[Vision2020] New York Audio Show 2013: Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy's "Classic Album Sundays"

[Ted Moffett]

Famous music devotee, dance DJ and audiophile, Colleen Murphy is shown
below with a mind blowing vinyl stereo system, used at the NY Audio Show
2013...

In one photo she is posed with the vinyl record cover of Talking Heads
"Remain in Light"... Once upon a time I had superb Japanese import vinyl
copy of this album, which sounded fantastic.

This stereo system approaches the 200,000 thousand dollar price range...

I wonder if anyone in the Inland Empire owns a system of this
sophistication...

Colleen's website regarding her "Classic Album Sundays" events. which are
offered internationally, described as a "communal and audiophile listening
experience:"

http://classicalbumsundays.com/

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http://www.stereophile.com/content/classic-album-sundays
Classic Album Sundays
 By Art Dudley <http://www.stereophile.com/writer/86> • Posted: Apr 14,
2013

Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, the record-store clerk-turned-internationally known
DJ-turned-analog impresario, has set out to change the way we listen, one
roomful at a time; based on my experiences at NYAS 2013, she is bound to
succeed. I had heard that Ms. Murphy is as sound- and music-savvy as she is
lovely, and I can only say those observations don’t do her justice. “Today,
music is treated almost as aural wallpaper, as a cheap commodity,” Murphy
bemoaned in her opening remarks before spinning the Japanese vinyl version
of David Bowie’s *Hunky Dory* on a truly grand system, including a Spiral
Groove SG1.1 turntable with Centroid tonearm and a Lyra Atlas cartridge; a
VTL TP 6.5 phono preamp (with integral step-up transformer); VTL’s TL 7.5
line-level preamp and Siegfried monoblock amps; Wilson Audio MAXX 3
loudspeakers and Opus series cabling from Transparent. (When I visited the
Classic Album Sundays room, early on the show’s first day, exact pricing
details weren’t yet available; suffice it to say, everything was rather
expensive.)

 *John Atkinson adds: *Colleen played classic albums all weekend, following
*Hunky Dory* with Talking Heads' (in photo), John Hiatt's *Bring the Family*,
The Beach Boys' *Pet Sounds* (in mono), Kraftwerk's *Autobahn*, Steve
Wonder's *Innervisions*, and ending the Show with the truly classic *Forever
Changes* from Love, on a new, superb-sounding reissue from Rhino. I took in
two of these sessions and it was a buzz being in a room of attentive
audiophiles listening to an album in its entirety. You can find the Classic
Album Sundays calendar at Colleen's website<http://classicalbumsundays.com/>.

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