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North Carolina Audio Club
@slaw and othersIm in Raleigh and interested in getting involved.  Is anything happening? 
Rushton's DIY approach to ultrasonic record cleaning published by Positive Feedback
Thanks for that update.  Kind of a sad postscript about your analog situation as I am facing a similar decision, although I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of my core collection. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hey macdad.I like the Shelby Lynne covers album too. Beautifully recorded and nicely pressed for $13. Cannot beat it. 
Vinyl Back in Black Review
I bought the Roxy Music (self-titled) Back in Black and I have never been more disappointed with a record purchase (well, OK, the Amy Winehouse records but that was cheap). It's unlistenable. I've never heard the original pressing so I have no ide... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Last night was:Dylan At BudokanJonathan Edwards, self-titledELO, Face The Music (guilty, guilty pleasure)Grand Funk, Phoenix (original pressing just bought)Elton John, Empty Sky (orig UK pressing, no better than that US pressing, meh)Joan Baez, Jo... 
Best Albums Of 2008
Vampire Weekend, self-titled debut (Best)Portished, Third (a stunner given the layoff)Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part 1 (transcendent)Randy Newman, Harps and Angels (as good as as any of his LPs from the last 30 years)Lucinda WIlliams, Little Honey... 
1970's
With regard to good sonics...The early Elton John UNi pressings I have are exceptional. I don't know what happened when the name changed to MCA but those later pressings and releases are not as good.Early 70s Warner Bros tend to be very good. I'm ... 
Album which you have listened to most?
Oh, and most of all...Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill 
Album which you have listened to most?
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness and InnervisionsSeals & Crofts - Diamond GirlLed Zeppelin IVJoe Jackson - everything through Night and DayElvis Costello - Imperial BedroomR.E.M. - Murmur and ReckoningNick Lowe - Pure Pop For Now PeopleElton Joh... 
Your First Concert was.....
Elvis Presley at the Charlotte Coliseum in 1972. My parents took the whole family. Chinese food afterward. The first I went to on my own was America. Poco opened for them. In Fayetteville, NC in 1975. 
'they blew'em off the stage'
Hey my uncle took me to see Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins and Rosemary Clooney at WolfTrap in 1975. Never mind. 
The best CD Player for the money
Musical Fidelity A5.10 pages and not one mention of the Musical Fidelity A5 which is a bargain at twice the price. I have the MF TriVista SACD player and the redbook CD is amazing at $6500 new (used $3000). But the A5 I auditioned might have been ... 
Johnny Cash - Get Back Reissues - Anyone heard em?
Say no more. Thanks Herman for being the one to pay the price so the rest of us could save a few bucks! 
Do you have a secret "guilty pleasure" recording?
Hey Doc_stereo!Go to Europe and play an ABBA song on the juke box and all the wives will love you.They're still incredibly beloved there.I have all their albums! (But I'm pretty sure I got them all for a buck or less.)Although I did pay full price... 
Do you have a secret "guilty pleasure" recording?
The Carpenter's "A Song For You."Incredibly well-recorded and thanks to A&M generally well-manufactured.Probably their only album that really stands together as a seamless whole and the only one made for adults. Very entertaining and Karen's v...