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Looks to be in incredible condition. Lots of these 500 pressings have been coming out of the woodwork of late. We must be up to 499 already. What makes that auction sad is that the record is a CLASSIC RECORDS mono reissue. In the original listing you could see the bottom of the back cover and the OBVIOUS small type at the bottom of the jacket that states the music was owned by Capitol, blah blah blah. I emailed the seller and told him he was sellling a record that could be had BRAND NEW for $30 and he CHANGED the picture and cropped the bottom of the jacket!! He also addes the BS "email from a collector" a the same time. I emailed ebay and warned them that this was a scam, but nothing happened. What a SCUMBAG!! Just looked into that Out ragious made 4.470k on a record by defrauding the public...I hope the buyer gets a chance to return it Should we mail em to help them with what to do or what? I mailed it to Classic Record, because I thought it's harmful for their reputation too. They answered that they tried to contact the buyer through previous sellers, (you can't contact the buyer directly). I hope for him that all this will have a happy end, for free. Anyway, another serious contender for the eBay Hall of Shame, after Diego.

Me too, I never got a free Mobley, but I was always treated in gorgeous way by him. A rare competent an honest seller, in one word a really nice guy.

Maybe you're right, but I don't invest in it, nor in futures. And my bear's habit saved me from the big crashes of the last years. Maybe I could be richer, but I could be poorer too. As I am not an expert I don't like to bet with my family's future.

I bought a few records from Ron and was underwhelmed by his grading. returned one and got an adjustment on the other. I bought a lot of records from him, and he's the best seller out there, I was suprised about this particular title.

I am not a expert, but I think that derivates, futures and stock options should be banned from the stock exchanges and the financial market, though for different reasons.

Red Garland Revisited! Prestige blue label.

Not in my case.

I watched the restored version of 'Johnny Guitar' in a theater with Monica Bellucci seated at my left. Actually I watched more her then Joan Crowford and Sterling Hayden.

New technology is great for music and musicians, now you can listen to music at decent level quality with a couple of ,00 $ less then twenty years ago, w/o speaking of the costs of producing a record, that is now probably some ,00000 $ less then twenty years ago. What I pointed out was the fact that, because the availability of music twenty five years ago was harder then now, looking for music was an active behavior for me, not a passive one. So my habit is still active when I listen to music now. I put on a record, or a cd, and I literally have to listen carefully to it: often I listen to the same record twice or more, just in order to appreciate the bass lines or the drumming only. Obviously for a musician could be great to jump from one track to another and let the music growing in his musical inconscious, without order. For dummy listener like me all this overwhelming availability of music is scaring. Same with information: Too Much Informations=No Informations. Once we had critics, dedicated magazines, that filtered the outputs, you couldn't agree with them, but they created a sort of map, and you could always leave the path in search of new landscape. Now you have a labyrinth and often you lost in it, for younger people this is normal, they growned in it, for me is often hard to find the way out.

What about it? I know Ron's records are perfect but...still 8 days to go http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1

Correct, and truthfull History should be based on first hand sources. So it's basically impossible for a single human being covers a huge subject like the whole American History. It will takes a couple of lifes just to read carefully all the Congress's Acts from Washington to Nixon, w/o considering all the other written sources: newspapers, books, ecc. Though probably there could be some compendiums out there honestly compiled by honest historians.

Fundamentally agree. I have a teenager son, and obviously I closely observe his habits with music. He basically 'consume' everything in a couple of week. After a mounth I could ask about what he listened and he barely remember the name of the band/musicians. For him is a sort of background of his existence. If I ask him wich instruments were in the tracks or wich musicians was in the band: no answears. Am I a naive nostalgic of my youth? Maybe. Am I complaining about the today's mass market? Yes. I have records that I could still sing, out of tune, note by note, chord by chord from the first track to the last one after twenty five years. Said that, I am happy that you folks can listen to music while working, jogging, driving, commuting. Personally I am a one thing man: I can't walk and chew a chewing gum at the same time. If I work, I work, if I drive my motorbike, I drive, if I write I write, if I run, I run and if I listen to music I listen to music. Good music affects me so strong that I can't do anything's else at the same time. It absorb me totally. Probably I have a shortage of neurons. My son dowlonds music, listening music, chats with friends and does the school research at the same time. Multitasking youth, a little envy of a monotasking middle age father or a lack of deeping in things in my son? Hard answear. Too early for it. We will see when they will get our age..

As you probably know Casa del Popolo (house of people) was the name of the branches of the former Italian Communist Party. I am not suprised about the cheap prices. Music to the people

Yes, they have a deep groove.

The best way to know of what pressing are we talking about, should be look for 'RVG' in the dead wax, but the seller obviously didn't mention it, I bet it has a 'BG'. And what pompous instructions about payment. Really a SCUMBAG!! BTW At Classic they should start to print something on the label inorder to prevent this kind of scam. It's not good publicity for them either. I think I'll mail it to Classic, just in case. Just done it!

R.I.P. I'll listen to his performance of Beethoven's Triple Concert with Oistrakh, Richter, with Karajan conducting the Berliner PO, Emi, vinyl.

Very Phuckin Ixspensive? True, but I have a new one since a week, and I am starting to think that is the best buy I did in the audio market, togheter with a decent dedicated record cleaning fluid. I was actually thinking more of their TT's To be honest they have a complete range of TT, arm, ecc, with a wide range of prices. Obviously there are cheaper turntable out there. About TT I think that the production cost is generally higher then electronics. Sophisticated machinery is much more expensive then printed circuit board based electronics, so I tend to be forgiven about TT prices, compared to other hi-fi stuff.

Just type 'Ken Rockwell' on google, a lot of funny and controversial stuff about this guy who in a former life worked in audio and in today's reicarnation is a blogger/photographer. http://www.bahneman.com/liem/blog/article...._Rockwell_Facts

Eno is often better as producer then as musician/composer, like the Bowie, Talking Heads and U2 outputs demonstrated, but no obiection about "Before And After Science". Great record. The ambient stuff is interesting like some modern art, you look at it and you think: Wow! Great idea, powerful stuff! but you would never hang it on a wall in your house.

If so, basically every cd player is only a fast computer with a super eye looking for very small holes turning in a disc, ergo all the quality of the sound relies on the D/A converter, am I right? So why are cd player manufacturers talking about error correction in cd player? I can't see any possibility of error in your explanation.

A couple things struck me - I always assumed that the error correction option referred to the internal error correction for the iPod's harddrive - NOT the error correction on your cd-rom drive when you are importing your CD. I'll have to double check wih one of my buddies about this, but I always thought that CDs literally could not work at all without error correction - the beam doesn't focus on a single bit, it focuses on a an area on the disc, and needs to find at least three data points w/in any given area to make a bit. Secondly, the guy starts off talking about how he had previously "never bothered with these little players or compressed digital audio," but then to buy himself some credibility on the subject asserts that he has worked in exactly that field since the 70s and "delivered a paper" on AAC "years ago" - WTF??? I'm not saying the guy is a charlatan, but you combine the second apparent contradiction with what I believe to be an obvious technical gaffe on CDs and I do have to wonder a little.... What is the guy's name? Good points, though I am not sure about your theory about the three points, I mean I always thought that the error correction occurs when the three point are not exactly 'aligned' (?), so the processor extapolates the signal from some algoritms. Nowadays it should really matters in term of sound quality expecially when you consider the amount of researches of cd-rom and cd player manufacturers in order to mimimize the effect of error correction in their products. And the same effort of Toshiba Lab to produce software that has the minimum of errors in it.

It's a Zappa's song: What's new in Baltimore?

Very Phuckin Ixspensive? True, but I have a new one since a week, and I am starting to think that is the best buy I did in the audio market, togheter with a decent dedicated record cleaning fluid.

Vimes, you forgot to put the name of the author of the very interesting articles. One small consideration, as audiophile and music lover. I found quite bothering the distinction, though it may exist in some cases. The most bothering thing to me is that all these audio enigineers, technicians, the AES, companies executives, the RIAA ecc.. treated us, the customers, as dumb for decades since the invention of phonographe! Every new invention, from the shellac to MP3, everytime they treated us like dumb customer. Hey! look at this! This the best ultimate revolution in quality, durability, ease! Buy it! You can't live without it! And when some customers, tyred of all these lectures from self appointed experts, dare to say that they are not going to replace their long coveted and huge collection or records, cds, with the latest Hi-Rez or lossless encoding because to their ears vinyls or cds just sound fine to them, and often better, then new formats (look at the vinyl vs cd in the early days), they are treated like dumb, deaf, idiotic nostalgic, psychopats that hear nonexistent voices in their damaged brains. You know what? Buy you damn lossless files from iTunes, your hard disk music servers and all the damn new stuff the tycoons of the music industry put on the market. I've already done with it! P.S. Vimes, I am not targetting you, it's just a vent of a dumb, deaf, idiotic nostalgic, psychopat

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