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And my guess would be that it's even more diffcult to capture data related to modern internationally traded services, such as call centres and software support & development. And of course, these are not affecting blue collar wages/jobs. MG

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Hank? Hank B Marvin. MG

i have the explanation of this title, but infortunately only in french : Dans la session de 1954, un petit joyau : "Marcel The Furrier " avec un magnifique solo d'Al Cohn, précédé de celui de Tal Farlow qui est excellent. Ce titre a été écrit en hommage à Marcel Fleiss, un photographe français passionné de jazz. Un autre titre (" Burt's Pad ") est dédié à un autre photographe (Burt Goldblatt). this title was written for a french photograph named marcel Fleiss ( maybe fleiss means "furrier" in deutch ? ) an other title, " burt's Pad" is dedicated to a photograph: burt goldblatt. sorry for my english. Bienvenue! Especially with a story like that! Thanks Gaston! MG

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Yes. So the pre-amps are only useful for turntables. You need to feed the output from a pre-amp into an amp, into which all your other junk - radio, K7s, CDs etc - is also being fed. I didn't get that feeling looking at the NAD page you referenced. I thought it did all of them. MG Not really, on the contrary since a 'phono stage' (or 'phono pre amp') is costly, with the advent of CD, most manufactures dropped the phono input in their product. Actually it's pretty rare find an amp with an internal phono section. A side note, (roughly explained) we usually talk about 'preamp' and 'power amp' as separate components because the better gears split the 'pre amp' (the section in wich all the signals coming from different source CD, K7,etc are treated: volume, tone controls) and the 'power amp', (the section where the signal of the preamp get the watts to the loudspeaker) into diferrent cases. So I have a phono preamp, a pre amp and two mono power amps, total FOUR different cases. The Nad and the Cambridge are 'integrated amp' (in wich pre amp section and power amp section are togheter in one case). If you look for an 'integrated amp' that can handle cartdrige signal you should look in the specs if there is a real 'phono section'. Most of the integrated amps have only 'line' inputs. Thanks - I see now this is a matter of quality - how well it works (and sounds), not whether it works or not. MG

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The record industry (the music industry) has been based on a specific business model for a hundred and odd years. It's possible to argue, as it should be you does, that that business model was wrong in the first place, and that may be so. But that probably doesn't matter, because the business model that was devised was what it was and it gave certain assurances to those who invested time and money in its creation and production that there would be a return on their investments. But that business model is beginning to break down. Note that it's breaking down only in some places - for the Third World, that business model is still working perfectly well, because only a relatively small number of people have computers with internet connection. One of the implications of that is that some people are going to get hurt in the fallout. So that means there are three problems that need to be addressed: 1 what should be done about past work, done under the old business model? 2 what should be done about future work, to be done under no one knows (yet) what business model? 3 what should be done in transitional situations, as different economies adjust at different speeds? It seems to me that - stuff like MySpace aside, which might look at the future but might only look at the popular side of the future - no one's trying to address any of those questions for the industry as a whole. The RIAA are simply trying to hold back the tide and enforce the old business model. It seems self-evident that that's useless. Chuck says that, as far as he's concerned, that's the only game in town. I can see his point of view, but I think he's wrong. I think small firms like his have probably got a lot more to contribute in terms of creativity than the majors; it was, after all, small entrepreneurs - Columbia's and Victor's original owners and a few others - who created this old business model in the first place - and it has been small firms that have, for the past seventy years, shown most of the creativity in the music business. And one of the reasons is that people like Chuck know the business at gut level, which the suits don't. MG

Yes. So the pre-amps are only useful for turntables. You need to feed the output from a pre-amp into an amp, into which all your other junk - radio, K7s, CDs etc - is also being fed. I didn't get that feeling looking at the NAD page you referenced. I thought it did all of them. MG

Hey MG, with the number of CDs you have, why not treat yourself to a nice little integrated amp from these guys - Nait Not that I'm biassed, or anything... Oi! That's seven-twenty-five quid! MG

I suppose someone shot it. MG

Which reminds me - I haven't seen Clem around lately. Happy Birthday Willie. Just listening to Hank Crawford playing "Funny how time slips away". MG

Agree BTW you could find decent phono stage at human prices. I am using a 100 euros NAD right now and it sounds OK. Does that handle everything - CD, tape, turntable, CD recorder - all in one? I thought NADs were more expensive than that. Perhaps I should do some more looking around before I go firm on this. MG Not really, it's a MC/MM phono stage http://nadelectronics.com/products/hifi-am...no-Preamplifier But I'd have a look at this http://nadelectronics.com/products/hifi-am...eo-Preamplifier, considering that the Cambridge hasn't a phono imput, make your calculation. The A5 has a phono input as an optional extra, for an extra twenty quid. Looked at the NAD page, thanks. What's a preamp, as opposed to an amp? MG

Bill Heid has some really rather nice, but strange, titles Blue ice cubes Peach cobbler Eatin' and boppin' Boppin' and eatin' Orange chair tango Orange chair ballad Birds flapping their wings This little puppy Rubber marshmallows Bag of iku Ningyo mambo MG

Agree BTW you could find decent phono stage at human prices. I am using a 100 euros NAD right now and it sounds OK. Does that handle everything - CD, tape, turntable, CD recorder - all in one? I thought NADs were more expensive than that. Perhaps I should do some more looking around before I go firm on this. MG

Interesting. Florida gets all those Brits and Europeans buying places over there - I suppose that activity might be increasing due to the low dollar. MG

Well, it nearly didn't when my amp went wonky last night MG

At the price of a new amp, and given its twelve year (I worked out) age, I can't be asked to think about having it repaired. I'm hoping to pick up a Cambridge A5 on Saturday - the shop's having a couple delivered on Friday. Until then, it's the PC, the walkman or the little portable downstairs. No LPs or K7s, though. MG

I wonder what he would have been like with John Patton. I think that would have been interesting for both of them. It would have been interesting to have heard him in a front line with Marvin Cabell. I guess I'll get scrammed for this, but I'd like Lee to have recorded LESS with Hank Mobley. "Hi voltage", with Blue Mitchell, is such a fresh sounding, open album that I wish Hank had done more with Blue. MG

Well, Happy REAL Birthday Lazaro! And a REAL Happy Birthday! MG

Hm, yes, OK. His house was a bit garish, wasn't it? Or was the cameraman on LSD? MG

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Yes, that's how I feel, too. I sold the LP, with great regrets, in 1970 and didn't hear it again until I got the Water issue a few years ago. And... MG

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