<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ted Moffett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com" target="_blank">starbliss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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...<br>
<br></div><div>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.<br>
<br></div><div>This stereo system approaches the 200,000 thousand dollar price range... <br><br></div><div>I wonder if anyone in the Inland Empire owns a system of this sophistication...<br><br></div><div>Colleen's website regarding her "Classic Album Sundays" events. which are offered internationally, described as a "communal and audiophile listening experience:"<br>
<br><a href="http://classicalbumsundays.com/" target="_blank">http://classicalbumsundays.com/</a><br><br></div><div>-------------------------------------<br><a href="http://www.stereophile.com/content/classic-album-sundays" target="_blank">http://www.stereophile.com/content/classic-album-sundays</a><br>
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<p><img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/041313-LPSundays-600.jpg"></p>
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 <i>Hunky Dory</i> 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.)
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<b>John Atkinson adds: </b>Colleen played classic albums all weekend, following <i>Hunky Dory</i> with Talking Heads' (in photo), John Hiatt's <i>Bring the Family</i>, The Beach Boys' <i>Pet Sounds</i> (in mono), Kraftwerk's <i>Autobahn</i>, Steve Wonder's <i>Innervisions</i>, and ending the Show with the truly classic <i>Forever Changes</i>
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 <a href="http://classicalbumsundays.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. </p></div>------------------------------------------<br></div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></div>
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