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We're enjoying erotic chants of the hellenic goatherders while celebrating Monday with my Air.

Just scored a pair of 80s AX2 speakers, and hooked them up in my attic system (CEC/Electra BD-2000 turntable, Jelco MC12E cartridge, Rotel RX-855 Receiver).

Started off with an eternal favourite for testing Hi-Fi components - Stravinsky conducting Rite of Spring. Now playing a K-Tel set of Rolling Stones hits from the 60s (basically Hot Rocks, minus Sympathy for the Devil).

Great vintage speakers!

FM - Friends and Neighbors - over and over

The damn song has been stuck in my head for almost a week now. It wasn't even from a good recording... concert footage on YouTube with bad audio.

Currently listening to the double-tracked electric mandolin section of One O'Clock Tomorrow off the Lost In Space CD in the hope of exorcising the previous song.

EDIT - crap... I listened to the Lost In Space version of Friends and Neighbors. It's actually pretty good but more dependent on having a good audio system than most of their songs. Listening to it on headphones until I finish hooking up the M40's to the PC audio out.

Listening to Stings 1987 album “Nothing Like the Sun”. For a 33 year old recording I think it sounds fantastic. Or, forget how old it is , it’s just a great recording and even better album.
Jeff

Best of Chico Hamilton, LP, having as good a time as those guys is probably illegal.
Dream with Dean, Dean Martin, 45 rpm LP, one of the best recorded records ever.
Hit the just one more record limit and finished with ...
Getz Gilberto, 45 rpm LP, Girl from Ipanema, one of my favorites.

Listening to Norah Jones. Come Away with Me. Interesting. I like it, can’t say just now what it is I’m enjoying but, it’s good.
Jeff

Supertramp - Crime of the Century, 2014 Remaster from France, 180g vinyl. Best $25 I have spent on vinyl recently!

GuitarHero IV and karaoke is absolutely awesome on the actives and three EP subs.

Revisiting some Rasputina today. The live album, A Radical Recital, is still a lot of fun, and on the Actives is the best I've heard it. After that I listened to an EP I never listened to much, and then the track, "Children's Reform Center", an instrumental which still makes me happy.

Rasputina - "Children's Reform Center"

JohnK posting about the BBC Proms again reminded me I hadn't listened to any classical music on my Actives yet, so I put in some time with a few, including the Gil Shaham/Orpheus recording of Vivaldi's The 4 Seasons, LSO Live/Bernard Haitink's Beethoven: Symphony No.7, Triple Concerto, and Carol Rosenberger's Water Music of the Impressionists. The Actives impress yet again, with Water Music of the Impressionists perhaps being the highlight sound quality-wise.

I just ordered Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague since it seems to be one of the few concert Blu-rays in Dolby Atmos. Not exactly classical. Here's hoping we get some classical concerts on UHD Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos at some point. I feel like I get into the performances more when I can see them performing.