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Some obscurities I hadn't listened to in a long while:

AFAIK, an anonymous donation is indeed anonymous in the "Latest Donation" panel, but the donor's posts still get labeled underneath the avatar as "$ Donor".

My experience with Polk was good (not premium speakers, but good performance for price), but is not recent enough to be relevant. Company could have changed over the years. Re. one-star Amazon reviews, my experience shopping for electronics on Amazon is that even excellent products tend to get around 10% one-star reviews. These speakers only have 3% one-star (and 10% three-star and below), which seems pretty darn strong.

Regrettably late, but best birthday wishes.

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I got the impression it was well into the '70s. Exile on Main Street was my personal line in the sand.

I'm pretty sure I heard on some radio program or interview (years ago) that the Rolling Stones frequently recorded their individual parts separately. But I can't find any references/citations.

There are reports Sale did make that shit up and thereby hoaxed the media.

I owned a bunch of "early" Evans recordings, bought the Turn Out the Stars (VV, 1980) box, and the many long renditions of "Nardis" totally put me off late Evans. Interesting article, but I've heard my fill.

Have books 4-6, needed to complete the set. This recording got good reviews and seems to have gone oop.

Many thanks! Much appreciated.

Happy Birthday!

Again.

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies This is an excellent and scary story. Bloomberg hit a home run with this one. Disclaimer: No intent to introduce politics, I just found the story compelling. On a somewhat related note, I recommend Edward Jay Epstein's How America Lost Its Secrets, which is mainly about the Edward Snowden enigma but contains a lot of info on foreign intelligence services; details omitted in order to avoid politics.

Yup. When I saw the headline I assumed he was stepping down as CEO. When I read "Chairman" I thought "WTF???". Making the company pay half of the paltry fine is ludicrous. And who will vouch for the "independence" of the directors to be selected? Puzzling "strategy" by the SEC...make dire threats and settle for a slap on the wrist. But nowadays, any action whatsoever taken by a USA regulator is surprising.

Musk settles with SEC. Stays as CEO, has to step down as Chairman. Musk and Tesla each pay $20mm fine. Tesla has to appoint 2 new independent directors. Fairly light penalties IMO.

Interesting follow-up story on this fiasco.

Discs 1-3

Discs 5-7

Hey, SS1... Browns won!

This is a strong performance by La Venexiana Excellent disc; I generally enjoy the Huelgas Ensemble Another strong ensemble