Jim Sanders wrote:


One of my favorite old records from the early 60's was the original "Peter
Gunn" LP. Played back, at that time, on a Garard tt & cartridge, EICO tubed
HF-30 (30 W mono-built from kit) and (Gordon Holt would hate this) Karlson
speaker enclosure containing the best available 12" combo Ratshack speaker
(again home-built from kit form). Total cost? About $200 at the time. It
took a lot of leaf-raking, lawn-mowing, and paper-delivering to pay for it
as a tenth grader. But it was worth it. It lasted decades (with just a few
tube changes and "pot" cleanings) and got me "started" :0).










I've got both the Peter Gunn, and also "More Music from Peter Gun" albums in my
collection. These are "Living Stereo" LPs with excellent sound. The
arrangements are by Henry Mancini, so they are first rate. I'm currently in the
hunt for nice copies (vinyl, of course) of The Pink Panther and Hatari.

One of my better "scores:" on eBay a few years ago was a large collection of
"audiophile" LPs sold by a dealer who had an overstock. It contained mostly
classical RCA Living Stereo, Mercury Living Presence, and London Blue Back
recordings, but among the popular gems included were the Peter Gunn albums.
It's my understanding that a lot of the albums from that era used simpler
microphone placements, with much less multi-miking employed, and consequently
sound more natural in many cases.


Bruce J. Richman