Sleepy Time Time - Cream • Fresh Cream (DCC) [VPI HW-40 Anniversary Direct Drive]

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  1. Oswaldo Martinez

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    • Artist: Cream
    • Album: Fresh Cream
    • Track: Sleepy Time Time
    • Label: DCC Compact Classics • 180+ Pure Virgin Vinyl

    Remastered by Steve Hoffman, January 1996
    All vacuum-tube cutting system

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    Playback Equipment

    • Koetsu Black Goldline Moving Coil Cartridge
    • VPI HW-40 Anniversary Direct Drive Turntable
    • Herron Audio VTPH-2A Tube Phono Stage

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    Recorder

    • Tascam DR-100 MkIII Portable Digital Recorder @ 24-bit/192k Resolution

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    Produced by Oswaldo Martinez
    President/Let There Be Sound

    e-mail: vinylrules@aol.com
    mobile: (954) 465-5040
    website: http://www.lettherebesound.com
     
    Oswaldo Martinez, Aug 20, 2019
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    Indeed, Fresh Cream, from the boy's very first album. And this particular recording you posted is one of their finest efforts !!!

    Another I really dig is "Wrapping Paper". Oz, you're the most .....

    Cheers,

    Bleusy
     
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    Thank you Bluesy! I am honored.
    More cool tunes to come I am sure!
     
    Oswaldo Martinez, Aug 21, 2019
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    Howdy Oz ..... How about a bit more of the Santana Blues Band ? Santana IV perhaps ???

    Enjoy your gear and music !!!

    Bleusy

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    @Oswaldo Martinez WOW!!! I am trying to imagine how it sounds before YouTube compression. You have a few VPI turntables and some very nice carts, any chance of uploading 24/192 files of the same tune played on different setups?
     
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    I’ll do my best Bluesy! Some more Santana is a great suggestion. Actually recently I recorded a couple of selections from Santana I of an MFSL LP that sounded mighty tasty. That could be a good option as well.

    All my best and Happy New Year!
     
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    Perhaps I could share a Hi-Res track or two soon. I’ll keep you posted.

    thanks for the kind remarks and Happy New Year to you and all!
     
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    Ok Jorge and all, let’s try this track I recorded last week to share with some friends on another forum:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ioh1eczpov4hd3/Slippin' Away II.wav?dl=0

    Now a couple of words about this recording:

    This Sheffield Lab pressing isn’t my minty fresh original but a recent copy I picked up at the last record show - and while the LP cleaned up well enough, it still a worn used record so expect some level of noise. However once the track gets cracking the noise goes away.

    Anyway, being I’ve just posted a new cassette video on this forum showcasing a Sheffield Lab recording, I felt sharing this first file was apropos being that it too is a Sheffield Lab recording.


    Recording Info

    Artist: James Newton Howard
    Album: James Newton Howard & Friends
    Track: Slippin’ Away II

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    Equipment

    Turntable: VPI Avenger Reference (ADS, Rim Drive, Graphite Platter Mat)

    Cartridge: Kiseki Purple Heart N.S. moving coil

    Phono Stage: Herron Audio VTPH-2A

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    The WAV file is 24-bit/192k resolution.

    And last but not least, all comments good or bad are welcome!

    Oz
     
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    Oh, Man!!!!!!!!!!!
    This is NOT my kind of music by any unimaginable stretches, and I do not have the album and do not see myself ever getting one...

    BUT...

    Listening to the tune through my "premium" Tidal was as bland as the talent of this Hollywood Dude goes,... I was seriously questioning my (old) age and the prospects of spending yet more time with Mahler whom I yet trying hard to comprehend... o_O

    And then this same tune, as downloaded and played through my lowly Naim Uniti Star into Linn speakers changed Everything!!! It is still a very particularly bland effort from yet another "overachiever" here in LA, but the "snap", the "energy" and the sheer "vitality" of the production revealed itself, all of a sudden, into my room!!! Made me, once again, feel good about myself and my choice of Naim Audio gear: during an "initiation" 20+ years ago John Schwartz of Chicago ProMusica played Joe Cocker "Sheffield Steel" which locked me onto Naim gear. Same here: @Oswaldo Martinez knows how to make a boy sit, shut up, and listen!...

    Bravo!!!!!
     
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    Wow! I am not worthy! I am seriously thankful Jorge especially since you're telling me this isn't your typical cup of tea at all. Yet the sound made you stand up and listen. So thanks a million for that.

    All my best,
     
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    Awesome! I'm just going through my desktop Kenwood KA-5700, ASUS Xonar Essence STX Soundcard to Klipsch Heresays and really liking it. I had know idea who JNH was but my first impression was early 80's soundtrack music, although I feel like some of it may have been in Grand Theft Auto Vice City. Then I looked him up.

    I love movie soundtracks, I don't know if you saw my post of going to John Carpenter when he was in town a couple years ago, similar but much darker. Also check out 8-Bit Keys on YouTube, he'll lay down a similar multi-track song using 80's consumer keyboards, while overlaying the different tracks on the screen. On one of the videos he nonchalantly lets out that Dimebag Darrell was his cousin.
     
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    No I didn't know any of the above. Would you have the link to that John Carpenter meet so I can go check it out? Thanks again for the awesome feedback. I am truly humbled. Honestly.
     
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    I may have posted commenting in threads, here's some videos including from the last tour. He directed and scored Halloween, Escape From New York, Christine, The Thing (Ennio Morricone Score), etc. All time classics with incredible theme music.



     
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    Brilliant! Thanks for sharing! Wow

    Incredible music indeed.
     
    Oswaldo Martinez, Jan 28, 2020
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