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  1. ebay madness re: vinyl

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    Posted · Edited by porcy62

    40 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

    Mion UK do similar sometimes, never figured out why unless for some reason they don't want to sell them just at the moment and it's easier than de-listing.

    Sounds correct though delisting is quite easy 

  3. (Well here it is..)- What to do with your LP/CD collection-especially Mosaic box sets, when no interested heirs?

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    In the last years I sold on discogs or record stores most of the stuff I didn’t listen to anymore, mainly cds and less valuable LPs, rock and other genres. Now I am thinking to sell on discogs the most valuable stuff I don’t listen to anymore. All the stuff I bought in my compulsive eras, like audiophile records that are very sought nowadays. Mosaic and jazz stuff, including a fair amount of now crazy expensive originals, will be at my disposal in my last years. I filed all on discogs for my heirs. Selling online may be an job but for valuable records is well paid.

  5. Coffee Makers - Recommendations?

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    Posted · Edited by porcy62

    2 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

    3 coffees per day? Italy must have a different definition for not being a caffeine man. :)

    Three small coffee? Caffeine is far lower in espresso or moka than in filter coffee. I mean that in the common dose serving is less. Three small mokas is maybe half the dose of a mug. Anyway over here a caffeine men is far above five or six espresso per day.

    edit: after a small research on google I discovered that a common espresso has less caffeine then other coffees, but that a small moka  has the same amount of caffeine  of your mug, so I am still a caffeine man 😁

  6. Coffee Makers - Recommendations?

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    9 minutes ago, Dmitry said:

    My wife and in-laws are French press drinkers. We must’ve had to buy three or 4 of them over time; the glass is very thin and it’s only a matter of time when it cracks.

    porcy62, as you undoubtedly remember, Greeks and Romans wouldn’t drink undiluted wine. I recently read Euripides’s Alcestis, and one of the characters complains that Heracles was a boor: he drank undiluted wine, the savage! I imagine what we call wine and what they drank was probably quite different.

    I can’t  imagine liking coffee without sugar, but I know a few people that do just that. Love espresso or macchiato with a nice lump of cane sugar!

     

    I like coffee without sugar especially when coffee is good BUT with the first coffee in the morning I admit I add a small spoon of cane sugar if the coffe isn’t great. Anyway I am not a caffeine man anymore I get maybe three small coffee per day. Wines were very different at Julius Caesar’s time for sure. Now talking about water I wouldn’t drink a single malt without a fair number of drops of water.

  7. Coffee Makers - Recommendations?

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    Obviously the quality of the coffee is very important. Over here we had some great coffee shops that sell high quality stuff. The best coffee I found here is a pure Jamaican Blue Mountain that costs 70 € per kilo when a nice good coffee goes for 25/30 €. Needless to say that add sugar or milk on a great coffee is like add water to great wine.

  8. Coffee Makers - Recommendations?

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    29 minutes ago, Dmitry said:

    I had to look that up. 

    Speaking of water, when we were in Bologna, when we would order an espresso, it would be served along with a tiny glass, filled to about 1/3 with mineral water. What is that about?

    Thanks for the tips on the Bialetti! I’ve got the six cup version.
    Heating slowly appears to be the most important step; too high a temperature may burn the product.

    I had to look up the definition of Moka. Interesting.

     

    Cold Water before the espresso cooled down the palate and the stomach for the heat of coffee, in Napoli where you get the best espresso of Italy goes that way.

  9. Coffee Makers - Recommendations?

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    Not an expert of chrome clad machines but I am pretty good on moka after 5 decades. Here a few tips I may suggest:

    1) the best coffe comes from the smaller bialettis, the big ones, more then 3 cups, do not the job well.

    2) the water should be always below the valve

    3) never press the coffee

    4) the fire under the moka or the electric heat should be low, coffee has to get out slowly 

    5) let the coffee comes out with the lid on, the vapor on lid shouldn’t drop on the coffee

    6) switch off the fire just few seconds before the coffee ends

    7) clean the moka after every use without soap with a rugged sponge

    😎 use oligominaral water

    9) coffee should be ground for the moka that means not as fine as filters

     

    I know that it sounds like handling turntables compared to cd player, but as TT the results are much more satisfying.😁

    Sorry if you already know it, but I thought it might worth repeating.

  10. Jazz cat recommendation

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by porcy62

    I had cats since I was a baby. As far as they feel comfortable in the living room they don’t care about music genre. One loved to sleep in front of loudspeaker, guess she liked the vibes. The major problem with cats and music IMO is that they love TTs and the suspension of the woofers has some nice scars 😁

  12. No one buys books

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by porcy62

    19 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

    I don't think I've used a library for 30 years !

    Last time I was in a library I was writing my Ph.D dissertation 

    6 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

    Edit:

    Later I visited some historic libraries as a tourist, not as a reader 

  15. Best Live Boxed Set?

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    6 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

    Have these too and that  seems all which is released.

      Manne,Shelly         ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 2 1959   Contemporary        7578

    Manne,Shelly         ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 3 1959    Contemporary        7579

     Manne,Shelly         ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 4 1959   Contemporary        7580

    CD  Manne,Shelly     ..and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 5 1959  Contemporary      660-2

    Manne,Shelly         ...and his men at the Black Hawk,Vol 1 1959    Contemporary        7577

          

    I have the original vinyls, up to vol 4. Among the best sounding live recordings in my collection. 

  21. Don Byas Mosaic set available for pre-order

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    Just now, EKE BBB said:

    Thanks for the alert! Of course, I haven't sent the bank transfer yet. I had planned to make a call to that phone number to get the needed clarifications. No additional emails from FedEx yet. In the tracking feature of their website, the package is shown as the delivered and the process closed. So strange! 

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    Usually after paying I got a physical invoice in my mail box after two weeks. Strange you don’t have any email.

  22. Don Byas Mosaic set available for pre-order

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    49 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

    I am afraid I was too optimistic. 😔

    The package arrived yesterday, with a notice to pay VAT under a very odd procedure: the guy from FedEx left a bank current account number (without any bank account holder reference), written by hand on a piece of paper, so that I can make a bank transfer of €40-something to pay VAT. He also provided a phone number to send the bank transfer document via WhatsApp.

    I wasn't at home when the parcel arrived, so I could not make any of the obvious questions. If I had not received the parcel with the set as well (still unopened from my side), I would have thought this was scam.

    Are you sure it isn’t a scam? I got several email from FedEx with a direct link to their website where I payed the fee with PayPal, the procedure you described isn’t clear at all.

  23. Don Byas Mosaic set available for pre-order

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    On 11/30/2023 at 11:57 PM, J.A.W. said:

    If you ordered directly from Mosaic there is no VAT included, they do not use the EU IOSS ("Import One Stop Shop") scheme as far as I know. Within the EU you pay VAT on arrival of an order from outside the EU, unless the non-EU seller uses IOSS, in that case VAT is charged at check-out if the total value does not exceed 150 euros, and no VAT is due on arrival.

    By the way - and this might be of interest to EU residents - Belgian store TYQMusic is currently offering the Byas Mosaic for 189 euros (pre-order) plus shipping. They told me they're expecting the set mid- or late December: TYQMusic

    Just got an email from FedEx: 50,41 Euros bill. The grand total of this set is more then 260 $! Last set I ever buy direct from Mosaic.

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