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Exactly!

He didn't, as we all know, but I can certainly understand his wife (and his son) mostly remembering the ear-shattering noise of the free jazz he liked to put on. Welcome! BTW: I always save all these kinds of remembrances when I come across them, simply because the Internet has increasingly developed amnesia in recent years. Important things are often immediately buried a mile deep (thanks to Google) or simply disappear altogether after a short while. And we all know how terrible search results have become. Maybe some of you remember Hans Koert (Netherlands), who ran various websites, especially with in-depth information about Oscar Alemán. If you check his old https://keepswinging.blogspot.com/ website, you can see how quickly things can disappear from the Net. Jørgen Larsen, who continued running Koert's website(s) for a while (up until 2024), outlines these problems in his recent (and then last) post(s) over there. Have a look.

Thanks! BTW: As websites are easily translated today (in case you don't know French), I found the following 2 links some members here might find interesting as well (the first one includes a photo from the memorial service): Hommage: Guy Kopelowicz L’ancien chef d’AP Photo à Paris est mort à 85 ans Hommage: Guy Kopelowicz Edit: The first one has some fascinating info about Guy's life and work, incl. some things here and there many might never have heard before, the second one is mostly a remembrance written by his son.

Thanks for the link!

Instead of posting here, since I'm only around every couple of months to read up on what's new, I posted something about Guy on my microblog (it's the entry for December 5th, 2025, just in case you read this later on). deus62 | microblog Guy was a wonderful human being and became a friend.

At current real estate prices? I think not. Couldn't find a better version, but your reply reminded me of this: Pepsi Ad.

I turned 60 every day in 2022. ... and I gifted a CD to myself for each birthday. I'm going to be 61 every single day next year.

Those (age-old) Dynaudio speakers beat everything else when I demoed them ages ago (B&W, Triangle, etc.). I bought them because I have lots of music, including crappy remasters, compressed reissues and whatnot. You know the game. The Dynaudios were the only pair of speakers that were forgiving in every regard. They just sound good to my ears. Since then, I have only found one single pair of speakers to my liking ... and those you don't put into an apartment/house but have to build a rock-solid one around them: Focal (Grande Utopia). I have never been blown away by speakers like I was by those, but I would have to sell my wife and everything I own just to buy one single tweeter. Those speakers (also) perform the way I want them to. BTW: They also weigh more than a truck. So, I stuck with my trusted Dynaudios from the late 18th century that do the same thing on a much smaller (affordable) scale. Neutral, rock solid ... and they play well with Marantz who always add a bit of "warmth" to the spectrum. P.S.: I used to be an audiofool () and gave that up a decade or two ago. When you turn 60 (+), speakers have to work differently ... especially if you listened to nasty stuff on full blast for 50 years. I'm not kidding. "Hearses don't have luggage racks" is something I told my wife ages ago. "Burn it all", she replied, "and take it with you. You can re-assemble it in the afterlife." Let's hope that works.

@sidewinder Yep, the 1.8MKIIs need a little bit of juice, but the Marantz PM14 has enough of that. Still, I bought the speakers three decades ago to fit into my then well-dampened (large) living room and now I have a rather "naked" environment. I still need to add stuff to make them fit in nicely. But then again, I have plenty of time to tweak for another decade or two. The retirement was forced due to permanent health issues (that won't kill me), but in terms of pension payments, it didn't really make a difference if I worked another couple of years or not ... so I jumped ship. P.S.: Nice to see that many people are still around from way back when ... Cheers!

I just wrote a post and the software allowed me to upload/attach an image which is below 100kb in size. No problems. If you have some software that can minimize photos to that size, you won't have any problems. BTW: I'm sure, once the software has been tweaked, that Jim can increase the size of an image upload to a bit more than that (if he has the server space). I uploaded a smaller-sized image because I was lazy, just to make sure it makes it into the post, but the .jpg-format is one that can wonderfully be tweaked to be really small (compressing it, f. ex., to 25% of its original size without really losing all that much detail). You just need the software to do it.

Since I still read around here once in a while and noticed that the forum software has been updated, I thought I'd update what I wrote when I started this thread and try the new interface that way. The heart of my current setup, which I have been happy with for many years now, are the two Marantz units, PM-14S1 (amp) and SA-14S1 (CD/SACD player). When I could get hold of one at a ridiculously low price, I added a Marantz CD6005 because, lo and behold, the SA-14S1 does choke on some single CDs that go way beyond CD specifications (so far, I came across about 20 out of 14000 CDs that the 14S1 loves to regurtitate) ... Marantz only guarantees the funtionality of its high-end players for CDs/SACDs that adhere to the redbook standard (go figure). About two years ago, I added a Technics SL1500 turntable when I got it at half price (new). I only have a little more than a handful of LPs left that are simply not available in any other format and I wanted to play them. The Technics turntable does so better than my old Dual did. On top of the cheap (but excellent) Marantz CD6005, I keep an age-old Samsung notebook which, in a week of reading and tweaking, I turned into my very own music server. I threw off everything (really, everything and every service), kept Windows 7 (!), disconnected the machine from the Internet (froze it in time) and kept Foobar plus a bunch of audio thingamajigs that hook into Windows and Foobar to let me play any hires audio file I have. That machine, in turn, is connected to the SA-14S1, which has a USB-interface for that kind of work. Attached to the notebok are two small (virtually silent) Western Digital 4TB portable harddrives which contain the most important hires files, SACD rips, high quality remasters (DCC, etc) and whatever I don't have in my CD collection. I still kept my Dynaudio 1.8 MKII speakers, which have always come through for me, in every place I moved to (3 different ones) in the last few years. Just a few weeks ago, I retired and moved to a new and wonderful apartment (penthouse, etc.). In my new room, I surrounded myself with all the music I have, large cover reproductions of my favorite albums on the walls and several vitrines stuffed with hardcovers left over from my formerly large book collection, which I reduced by 90% a few years back. My wife jokingly says that once I drop dead, she just has to torch the whole room and scoop the burnt remains into a smaller urn to fulfill my last wish ... to be buried with all the sh@t I accumulated as an eternally dysfunctional collector. Cheers.

I have had both boxes for quite some time now and am very happy with them. The sound quality is good and, in regard to the recording dates, more than adequate. I'm a bit of a discerning listener and not once did I have any moment in which I would have criticised the sound. The cover reproductions are nice (bare bones, but sturdier than many of the more flimsy covers in other boxed sets I own), the liner notes are adequate enough, etc. I have really enjoyed these and considering the fact that I bought each one for around 19 Euro, they are actually prized possessions, despite the unavoidable duplication I encountered in my rather extensive jazz collection. Get them! They're just nice and fun to have! P.S.: A few years ago I switched to CD sleeves and many box sets were removed, but these two are still around because I also like to look at them. Cheers!

Ah, very interesting! Thanks for the link!

Yeah, they were great. I noticed the other day that via a mail backup program, I somehow managed to keep every single mail snippet since the middle/late 90s (and then forgot about the fact). My finger got tired when scrolling through the Caiman order confirmations. I bought a sh@tload of stuff from them and have never regretted a single purchase ... not one!

Thanks! The Internet, once again, is silent on this important issue unless, of course, you spend a million hours researching. I bought stuff from them for nothing which will cost you two or three non-essential organs and a leg today ... not that anyone needs either of those to survive if good music is around. Cheers!