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How long did it take you to swap the cables? If it was more than a minute or two, you can't remember what you heard (exactly) with the old interconnect. Human's "hearing memory" has been documented to be very poor if there is more than a few seconds between like sounds. If you can't A/B in seconds, you will have trouble distinguishing the differences. I took my time probably 3 minutes, the difference was so massive, it was also on an LP I knew very well indeed.

Cables do sound different. I had pair of cheaper interconnects from my TT to Phono amp and they really killed the sound, muffled and dull, improved immensely by a slightly dearer set of Nordost connects. I only trust my ears when it comes to HiFi upgrades.

can anyone provide a link to the Marshmallow Records web site- I can't find it.

no new purchases so a few UK issued oldies pulled off the sagging shelves, Eddie Lang - Joe Venuti and their All Star Orchestra- Someday sweetheart/ Farewell blues, Panacord , recorded pretty hot so it's all loud with a tad of distortion Eddie Lang's Orchestra-Walkin the dog- Parlophone, New Rhythm Style Series No 41, coupled with Luis Russell - Jersey Lightning, odd combination as seems the norm for this series. Great shellac quality though.

very true, I like this one so much I got it on a Music Matters 45rpm set ( only a few BN titles qualify for that upgrade treatment in my house)

Wahoo or The Phantom. I was hesitant regarding the Mosaic Select , however it significantly exceeds expectations.

I like picking up any Jacquet 78s I can find, always good value playing, still kicking myself for missing out on the Mosaic but I no have a decent amount of it on 78s, LPs and CDs

Happy Birthday Chuck !!!

that should be nice... Gullin is great

Don't think it's the same recording. Seems I had both back in the day. There's Touching and Blood with the Roling cover, and a Jazz Life pressing of Blood which has the same catalog number/label. Definitely the same music. Then there's a Polydor Blood which is different music and yet another jacket. The Polydor Blood is generally refered as 'Paul Bley in Haarlem' and looks like this: my copy of Touching looks like this

I went for the Charles Sullivan and the Monty Waters - received them yesterday , both excellent and neither a CDR

Wherever this thread should be, to my ears the CD sounds better than the LP. hmm.. you have me wondering , I love the LP and thought it sounded pretty good, ...

Kenny Dorham Blue Spring - Riverside (Japan)- not the best KD but decent enough with Julian Adderley getting a fair amount of space

Walter Bishop Jr - Old Folks - Eastwind (Japan)

Happy Birthday !!! :party:

Jimmy Raney/ Martial Solal- The Date - Stil - lovely duet

New additions , a couple of decent Red Nichols- both Brunswick pre take-over (1932?) Red Nichols & his five pennies- Oh ! Peter/Honolulu Blues- Warner Brunswick 1233 UK Red Nichols & his five pennies- Just a crazy song/ You rascal, you- Warner Brunswick 1163 UK sound very clear , shellac very quiet, performances nice and jazzy , typical Nichols

Richie Kamuca - Drop me off at harlem- Concord, fine playing in mainstream vein , with Kamuca sounding peerless. Lovely

I think this one is on Freshsounds CD

Jackie McLean - Bluesnik - BN , MM 45 rpm issue- perhaps my favourite JM date

I take it you weren't running OS 10.5 or 10.6 on the old iMac with Time Machine? That's a shame. I was running OS 10.4.11. Tried to download some new virus protection software (Intego -- my old Intego version was about to expire), and though the guy at Intego who sold it to me said it would be compatible with my old OS, he didn't ask (and I didn't tell him) how much RAM I had. It wasn't enough, and the failed download tied up my computer in an unbreakable loop -- unbreakable even by the Apple store techs who transferred what data they could from my old computer to my new one. The AOL archive thing I don't understand. I seem to have access to all the messages I've ever sent but not to any of the ones I've received over the years, which was a great searchable resource. That archive was somewhere at AOL, not on my computer. Any thoughts on how I might get at it again? I don't run anti virus protection on my Macs, is that a mistake ?

another Asch addition to the collection, Mary Lou Williams and her six- Stardust Parts 1 and 2- Asch 1005 , 12 inch ( purple label- not sure if that is significant) - a rather dark and brooding interpretation with Don Byas , Victor Dickenson & Dick Vance.

dug out my copy of this , the sound is poor indeed but I found it quite listenable. Tyrone is particularly badly served. It sounds to me as if the right hand channel or mikes were mixed way to low as he sounds so distant. Is the Japanese issue that much better.

in The Vernacular - The John Handy III Quintet - 2LP 1959 & 1961