What Vinyl Do You Have On The Table?

Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley & His All Stars (Hank Mobley - Tenor sax, Milt Jackson - Vibes, Horace Silver - Piano, Doug Watkins- Bass, Art Blakey - Drums)
-Blue Note- (Japan, Toshiba EMI)



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Illinois Jacquet
Swing's The Thing
-Verve- (45rpm, mono, Analogue Productions)




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It's a mono recording, but you will swear there is a sound stage.

Highly recommended.

(x10).

:)
 
Evange, do you keep the same cartridge (with shell), or do you use another one with a mono cart for your specific mono albums?

I luv Illinois Jacket.

I use a different arm with mono cartridge for mono records, there is a big difference in sound for older mono records pressings but not so much for recent pressing. I love mono recordings, no speaker phase issues, fewer microphones in the recording session makes it feel more natural. Mind you I love recordings up to the late 60's. I suspect up to the late 60's the recording engineer just tried to faithfully recreate the sound the musicians made. Since then they have tried to put their touch on the recording, with or without the blessing of the artist, which makes it less believable.

Mind you my comment above is just a generalization as there are some impeccable recordings done recently although mostly for audiophile labels/recordings.
 
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