The Dave Clark Five
The Best of
EMI Regal Starline SRS 5037
Great Britain LP
1970
This album was given to me by and dropped as a favor to "tomken". I have to say that I found the album to be a plesant surprise. My notion of "Starline" releases is that they were shoddy compilations assembled in haste from whatever tape was handy. At least that is what the US ones I'm familiar with seemed to have been. So I was pleased to find this album sounds quite nice. As a disclaimed I have to say that I'm not a big CD5 expert and I don't own any of their CDs to use as reference, but I do have a couple Epic yellow label records and find this album to sound considerably better than those.
I have a few projects "in the cue" after a hiatus, so if this isn't yours but you are waiting, take heart in knowing you've moved a notch closer to the front!
Tracks...
01 - Do You Love Me
02 - You've Got What It Takes
03 - Red Balloon
04 - Come Home
05 - Catch Us If You Can
06 - Bits and Pieces
07 - Everybody Knows
08 - Glad All Over
09 - Nineteen Days
10 - Because
11 - Blueberry Hill
12 - Try Too Hard
13 - Can't You See That She's Mine
14 - Live In the Sky
Lineage...
Turntable - A vintage VIP Boyscout circa 1966 recently upgraded with a custom plinth hand made of Nubian Dragon wood illegally harvested from Djibouti at great personal risk but used for it's exceptionally nubian tonal response.
Tonearm - SMEK series 1984 modded with X-1R Crawler Track Lubricant from the Space Shuttle to give an out of this world character.
Cartridge - Koetsuzuki Ivory Platinum, a very limited production run of fifty three units, each one hand carved from a white key removed from the Blüthner Grand Piano that was used by The Beatles during the "Let it Be" sessions. The resulting musicality and magical aura is thought to be obvious to all.
Phono stage - Womanley Labs Marlin all tube stage with Russian Svetlanovski tubes that have had a few hundred months burn in time as used in the system of Sergei Rachmaninov as he listened to RCA Victor Program Transcription pressings of Beethoven symphonies for inspiration.
A/D converter - Apologee Schmenke 192 converter with firewire and vintage ESDI interfaces.
Cables - Galemark exclusively uses and endorses Lardas cables. They give him his signature fat sound. (Actually, Galemark would like you to know that he never uses any product as pedestrian as Lardas, but since they are paying him big bucks for the endorsement deal, that is what he is telling people.)
Software - Audacious for Vistakon OS with proprietary dither program written for me by Peter Gotcher because we're boys.
Cleaning - VIP Monsoon machine with a top secret fluid. This special enzymatic fluid is made with several proprietary agents, including pure bile removed from Steve Hoffman's gall bladder during his recent back surgery. The Hoffman magic shines through on every one of my drops.
Ugh...okay...I made all of that up...here is the actual "mid-fi" system that was used...
JVC QL-A7 direct drive turntable (with mods).
Audio-Technica AT440MLa Cartridge.
Marantz Model 2230 Receiver (Phono Pre).
Vinyl meticulously hand cleaned.
E-Mu 1212m soundcard capturing at 32 bit float, 192 khz.
Lightly polished with ClickRepair (unless completely manually declicked - see description)
Stray pops missed by CR manually removed with Audition single click tool (never batch processed).
Resampled and dithered with iZotope RX.
No other signal processing is used (unless noted in the description).
Another quality GALEMARK needledrop
"When you care enough to send the very best"
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