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What was the nature of the nightmare? I was thinking the same thing, we are damn curious, aren't we? BTW this would be one the "One of the greatest performances I have ever seen" post, if I weren't only a 8 y/o child living in a small town near Genoa at times.

When I read the thread's title I felt sad because I thought William F. Buckley Jr were the father of Tim Buckley and grandfather of Jeff Buckley. I thought 'such a merciless destiny for a man bury two generations of his heirs', then I read the link. I didn't know him, from what I read I couldn't say I'll miss him.

RIP ...too much obituaries, I am getting old.

Did you mean the TT that read vinyl with an array of lasers? I heard a demo some years ago, forgot the brand: awful sound and totally unable to track even the slightest imperfection/flaw of records. A 'pop' was a "BOOM", a 'click' was like a gunshot at the Carnegie Hall during a performance of classic music. Maybe now they are better. And it can't read anything exept black vinyl or shellac, lateraly cut. No reproduction of colored vinyl, picture vinyl or vertically cut records. Yep, I forgot it, no ESP Ayler on the LT.

Thanks Joe.

Judge to RIAA: Prove It! By Wes Phillips February 26, 2008 — The Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) aggressive campaign against its customers has most recently relied heavily upon the "making available" argument. The RIAA has argued that the act of making a recording available on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network was a crime, even if nobody actually linked to or downloaded the files. In October 2007, judge Michael J. Davis ruled in Capitol Records v. Thomas that the labels did not need to establish that the songs Ms. Thomas loaded to her KaZaa account were downloaded by others. Ms, Thomas was held liable for $220,000 in penalties. Not every judge has bought into the RIAA's argument, however. In September 2007, California federal judge Judge Rudi M. Brewster ruled in Interscope v. Rodriguez —a case where the RIAA was asking for a default judgment because Ms. Rodriguez never responded to its complaint—that the RIAA's "boilerplate" complaint inadequately stated its claim, citing a precedent established in the September 2007 Supreme Court decision in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly. In that case, Justice Souter wrote: "We have previously hedged against false inferences from identical behavior at a number of points in the trial sequence. An antitrust conspiracy plaintiff with evidence showing nothing beyond parallel conduct is not entitled to a directed verdict." Translation: Just because it could happen doesn't prove that it did happen. You have to prove it. Now, judge Janet Bond Arterton has ruled similarly in Atlantic v. Brennan. The Brennan case is another in which the defendant failed to respond to the complaint and the RIAA requested a default judgment. Judge Arterton denied that request. Three factors must be present for a default judgment: the lack of response must be "willful", that the defendant not have a "meritorious defense" available, and finally for the plaintiffs to "be prejudiced" if the default is not granted. Judge Arterton agreed that Brennan was indeed negligent in not responding to the complaint, but held the other two criteria worked very strongly in his favor. The judge was caustic in citing the "nonexistent factual record" of the complaint. "At least one aspect of Plaintiffs' distribution claim is problematic, however," Arterton wrote. "Namely the allegation of infringement based on 'mak[ing] the Copyrighted Recordings available for distribution to others.'" Judge Arterton also cited Interscope v. Rodriguez, writing, "The complaint in Rodriguez was nearly identical to the one filed by Plaintiffs in this case, particularly in the respect that gives this Court pause. Rather than provide '[f]actual allegations' sufficient to make their claims for relief more than mere conjecture, Plaintiffs' allegations of infringement lack any factual grounding whatsoever, and rely instead on their 'inform[ation] and belie[f]' that Mr. Brennan willfully violated their exclusive rights." Ouch! The RIAA, needless to say, "respectfully disagreed" with Arterton and plans to file a brief with the court to "clarify" matters. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's senior intellectual property attorney, Fred von Lohmann recently made the same point in Atlantic v. Howell, observing that "without actual distribution of copies . . . there is no violation [of] the distribution right." In a conversation with Stereophile, von Lohmann said: "Why is the recording industry piling on with these 'making available' distribution claims? If they want to sue individuals for copyright infringement, they should have to play by the rules and demonstrate that infringing copies were made. If, on the other hand, they want to sue for distribution, it is not enough to show that someone might have downloaded a song from you—they have to prove that someone actually did download it from you. "The recording industry is trying to set dangerous new precedents on the backs of individuals who have little or no ability to mount a sophisticated defense. Of course, any precedents set here will be used against bigger targets, such as XM Radio and Google (both of whom have been sued on a similar 'making available' theory), in future lawsuits." http://www.stereophile.com/news/022608brennan/

And got your recommended minimum exercise requirement by having to get up every 10 minutes. Postscript - there was an earthquake tremor about 30 minutes after I played this for the last time. Doesn't bear thinking about. About earthquakes, I never understood how they can still sell TT's in SoCal.

Did you mean the TT that read vinyl with an array of lasers? I heard a demo some years ago, forgot the brand: awful sound and totally unable to track even the slightest imperfection/flaw of records. A 'pop' was a "BOOM", a 'click' was like a gunshot at the Carnegie Hall during a performance of classic music. Maybe now they are better. I'm assuming he's talking about the ELP. I got the demo CD from them and it sounds very impressive. Of course, I don't have $17K+ to spend at the moment... Yep, that's it. I heard it at an hi-fi show, the one and only I attented in my life (too much people and no way to hear properly a gear, the worst thing was the music they played, lots of impressive stuff that would make sound impressive even your clock radio. About the LT, after reading things like these: Q: Is it important to clean my records? A: Yes, it is very important since the laser reads everything it "sees." We recommend the vacuum record cleaner to clean vinyl records. The sound quality will be much improved if you clean your records. and these Q: How do scratches on the records affect the sound produced by the laser? A: Light scratches have little impact on the sound compared with records played with a needle. However, the noise from deep scratches is markedly reduced compared to what is reproduced on a conventional turntable. http://elpj.com/about/qa.html#company I am still suspicious, why there are still dozens of 'old way' analog stuff (TT, arm, cartdrige) that cost much more then 14 K? A product like this should have had wipe all the TT producers off. Or we, vinylists, are all nuts, fetichist and masochist: we love to see with our own naked eyes our precious BNs plowed by the expensive cartdrige handmade by Hattori Hanzo. Forget Condoleeza with boots and high heels, look at my japanese stylus tracking your record, you filthy slave! :rsmile:

As for the first, I missed seeing Woody Shaw because I confidently strode to the front door of the club on the night after he played there. I was shocked. I simply had the date wrong. I missed Charles Mingus twice because I was dumb and still into the pop music of the time, and had not had my conversion experience into jazz. Can't think of any for the second category. I never got THAT impaired when I was young. Well, about the second I remember a Lou Reed's concert, and he missed the starting of 'Sweet Jane', so the band had to play the intro over and over, that was one of the case I was less stoned that the musician. I am pretty sure Lou Reed didn't remember the performance.

I am thinking about a new thread: "One of the greatest performances I missed", for lacking of money, lazyness, ignorance, whatever. Lots. edit: another thread "One of the greatest performances I have ever seen and I didn't remember because I was too stoned"

Did you mean the TT that read vinyl with an array of lasers? I heard a demo some years ago, forgot the brand: awful sound and totally unable to track even the slightest imperfection/flaw of records. A 'pop' was a "BOOM", a 'click' was like a gunshot at the Carnegie Hall during a performance of classic music. Maybe now they are better.

I am thinking about this thread for a while. Fabrizio De Andrè wasn't a jazz musician, I couldn't find any categories for him: folksinger, chansonnier, etc. I presume that he was a lot of things. Overall I, and I am just one in a big number of much more literature's expert, just think he was the greatest italian poet of the last thirty years. And he could sing and write music. I looked for an extensive english translations of his songs without success. The guy was real special one. No compromise with politcs, show business, or religion. A Man with a capital 'M'. And we growned up in the same city, so I have a special affection for him. I think I have to share my love and gratitude for the man and his works with you. He made my life better, happier, deeper, and he was, and still is, a safe harbour when I sail in the storm. here is wiki on him, in english. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_De_Andr%C3%A9 Here's a few youTube's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqf5bTFvXFg...feature=related Thanks Fabrizio.

Shellac is proof that outdated technologies do indeed die as the medium for transmission of new content. It's a question of time. ERGO vinyl is NOT outdated. ARISTOTLE, De Interpretatione

W. A. Mozart - String Quartets - Quartetto Italiano, Philips box set

The Classic Davis Quartet, Shorter, Williams, etc, MOSAIC sets.

Very true! When I look back I'm amazed by how limited my horizons were by what happened to appear in the shops. I alays felt as if I was being unreasonable trying to order something out of the way (if I knew about it via a magazine). I often met 'sorry, can't be found' responses. We may be at the end of the hard disc bounty - but if the download world is handled imaginatively the next era could be even more plentiful. Well, financial constraints will still be there. And time to listen will be even more at a premium. MG Plenty doesn't mean you have to purchase or listen to everything. Correct, but if you buy all the things you think it might be interesting it might end like this: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=39895&hl=

Yep, they are good.

Another good reason for distrusting press, when I really need to check news out, I PM to Brownie.

When you switch from a MM to a MC that is what you got: better sound. That's a good rule of thumb, but YMMV greatly depending on your phono preamp. Matching to your phono pre should be an important consideration when selecting a cartridge. It's true, but there are a lot of honest phono pre at decent prices out there...and few great ones at big prices. Since most of the cheapest hasn't any loading's variable switches, one rule says to match the cartdrige with the phono: a Linn with a Linn, a Rega with a Rega, etc. Or ask to cartdrige manufacturers wich is the suggested loading for that specific model, and match with the correct phono stage, some of the cheap, and good, can be order with a specific loading. However I noted that sometimes I liked more a different loading rather then one suggested by cartdrige manufactures. Right now I am listening with a borrowed 100 euros NAD phono stage, my mono Lyra Helicon (that cost twenty times more), it's not a "nirvana sound", but for 100 euros it sounds good.

Ops...I misread the the date,

It's a secret or may we know if you liked it?

Agree, I was listening to it today, definitely you won't regret. Lots of great music lost in the delta of later Columbia's reissues, readily available and great sounding, could you ask for more?

Love it, big Prestige sound for a big tenor session.