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Do CDs skip when you play them in your computer (assuming you do)? I would try some different situations, perhaps with a laptop. I have lived in apartments with trampoline floors for my entire adult life. Skipping does occur but only with big jolts. If the player is still good I think you should be able to overcome this with damping material. Maybe its time to go for a streaming setup from a fixed location computer.

sending a PM re: the Reece, thanks

boards: weak: in facing CEOs, who steamroll them while ensuring the $150-250k checks keep coming for 4-6 meetings per year. No willing objectivity. "Independent" designations are of zero value to regulators and investors. inept: with little/no aptitude to control or govern, to do right (e.g. stop marketing and lending to people who can't pay back). No professional, objective qualifications, not even for a "designated financial expert".

She's pretty much done now, I think Cisco will want her off their board too. I have spoken to her in my work, she means well and she is sharp. I think she can make a contribution, saying visible in the media and getting involved with efforts to clean up governance at public corporations in the U.S. In my opinion, most of the financial crisis and the looting which has produced the U.S. wealth gap is caused by weak, corrupt, and inept boards. We have big structural problems in our laws, and in our constitution apparently according to the Citizens United ruling. Everybody knows. Check out Money For Nothing, it's a fine book.

Sorry to jump ahead of interest in Dogon A.D., but... To JLH: will reissue of Carter-Bradford Flying Dutchman material be done from source tapes, or from vinyl? Is there an FD stash of unissued music? thanks

The Golden Circle music, to me, is near the apex of trio jazz. It gets my pulse racing, doesn't let up.

By the way, which one's Pink?

Thanks everyone. I have a handful of the old K2 reissues. Trying to figure out cheapest/best upgrade to match the Concord F/L set, which I only became aware of recently. I never realized that Last Trane was more of the great Lush Life session, etc....

let me begin by saying: feel free to cut and paste this to the appropriate thread Where can I find a list of the Prestige albums/CDs that were legitimately issued as Coltrane leader dates? And I list of those that were not? Has Fearless Leader been vetted as tight, accurate? What albums does it contain? And which sessions/albums are in dispute as to leader? I feel pretty adept at internet search, but this has driven me nuts this week! Thanks, Dan

Can anybody post a full list of the original K2 Prestige Coltrane reissues in cardboard? Thanks

I don't intend this comment as a wisecrack, but I recommend everybody try the eMusic trial subscriptions. I strongly object to their no rollover credit policy, so I have not stayed with them for more than a few months as a paying customer; it only took one instance of losing paid for, unused credit, that made me quit. So I won't be a paying sub until that changes. But over the past two years, I get the occasional amazing trial offer to re-join, and those are usually really good value.

I am using the Cloud Drive, mostly to store some big anthology box sets where anywhere-access seems to come in handy, and for initial "enjoyment" of my occasional, despised digital music purchases. In comparison to Amazon's other elements of digital music, I like the Cloud Player and the storage locker. I cannot ever make the Amazon Downloader app work seamlessly. Even if I run it in the foreground before I buy, I get a constant request to reinstall. (When I bitch to Amazon, they usually refund the purchase price....) Amazon's music tech seems really weak in comparison to Apple's. The concept of uploading a box set, essentially just to prove ownership, is pathetic. This should be a short competitive battle between Apple and Amazon, unfortunately, because I hate all that iTunes represents, except the parts that pertain to elegant design and a cohesive, high quality system!

Jazzcollector is a place for crazy people. For fools who pay many hundred of dollars for 40-70 year old goods over the internet, and subsequently can't handle the truth: old records typically of lots of surface noise, and scratches. For vindictive anal-retentive losers who go about living like this (recent post): "A seller who does not follow my explicit instructions with respect to customs declaration gets automatically a negative feedback." Seriously these are people to avoid in life. Jazz collectors indeed, not jazz fans.

Get a vinyl reissue, that will sound good too. No CD is worth more than 40 bucks and then only if you just gotta have it, I mean real bad. Lush Life the OJC CD ($7.99 at the Record Hunter in Flatiron in 1990 I think) is a favorite in our home. Delightful.

Leave the unit on, that may help. I solved my skipping problem completely by only running warm.

Different landing page when you bring up a link, looks like no more anonymous downloads.

disregard, I see the instructions, thanks Brian

Chris, thanks, package arrived, perfect. Those ESPs are a good value people!

Thorens TD115 mkII ('83), Audio Technica AT440. I loved this turntable in the mid 80s because the stylus could not be made to skip in my $350/mo. Bay Ridge apartment, which had awful trampoline floor problems. (Harvey Sound knew their market well.)

Thanks for your post Bigshot, so besides the low volume sections of the signal, can hi-res narrow the average joe (i.e. my) perception gap between continuous analog and discrete digital? My CDRs of needle drops sound like CDRs of needle drops, weak bottom and fake-ish noise or ambience if that makes sense.

I came across this last weekend: Oliver Lake - Ntu: Point From Which Creation Begins (Freedom, 1971). I like it, though I don't know if it rates a high-care reissue project. It does seem though that Freedom has been massively neglected in the CD era. I feel lucky when I see titles such as these in good vinyl.

For me it's Tangled Up In Blue, the version on Bootleg Series 1-3. I think it is far superior to what's on BOTT and captures the mood associated with the tale he tells. I always reach for the demo BOTT, but taken together, the two versions of that LP are a cannonball for me. A fine piece long ago in MOJO had the (I think) whole story of the two records, two bands. Recommended reading.

I would like to get the Bowie-Wilson. PM to come thanks. And the Bowie 5th Power, please. THanks.

I usually always rebate to net to exact shipping costs if its a substantial S&H, for a big box etc. That's also in my disclosure. I never know the exact cost until I take it to a post office or UPS. Believe me, I too have been a buyer far more than I have been a seller, and I have never acted in the manner that many Buyers do currently. As a Buyer, it's been years since I have been ripped off on Ebay. (The guy was a member here too.) I am dealing with a guy in the U.K. right now, a total control freak (insists: "jiffy pack", "gift not merchandise", on and on), and I suspect there could be feedback slam coming. He was very chatty via ebay messages until I said I would not submit a phony customs form. Then, silence. So we'll see. I think I prefer Discogs, less formal and pretty smooth there so far. Cheers, Dan

If I clearly disclose all fees, high or low, or what S&H could cost and what I want up front (against a subsequent rebate), then I don't see any reason for a buyer to complain or challenge me. That's pretty much the way I do it now. If it's a hassle going to an NYC post office, or to mail overseas, then I want to be covered for that. That's why it's called disclosure. And the fact that in many cases the Buyer is getting something that is hard to come by, I just don't get the sense of entitlement to bitch. I have heard that many of these Buyers grew from petri dishes and were methodically trained in their formative years at record fairs.