Jerry_L

I'm not a musician and I have no idea what a nootropic is do I care to but my experience is that I hear best with nothing in my system. It has all slowed down for me the last 9 plus years and I know the other side. Nootropics might heal some of the damage you've done to yourself. But don't change a thing on my account. Stay as you are. Nootropics (/noʊ.əˈtrɒpɨks/ noh-ə-trop-iks), also referred to as smart drugs, memory enhancers, neuro enhancers, cognitive enhancers, and intelligence enhancers, are drugs, supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods that purportedly improve mental functions such as cognition, memory, intelligence, motivation, attention, and concentration.[1][2] The word nootropic was coined in 1972 by the Romanian Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea,[3][4] derived from the Greek words νους nous, or "mind," and τρέπειν trepein meaning "to bend/turn". Nootropics are thought to work by altering the availability of the brain's supply of neurochemicals (neurotransmitters, enzymes, and hormones), by improving the brain's oxygen supply, or by stimulating nerve growth.

I picked up a copy of Out of the Woods back in the seventies, probably a promo copy from 3rd Street Jazz in Philly. I now have just about their entire catalog on CD. Their music creates a particularly introspective mood. Good for meditation. It's a band Towner is in, but I don't think he is considered the leader, either. Oregon deserves it's own thread.

I have an old Beogram with the tangential tonearm that was very stable and sounded great, though I haven't used it since I last digitized some albums years ago. I may get one of those newer USB ones to digitize more albums, since the hardware/software setup I had for digitizing is probably no longer workable.

My path into jazz was largely through Steely Dan and from there to the Jazz Crusaders, some of who were a part of Steely Dan's studio band for a few albums. Wilton played bass on Pretzel Logic and Katy Lied, Joe Sample played keys on Aja and Gaucho. Larry Carlton played guitar on Katy Lied, Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho.

Free As The Wind is actually a very worthwhile instrumental album. I even like Images and Street Life. There was worse stuff after that. All Music Guide Reviewer Richard S. Ginell: "There's a terrific reason why the triple-CD Crusaders retrospective The Golden Years included six of Free as the Wind's eight tracks -- the material... This would be the Crusaders' high-water mark in the post-Wayne Henderson years, and it can stand tall with anything they've done."

Opiates have therapeutic value, but I'd prefer to experiment with nootropics for a performance boost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F9S3s2ZMG4 His tone was like a warm Gulf Coast breeze.

This is a sultry soul ballad, not jazz, but we did get some sweet trumpet on it from Stan K. I played bass and keyboards. Whisper

Good for hydration in warm weather, without sacrificing flavor, hopefully. These "light" beers are less than 5% alcohol, not "lite" beer, which is brewed for lower caloric content, at least according to the marketing. Of course, most of the calories in beer are from the alcohol anyway, so ranking beer by calories is largely pointless. It makes more sense to regard these beers as seasonal spring and summer beers as opposed to maltier fall and winter beers. Most beer is intended to be consumed within weeks of production.Drinking seasonal brews ensures that you are drinking fresh beer with optimal flavor.

Quite different than the movie.

Don't recognize many of those labels, an additional text list would be helpful. Boddington's and Stone Levitation I heartily agree with. The Newcastle Blonde Bombshell is good, but I like the new black Cabbie, which is also 4.2 %, even better. I've had Wachusetts Blueberry once on tap up in Mass., but haven't seen it in bottles here. I recall it was quite tasty. Of course, that is the problem with many beer lists, in that many products are only available regionally. Haven't tried Abita Purple Haze yet. It's a fruity brew, which are always dicey. Stoudt's Kolsch is a good summer brew, as is Flying Dog Woody Creek White. Most of these lower alcohol beers tend to be summer seasonals.

Microsoft Office files, starting with Office 2007 applications, are in Open XML File Formats. Although they do not have a .zip extension, these files actually are Zip files which have been given custom file extensions. Information about the use of XML introduced in Office 2007 is covered in this Microsoft article. I am a programmer, but I was not aware of this.

A bar that would probably have one of Neil Young's worst albums cranked up loud on their PA system. Neil may be hoping that Trans will finally be appreciated at the 192 sampling rate.

Yeah, but Jerry that simply isn't true. Older MP3's ripped on software a decade ago, or longer, at a smaller sample rate, sure. But nowadays? Absolutely not. The new codecs and formats are simply too advanced. Rip something at 256 VBR in the format of your choice and A/B it with the original CD recording. I'd be willing to guarantee you won't hear the difference. I did it, and actively TRIED to convince myself there was a difference. And out of sheer frustration I threw in the towel. The differences simply didn't exist. Or if they do, I cannot hear them. And while I have a decent case of tinnitus, my hearing is still excellent otherwise. It is true objectively. CDs are wav files, a lossless format. If the bandwith from 20 to 20 khz is saturated with signal, even 256 VBR will miss something. Subjectively, I won't argue with you. My point is simply that we already had a digital format that was lossless before MP3 came along. Pono should be evaluated in comparison to the CD standard. MP3 is known to be something of a compromise already. If I had unlimited disk space, I would rip my CDs to .wav or FLAC. Pono is offering nothing new, except a distribution channel for Super High Res audio. But it has to be created that way at the source, and not many will bother.

CDs at a mere 44 kHz/16 bit already blow MP3s away. But my entire music collection of about 10,000 Cds in MP3 format is sitting here on the hard drive of my office computer with room to spare.

I have a moderate case of tinnitus, too, from standing next to a powerful drummer for years, attending some loud concerts, and playing my own electric guitar too loud sometimes. I doubt I'm going to hear a difference, either. Why Neil Young's New Pono Music Player Doesn't Make Any Sense

The Pono apparently plays FLaC files encoded at 192. You can already do this on your computer, if you have source material that warrants it. CDs that were mastered at a lower rate cannot be upsampled to any benefit.

It is about the sampling rate. Human ears don't hear anything above about 20 kHz sound frequency, but that's not the same thing. The sampling rate is similar to frames per second in video. A certain number of frames per second brings life to film images, but how many frames per second does it take for the image to be completely indistinguishable from your natural vision of your immediate surroundings? How many samples per second does it take for digital audio to match live sound? It could approach infinity, theoretically. however, the practical limits of hearing and vision are probably far lower.

Neil's player is still limited by the quality of the source material. It may be a better standard going forward, but I'm not sure if the difference is noticeable above 96 kHz. There are many factors in the signal path from recording to mastering to playback. But I might consider a Pono if it is competitively priced with other digital players and will also play MP3.

I usually rip at 192, but I've not yet done a listening comparison.