Stefan Wood

He's a necessary evil, unfortunately. At least Snyder has learned to back off and let others handle the football business. There's just a lot to fix still. At least he's not Jerry Jones.

I support my team. But I was so damn angry after watching Washington lose to Houston........ Not giving up on RG3. It's the other teammates' mental errors that are driving me crazy.

Has a new pressing plant been made in thirty - forty years?

Steve Hoffman is just plain annoying. He has done some good work, but I wouldn't take his word as gospel. He's as much influenced by trends as anyone else.

Up, prices lowered and two new cartridges added.

25 years later you get a threatening letter? Does the Chicago Tribune digitally archive their material? This person is nuts.

I enjoy his conducting. His interpretations of Schoenberg and Webern are outstanding. Even, surprisingly, Bruckner's 8 on Deutche Grammophon. Having said that, the only way I'll get this set is when the prices fall, which they seem to do on these large box sets.

sold.

Have they ever?

Book is on hold, pending sale.

I have a near mint softcover book of "Il Secolo del Jazz," published in 2008. Subtitled "Art, film, music and photography from Picasso to Basquiat." Published by Skira. Over 400 pages of jazz posters, lp covers, and art relating to jazz. The texts are in Italian, but there are enough pictures and graphics throughout the book to make up for it. $30 including shipping in the US.

I'm glad I held off. I ended up buying a Nagaoka cartridge instead for my turntable.

So the Emotiva DAC wasn't all that it was supposed to be?

I read this article many years ago, and it is interesting, and at least in my lp collecting experience, found to be mostly true: **As stated in "The Audiophiles Guide to London Bluebacks" written by Robert Moon & Michael Gray (on page 20): "...there is a harsh brightness to the Decca-London early stereo records because the disc cutters were weak in reproducing frequencies above 10khz. The pressings made after 1968--to my knowledge all FFRR--were made with the Neumann SX-68 helium-cooled disc cutter which could reveal the sweet high frequenices on the original tape. It's for that reason that the later FFRR pressings are often superior to the early FFSS pressings." The same was said about Shaded Dog RCA Living Stereo original pressings, Westminster bluebacks, etc. Whether the same can be said about Jazz and Rock I can not say, but it shows that even in the lp era there was compression issues.

There is an expectation bias, for either format.

Have you cleaned the lp? I mean, really deep cleaned it?

The Bach Brilliant box is also getting a do over.

I guess Brilliant will keep revising this set: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Complete-Various-Artists/dp/B00L2SQVVQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1408548693&sr=1-2&keywords=mozart+brilliant+box

Yeah. Mandatory purchase. May be the only jazz cd I'll buy this fall.

This qualifies as the strangest thread ever!

Wow, taking a classic session and making it fantastic!!!

At one time I had two. Now I just have one.

Now the preorder on amazon.co.uk is under 60 pounds.

All three discs are fantastic. This and the live date on NoBusiness are among my favorite releases this year.

Was tempted, but there are other boxes that call my attention. I have his Bartok recordings on Audite -- they are excellent.