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RE: I like "Tusk" better than "Rumours."

I have what appears to be an early pressing of this album that I bought second hand oh, 30+ years ago now and at the time, it sounded way off, lacking bass being the big one.

At the time, I was running a crappy Sansui semi auto table, the DD PD-10 that came with the rest of the components that formed a rack system, made in the mid 80's. The cartridge was, I think the original crappy unit, likely a rebadged one at that (from AT?) and was also cheap too. It wasn't the only poor sounding album, their 1975 self titled sounded way off, as was the Grateful Dead's Shakedown Street for that matter and for similar reasons, lacking bass and thin sounding. Most other records weren't as obvious about it but those three did stand out revealing how bad my system actually was.

All three really improved sonically speaking when I bought a $40 cartridge in the late 80's to replace the original that I accidentally broke the cantilever on. So at that point, I discovered the benefits of moving up the ranks to at least the $40 mark to get improvements. Today, I'd put it in the $70-80 minimum for decent sounding units.

I've upgraded carts over time and today run a Grado Prestige Green 1 on a still budget table, but it's a Kenwood deck that actually is a better table all around than the Sansui was even though it still sports the thin cast aluminum platter, plastic plinth, but was made to sell as a stand alone table to add to any system, rather than as part of an entire system you bought for what, $500-1000 range, complete. Yes, the Kenwood is belt drive and a semi auto to boot but overall it's a better piece of kit by budget standards. It's the KD12-RB that I inherited from my mother after we lost our father back in 1999. I still use that table today, but again with the Grado and now a decent phono preamp and Rumours sounds even better as I can now hear fully Nick's drums in a way I never did on vinyl at least. I'd have to pull out my CD copy to hear how good or bad it is.

I've always felt it to be well recorded, lots of punch and dynamics and warm sounding without the biting shrillness of many pop albums often produce, a very well done record and a fantastic group of songs that makes a very well rounded album.

Compare this album to their self titled from 2 years earlier, it too sounds great, Mystery to Me comes off not nearly as good, lacking micro dynamics to some extent and I felt the bass could be better. Now, I am not certain I have an early-ish pressing or not but it is in good condition, and on the orange Reprise label.

Tusk is good, but I don't think it's nearly as strong as Rumours is as far as the song writing goes.

Just my .02 cents worth. :-)


Edits: 10/07/18
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