Dingsking wrote:Last night, went to small venue in Devizes, Wiltshire to see Focus with My mate, Nigel. What an absolutely brilliant evening and the best gig I have really enjoyed for quite a long time. They did two longish stints mixing old favourites with new music.

Jealous? Yes, I'm jealous.

slinger wrote:Pink Floyd - Pulse
Tangerine Dream - Green Desert
V.A. - Son of Kraut.
The Flock - Dinosaur Swamp
Half Moon Run - Dark Eyes

Nice list, The Flock - love that album.
'Half Moon Run' are new to me, just had a quick listen - shades of Alt-J and Midlake - worth looking out for, thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Xezwkm66w

Short film from Discovery Channel showing how Martin Logan hybrid/electrostatic speakers are constructed.

All I know is that I was missing something from playing the CD's and doing this put the 'sparkle' back into the music.

A lot of CD's issued between 1995 - 2005 are HDCD encoded. I always thought that it meant that they should sound better and was somewhat disappointed that they didn't. My remastered editions of King Crimson, Roxy Music & Mike Oldfield sounded a bit dull and lifeless. Of course I didn't realise a...

Also had a Logic DM101 TT which was a pain to set up, and ran too fast (took me years to realise that though). It was when I used to live in Selby. A friend of mine was a drummer who practiced by playing along to LP's. When we were listening to 'Close to the Edge' he said "Even Bill Bruford ca...

It was in an effort to distance myself from the global domination of the Linn/Naim axis that I discovered NVA in the 80's. Also had a Logic DM101 TT which was a pain to set up, and ran too fast (took me years to realise that though).

Tonight I have been mainly listening to America by America, one of a five CD box set I bought from Sainsbury's in the Original Album Series for £9... Bought the Chris Rea five CD box set too. Have five of the CDs from these two sets on vinyl already but £1.80 for each CD is quite compelling so wort...

With Ulrich Schnauss in the lineup TD could be in for a rebirth - I loved his 'A Strangely Isolated Place' CD.
Been playing 'Phaedra' a lot recently.

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