re: Audiophile/Vinyl Thread - Post Pics, Advice, Questions, Setups, etc.

Google "Stereophile Magazine" "Michael Fremer" and "U-Turn"...

Sometime this past year, Mike Fremer, who is the analog guru for Stereophile magazine, did a review of the U-Turn. He gave it very favorable remarks and highly recommended it.

Look for the review and read it.

I'm set on buying the U-turn Orbit plus myself. I'm such a novice at this though and I have a question. If I buy the version that has the built in phono preamp, am I going to need anything other than speakers? Also, is there a certain type of speaker? I r newb.

You might like Sun Ra, Snarky Puppy, or Miles Davis.

gotcha.

I wish I could find a set of good looking white speakers that weren't 250 bucks. I have a set up aesthetic in mind that I'm trying to keep up with . Will probably just settle for some black ones.

The above album is Stanley Clarke and George Duke and is called "The Clark/Duke Project".

It is a really great sounding funk/groove jazz record done around 1981.

Do they need to screw into the base of the table?

Let me look for a solution...

I had a good music day today so I thought I would share it with the fellow music board regulars.

This afternoon a customer of mine that knows I am into audio/music says to me over lunch that he has a collection of around 300 or so LPs that he wants to be rid of as he is moving to a new home and no longer wants to deal with them.

He offers them to me and I pick them up from his place later in the afternoon.

I must say that this is quite a gift. When people usually unload their collections on me, those collections are usually in bad shape and filled with multiple LPs from the likes of Barbara Streisand, Seals & Crofts, and Dan Fogelberg (to name a few). I usually end up keeping about 5 records and trash the rest (they are junk).

Today was different...

This haul was a fantastic smathering of classic rock, prog Rock, and funk/Jazz covering 1965 to about 1985.

From the Turtles and Herman's Hermits to Floyd, Stones, Allmans, Rundgren, Beatles, CSN&Y, Hendrix, Tull, Vanilla Fudge, Ten Years After, Spooky Tooth, ZZ Top, REO Speedwagon, Taj Mahal, George Benson, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk, Hank Williams, Randy Newman, Dr. John, Aretha, Arlo Guthrie, the Kinks, Jimmy Smith, Keith Jarrett, Marley, Derrik and the Dominos, Horace Silver, Lou Reed, Leon Russel, Poco, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Procol Harum, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Moody Blues, the Who...

...and on, and on, and on.

I already own about 100 of the 300 in the lot. However, there are a bunch of records that I probably wouldn't buy just because I really don't know anything about that particular album, but now that I have them will give a listen to.

Also, many of these are first pressings (I checked some of the serials etched into the space after the lead out groove to verify this).

Example : I always wanted to get into Todd Rundgren's psychedelic stuff but never knew where to begin. There are 9 Rundgren LPs in this lot!

Here is the icing on the cake--he used a Dual Turntable with a decent Ortofon cart, so the record grooves weren't destroyed by a crappy needle (which is often the case in gifted/unwanted LPs). They are in excellent condition, and the covers are all good too.

Here is a pic of the lot...



I suppose I will post a few pics of the albums as I start to play through them.

And now...



Stanley Clarke--"School Days"...1976 Nemperor Records