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Thanks Clifford!

One thing I will agree with Lon about here is that some of the cheaper CD players have lousy transports, which is one reason to look at a set-up like his. I believe that this is due to the manufacturers moving towards cheaper parts or even buying a transport "off the shelf" from a major supplier. A lot of CD players were using PC transports but that market has basically evaporated, as almost all internal optical drives these days are "laptop" or slimline CD drives.

I am in pretty good shape. Exercise alone will not keep the cardiologist away. It will help, but it is not the only thing you have to worry about If you want to check your cardiac health, ask your PCP to have your cardiac calcium score measured. Even if your health insurance won't cover it, it is not very expensive. I think it's around $140. It's a CT of your heart. A score of zero means you have no blockages in your heart. My score was far from 0. I'd recommend any guy over the age of 55 reading this to get this done, if only to establish a baseline. It's a cheap and easy thing to do but it can identify a serious problem. Another it sucks getting old story... We have a bird trying to build a nest above our back awning. We bought some plastic spike strips to mount up there. I get out the ladder and attach the spike strips. Now, I don't use a ladder much, so it involved muscles that I don't use often. The next day (yesterday), my stomach feels like someone kicked me.

Yep, I have had good luck with both those brands. Still using a Marantz player circa 2000 in my office and love it.

cool pic ! oh how interesting. I didn´t know that Monk and Montoliu knew each other. Montoliu, together with Siegfried Kessler (german but obviously more French affinity) and "my man and mentor" Fritz Pauer from Austria, were my favourite European piano players. So great, my favourites, together with Albert Ayler, and above all: Pharoah Sanders (because he was a life long companion and "best musical friend" whenever I was happy or sad....

Well, most associate good form with physical exercises or sports. I must admit I never did any of that, and never had any interest in any forms of sport. I´m slim like a nail, but feel strong and being in love with a very young girl, who also says the love is here to stay, I feel more importance in good sexual performance and hip threads and shades than in any other physical effort besides playing the piano 😄 Even when I was a kid or a teenie my only non musical interest was gals, and I never felt well in surroundings of men only. Stuff like football or any other kind of that would have been horror for me, wash- and showerrooms with other guys in it, oh no, smellin other men´s sweat, absolutly horror vision.... Music talk with fella musicians yeah, anytime, but I can´t say nothin about sports, about cars (I drive but am not interested in the car itself). When folks scream over some worldcup or championship or somethin, it leaves me absolutly cold. Don´t even know what happens around in non musical and non fashion-beauty settings....😄 But in my generation of the freaks of the 70´s in the intellectual but weard and neurotic settings of Big Cities and there nightlife, such attitudines like mine where not completly unusual. We were the untypical kids, who might not go to sports after school or on weekend. like maybe others more in the usual way brought up kids.

You say you're "not talking about the digital signal", but this discussion is around an external DAC. A DAC is only involved in the digital stream. What happens after the digital is converted to analog happens outside the DAC, no matter if it's internal or external. I try to stick to one topic but you keep expanding it. Look Lon, I don't want to argue what you hear. You hear what you hear. I hear what I hear. My statements here are for others, as you constantly discount my scientific explanations for what is happening in digital audio systems. I stick to the science because I know it is the best predictor of what will happen to a signal. Do I have to apologize for being an electrical engineer who worked in the semiconductor industry for over 40 years, mostly as a test engineer? I have lived with the science of electrical signals for a very long time. I have used this knowledge to guarantee that many of the components in a lot of the equipment used in many of our audio systems work as they were designed to work. The next time someone pops open their gear, see how parts say ADI or Analog Devices on them. Truth be told, if it wasn't for science, we'd all still be listening to wind-up Victrolas. It's true that people can ignore science, but I feel that is a mistake. Too many businesses out there take advantage of people who ignore science, advocating or selling solutions to problems that don't exist. This is happening everywhere, not just in the world of audio. It's pervasive in our society. It's particularly bad in the area of healthcare these days, but that veers too close to politics, so I won't go down that rabbit hole. Back to the topic... I believe a CD player is fine to use. A transport and DAC is fine to use as well. I would recommend a Marantz CD player. I haven't owned a Denon CD/SACD player but Denon & Marantz are the same company and I have owned a Marantz CD/SACD player. It should sound very good. As for getting into the CD vs SACD debate... SACDs should be able to present the audio better than CDs. But in practice, it all comes down to the mastering. If an SACD is created with a poorly mastered analog source, the SACD will re-create that lousy audio perfectly. I have some incredible-sounding SACDs and some poor-sounding ones. But as we've established already, I hear what I hear.

Much hitting the spot this morning!

Well I seldom need glasses, but it´s so astonishing similar, the photos. I don´t have much Mal Waldron I think, I have him as Sideman on some older Mingusrecords and on a Max Roach record. And I share your opinion, that Mingus with Friends in Concert is not our favourite. I don´t know what went wrong, but I don´t feel Mingus on it. Even on the standards only "Mingus at Carnegie 1974" with Perdido and C-Jam Blues I hear more Mingus drive than on that strange potpourrie from 1972. Last night I finally had time to listen to a rarity I have purchased recently. It was not a second hand, but still sealed. Very fine music, all of them. It´s very interesting how Hank plays a much more agressive approach than in his earlier records. He sounds very modern, but it is still him, such a great musician, such a great musical personality. I had heard Charles Davis once with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band, is that possible. He is great on both soprano and bari. A seldom combination. Usually tenor saxophonists take soprano as a second horn. Because both are notated in Bb

Those credits are for the entire album (The Fastest Train), 1 CD of the box. I don't know the instruments on that specific track. Parker is credited on keringot, hochiku, shakuhachi in D & A, stereophonic bamboo flute, Ojibway overtone bass flute, pocket trumpet, malakan flute, Chinese shakuhachi.

oh, so similar !

Thanks for the info

That's it. The whole of disc 9 is this trio. Homo Sacer is on my list to buy. That and Zoe are available on bandcamp.

Cribbing from the booket, the Parker was recorded in Amsterdam with Coen Aalberts (conch shell, winti flute from New Guinea. cricket sounds, bird sounds, bamboo brushes, whistles, drum set) and Klaas Hekman (dogon flute, shakuhachi, bass Indian flute, piccolo, C flute).

“The Complete Woody Herman Decca, Mars And MGM Sessions (1943-1954)” Mosaic Records 7 cd set, disc 1 Over the decades I slowly became a big Woody Herman fan, even as a vocalist, and this disc features a few great Ben Webster solos as a bonus. A very varied and interesting box set.

Ts find

Starting a warm morning off with Miles Davis “Bag’s Groove” Prestige/Analog Productions SACD. Timeless music!

I admire your discipline!

BFT discussion nudge? I'm a big fan of the Midorikawa but I have the CD set with extra material. The LP would be nice. I don't know the Yamada duos but do know the musicians so I'm intrigued.

Ha! Got there in the end. I only have 'Homo Sacer' by Kawashima which I need to get out again. I'm intrigued by the full details of this on reveal. As I will be for the Parker track. I don't have the set it's from so will definitely want to know who's playing with him.

Warmin' up for the Long Ryders concert in Madrid next week:

April 14 Eliot Zigmund - 1945

Now @Gheorghe put those glasses on this actually is the Mingus concert and not Waldrons Touch of the Blues 😜 Its been long ago I heard this and can’t say I really dig it. Not my favorite Mingus for sure.