porcy62

I am just the opposite. The only time I can listen to music is when I am at home seated in front of my stereo rig. I used to have a walkman (tape) when I was a commuter and use public transport or when I was jogging. Now I drive a motorbike and practice Aikido. No way to listen music at work. No headphones in my life. So I am not really interested in iPod or mp3 players.

John Coltrane - THE LAST TRANE - Prestige blue label RVG, mono.

I am totally dumb and ignorant about the issue BUT, back in the days, the main italian manufacturer of electric organ and keyboards was FARFISA. No idea if it was the instrument are you referring to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa

Gene Ammons - GROOVE BLUES - Prestige yellow label, mono.

Nor in mine...though I am a bit worried about my Hi-Fi's health when my wife is gazing at room occupied by the system.

I was just guessing about the two records you named. I still think that the concern about sound quality was deeply rooted in the album's era because a particular "sound" was part of the "artistic project" in general. Dylan went to Nashville for it. They looked for particular producers, sound engineers, studios, (or the producers looked for it) in order to achieve a "sound". The very same "sound" that is lost in today's compressed mastering, or remastering.

Agree 100%. I was simply saying that there was a long, long road leading to this "recent" phenomenon. Perhaps the point is that "My Generation" was still a sort of "collection" of singles, like the early Beatles', so loudness may have some sense in singles. When the guys entered in the realm of "album" everything changed. Today with the downloading we are back in the single's era.

You might be right, but nevertheless from "My Generation" to "Californication" we had a huge number of good sounding records of rock/pop. The paradox is that the supposed biggest dinamic range of digital (vs analog) recording is basically useless in today's way of producing disc.

Me too.

Joe Henderson - INNER URGE - BN NY stereo. Interesting how Elvin and McCoy added to every session a "Coltranesque" background, whoever the reeds are. Look at the Shorter's JUJU. At the same time I can clearly note the big difference between Trane and Henderson or Shorter.

I guess there is a language's wall between us, humoristically speaking.

Would "Ringo Strikes Back" suit your approval for the thread's title?

I am really happy he's fine, whatever you, jazz drummer's snobs, think about him. http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=aOv4ZGYEuLY&...feature=related

I am here because I AM Britney Spears.

Thanks! A couple of years ago I bought a MoFi copy of this album at mt local store for a ridicolous price. It was soo dirty that the guy at the shop thought it was worned. I cleaned it recently and it resurrected as a mint copy.

Me too had a spin of it this afternoon, Verve Mono Orig.

Carmell Jones BUSINESS MEETIN' PJ mono Dexter Gordon GO! BN NY mono.

I am still shocked about Bela Lugosi's dead... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2RXSboWMs...feature=related

The IEEE1394 standard is probably better known as FireWire and i.Link. You're right ! I never had sexual intercourse with SACD, just read the specs of the hardware on websites. I didn't realize it. BTW, Thanks edit: in theory you'd need only a software to convert it in whatever format you'd like, Am I wrong? As far as the DSD signal is not encrypted like dCS does.

The tech name of the DSD output/input is IEEE1394.

There are two digital outs for SACD of which I'm aware: Denon Link (the aforementioned "telephone socket"--it's actually an RJ-45 ethernet-style jack), which only comes on high-end Denon players and receivers, and HDMI 1.2 and above, which is available on most newer mid-market and above receivers. It's also available on the Playstation 3, but it decodes to PCM before streaming the signal to a receiver. Not all HDMI 1.2-enabled receivers can decode DSD, though. AFIK along with Denon, some of the hi-end digital top brands provides a SACD digital outs (or inputs) like the new Linn Klimax DS or dCS stuffs http://www.linn.co.uk/klimax_ds# http://www.dcsltd.co.uk/index2.html All these products (transports and D/A converters) are top notch priced (over 10 K) that is an argument in favour of Riverrat's post: if you cut the prices, you win the format's war, if you made unfriendly a format for users you lost. Consider the pros about CD vs Vinyl, though the first digital generation sounded worst IT WAS THE THING: long lasting, space-saving, ecc. Something that matters for common customers. And afterwards the fact that you can transfer your music on computer, iPod, made your compilation, ecc. Now all the industry decided that even personal copying is illegal. You gave to customers a car with A/C, Satellite Navigator, ABS and all the optionals, and now you're trying to sell a car without any optional, yes is a better car, a Ferrari maybe, but who cares about the 200 mph if I don't have the A/C. I mean that only the die hard customers would buy it. As long as your first concern is avoiding illegal copying by any means and at the same time you fight a war for "your" format (SACD vs DVD-A vs Blue-Ray vs Multichannel-whatever), you puzzled the consumers, and in the long run you may loose the war, and kill a new better format.

It happened the same with my son: we listend to Nirvana's Nevermind through his iPod hooked on my system and my MoFi vinyl copy, he can appreciate the difference, nevertheless he is more interested in having a lot of music for free then a better audio playback system. Talking about youth, I think that for my son and his friends, music is only one of the many things they enjoy (or consume). I think about them as "Multitasking youth". All is readily available on the hard drive and on the net. So he listen to music, chat with friends, works on Photoshop, surf the web and downloads music or movies all at the same time. No way he sit down and carefully listen to a whole "album". ("Album" is such a sweet old fashion word, now musicians think and speak about "project".) I mean that music is only one of the things that they use to socialize: they have movies, dancing, internet, videogames, cell phones... When I had his age, I wanted only two things... well, three things, considering sex a good stereo system with a lot of records and a motorbike. Later I wanted a better stereo system, more records, a faster motorbike... and more sex

You have me worried, I thought it would be pretty simple, I was looking at getting a D-Link RangeBooster N 650 Router as it appears to be compatible (with Mac os 10.4 at least) and it's powerful, I have pretty thick walls in my home although the distances aren't huge. I didn't want to frighten you. Maybe I should have write something lighter then "professional system's manager". Maybe "a guy with some skills about the matter". That's only my experience. I had my router installed by the seller, who's a friend of a friend. Because of the three floors of my house and the specific place where I have to install it, I couldn't simply buy a router on Internet without previosly checkin it in my place. Then I bought a Xerox printer and I couldn't see it in the home network. So I called the guy and he fixed the problem. It appeared that Xerox wanted his specific IP Mac address manually setted both on the router and the Xerox, (obviously, you say, not so obvious, when you think in a "plug and play" way, most routers usually check every active devices and automatically assignes to them an IP address, in this case it didn't work), plus I have three computers on the home network. Overall, not a space rocket science, if you have some skills about it, I believed I could do it from myself. Well I couldn't. Plain and simple.

Mal Waldrom - THE QUEST - NJ original mono.

I'll ask it to my wife.