Moodymann presents Mahogany Brown ...gosh, i love that album, one of my all-time-favourites, best detroit-stuff
they're two different players. the Thorens is a mixture belt/idler-drive, the Sony is direct drive. i've never done the effort to compare them to eachother playing the same record or so, right now i use an SME 3010 r arm on the Thorens with a quite heavy Ortofon SPU mono cartridge to play shellacks, with this tt i catch the best results. the Sony is my favourite tt at this moment, as i love the design and with the original PUA-114 arm (i guess it's a 10", too) and the much lighter Denon DL-110, it's performing perfect with 33/45 rpm. i'm well over 50 and made/listened to loud music most of my live, so my ability to hear out tiny "high-end" differences are more than doubtable. it's more a matter of haptic and preference, i guess. anyway, both tt's will be permanent keepers, i think i got my music-room setup now together for hopefully a long time: amp: Nak-combo CA5/PA5 tt: Sony 2250 with PUA-114 and Denon DL-110, Thorens 124 II with SME3010r and mono SPU phono pre-amp: internal CA5 (as the Denon 110 is high output) and a Creek OBH-15 for the SPU cd: Nak OMS-7 speaker: Cabasse SloopIII nothing else connected, all other units are just for fun.
I think I still have my Commodores Brick House 45 from 1978, that song was huge for them, they always seemed to be going at it with Earth Wind and Fire.
Fruits de Mer Records - Strange Fish compilation, here Vol. III of V (I to IV are vinyls, V is a cd unfortunately):
Country Joe McDonald circa 1976 Playing the double live album of Country Joe, Geri picked out on the weekend from Innovative Audio's record rack: Nando.
