When we bought our house, newly built, around 30 years ago, I jumped up and down on the floor - "woohoo - it is a concrete raft! Let's buy it!"

So fortunately I get none of the bouncy floor stuff at all 

In an earlier house maybe 35 years ago, which did have bouncy floors, I had a custom slab of slate made (from here http://www.delaboleslate.co.uk/ ) and put it on on wooden bearers which I screwed into the walls in an alcove for the deck.

But Stretch hand me down or not, that sir is a hell of a deck!

Piroshka, new Miki (Lush) project, this is great!

Holy smokes it appears as if we are actually talking about gear and doing sound comparisons and showing off our vinyl rigs.  I like this version of 2010

@Craig Sawyers Although I blame, er credit, Stretch for pointing out the audiogon ad for the AMG Viella TT a few years ago, the hand me down was the vinyl record, not the deck on which it spun.

Edited December 18, 20205 yr by Voltron

I can't wait to hear that sexy beast! But I have to admit that I'm having tonearm envy, because yours is so much longer than mine.

I have concrete slab floors as well. That plus this beefy damn stand, and there's no movement whatsoever.

This is an album I had no knowledge of. It's George Jones duets.

George Jones with Dr. Hook is uhm, interesting.

 

I have no knowledge of George Jones, let alone his duets.

It's Opera.

 

 

Or Opry at any rate.

Edited December 18, 20205 yr by swt61

Poor James Taylor who has to use two names. 

Dr. Hook doesn't even get a chair.

 

Elvis, rebel as always. 

24 minutes ago, Voltron said:

Dr. Hook doesn't even get a chair.

 

It's  Dennis and Ray. They didn't give the whole group credit.

15 minutes ago, blessingx said:

Elvis, rebel as always. 

That wasn't the greatest song choice, even though I  love Elvis Costello.

34 minutes ago, swt61 said:

It's  Dennis and Ray. They didn't give the whole group credit.

Where's Shel's chair?

Who is Shel?

If you're referring to Shel Silverstein, I don't think he sings.

Edited December 19, 20205 yr by swt61

You're right. 

 

Edited December 19, 20205 yr by blessingx

20 minutes ago, blessingx said:

You're right. 

 

If you want your ears to stop bleeding, here's a much better sung version...

 

Posting this as it’s free, but feel to make donation if you’d like. Is now live with show starting in 10 minutes. American Pops Orchestra’s Drag Out the Holly. 

Edit: And it’s over. 

Edited December 20, 20205 yr by blessingx

Someone generously shared with me a bootleg of the first Porcupine Tree show I ever went.  I’m in heaven.

Very cool 😎

They’ve posted the Drag Out the Holly replay for a few days. If you need some holiday music... 

 

Boy am I dumb: I listened to I and II, and am about to listen to III (on Tidal). I have listened to this NM US first a few times, but the rice paper sleeves are so fragile that I hadn't noticed that, well: unplayed 45 single.

My 40th birthday is December 31. I'll listen to it then. 

Edited December 23, 20205 yr by EdipisReks1

A fun playlist on Spotify  
 

A. Krauss

 

It's hard for me to pick a favorite A Krauss album, but paper airplane is certainly at the top of the list. 

Beautiful setup!