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Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975 Uk Original Pressing Djm Records Djlpx 1 24-96 Needledrop)(Shaida)

Track listing:
  1. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy 5:43
  2. Tower Of Babel 4:27
  3. Bitter Fingers 4:32
  4. Tell Me When The Whistle Blows 4:19
  5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight 6:40
  6. (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket 4:00
  7. Better Off Dead 2:37
  8. Writing 3:38
  9. We All Fall In Love Sometimes 4:14
  10. Curtains 6:12

Notes


RIG:
SHUNYATA RESEARCH HYDRA V-RAY VERSION II (Power distribution, conditioner and filter)
RCM: Clearaudio Smart Matrix (ClearAudio Pure Groove + L’Art du Son Cleaning Fluid + Osage brush)
TURNTABLE: Dr. Feickert Woodpecker
TONEARM: Reed 2A, 9,5'' (Ziricote armwand, cable Finewire C37+Cryo.Eichman bullet plugs)
CARTRIDGE: Ortofon MC A90
PHONO STAGE: NAGRA VPS (Vacuum tube phono stage, charged to 330 ohm )
ADC SYSTEM: Lavry Black AD11 external USB 2.0 ADC

CABLES:
ELEMENT 47 SOUNDSTAGE ( TS/RCA Cardas Adapters) (for connecting phono preamp and ADC system)
SYNERGISTIC Research USB Active SE Cable with Enigma Tuning Circuits (for connecting ADC system and PC)
Furutech G-314AG-18 High performance Power Cable (4 power cables total)
Synergistic Research SR Core RCA (for connecting signal from the PC to the amplifier)

AND ALSO...
Zerostat 3 Anti-Static Pistol
Onzow Zerodust (to clean the needle)
Platterspeed for iPod Touch (Dr. Feickert) speed verifier

SOFTWARE:
SoundForge Pro 10.0 (record 24/96)
Izotope RX3 Advanced (big clicks repair)
ClickRepair.
FLAC FRONTEND v.2.0 using FLAC 1.3.0 (WAV --> FLAC)

PENAUDIO REBEL3 Loudspeakers
HEGEL 100 Amplifier

RIPPING NOTE:
No Equalization, Minor ClickRepair (whenever possible), No Noise Reduction and No Normalization.
No silence been removed.


INFO:
http://www.reed.lt/products/reed-2a
http://www.feickert.de/engl/lw_woodpecker.html
http://platterspeed.com/
http://www.soundstage.com/equipment/shunyata_hydra_aeros_cx.htm
http://www.furutech.com/2013/01/27/1177/
http://www.synergisticresearch.com/featured/new-category-digital-power-tools-from-synergistic-research/