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Lots of good players over here. Enrico Rava is probably the better known, but have a look at italian jazz record labels like Red Records or CamJazz. Some of the cats recorded for french labels like Label Blue. About earlier stuff like Basso Valdambrini Sextet, what to say? Brilliant? Don't forget Giovanni Tommaso and Massimo Urbani in your searching for spaghetti jazz

May I have 10 grams of pure white thai heroin as starter?

Not specific about jazz, but for other stuff, mostly rock and blues, I found reliable: http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.bonner/psych.htm http://www.lastvestige.com/vinyl.htm http://www.recordsbymail.com/ Anyway some bad surprises are unavoidable in the vinyl game, sellers with thousands of records in catalogue didn't aurally check everything, the real issue is how they deal with problems. All the aboves, and Jeff Barr, had been fair in the business I had with them, and fair in dealing problems. I had business with Euclid too, fair. Michel, it's business I agree, I am interested in how they are running it. Nobody is into vinyl's selling for the safe of the Arts.

Not really a secret Jeff Barr's http://jazzrecordscene.com./

One of the many reasons because we miss Brownie.

Not yet Porcy - but should be ordering some soon. My RRL solution is about to run out ! Let me know. I still use Miracle Doctor stuff, I am pretty happy with it until now, but I am asking myself if there is something that can remove the stuff that Miracle Doctor couldn't. That would mean that I should start an A to Z cleaning cylcle of my collection again. As Dan as pointed out we're vinylheads.

I agree, though I usually enjoy his playing, some ruotine now and then, above the average anyway. Overall I like more Carmell Jones.

Not my fault, those damn rockstars loves recording in the night. I'd like to look at you after three albums of Marilyn Manson. I'll still remember when my dad brought me at fly fishing.

Did you say compression or complexion? I definitely agree about complexion.

A propos Sidewinder, did you try L'art du Son?

Well, the markup on Bose product is huge...there are anecdotes about Bose engineers bragging about the low cost of the paper drivers, etc. used in the speakers. Years ago, I investigated and found that it's possible to buy speakers that use the same multidirectional principles as Bose, but sound much better, for less than half the price...Still, you can't deny that Bose has a massive following, and is (OK, mysteriously to me) exceptionally popular. My theory is that they're incredibly skillful at advertising/promotion. Exactly. And we could probably say the same for the latest McIntosh products. I have a friends who's an engineer that works in CE certifications for electronics. He told me that he received the latest entry lavel Mcintosh cd player along with a Denon and another cheap brand I don't recall it now. He opened them and inside basically they are exactly the same: same converters, same cd mechanics, same circuit topology, same PCB, even most of the discrete components are exactly the same...but the McIntosh costed six times more. I never hear it playing, but...man, this is big electronic consumer marketing. You're selling a Brand.

On a serious note, if the tourist industry will spend such money for it, means that Chile has an internal market for it. I am glad for chilean people. I doubt it will attract tourists from abroad, at least not me, personally I like fishes, corals, sharks and all those annoying stuff you can find in oceans.

...those pop and click and the hassle of properly setting the cartdrige... BTW I'd set the age between 10-18, maybe up to 20 y/o

A bit out of topic. The Copy Protection was one the reasons that pushed me back to vinyl. Funny, if you think that I usually didn't copy nor I had an iPod. I bought a CP's David Bowie cd that didn't play on my Linn cd player, because it didn't fullfill the CD Red Book requirements. I gave it back to the store...and I bought a vinyl reissue of the same title.

Well put.

Yes, sad news. Like the death of River Phoenix. A young talented actor and, presumibly, a tender heart human being. Sad. RIP

After an afternoon of Brahms's chamber music... Frank Zappa - WAKAJAWAKA - Reprise.

Chris, I can understand you. We faced and still facing the very same process over here in Rome. For the guys that don't know the spirit of Rome, I suggest you to look at some italian movies, like Pasolini or Fellini, overall most of the italian cinema was shooted in Rome. I am not native of Rome, but when I came here I felt suddenly at home. Neighbourhoods retained the old spirit, Rome was a sort of sum of small villages with different social shade. Street markets, grocery shops...and music shops. The first shot was the invasion of US citizens falled in love with Rome after La Dolce Vita. And one the most lively and charateristic neighbourhood of Rome, Trastevere, slowly became a tourist trap, old people were pushed out by the rising price of rent and houses. And the process is currently affecting other neighbourhoods. On the other hand I still can see 'true roman' struggling with the same eagerness of Jimmy Stewart for his farm. I have mixed feeling about it. Progress? Yes, we are richer, did we loose something in the process? Sadly, I have to answer with a "yes". My dad spent the last fifteen years of his life interviewing, and recording, old countrymen's stories in the mountains where he growned up. He wrote some books about it. He didn't want the older men's memory and knowledge fades away. Sorry for derailing the thread.

Well put. I'm in complete agreement with you. My impressions of Music Matters, and Ron Raumbach, is that they are sincere in what they are doing and are doing it for the right reasons. As for Hoffman, well... He was hired to make sure they sound great. End of story. I've no doubt that he will do that job to the best of his abilities...and his abilities are often remarkable, IMO. But, yes - the Hoffman 'cult' does to tend to leave a bad taste in one's mouth... When I read those boards, I'm often left with the impression that many people there will buy a record or CD simply because it was mastered by this guy, regardless of the musical content - a phenomenon that I find very odd. The most recent example, and most relevant to this discussion, are folks that are buying these Blue Note reissues who have never so much as listened to jazz before... Wow. That I just don't get... Regarding 'Way Out West' and all of those early Contemporary records - yeah, Roy DuNann definitely worked some magic in those days... Those recordings are phenomenal. The only comparison I can make to the 45RPM pressing of 'Way Out West' is with the original OJC CD reissue - and that is truly no comparison. I'm sure that an original mono pressing, in pristine condition, sounds unbelievable. Another little thing. Ron is a jazz maniac since his youth, he knew and attended concerts of most of the cats he'll going to reissue, he has the originals in his collection and he has good ears so I am pretty confident that in the Music Matters reissues Hank Mobley will sound like Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan will sound like Lee Morgan as far as the condition of the master tapes will help him.

After the today news coming from Stock Exchanges worldwide I am starting to think that old records could be a better short term investment.

Absolutely. The good old Brownie would say: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate...and 'Way Out West' in the new arrivals' shelf...."

You're right. You know what? My stereo system is more expensive then my car, and when my "friends" know it, they think I am crazy. The very same "friends" that would find "normal" buying a brand new Mercedes Benz, just for wasting hours in traffic jams or looking for a parking, instead of using cheaper and faster public transports.

I did, I got the test pressing Ron Rambach (MusicMatters) shipped to me. As I already said in this thread, the Parlan sounds gorgeous, far better then the Mosaic's reissue I have. (I haven't any original or different pressings of this title, so I couldn't compare.) In general I personally dislike the way BN sounds on RVG Remastered. And I am a vinyl freak so I prefer a priori a record rather then a cd. And I prefer a worn Liberty pressing then any Low Rez digital reissue. And I don't care about SACD or any digital Hi-Rez format. And I think that spending hours to compare ten different remasterings of the same record is a huge waste of time. (And I'll not doing it in the next future.) And I admit that I am a friend of Ron Rambach. And I admit that I hate Hoffman's (or his worshippers) attitude to badmouth every other sound engineers on the earth. And BTW Rollins' Way Out West is one the best recordings in the jazz history (thanks Roy DuNann) And I have a pristine mono original pressing of Way Out West that I bought from Ron Rambach that sounds beyond your imagination. So this is not the right recording for boasting Hoffman's skills. Said that, I think that, to my hears, the 45rpm I got sounds great. Said that, I'll leave to your judgement if all the issue about Hoffman is a marketing trick to steal money or is a real commitment in the surviving of the music. For sure Ron Rambach is man of honour, deeply eager in jazz and and its heritage, so I subscribed his reissue project, I am not really sure about SH's honour, aka I'll not subscribe his ZZTop's reissue project.

What blows me away even more than that, if you read that thread, is that there is market for $50 audiophile pressings of ZZ Top albums. Why not just go to the Goodwill? You said so because you never heard how good Kenny G's sax mastered at 45rpm sounds... ...even better if you listen to Kenny G's 33rpm at 45rpm

I bet you could get it for less, cash in hand. Now, if I were in U.S. I'd quit for a couple of years my actual job and I'd start a new one.