What's Spinning Tonight?

What is it that you are spinning tonight?

 

Joseph Haydn The Seasons (Rene Jacobs, Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, Harmonia Mundi). i really do like Haydn...my collection of Hadyn has surpassed Telemann, Vivaldi combined, is now starting to surpass Handel and is rapidly catching up to Bach...

 

Spinning now::

 

Nice one...i've got the RVG 24-bit remaster onto CD. I have a feeling i have seen some quite fancy remasters of this one...SACD included. How does your version compare? Thanks...and enjoy!

 

I have the SACD and it's very good.

Lee

 

Nice one...i've got the RVG 24-bit remaster onto CD. I have a feeling i have seen some quite fancy remasters of this one...SACD included. How does your version compare? Thanks...and enjoy!

I'm easy Lloyd; 'The Ultimate' on CD sounds good, the LP as well, and the SACD too. :b
It's John Coltrane anyway; and not many of them recordings are bad.

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Listening to right now:

 

Friday and Saturday Nights. Miles Davis in Person at the Blackhawk, Columbia/Impex Records IMP 6009
Eric Bibb: April Fools, Opus 3 79-14 (deciding which recordings to get on tape)
Freddie Hubbard: Ready for Freddie, Music Matters Jazz/Blue Note 84085, 45 rpm (remastered by Kevin Gray)
Sade: Diamond Life, Audio Fidelity AFZLP 089 (remastered by Kevin Gray)
A Percussion Spectacular. Chavez: Tocata for Percussion Instruments, Ginastera: Cantata Para America Magica, Temianka and LA Percussion Ensemble, Columbia MS 6447

 

I'm easy Lloyd; 'The Ultimate' on CD sounds good, the LP as well, and the SACD too. :b
It's John Coltrane anyway; and not many of them recordings are bad.

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Listening to right now:

Sounds great on vinyl too

 

Sounds great on vinyl too

33 1/3 or 45? :b

 

I've had a request for another spin and I aim to please...

Saxophone Colossus, Way Out West - Sonny Rollins
Art Pepper meets the Rhythm Section
These three are 192/24 2ch only DVDA's.

Ok by me, as they sound awfully good in the early morn while sippin a little Anejo. Too bad that Sam Adams sippin biere is gone.

 

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/11688298/__Levende_legende_wordt_90__.html Toots tielemans 90 years of age

great music on vinyl / good recordings with mouth harmonica music ( i dont know if its spelled right)

 

33 1/3 or 45? :b

All of the above and CD too.

 

Just finished listining to all 3 LP's of this:



And now have something from a few years later playing:



EDIT: This is a 1972 MONO release.

 

All of the above and CD too.

Myles, you are right; CDs are also made of vinyl (a substrate of), I believe.

But the contact between the laser and the CD's surface is not physical, but through laser light.
And because of that and as opposed to LPs, there is a need to replace your cartridge, and also your album, after a certain time. The sound will deteriorate because of a wore needle,
and the grooves of an album will also wear off after so many plays.

CD players don't fare much better; the laser mechanisms and the motors also wear off with time.
Synchronisation, fine speed & laser adjustments, jitter, motor noise, disc clamps, etc., are all contributing to a less or more accurate sound reproduction.
The CDs themselves can develop 'rotting' with time; but precautions can be taken.
And as with LPS there are cleaning products.

Turntables to play records are much more finicky to setup overall than CD players though.
You know that first hand yourself, and you have to get up of your chair every twenty minutes or so. But the effort is worthy of the reward (sound) or you simply wouldn't bother.
Plus the special essence of a record spinning on a turntable is unique in relaxation.
...With all the 'processions' and methodic cares; read addictive rotations or some' like that.

R2Rs are also prone to similar conditions; mechanically and conditionally (tapes) wise.

Now here's a question for you:
What is the average speed of a spinning CD when on playback audio mode?
...The number of rotations per minute. ...Near half way (diameter).

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* Listening to Classical Music right now, on the r.a.d.i.o. :b

 

It depends on which track you are listening to. Since CD's are read from the inside out, as disc spins significantly faster on the first few tracks, around 460 RPM (Rotations per minute). Towards the end of the disc, it doesn't have to spin as fast to read the same ammount of information, and would spin around 200 RPM

 

Steve, you are too fast to answer. :b
..I was still editing my post (for clearer understanding and also typos).

But of course you are right regarding the beginning and end of a CD in playback mode.
So then the average (mid point on the CD diameter) would be between your two figures just above.

That is much faster than an LP. And R2R are the slowest ones at 15 and 7 1/2 ips (inches per second).
And there are other speeds, and other music mediums as well (cassette tapes, streaming, ...).

 

Dr. Dre 2001, DMX...will likely continue to go thru to house mostly likely, then take a break into chill, buddha bar, then into jazz, blues, then classical...

 

Dr. Dre 2001, DMX...will likely continue to go thru to house mostly likely, then take a break into chill, buddha bar, then into jazz, blues, then classical...

Hi Lloyd,

Please let us know regarding Beethoven on SACDs. :b

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Listening to Opera right now, on the r.a.d.i.o.
I am a huge fan of Operas. Human voices have the biggest emotions of any music.

 

Hi Lloyd,

Please let us know regarding Beethoven on SACDs. :b

For sure.

 

Spinning::



* I have been listening to Jazz all morning long (mainly trumpets and acoustic double-bass),
and suddenly out of the Blues I decided to spin this one in one of my numerous CD players.

 

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