porcy62

Cannonbal Adderley Quintet - AT THE LIGHTHOUSE - Riverside, mono.

No opinion, but I followed a couple of auctions of some sealed records, like Marvin Gaye, some times ago. I passed, they skyrocket to 500/600 $ Lot's of interesting, and expensive, stuff anyway.

Agreed...but...downloads will be in HD. I'm downloading a 1080p rental tonight on my Apple TV as a matter of fact. However, nothing like watching a Blu-Ray disc! Can't be beat! The fact about movies, compared to music, is that I don't care owning them, just watching them. I mean that you don't watch ten times per year "Citizen Cane" or "La Femme d'à cote ". So I rent DVD's at local store or I go to theaters. As a matter of fact, we will see very few Blue-Ray discs at local video rentals, or Blockbusters, in the meantime the downloading will get the market. Because for the majors will be cheaper to put online HD movies, rather then producing the same title in a new physical format. I'd love to have all that classic movies of Criterion readily available like iTunes. I don't really need to built a physical collection of movies, unless I want to study some of them shot by shot, in that case a DVD, or even an old VHS, can do the trick. Netflix rents the extended resolution formats, AFAIK. Never done it, since I am only lo-fi regular DVD-compatible here. I don't know the market in U.S. about DVD, but, with cables, satellite channels, and the HD downloading coming soon, I doubt that Blu Ray will be a real profitable investment for software and hardware producers. At least over here the biggest sellers are animation movies for children like 'Shrek' or 'Cars'. And I never heard one of my nephews or friend's children complaining about the quality

http://www.physorg.com/news122220149.html At last! I am really fine now that I have a good clock. :rsmile:

Violent Femmes - VIOLENT FEMMES - Slash Records. College's memories...

Seeline, c'mon, it's Saturday, who cares about those uncle scrooges' of the RIAA? Get a beer, spin some nice records and relax.

Not even a platoon of bodyguards. I mean I'd be worried to death carring around one million dollar violin.

Agreed...but...downloads will be in HD. I'm downloading a 1080p rental tonight on my Apple TV as a matter of fact. However, nothing like watching a Blu-Ray disc! Can't be beat! The fact about movies, compared to music, is that I don't care owning them, just watching them. I mean that you don't watch ten times per year "Citizen Cane" or "La Femme d'à cote ". So I rent DVD's at local store or I go to theaters. As a matter of fact, we will see very few Blue-Ray discs at local video rentals, or Blockbusters, in the meantime the downloading will get the market. Because for the majors will be cheaper to put online HD movies, rather then producing the same title in a new physical format. I'd love to have all that classic movies of Criterion readily available like iTunes. I don't really need to built a physical collection of movies, unless I want to study some of them shot by shot, in that case a DVD, or even an old VHS, can do the trick.

I don't want to derail the thread, but, frankly, I am not really interested in wich format won the war. I think that the future will be in broad band downloading, so all this is a whortless efforts and a waste of money for something that will be wiped off in the next, let's say three, four years? My two cents.

Ah, those Supercaps Yep, porcy - I'm sure it's helped. I'll pop on the LT-series vinyl and see how that one sounds too a bit later. I remember when that one came out on LP around 1980 it was difficult to source over here as (unlike the first of the 'Rainbow' series which were also UK pressings) - it was only available as a US pressing. So I didn't get to hear this one, 'Mother Ship' and 'Medina' for some years afterwards. Only the specialist shops here had a very limited stock of these titles. I am spinning some LT's right now and, overall, they are better then I remember, also in this case, the TT helps. After a lot of years, and having owned several different stuff, from very cheap to outrageously expensive, I am not really convinced about the fact that hi-end rigs reveal bad recording/pressing/mastering. A really bad sounding record is a bad sounding record, period, no matters if you play on a cheap TT rather then on Michael Fremer's rigs. Often it works just the opposite: a record that you thought bad on a cheap TT, sounds good on a better set up.

Indeed, it's Friday. Let's think about it on monday morning.

Last time? Let me think...

Ah, those Supercaps

Yep, that's the reason because courts exists: "what ifs". I mean that a law about a complex issue like copyright, the more, such law strongly wanted by the majors for pure economic interest, has to be corrected through sentences. The point is that I think they closed the gate when the sheeps are gone. Too late. And since they couldn't really fight great piracy, they got their revenge on small fish like me and you.

I'll ask to Marshall Jim to downgrade you from Moderator to Private. BTW I have the LT BN vinyl spinning right now.

Welcome have a look at this for VV discography: http://www.jazzdisco.org/trane/dis/c/ BTW if you have the Impulse box set, in the booklet there are all the info you need.

Indeed! In the 1982 you should have dated a guy with these brand new Lps in his lousy hole at the college, like me # Big Science - Laurie Anderson # Combat Rock - The Clash # Music for a New Society – John Cale # Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen # Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel # Pornography - The Cure # Rough Diamonds - Bad Company # The Tunes of Two Cities - The Residents # Under the Big Black Sun - X # Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads # David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture

Buying a music CD means buying the rights to use the music contained therein and not just buying the actual disc. You can make copies of the music to various formats for your own personal use as long as you own those rights. By selling the CD, you also sell those rights and every other copy that you keep becomes illegal. When you buy digital downloads, you only buy the rights to use those files. You are not allowed to sell those rights or the file. It's all in the iTunes small print. It's all quite simple really. From a legal perspective you may be right: if you buy only copyrights with downloading it might be fine, though I still have some doubt: if your hard disk crashed, you should pay again the copyright or suppose that your back up stood fover, will your heirs have it as heritage? Is there any expiry date of copyright for personal use in legal downloading? And if your heirs want to share the inheritance and you have all your cds and a legit back up, what's about copyrights? All this is a paradox, but IMO show the holes and failure of these kind of laws.

This is absurd! When I sell my old Mustang, should I pay some copyright to Ford? When I sell my used Apple laptop should I pay the copyright for the software on it? Used stuff is beyond copyright's laws. I paided once, that's all.

Go ahead, make my day.

Actually in Italy we have to pay some kind of copyright's infringment tax on cd-r. Obviously, a lot of people don't use cd-r for illegal copying, but...the government rised the price of cd-r by law in order to fight piracy. I am not sure, but I think that, as usual, some money go to government, some money go to producers. So we have to pay a cd-r twice the price. As you can probably imagine the big bastards of copyright's infringments didn't give a damn about this law, they simply buy the cd-r abroad, because everything is illegal for them. It's like to tax guns, do you really think that mafia's mobs and the goodfellas would pay it?

That is so sad. You should've donated to the public library! I tried, they didn't want them.

Well posed, though I am not agree with all points. I have a great TT and a pretty good cd player and I appreciate vinyl's sound much more then cd's sound, and digital sound in general. Occasional pops and clicks don't divert my attention (and pleasure) from the music. It's obvious that a decent cd player costs a fraction of a comparable analog set up, (cartdrige, tonearm, turntable and phono stage). About downloading I don't do it because recently I realized I have enough music for the rest of my life, so I quit my compulsive record's shopping. I buy very few new music on cd, I prefer to attend at concerts, living in Rome is a plus in this sense. I still buy cds at concerts BTW. I think that downloading could be another dangerous form of compulsive habit, like eBay and e-commerce in general. When you had to travel in order to buy records, or cds, when you needed space to shelve them, you bought less, when you can do it with a mouse and a credit card from your chair...no way. It's like having a 24 hours pub in your kitchen for an alcoholic. About packaging and solid things in general, space saving, etc, I agree with you, it's more 'enviromental friendly' and it will be THE future, not that the majors are really caring about rainy forest and gorillas, they are thinking about costs and profits. Overall I think that I don't really need 800,000 records packed in an hard disk, even if they'd sound like my beloved vinyls. I haven't got time to listen to them in my whole life, but if one feel better "having" (owning) all the music of the world, I believe that this is a pathologic behavior IMHO. I look at records like books. It takes time to read and understand books, I need the same time for a Coltrane's record. When I was at college I was really fond of philosophy, so I bought tons of classics like Plato, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, etc. I was thinking that I'll read them in my life. I throw them away when I moved in the new house a couple of years ago, never read. I am not doing the same mistake with records, (vinyls, cds or files). Oh, and the term 'CD quality' as an affirmative is still an oxymoron!

Archie Shepp - ON THIS NIGHT - Impulse!, mono wlp

Sounds like your next step is to sell all your vinyl, and pick up original acetate and lacquer discs and wax cylinders. I'll go for the master tapes... I need only an insider at EMI.