[Vision2020] New York Audio Show 2013: Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy's "Classic Album Sundays"

[Darrell Keim]

If they do, I'd like to meet then Ted!  I've got a very nice sounding
handmade tube based system, I even have occasional "audio get togethers"
with another friend.  But neither of us has anything like that.  It is fun
to see the best systems, like that one.  It is also fun to see how good the
sound can be for a fraction of that cost.


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Famous music devotee, dance DJ and audiophile, Colleen Murphy is shown
> below with a mind blowing vinyl stereo system, used at the NY Audio Show
> 2013...
>
> In one photo she is posed with the vinyl record cover of Talking Heads
> "Remain in Light"... Once upon a time I had superb Japanese import vinyl
> copy of this album, which sounded fantastic.
>
> This stereo system approaches the 200,000 thousand dollar price range...
>
> I wonder if anyone in the Inland Empire owns a system of this
> sophistication...
>
> Colleen's website regarding her "Classic Album Sundays" events. which are
> offered internationally, described as a "communal and audiophile listening
> experience:"
>
> http://classicalbumsundays.com/
>
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> http://www.stereophile.com/content/classic-album-sundays
> Classic Album Sundays
>  By Art Dudley <http://www.stereophile.com/writer/86> • Posted: Apr 14,
> 2013
>
> Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, the record-store clerk-turned-internationally
> known DJ-turned-analog impresario, has set out to change the way we listen,
> one roomful at a time; based on my experiences at NYAS 2013, she is bound
> to succeed. I had heard that Ms. Murphy is as sound- and music-savvy as she
> is lovely, and I can only say those observations don’t do her justice.
> “Today, music is treated almost as aural wallpaper, as a cheap commodity,”
> Murphy bemoaned in her opening remarks before spinning the Japanese vinyl
> version of David Bowie’s *Hunky Dory* on a truly grand system, including
> a Spiral Groove SG1.1 turntable with Centroid tonearm and a Lyra Atlas
> cartridge; a VTL TP 6.5 phono preamp (with integral step-up transformer);
> VTL’s TL 7.5 line-level preamp and Siegfried monoblock amps; Wilson Audio
> MAXX 3 loudspeakers and Opus series cabling from Transparent. (When I
> visited the Classic Album Sundays room, early on the show’s first day,
> exact pricing details weren’t yet available; suffice it to say, everything
> was rather expensive.)
>
>  *John Atkinson adds: *Colleen played classic albums all weekend,
> following *Hunky Dory* with Talking Heads' (in photo), John Hiatt's *Bring
> the Family*, The Beach Boys' *Pet Sounds* (in mono), Kraftwerk's *Autobahn
> *, Steve Wonder's *Innervisions*, and ending the Show with the truly
> classic *Forever Changes* from Love, on a new, superb-sounding reissue
> from Rhino. I took in two of these sessions and it was a buzz being in a
> room of attentive audiophiles listening to an album in its entirety. You
> can find the Classic Album Sundays calendar at Colleen's website<http://classicalbumsundays.com/>.
>
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