I'm having to sell off my analog front end and records to pay my property taxes. I've advertised to my local audio club but all of those cats are old as me and have all their bases covered already. Some records I've been using for demo purposes and am selling are:
For classical, Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances on Reference Recordings with Eiji Oue conducting the Minnesota Orchestra and a huge recording it is yet with delicate intimacy recorded by Keith Johnson and Karl Orff's Der Mond on Philips for soundstaging with singers appearing all over and beyond the front end of my room. Also, Mark Levinson's Volume One on his own label for vocal purity (choral) and you-are-thereness;
For jazz, "A Night in Tunisia" from Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers on a Philips direct-to-disc recording made in Tokyo in '78 with a sextet for balls-to-the-wall blowing and unfettered dynamics;
And the ladies for vocal purity, Chris Conner Live and an Irene Kral date, Gentle Rain.
I have many albums you can select from should you visit and feel free to bring some of your own for de-moing. I'm in the Houston area 832-446-7036. Click on "systems
My analog front end consists of a Micro Seiki 91 belt drive Rosewood table with a Jelco 750SDB 10" arm housing a Koetsu Black moving coil cartridge. I have two of the latter tho one is in need of re-tipping something "Soundsmith" can do for you for around $200. The former is a first edition designed by the old man himself. The latter is a much more recent edition. I can include a Hagerman "Bugle Boy" phono pre. I am necessarily looking for $2700.00 plus shipping. Phone: 832-442-7036 (Houston, Texas). Records and/or cabinets sold separately.
