Worked a holiday event this morning and holiday music is now lodged in my brain so might as well begin the sentimental (in the best sense) outpouring. Starting with Tracey Thorn's Tinsel and Lights...

 

Green Druid - At the Maw of Ruin

Nothing says Christmas like a dead, rotting King on a skull thrown.

For Doug...

1 hour ago, swt61 said:

Nothing says Christmas like a dead, rotting King on a skull thrown.

I quite agree

McStine & Minnemann

progressive hard rock 

18 hours ago, swt61 said:

Nothing says Christmas like a dead, rotting King on a skull thrown.

This is accurate.

Postvorta, Porrima

lullaby music for Dusty

90 minute epic sludge/doom/post metal 

On 11/24/2020 at 12:09 AM, Grahame said:

As a respite from the chaos ...

and for @VPI/ @Dusty Chalk / etc ...

 

Wonderful.

Listened and appreciated it. Only afterwards did I realise she's from my home country - never heard about her before. Shame on me.

EMO the consecration of Gabriel.

 

Spinning a Stretch hand-me-down. Thanks tall pal.

Spinning a Stretch hand-me-down. Thanks tall pal.
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Any impressions of the Cadenza cartridge or the overall setup? I might need some German engineering turntable love down the road.

On 12/12/2020 at 7:35 PM, Voltron said:

Fancy! I have the settle for the green reissue from RSD. Jealous!

From newvelle records - Andy Zimmerman “half light”, beautiful thing I can’t quite describe, essentially a jazz/classics thing but really defies genre. 

So until 20 minutes ago I had been listening to the Colossus through the Parasound Zphono USB, because the Pass Pearl had the wrong resistors installed, and I had to turn it to near full volume to get much sound at all. And it had a ringing at that level. 

Marc and I mulled that over, trying to remember why it would have been set that way. We ended up deciding to change the resistors for 12K and adding an SUT, which the DL-103 really likes. 

So, now with the new resistors installed and the Denon AU-300LC SUT in line, I'm getting my first real listen to the system as a whole.

I can definitely hear the improvements that the Pearl brings right away, but I still sing praises to the Parasound Zphono USB.

It's a really good phono stage for the money.

The Pearl is just a bit better at everything though. 

Camel, Snowgoose

because ‘it’s the season 

4 hours ago, luvdunhill said:

Any impressions of the Cadenza cartridge or the overall setup? I might need some German engineering turntable love down the road.

Now that I have a working tonearm and a proper setup, the AMG is super solid. The 35lb platter is spinning at 33.3 and 45 RPM very consistently and steadily. The arm tracks precisely and without any wobble even if I walk around on my relatively spongey floor, which was a serious issue with the dead arm.

I'm still getting to know the sound of the new cartridge and it is hard to compare anything given that I've barely been able to play this TT previously. The only cartridge I got to work briefly was a much cheaper Soundsmith moving magnet. I am going to try side by side listening to some vinyl and digital versions of the same recordings. I can try to add some thoughts on sound later.