porcy62

I'll think they will add the facility to every so called 'high end' stuff in the new products, considering the vinyl resurrection. They already started to add a phono section!

I think only old amps and today's MacIntosh amps use to have such facility. I agree, I have some mono records that are awfully noisy on one channel only, the old Beatles records I have for example. I always thought it would have been great to fit the best channel in both channels

Lee Morgan LEEWAY, BN NY, 'ear' dg, mono.

I am very happy with the sound of my Audio Research preamp, but it lacks a mono/stereo switcher, its only fault. In the last years my main source of listening are old records, often mono, I am asking myself how much improvement in term of noise reduction I could have with a preamp with mono switcher. I know that in Steve Hoffman forum they discussed it several times, and the cheapest way would be a Y connection, but I don't want to spend my time connecting and disconneting cables, for every record I listen to, an operation that in the long term can damage the connections of the cables. Any opinion?

Sonny Rollins PLUS 4, Prestige 50th address.

Duke Pearson THE PHANTOM, BN Liberty pressing, stereo.

No problem Porcy. I knew this thread existed but I couldn't find it. I am very likely to go the King or the Toshiba route as I don't feel like spending a fortune on originals. When I see how much they go for on Ebay, it makes me I have all the BN Mosaic LP sets ( apart from the Lee Morgan set) and they really sound great especially the Hank Mobley and the Don Cherry. I will be mainly looking for some Freddie Hubbard, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Stanley Turrentine and the Grant Green albums that are not on the Mosaic set. Well, NY and Liberty pressing, stereo, are not always such expensive, I found lots of them for far less then 100 bucks. That could be a serious amount of money for a single record, but well below the ebay crazyness of the last times. In term of sound quality and condition, Hiroshi is a safe choice, if you don't want the hassle of misgraded condition of the US pressing.

Ooops, I noted you already knew the old thread.

You could find some of the answears here http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=sound+quality The same questions I posed couple of here ago. I ended up with original US pressings, (I couldn't resist after a couple of NY original pressings ) and Classic reissues when the originals are too pricey. BN Mosaic Lp sets are a good option: pricey but with nice sound and cheaper then collecting all the original pressings, expecially with 1500 series. (Mobley and Morgan). My two cents. There are a lot of BN nuts over here. Just wait for the posts. Welcome to the club!

Inspired by the thread about Oliver Nelson, I removed some dust from my Oliver's records.

Auguri! It's great to have a nice person like you around here.

I agree with most of the article, and with your replies, my two cents are based on my personal experience. My questions are: 1)Have you got any teenagers sons? 2)Wich will be the targets of the music industry of the future? Not easy to answear, but consider this: The big boom of music industry came from pop/rock music, in mid-late sixties, when they discovered that a teenager wished to spend his week's money for a Beatles' record, (and when a hi-fi gear was the latest object of desire, after a fridge, a radio and a tv). Now teenagers are not a serious target, talking about music medium. My 17 YO son didn't buy a single cd in the last three years, he is well informed about music, but he is not a consumer, downloading, burning cds, he spend money only for attending concerts, that is more a form of socialization then a 'pure' musical experience. And he change his taste as quickly I change my pants: first was Heavy Metal, then Ska, now Reggae (I started to smell something familiar when his friends are around home ) Music is more a background for other things. He didn't identify his teenager's rebellion with music, maybe because his mother and I never shouted: 'What's this awwful sound that comes out of your room?' We have multitasking boys: they are listening music through iTunes, downloading tons of music that they will listen to a couple of times, chatting with friends and googling for the school's research ( ) at the same time. In order to gain money from teenagers the industry have to buy 'icon', 'model' to sell, there is no difference between Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, the medium doesn't matter, with an icon they can make money from fashion, tv show, commercials, gadgets. Obviously there always will exist a small market for 'middle aged' music fan, opera, jazz, classical, ecc, and a niche for high quality listening: vinyl, SACD, Hi-rez downloading, ecc., but 'ZE MUZIK' as we thought it until now is going to change. ...BUT, lately my son bought a couple of vinyls, raggae stuff, and asked for a turntable... So 'hope is the last to die', as we say in Italy "Vinyl will always be the format," says Anderson. "Albums are meant to be listened to on vinyl; vinyl is the most romantic form of music listening. The album cover, especially the foldout, is like the caviar experience of music. Nothing will ever beat the opening of an album, the pulling out of the inner sleeve where the lyrics are, the removal of the vinyl from the paper or plastic sleeve -- it is a priceless experience."

Damn, I had to buy a new Nokia phone six months ago. Well, doesn't matter I spared 530 bucks. And considering the medium life of today's technology I presume I will have to buy a new phone when the iPhone will reach a honest price

Damn Brownie! Straight Ahead is one of the few Dolphy on Prestige/New Jazz I miss. (Obviously I have that crappy CD Dolphy Box Set, nice photos on the booklet anyway

I assumed that everybody should have his seven wonders, no matters what some experts decide for you. So the seven place I was most emotionally impressed , not in an exact order (and there are many more I could add and at the moment I don't remember), are: King's Valley because I sensed the Passing of Time. (Egypt) Auschwitz and Birkenau where I sensed the meaning of 'Evil' (Poland) the Maya city of Tikal because I loved walking in the jungle between monkeys, parrots and toucans looking for the temples (Guatemala). The 1000 buddhist temples of Bagan because I climbed on almost all of them and everytime was a new experience (Burma) Madikwe Park at the sunset when wild animals go to water (S.Africa) Dolomiti Mountains because is where my dad teached to me to love mountainering (Italy) Coral Reef of South Egypt because I discovered the underwater world About the Colosseum, nice place, five minutes walk from my house

The John Coltrane Quartet Plays, Impulse! stereo

W. Shorter SCHIZOPHRENIA, Liberty stereo. then JJ Johnson PROOF POSITIVE, Impulse! stereo

Love it ! Only in 'Vinyl Forum' can one express such sentiments without being torched as a heretic ! ...or in a WWF or Greenpeace convention.

Your choice, unless you're a bee and you make honey, in that case I would like to be informed.

Sorry, it wasn't my translation. What should I have used for 'Genetically modified organism'? Is GMO a correct acronimous?

I tried to contact him in order to spare shipping cost and paypal fees, (and I admit for hoping to have a first closer look at the collection he acquired, Shame on me!). His answear was that he couldn't accept bids from Italy because of some unclear tax problems, so I had to withdraw a bid, but he offered me to withdrawn some auctions I am interested to and sell through the shop. Actually I was interested in some of his records, so I asked him to contact me, by mail or phone, or at least give the name of the shop. Never got an answear. I made a small research between my vinyl dealers in Rome, there aren't so many in here, nobody knows about it. All the story stinks. Maybe a stolen collection, or some tax evasion. Don't know. About taxes how it works with Paypal? I mean that only a close investigation in your bank account can reveal some proof of your income. What is paypal policy about it?

I would be easier to find vinyls, but next time I'll be in my preferred used shop I'll have a look at them. Meantime here you got a link for the shop: http://www.disfu.com/ Nice guys, if you'll need any help just PM me. Here another http://www.psychotronrecords.com/ I buoght some records from him, some good, some less good. His grading and pricing didn't match exactly with mine

One of the clone's results. The GM Bee The bees that feed on GM products don’t appreciate them. They are behind the times. They have not evolved. It’s difficult to keep up with the human race. Their lack of appreciation is such that after a bit, they die. But before that, they pass on the message. And on GM fields, bees are no longer to be seen. The bees, before dying produce GM honey. We eat GM honey without knowing it. Will it do us any good? We will only know by dying. That’s the good thing about GM. It’s always a surprise. How do the beekeepers find out that their bees go over the boundary into GM fields? The bees move around without taking precautions. They go from one flower to another. From one GM cultivation to another GM cultivation. Even in the experimental ones. With GM products that have not yet been approved. The bees are against progress. Those that don’t adapt are lost. And don’t get quoted on the Stock Exchange. The bees are an economic resource but they don’t produce bonds. A bee hive can contain up to 50,000 bees. In Europe there are thousands of millions of bees. Every time that a bee goes out from the beehive it pollinates a hundred flowers. The effort delivered by the bees in pollination is worth a few thousand million Euros in salary in the European Union. But the value of pollination cannot be measured. Without the bees, hundreds of plants would die. Does anyone think they are able to do this work? Perhaps with new GM products from the multinationals that always reassure us about our future and about the value of their shares? We have become unconscious guinea pigs of by-products of GM products. ... The United States have more than half the GM cultivations in the world. Almost 50 million hectares out of 90 million. To overcome world hunger. They say. Or perhaps it’s for export, like democracy. P.S. In the United States for reasons connected with pesticides, environmental changes and GM, the population of native wild bees has gone down by 90% in the last 50 years. The number of beehives has dropped by two thirds. http://www.beppegrillo.it/english.php

I got it from the bottom portion of front cover at the top of the page http://www.searchingforagem.com/1960s/1963.htm