Scott Dolan

Well! I’ve definitely learned something new. I had no idea you could have a preamp with no power source. Bizarre!

??? Aren’t all preamps passive? When my wife and I first moved in together, our only tv was a little 9” black and white, as we were poorer than dirt poor at the time. We put it on the bottom shelf of our entertainment center so we could lay in front of it to be able to make out what was on the screen. Good times... And now the smallest tv in our house is 37”, which looks relatively small to our other two. Times have definitely changed. A lot! I think at least 50% of the charm of tube preamps/amps is the beauty of the tubes when they are lit. I think they are truly beautiful to look at.

Are those stats behind them, or are they attached to the OB speakers? I see you still have your Emotiva.

I'd still like to put together a tube rig sometime later in life, if just for the fun/hobby aspect of it. And while I'd like to say that I'd never use it for "critical listening" I find that I do far less of that than ever these days. I've gone back to simply enjoying the music without employing too critical an ear.

Didn’t take long to convince me, either. It also completely lives up to its promise.

Wow! Some outstanding titles listed so far, especially the last several that Paul and Steve have posted. For obscure, how about Mount Everest Trio - Waves From Albert Ayler.

It doesn’t have to be streaming. You can also back up your physical collection to the cloud. The cloud is more about redundancy than anything.

The sun might burn out next year. We might all die is a global nuclear war. RT might be paranoid about the cloud. Sure as hell might, at that.

Same here. Only CDs I’ve bought in the last six or seven years are box sets. Once the advanced audio codecs caught up to CD sonically, it just didn’t make any sense to keep buying them. Hell, brick and mortars no longer carry them, by and large. And you do readily admit that’s nothing more than unfounded paranoia, right?

The cloud ain’t going nowhere, folks.

Cool! Please let me know what you think.

I do, too! And yes, you definitely have to hear Sgt. Pepper. It’s even more impressive.

Agreed. Especially now that I’ve heard it. The outtakes are just as stunning as the original releases.

I was partially correct. The LP release is the one limited to 3000.

Wow. A rather embarrassing admission: I’d never heard Richard Davis quoting Frosty The Snowman in his bass solo on Music Matador...

Eh, it was a decent effort. Wrong because I think there is more atonal music than ever these days, but still a decent effort.

Music Matador is one of the most genius compositions of all time. I can’t say I’ve ever noted the similarities between Dolphy and Ayler in that regard, but I’ll certainly be listening for it now. Got my copy in the mail, and will be playing here in just a moment.

Pretty sure their “high” quality is 320kbps Ogg Vorbis, which will sound no different than CD quality. To pay more for anything “higher” is flushing money down the shitter.

That could be, I have no experience with mp3 at that bitrate. I do have a few old mp3 files at 160kbps, and can confirm that the high end on those doesn’t sound that great. Perhaps if I’m feeling ambitious one day I’ll create a few 192 files and do a sighted comparison.

Most people claim that 192kbps is the cutoff point where they can no longer hear the difference between mp3 and CD. I've never done an A/B comparison, but you might want to just to see if there is an audible difference.

Well, I guess there is a lot of improvisation and chaos in both...

Fear really isn't the correct word, though. You can dread something without fearing it.

Happy to entertain. That was the thing I wasn't getting. If he's going to be a sullen little shit, tell him to go fuck himself. Don't allow his selfishness and pouting to become part of your reality.

Or perhaps, if you're going to make yourself miserable over an unknown, that's on you. Though, why the author allowed the kid to drag him down at the same time is beyond me.

Nothing in the blurb you posted blames Jazz, unless I’m reading it all wrong.