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Our Desert Island LPs

Long ago, we selected and posted our “desert island digital” (CDs).

Now let’s take a crack at vinyl!

Add a comment containing your 10-20 most cherished LPs. Try to include enough info that members can reach out and buy a copy.

I’m newly “reborn” to vinyl, but I’ll begin anyway:

• Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
• S&G, Concert in Central Park
• G. Harrison & Friends, Concert for Bangladesh
• Joni Mitchell, Court & Spark
• The Who, Who’s Next
• N. Young, Harvest
• Chicago, Chicago II
• J. Hendrix, Are You Experienced?
• John Klemmer, Straight From the Heart (Nautilus)
• Iron Butterfly, In-a-gadda-da-vida
• CCR, Cosmo’s Factory
• CSN&Y, Deja Vu
• Jackson Browne, Saturate Before Using
• Traffic, Low Spark…
• Etc.

Can you guess when I last bought LP’s?  ;^)

Enter yours now – comment….

Bob

A Tiny (Audiophile) History

I happened across an insightful rendition of audiophile history from wax to SACD.

Not much new here (the text was last revised in 2005), but the treatment of the subject is both well-considered and insightful. Kudos to Lynn Olson for yet another contribution to our hobby.

This piece complements Perfecting Sound Forever and the other fine books describing the saga of recording/reproduction.

One thing is abundantly clear from my studies: the Bay Area has played (and is playing) a BIG role in recorded sound.