Stefan Wood

Best Birthday cake......ever!!! Thanks all!

I thought he was great in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire." RIP

If I lived in the Dallas area, I would be all over this, but alas. Here are some links for more info: Bozak link 1 Bozak link 2 Bozak link 3

Good lord, this is fantastic:

Nice recommendations! I will respectfully disagree on the Barshai -- I think it's the best cycle out there, bar none!

Where can one find the Sofronitzki? It goes for above 90 clams on Amazon.

This is fantastic!

They make a difference, but one doesn't need to spend megabucks to get good sound. The cheap RCA cables that came with store bought components are crap. I never spent more than $25 on interconnects -- Vampire Wire is my cable of choice.

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I have a lot of Katchen on LP. I love the way he plays the German piano repertoire; that is his forte. I have it. Buy it without hesitation.

It could be exactly that. Similar to old fountain pens, where "End of Days" pens were those with multi colored plastics, a result of the manufacturer blending the colors all at once to use up the remaining stock for the day.

I'll do paypal on the weekend.

The needle might not be a good match -- I had that one myself, and it was good with a Goldring turntable I had, nice detail, etc. But when I switched it over to a Thorens 160 I found it to be shrill. Switching to a Pickering XSV 3000 made a big difference, especially with the bottom end. A more modern cartridge that is supposed to match well with the Thorens is a Denon cartridge, 103 or 110.

Happy birthday!

what kind of needle and turntable are you using?

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What Dave says ... Buyers who say they would be willing to pay only so much for shipping IMHO are just full of you know what ... Allowing the seller to recover his FULL shipping expenses would only be fair, but NOT more than that, except maybe a $ or so for extra packaging, padding or whatever. Some sellers really go overboard in what they would charge for "handling" (hey, funny ... I guess nobody would mind receiving their LPs in used SECONDHAND record mailers if this helps reining in shipping costs, and proudly boasting some blurb like "all LPs will be shipped in a BRAND NEW mailer" ... hey, big deal ... especialy if this means shelling out separately). And as long as some sellers are not even afraid of shipping their records in secondhand 12in PIZZA BOXES (!!! happened to me more than once with sellers from the U.S.) there are a lot out there who would need to clean up their act too. Not to mention those who charge airmail but ship sea freight, those who go wildly overboard in stating shipping prices beyond all reasonable limits and are NOT EVEN WILLING to listening to pleas from buyers (who tend to gain much experience with what shipping rates would be best) to go for the most economical (and tried and tested) airmail rates. Beats me every time, for example (when buying printed matter), how often I have to tell U.S (NOT "domestic only") sellers that they DO have something like Global Priority Flat Rate envelopes which are FAR more cost-efficient than any airmail or weight-sensitive rates. Under what pebble have these fellers all been living all these years, I wonder??? US sellers like myself who use the USPS system no longer have the option of surface mail. Been gone for a couple of years now. Re: Global Priority Flat Rate, the box size to fit an lp would make it Large Flat Rate, and cost a minimum of $58.50 - there are no envelopes that fit the the lp, only boxes. I have not looked into the UPS system, however.

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Of course you can, but dammit, criticism is part of the game here. One guy won't spoil the whole thing. And yes, the Amazon rating system sucks.

Roll with the punches; there will always be a sour puss. It's a fine album.

Probably double checking the prices and/or the release date.

Tokyo is closer to Fukushima than Yokohama, which is south of Tokyo. I think you'll be okay.

It's just Murray's Octet recordings. Morning Song is a quartet session.

I don't give a damn which cover is used, as long as it is finally reissued.

Here is a review of the Vivaldi box, which seems pretty good, as a whole.