I loved and cherished an original pressing of this double discs-set since I was a kid, and decade after decade, I learned to appreciate it more and more as my music-understanding improved.
Yesterday I found this gem, a sealed copy of this seminal, timeless masterpiece, on Philips double cassettes-box.
The sound on Nakamichi 1000 XZL is simply master-tape like🥇🥇🥇
Proudly made in UK… class in spades in music, performance and recording but also in fonts, printing quality, paper and carton choices…
From the goldmine collection 🥇
This disc came with a quite nice “attachment” from previous owner - i.e. a newspaper shred with a KHS’ interview during an early ‘70s happening in Milan… funny the verso of the newspaper cut-out shows a weird advice: a truck load of hand-cream tubes was stolen and the maker bewares about reckless purchases! 😱
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The “hard” collector’s life 😏
Darius Valiunas, cartridge maker extraordinaire, made it, again!
If this cartridge will “only” play a - say - 10% better (more detail, slam, drama, whatever…) of original DaVa FC1A… pretty sure we’ll have a serious contender for The Cartridge Olympus 💎
I spent 63 years on Planet Earth without even knowing about this very obscure (I don’t speak any German😏) word and musical tool.
Rundbogen is German for this curved bow!
Leave alone knowing a curved bow wasn’t only used in ancient, medieval music on violin ancestors… but looking at this record cover I got a shiver!
I’m now chasing for this Calig German pressing, out of curiosity 😏
I always remains amazed when I play a disc recorded as of today-date…
It’s weird fractal casualties, yet…
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P.S. - a first class recording, as many Bis’ discs: recorded on a Revox A77 HS and Electret Sennheiser mikes, it simply sounds like a Bösendorfer’s should sound 🥇
