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Sonny Rollins: Now's The Time(RCA) Classic reissue Killer music and IMO a killer reissue by Classic. Anyone else think so? Big, booming tone on Sonny's tenor. Deep and detailed bass. Like many live shows, the bass on many jazz records is not as present as I like.

Moderately cheap? In dollars, please. I do not like the DMM EU pressings. Since you are in Italy, try Vivante.com for the reissues. Blue label pressings are ok and fairly common. New reissues: Classic's are good. Rhino/Scorpio has a series out, 20-30 titles at $10US each. (never tried) Do not know if Vivante carries these. There is a Japanese BN series that just came out, containing these titles: $40US TOJJ-6501 Somethin' Else Cannonball Adderley 81595 TOJJ-6502 Cool Struttin' Sonny Clark 81588 TOJJ-6503 Moanin' Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers 84003 TOJJ-6504 The Scene Changes - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol.5 Bud Powell 84009 TOJJ-6505 Blue Train John Coltrane 81577 TOJJ-6506 A Night At The Village Vanguard Sonny Rollins 1581 TOJJ-6507 Candy Lee Morgan 1590 TOJJ-6508 Clifford Brown Memorial Album Clifford Brown 1526 TOJJ-6509 Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock 84195 TOJJ-6510 Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia Kenny Dorham 1524 TOJJ-6511 Jutta Hip With Zoot Sims Jutta Hip 1530 TOJJ-6512 Swing Swang Swingin' Jackie McLean 84024 TOJJ-6513 Workout Hank Mobley 84080 TOJJ-6514 Fuego Donald Byrd 84026 TOJJ-6515 Flight To Jordan Duke Jordan 84046 TOJJ-6516 True Blue Tina Brooks 84041 TOJJ-6517 Undercurrent Kenny Drew 84059 TOJJ-6517 True Blue Tina Brooks 84041 TOJJ-6518 Midnight Blue Kenny Burrell 84123 TOJJ-6519 The Congregation Johnny Griffin 1580 TOJJ-6520 A Night In Tunisia Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers 84049

doubleM, I see you took my advice to drop the whole thing. You are one stubborn guy. I'll remember not to get you pissed at me. How many Ebay transactions have you done? I left NF on a non paying winner for a $9 item. He never replied to one one e-mail. He had 5 NF at the time out of 200 transactions. 60 days later I got a MO from him. After he got the item he left me NF for some perceived problem Last time I looked he had 10 NF's and had closed his account, but my NF is still there. Did my contact ever get back to you? Have you relisted the item?

I'm a firm believer in sharing music, to a degree. How many of you have heard some music, for the first time, via a copy from a friend and later went out and got your own copy? How many of you have given a friend a comp and they later went out and bought music of the artist they liked? I could go on, but you get the idea.

Maybe I'll get $8 off their $50 2lp 45 RPM jazz titles. Maybe not.

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I believe there are a few groups that are into the mono thing. Huge mono speakers(horns) and 1.5 watt amps. Then there are the the guys who have two arms on their tt, one with stereo cartridge and the other with a mono cartridge(back in vogue). I would actualy like to try the mono cartridge thing. Grado makes some cheap ones.

Otis Redding: Dock of The Bay " : Otis Blue Sundazed reissues. Get 'em if you ain't gotttem. I catch myself trying to sing like Otis. Patton: The Way I Feel Blakey; Freedom Rider

Yep!! Hope he's still lovely when he puts a finger in a tweeter. Why do kids(and adults) go right for the tweeter?

Good machine!! I'll take....................your new one for $100. This would sell in 15 minutes at Audiogon, but you were probably giving the guys here a shot at it first.

I know what you mean, but all is not lost if you want to upgrade your tonearm cable. Unless I'm mistaken, your cable runs fron the bottom of the tonearm(usually the connector is a DIN plug..5 little holes in it) out to your pre-amp/amp, where it connects with RCA's. Many after market tonearm cables are available. Ranging in price from $75-$1000 . Do a search for tonearm cables. Many high-end interconnect and speaker cable companies include them in their line. You just will not see them in the brick and morter stores.

I upgrade, maybe slightly, my audio once every couple years or so. I have no problem buying used, so often I sell for about(or more than) what I paid. When I retire I'll probably get the most insane turntable set-up I can afford. I believe, all things being equal, the source is most important. My phono cartridges need to be replaced every 2/3 years. Some just need a new stylus, while others need to be rebuilt(good as new but half the price as new). Have gotten these used, also. One thing I have to watch out for is wanting an expensive system after hearing it. I've gone into hi-fi stores and friend's homes and have heard some amazing stereo. When I go home and listen to mine, I'm a little let down, but it passes. Since I have a lot of music(like most off you) I am picky or selective about what I buy. If I listened to 2 different albums a day for 4 years I'd be at the tale end of my collection. I've sold quite a bit of stuff, also. What Claude said about upgrading and hearing your old collection anew is very true and possibly more economical than buying more music or upgrading to the lastest digital or vinyl reissued wonder.

Was this worth posting? I really do not know as I do not buy these. When I saw free shipping and prices under $30 I assumed it was a good deal.

Great! It may even sound better after the cartridge 'breaks in", I know mine did. It's nice how most of the new(and even older) tt are built. My tt is 20 years old, but if anything breaks it's easy to fix, except the tonearm. Replacement parts are readily available. If the motor goes it will be costly, but still worth it to slap another one in there. If you do not drop the tt, the bearing should last a long time as long as you keep it oiled per instructions. I change oil every year or so.

Vinyl: Herbie Nichols: no number Bud Powell: no number Mingus/Candid: 2750 Tina Brooks: 4925 Mulligan/Baker: 3483 Parlan: 689 Thad Jones: 3070 Chaloff: 2527 Don Cherry: 1786 Mingus/CBS: 1964 Hodges 51-55: 1926 Desmond/Hall: no number I don't need no stinking numbers! Why no numbers, if I did care?

Much has been written and discussed comparing the Classics to the originals since Classic started the series. Most complained that the Classics were too bright and lacked the nice string tones and 'bloom' of the originals. Many liked the better bass, detail and dynamics of some of the Classics. The hard to find originals were selling for $100+. Prices have come down a bit.

Hey, that's it!! I just noticed, in the dead wax, "DMM", the dreaded 'direct metal master'. That may explain the sound being iffy. To continue in a Hawkins vein, I'm playing Swingville 4001 "Things Ain't What They Used To Be". It's an original double Lp that combines TAWTUTB and "Years Ago". Dvorak Cello Concerto/Piatigorsky/Munch/BSO Rivers: Contours(too dark to see if it has 'ear' ) Donald Byrd: Royal Flush (too dark to see if it has 'ear' ) Love the trumpet/baritone contrasts...Hopr this doen't piss anyone off, but for a white boy Pepper Adams could find the groove.

Wow! That's a good one that I've seen before, too. These sellers creep me out.

Why upgrade the CDs then? On a mediocre stereo (or worse) the audio differences will most likely not be noticeable at all. The money spent replacing the same music could go to buying new music (or upgrading your stereo so that CD upgrades would make a noticeable difference). $5,000 should buy a pretty nice system, if not "great." Am wondering what the problem is with your system that, having invested a good bit of money in it, you prefer the Bose boombox (which alone costs about $500 if I recall correctly). I don't mean any of this in a hostile manner, just can't really sort out the conflicting ideas in your post. This is a new breed of consumer brought about by the digital age and it's big buck advertising. It all started when CD's had the tendency to sound like shit when promising otherwise. Now, it's a dreadmill trying to catch up , but going I know not where. Possibly, another stereotype to include in this thread. The above has been in jest, do whatever makes you happy!!!!!!!!!

Glad you are liking your new stuff!! I'm drooling. Does the wife think you are crazy? Those amps must be moving off the shelves pretty good. I'd like to put one of these Audio Notes together.

I remember when I bought this one. The guy looked at me like he was really glad to be selling it or was surprised to be selling it. Definitely a bad cover. Looks xeroxed. One of those slightly rare pressings that are worth $1.99.

Here is one thing ebay mentions about when to leave FB. When should I leave feedback? Leave feedback after completing any purchase or sale on eBay. I guess their is a grey area on when one considers a sale/purchase completed.

I would love to have nice originals of all the Living Strereo titles I have the Classic reissues of, as I'm sure they sound great(much warmer with incredible tone). Hope you didn't buy too many Classics.

No, feedback is completely optional. Nobody ever has to leave feedback since it is voluntary. If I were a seller, I would never leave feedback first. If you are a seller you may want to make sure the transaction is okay with the buyer before you leave feedback. As fucked up as it is, there are buyers (and sellers) who just want to leave negatives simply play around. I've heard too many "horror" stories of sellers who leave a positive and then have an asshole buyer leave a negative for some stupid reason. Unfortunately, because of the horror stories sellers should leave feedback once the transaction is complete (i.e. buyer is satisfied). I thought I read it somewhere, but I guess I'm wrong. First time for everything. There are sellers I have learned to trust and buy from and they leave FB first.

Melodiya was the Soviet record label, State-run[as everything else]. The sound quality ranged from really bad to terrible. Lots of distortion, lots of surface noise, sucky vinyl. Melodiya, that's it. I got lucky on this one as it sounds pretty damn good. When I use to play it on my old set-up the surface noise was pretty bad. With my fairly new Garrott Brothers P77 I have to strain to hear surface noise and Hawkins sounds great!!