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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.

THAT'S impressive! Especially the 285 days in a row!

I walk about 5 miles a day, sometimes 6-7. Every day. Every single day. 10,000 steps a day keeps the cardiologist away!! (And that’s about 4.5 miles). As of today, I’m now up to 285 days in a row — NO SKIPS — of 10k steps-per-day minimum. Aiming for 365-in-a-row, if I can manage it. And honestly, I really need to up my daily goal to 12k/day (and try and hit THAT every single day, no skips). All that said, I haven’t done any strength training or even light weights in several years (not since the Covid shut down) — but I really probably should. I’m just a hair less than 220 lbs (way down from my worst weight years ago of 254) — but my BMI is 33.5, and I really need to loose 20 more lbs. I’m making progress, but NOT trying to loose it all in 6 months.

Thanks, Mike!

Hirokazu Yamada duos with Mototeru Takagi and Motoharu Yoshizawa -- Kozan -- (Tiara Company, JP orig) now on to: Keiki Midorikawa -- Grüne Revolution -- (Offbeat, JP orig) excellent duos with Takayanagi on one side & Satoh on the other

Correct! I've gone slowly through that box set which has paid off. It's got some excellent tracks on it. Took me a a few listens to warm up to it but the album this comes from is definitely worthwhile. It's the only one I have from him at the moment.

I've been looking at the Denon CD/SACD player but I've never heard an SACD. The Marantz is very well regarded and I always have liked NAD. Thanks!

Takagi doesn't (or didn't) play alto afaik and the track was missing Sakata's drive/relentlessness -- heard a little Kawashima before but not much. Will listen further.

Same here!

I'm not even talking about the digital signal. What happens after that is often different, power supplies, wiring, connecting hardware. I could go on, but I'm not going to continue arguing with you about audio matters. I don't agree with a lot of your "insights," you seem to belittle the experiences of those who do hear differences, vive la difference. Hear what you want to or not hear what you want to. I know what I hear and trust it. I gave the recommendation/opinion the OP asked for.

Since Parker's been ID'd on #9, it's track #79 here. Nice choice! I actually own this (as part of the box set), but it'd never have occurred to me. Parker is one of my reflex guesses on BFTs, but not for shakuhachi. The saxophonist on #3 is interesting. Kaoru Abe and Akira Sakata are the only Japanese skronkmeisters I'm familiar with, but I was sure they weren't involved. Will have to research Kawashima!

I get what you're saying about power supplies & noise but again, a regular CD player would have to be terribly designed and manufactured for that to slip into a commercial product. I've yet to hear one with an audible (noisy) analog output. But if we're talking about frequency response... to change the frequency response of an analog waveform coming out of a DAC, millions of 1's & 0's would have to change, not just a few hundred. Digital audio just doesn't work that way. Every 22 picoseconds, the audio is sampled and a 16 bit word is created for that small slice of audio. Just this one 16 bit word would have to radically change for the audio output frequency to change. To have a whole passage of music have altered frequency response, every single 16 bit word, one after the other, would have to change in the exact same way to have the analog output to have a shifted frequency response.

Bingo.

Makoto Kawashima or Mototeru Takagi? I'm running out of Japanese fire-breathers

Arnie Krakowsky Quintet

There are people who can't hear differences, and those who can, that is a conclusion I have come to over time. And there is more going on than 1s and 0s in terms of power supplies, etc. I hear all kinds of differences, not necessarily a good thing perhaps, but how it is. Over the years I have been told by you you don't hear differences. Vive la difference.

Being from the Netherlands, Niko, I think you can't appreciate the significance of cockroaches in the southern climes of the United States. If Texas cockroaches are anything like Florida ... watch out. <green smilie here if you can't tell>

Yes! It's excellent. Haven't seen that cover before - and it's already had more than one different cover.