDENSED IN ONE SENTENCE MY DISAPPEARED POST.

My post didn't come back!

Pattie Smith WAVE

My choice

My contribution to the thread: Power amps (Solid State) and cd player are always on because you can't swich them off unless you plug them off, they are build to be in stand by all the time, a part when you listen to them! All other stuff, preamp (tube), phono preamp (SS), power conditoner and TT are switched off when I don't listen to them. The best sound comes after an hour of listening/warming. When I left home for a weekend or more I disconnet everything from the socket. I use to play some demagnetizing tracks (on cd and record) when I plug the system in. A part holy lightning and curse, I switch the system off because I don't want to contribute at the global warming for audiophile reasons.

Nessa's theory of vinyl relativity proved it is not possible ages ago.

I use a similar Ikea bookcase, and it works pretty well for my records.