porcy62

AUGURONI!

I guess his real name is Adenoid Hynkel (man)

Thanks! I just booked a table for two in a romantic restaurant. Unfortunately I'll be with my wife... Just joking

You avatar isn't bad either.

Chris, not that Hoffmann.

My first copy of Miles' 'Filles De Kilimanjaro' was a mid-70s CBS Dutch issue and is still the best I have heard. Yeah, who cares about Steve Hoffman? The Hoffman I care are Abbie, Dustin and the psychedelic scientist Albert Hoffmann.

Just to sidetrack - I would say that I have had the same experience, no matter what the label. MOOD, ECM, SABA - they all sound great. Indeed! And don't understimate the dutch pressings: mine are gorgeous: my Pat Garret And Billy The Kid (Dylan's soundtracks CBS dutch) is one my test records when I want to audition a system.

Yeah, Steve "Manson" Hoffman and the Family, pretty disgusting.

Did he? He did to me. He informed me that due to my posts, I was on some list of his moderators and they (not him) would follow me around on the internet to see if I was speaking badly of Steve. I think they have banned some people in the past for dissing Steve on other sites. It seemed a little wierd to me and even Steve typed the word sigh after informing me of his over protective moderators actions. Initially I was a little irritated by the idea, but I have nothing to hide There is some good information on his site that is worth gleaning, but on the other side, there sure are a lot of freaks on that board imo. I called Steve on this hypocrisy but I got no response regarding that matter. It's ok though, at least he knows some of the people who populate his board are not complete drones. A list? ...For Godsake, A LIST? I can't believe it. What the hell does HOFFMAN, or his worshippers, pretend to be? JIMMY HOFFA? And what are the names of moderators: Lucky Luciano, Sam Giancana? Hoffman should remaster NIXON, E.J. HOOVER and JOE MCCARTHY' speeches, instead of BN or James Taylor. A LIST! Unbelievable!

Thanks. BTW I think it would be a better and more serious commercial policy solving problems before selling stuff, shall we call Nader for a stupid record? If as someone stated in the thread: Records are not software, where I can fix bugs downloading the latest realase. We are talking about shipping in and out records, I might be a bit upset for the hassle of repackaging, lost my time queing at postal office, and yes, call me naive, but I don't like the earth polluted twice or more with UPS or FedEx airplanes and trucks going here and there with my records. About the impact of enviromental issues on reproduced music you can read this: A Lead Free World? http://www.tnt-audio.com/edcorner/july06.html

Love that swirling label on my TT.

Did he?

The problem is that we're no longer a world full of shop-keepers, but rather one of employees. Yes, a bigger boat (for a fisherman) leads to increased production, which leads to increased profits, which leads to a better standard of living (a bigger house, a better car...all without recourse to consumer credit). But most of us work for somebody else, and as such we have no way of increasing our profits and making more money (apart from looking for a better paying job). The system of consumer credit is one that keeps people on a treadmill, making money in order to pay the bills which are never really paid off because we keep buying on credit. Part of it is a matter of personal character: If we all developed the ability to be happy with what we have and control our need for immediate gratification, we'd be a lot better off. But the consumer credit crisis isn't about shopaholics who are spending the rent money on the Home Shopping Network or eBay. It's about ordinary people whose cost of living has outstripped their earning power. People are maxing out their credit cards paying the rent and buying groceries. In addition, energy costs, health care costs, and education costs are so high that most of us are finding ourselves priced out of the so-called "American Dream." It's a sick system when people are graduating from college deeply in debt. Add to this a new set of bankruptsy laws designed to protect lenders instead of consumers...it's a house of cards, and it's about to tumble to the ground. It's been a long time since I last read "The Wealth of Nations." What, if anything, does Adam Smith have to say about credit? I understand that the Big Issue is a social welfare. Even in Italy people are living on credit aka debt. My father was a man who never had a debt in his life. He did only what he could afford. I understand that the Big Guns of Financial market, and even the toyguns, are able to manage huge debt and credit and money makes money, but for common people is not easy. So the fact that you can rely on social welfare is a good thing. Over here everybody's complaining about taxes, but nobody asked for a private health care system, they are asking for more efficient public health system. Same with education. I believe that the real sickness of the system is that it has to overproduce, overconsume, overspending, overdebt...over, over. The GM will close unless every american will buy a new car every two years, and so on...it's late overseas. Good Night.

If I spend big money I want big stuff and no problems. I can have all JT album's for 20 bucks at my local store, and I mean the whole output of JT. Classics are far away from perfection. The early I bought were better. Agree about Speaker's Corner, they are german Never listened to a Cisco.

Porcy... this would require an epic explanation, but to keep it short: subprime doesn't refer to mutual funds, but rather to a class of borrowers who are not prime (whether due to low incomes, poor credit history, etc). In the US, mortgage lending to these kinds of borrowers took off in the past few years; due to a combination of poor understanding of the actual terms of the loans, dishonesty by lenders and dishonesty by borrowers, much higher numbers of these borrowers are defaulting on their mortgages in the past. This is leading to turmoil in financial markets because bonds linked to these mortgages are turning out to be much riskier than previously believed. Guy Thanks, I knew it, more or less, but if traditional credit is based on judgment on solvibility of the borrowers, prime if I understood correctly, lending to subprime and sell the risk to others through bonds is a good deal, as far the lenders minimize their risk sharing it with unaware people who bought the bonds. Well, when lending to riskier borrowers the lender makes up for the greater riskiness of the loan by charging a higher rate of interest. You are 100% that securitization reduces this link by (A) pooling and diversifying the risk from individual loans and (B) by shifting risk to people who are more willing to bear it. My understanding is that, in fact, more Americans did gain access to credit as a result. I don't know how much of it this is due to chicanery (lenders and/or borrowers lying about the quality of the underlying loans). Guy My understanding is that, as far as you have a real social welfare, access to credit should be target at enterprises, nor at consume. From my point of view, it doesn't make sense to lend money for a bigger house, based on the low interests and on the real estate bubble. I mean that a safe credit system should lend money to people who need them to produce. A naive example: if I were a fisherman I'd borrow money for a bigger boat, in order to increase my business, not for a new car. If you buy a bigger boat all the economic system could gain from it: I'd probably need another sailor on the boat, ecc.. Lending money for the basic thing of surving shouldn't be a problem, because the government, through taxes should provide the minimal standard of living for every citizens: healt care, public school, housing. Well, this is a long and difficult issue. As long as the financial market will go in this way, and credit is a major part of it. Actually financial market is credit: stocks are credit, bonds are credit, mutual funds are credit to companies, governments...doesn't matter. This is not the place, nor I am enough expert of it. Thanks for your patience.

About ECM, thin vinyl, not the today's hype 200tons, but awesome quality and lasting, German Made, obviously. FWIW I haven't got a german pressing of bad quality: from late seventies' Van Morrison's reissues to early ECM. When I am in a used record's store I look for them, dutch pressings are good too IME.

You're just pissed because it has permanently postponed that "inevitable" Marxist revolution. On the contrary, it has promoted the bankrupcy of the middle class, the solid rock that stood against the revolution until now, and his transformation in a mass of poors that we Bolsheviks may lead. So in the long run U.S. will be a communist country and China the champion of free enterprise. Obviously global resources will end well before, we'll be extinguished, but Marx was right

Vinyl is a chemical compound with different substance. Among them oil, during the oil crisis of the '70, the cost of oil pushed vinyl producer to reduce the amount of oil, result: bad vinyl. A bad vinyl is usually noisy in the silent groove among tracks, much easy to damage and wear when you play it, often is warped, Even brand new bad vinyl has many pops and clicks at the first listening. If I spend 30 bucks for it I care, if I bought a used vinyl for 0.50 $, I don't.

Porcy... this would require an epic explanation, but to keep it short: subprime doesn't refer to mutual funds, but rather to a class of borrowers who are not prime (whether due to low incomes, poor credit history, etc). In the US, mortgage lending to these kinds of borrowers took off in the past few years; due to a combination of poor understanding of the actual terms of the loans, dishonesty by lenders and dishonesty by borrowers, much higher numbers of these borrowers are defaulting on their mortgages in the past. This is leading to turmoil in financial markets because bonds linked to these mortgages are turning out to be much riskier than previously believed. Guy Thanks, I knew it, more or less, but if traditional credit is based on judgment on solvibility of the borrowers, prime if I understood correctly, lending to subprime and sell the risk to others through bonds is a good deal, as far the lenders minimize their risk sharing it with unaware people who bought the bonds. I mean that one thing is talking about lending small amount of money to poor people in poor countries that is for what AMARTYA SEN got the Nobel, another thing is Usury in developped country. I mean that there is something wrong if people in a developed country is pushed to borrow money for buying stuff, like cars or bigger houses or HDTV, some economists says that more the consume rise better for the economy, maybe, but I still find a lot of difference in lending money to a poor farmer for buying some cows in Zimbabwe. Anyway I admit I am not an economist.

I remember that Hoffmann said once that the QC problem was the 200gr pressing (Classics), but it didn't affect the 180gr. If Wolff is to believe and I trust him, all this is a BS, glossed over tech explanation. The truth, plain and simple, is that they can't obtain, for whatever reasons, good quality vinyl, or they bought a big stock of bad quality vinyl and they are using it. BTW the Test Pressing I had from Ron Rambach sounds good.

This is very interesting, though I didn't understand almost nothing, but...since you, Guy, are an expert (no joking, no mocking) can you explain me why all this mess for subprime mutual funds, if it's profitable to lend money to poors?

Beethoven Klaviersonaten Op. 53 & 101 E. Gilels DG.

Too much Radiohead, no Dylan or Hendrix or Beethoven or Zappa...nah! Welcome to the Forum

After a while you're not having sex without coke...and at the end the abuse will turn on in erection's problems. Ouch...guess I made the right move in giving that one up. Definitely. Like any psichotropic substance, alcohol and Prozac included, the addiction is just around the corner. Unlike other stuff, coke appears less dangerous. Working in the TV broadcasting, and in the show business in general, teached me one thing: never understimate drugs, or overstimate your strenght, you will never know what's going to happen. Maybe you're trouble for a divorce or stressed for your job, drugs, and I mean every drugs, from red wine to Xanax, is a tempting shortcut for solving your problems.

After a while you're not having sex without coke...and at the end the abuse will turn on in erection's problems.