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I didn't know he was Nazi. Neither do I. Don't hear nazi tendencies in his playing (same for Walter Gieseking)! I wouldn't recognize a nazi tendencies in playing of anybody, a part Ted Nugent. I don't think he was accused by the Allies after the war. That's happend instead with Furtwangler. Maybe Karajan was nazi, A. Rubinstein never shook his hand again after the War.

You should upgrade your old model with the new one. I did it and this really improved the upper frequencies, more air between instruments. And it's easier to find good tubes to replace, the old model had those Western GE triodes damn expensive to find.

Warmly agree! I am just listening Hutcherson's SAN FRANCISCO, a 1970? (not sure) session, no time to check now. A Liberty Stereo Pressing, SE was David Brand. Still after a decade of stereo the drums are not well recorded, IMHO, they are spread from left to right like it was played by a giant on a giant drums set. I understand it was the stereo style of rock recording of the times, but...we are talking about a quintet, not a multitracks mixing of a King Crimson album. Now I am on Ornette's TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION, stereo, Black and Gold Label, DG, DuNann was THE man of stereo recording ten years before! BTW, RVG's stereo Impulse! recordings are usually better the BN dates of the same time.

Add me to the DuNann fans.

Ahmad Jamal EXTENSIONS Argo mono. Everytime I listen to Jamal, I promise myself I have to get some more of his records.

I'm curious, WHAT is a catode tube?? Did you mean CATHODE RAY TUBE?? Tommy DeVito: What do you mean I'm funny? Henry Hill: It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy. [laughs] Tommy DeVito: what do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What? Henry Hill: It's just, you know. You're just funny, it's... funny, the way you tell the story and everything. Tommy DeVito: [it becomes quiet] Funny how? What's funny about it? Anthony Stabile: Tommy no, You got it all wrong. Tommy DeVito: Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how? Henry Hill: Jus... Tommy DeVito: What? Henry Hill: Just... ya know... you're funny. Tommy DeVito: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? Henry Hill: Just... you know, how you tell the story, what? Tommy DeVito: No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny! Henry Hill: [long pause] Get the fuck out of here, Tommy! Tommy DeVito: [everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Yes, I apology for my maccaroni english style. But you should watch at The Goodfather sagas some more times, Goodfellas or at least The Sopranos. You seems the only one here who didn't understand it.

Realism is not subjective, that's the reason because every tape for broadcasting has, or should have, standard color bars at its start, because you can measure the color, and tune up the broadcasting. To put it simple let's we say we have a scale from 0 to 1, black should be 0, white 1, if black is 0.2 it appears like dark grey, if is less then 0 we have a kind of unatural grey that seems a damaged LCD monitor. Definition depends of the number of pixels, or lines, if you prefer. In order to appreciate an HD monitor you need, like you said, an HD source. AFIK there are no channels that broadcast in HD, a part some experimental one. We would need a new HD software and HD players. As usual we are seeing the common 'war of formats', Sony HD is different from Panasonic HD, they are based on different algoritms of compression, (you have to compress every frame of a movie shooted on film), they are, at moment, incompatible. HD is probably going to cancel movie shooting on film. But, in order to show a movie in a theater you have to transfer your HD movie on film, because theaters haven't got HD projector. As you can see the thing are a bit mess at the moment. Frankly would you bet 4K on this? This discussion is very interesting but reminds me of this interchange: Sonia: Immorality is subjective Boris: Yes, but subjectivity is objective Sonia: Not in any rational scheme of perception Boris: Perception is irrational and implies imminence ... and by the way, how good is that 26 inch Sharp LCD? The Sharps are not so bad because they are manufactered outside US. Skeith! Long times! How are you? I'm good Porcy and you? I am fine, thanks.

I presume so, maybe the seller thinks that 'A Love Supreme' is an original Coltrane's painting.

I got the news of His death from the front page of an italian newspaper. There was a full page photo of Frank playing the guitar. It was one of the many indipendent newspaper left oriented that disappeared in a sea of debt after a couple of years. It was a real national newspaper, with a lot of good journalists that ended to work in the today's major national newspapers. I found very touching the fact they considered the death of a musical genius much more important that every political issues, national or international. I forgot the name of the newspaper, nor I found it googling.

Realism is not subjective, that's the reason because every tape for broadcasting has, or should have, standard color bars at its start, because you can measure the color, and tune up the broadcasting. To put it simple let's we say we have a scale from 0 to 1, black should be 0, white 1, if black is 0.2 it appears like dark grey, if is less then 0 we have a kind of unatural grey that seems a damaged LCD monitor. Definition depends of the number of pixels, or lines, if you prefer. In order to appreciate an HD monitor you need, like you said, an HD source. AFIK there are no channels that broadcast in HD, a part some experimental one. We would need a new HD software and HD players. As usual we are seeing the common 'war of formats', Sony HD is different from Panasonic HD, they are based on different algoritms of compression, (you have to compress every frame of a movie shooted on film), they are, at moment, incompatible. HD is probably going to cancel movie shooting on film. But, in order to show a movie in a theater you have to transfer your HD movie on film, because theaters haven't got HD projector. As you can see the thing are a bit mess at the moment. Frankly would you bet 4K on this? This discussion is very interesting but reminds me of this interchange: Sonia: Immorality is subjective Boris: Yes, but subjectivity is objective Sonia: Not in any rational scheme of perception Boris: Perception is irrational and implies imminence ... and by the way, how good is that 26 inch Sharp LCD? The Sharps are not so bad because they are manufactered outside US. Skeith! Long times! How are you?

Air companies were a good investments after 9/11, now their prices raised up again. If I were you I would go for the VU.

OK! You all persuaded me! Tomorrow my wife will go for a big LCD TV, and I will go for a new 4K cartridge. Joking apart, I will have a closer look at the LCD TV you named here. I'll bring with myself some DVDs I know well: 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Once Upon A Time In The West', and 'Saving Private Ryan', the latest just to check if the LCD can survive 'the motion blur proof' of the first 20'. Maybe a better proof would be the Wimbledon Final Match, but I doubt I can find it in the Video Shop. Another good test for definition is a sequence of trees with the leaves hit by wind, wide shot, medium shot, details. So maybe I'll bring Antonioni's 'Blow Up' too. Joking again, pornos should be great on a big screen, well... maybe too great for my self-esteem.

Thanks LennyH. Just discovered that in Italy we have only one experimental HD broadcasting channel, though HD shooting is developing here too, but it's broadcasted in the traditional way. Obviously it's on Murdock satellite's bunch of channels, and it's not free of charge. So I presume that for me an HD screen is useless at the moment, when they will put out an HD superDVD and a conspicuos number of old and classic movies, from Chaplin to Ford, from Truffaut to Kubrick, from Tarkovskij to Polansky, I will consider to buy one, unless my wife will beat me before.

BTW My wife will come back home with one of your f******g flat screen one of these days, and when I will start arguing about the price, she will point me my TT out...

I apology for my ignorance about HD broadcasting. You know, here in the South of the World... A couple of questions to our US friends: Do they broadcasting only -over the air- nor by cable or satellite? Do you note the difference between a HD shooting program and non HD ? I mean that a real HD should starts from the camera and ends on your HD screen. Because HD cameras are quite expensive, I presume they use them in studio or for particular events really popular with big budget like NBA, ecc. In a football (soccer for you overseas ) match there are dozens of cameras, they all should be HD. Since the trend is light ENG troupes around the world to get the events, I suspect that most of what you are watching at is not HD from starts to ends. Industries are developing lighter and cheaper digital HD cameras, but in my studio I wasn't so impressed with their image quality. It seems to me that they only respect the requirements of the format, ie number of lines, pixel, ecc., but they suffer from the heavy digital compression in order to record a major number of informations on a small tape. My two cents is that all this is the last attempt to get the last money from the old medium (TV broadcasting), waiting for the new one (TV on demand through broad band optical fiber, i.e. the next step of internet). Something that is already happening with music.

it was indeed... I suspected it, unfortunately I couldn't find the same picture in my computer nor couldn't in google.

Wise decision, prices should come down, and new technology will help, but if you are in hurry... BTW, I didn't know about HD Sky, are all the channel broadcasted in HD, or only football?

Realism is not subjective, that's the reason because every tape for broadcasting has, or should have, standard color bars at its start, because you can measure the color, and tune up the broadcasting. To put it simple let's we say we have a scale from 0 to 1, black should be 0, white 1, if black is 0.2 it appears like dark grey, if is less then 0 we have a kind of unatural grey that seems a damaged LCD monitor. Definition depends of the number of pixels, or lines, if you prefer. In order to appreciate an HD monitor you need, like you said, an HD source. AFIK there are no channels that broadcast in HD, a part some experimental one. We would need a new HD software and HD players. As usual we are seeing the common 'war of formats', Sony HD is different from Panasonic HD, they are based on different algoritms of compression, (you have to compress every frame of a movie shooted on film), they are, at moment, incompatible. HD is probably going to cancel movie shooting on film. But, in order to show a movie in a theater you have to transfer your HD movie on film, because theaters haven't got HD projector. As you can see the thing are a bit mess at the moment. Frankly would you bet 4K on this?

What I tried to point out is that, in the professional market, we can't use the today's new flat screen. When I have to work on the color correction on my editing deck I have to know exactly what color looks like. I have to check on separate instruments in order to balance black and white. The last prove I usually do is to make a copy on VHS, or DVD now, of my edited and mixed work and check it on a my JVC CRT TV, at home. Most of the time, I spent hours to do a better job on audio mixing and balancing colors only to discover that I lost my working time. You can't appreciate my work on an average CRT TV (to LennyH, I was speaking of the 'State of Art' studio CRT monitors), and broadcasting quality is usually very low, at least in Italy. If you wish you can compare it to audio. A thruthful studio monitor (loudspeakers) could be less pleasent to listen to at your home, (fatiguing, ecc), but at work I have to know exactly how to balance the soundtrack: music, ambient sound, dialogues, ecc. I couldn't work with Tube amps or Electrostatic loudspeakers. Everyday Sony, Panasonic and all the big industries put out some different format of digital video. Their goal is to lower costs, raise the quality and get the most part of the market. Every format has its qualities and defects. Sadly, it's a cost for editing studios because we have to buy a new costly editing VTR for every new format. Thing are changing quickly, HD, 16:9, who knows what will happen in the next future? So if you like a big flat screen TV, let's buy it, if you like its colours and its design. No problem for me. I was trying to explain that you will not find 'THE' TV. Tomorrow Sony or Panasonic will put out something better, or different. It's a matter of tastes, exactly like audio gears. A last suggestions, if you are going to spend more then 1K on a TV, be sure that they have all the plugs: S-Video, Scart, composite video, RGB component, Serial Digital BNC (Is there any 'serial digital' BNC connection in consumer's DVD and TV gears?, I don't know, but it's the only way you don't loose quality, purely data transfert, no noise, RF interference, ecc., otherwise go with RGB, less video noise then other analog connections) And now, after my humble and unrequested lecture I'll go back to my beloved tube pre amp and my TT. As I said it's a matter of taste, we are not arguing about thruth.

May you please remember me if it was the Corto Maltese's picture?

I find all these posts interesting as buyer of jazz records, but I never discussed with my financial agent about Lexington's pressing or True Blue. When JPMorgan will include them in some of its investment fund, or Moodys and Standard and Poors will appoint an AAA on a 47 West deep groove, I am ready to change my position, until then I agree with Michel.

Nor do I, but actually I haven't any avatar. My latest one was lost in the one of the server's disaster some times ago, when I lost a lot of posts in the counter. You may say I was reduced in rank by The Big Digital Demon.

Picture quality does not seem to be the most important factor for many buyers. Most people just want a large and flat screen. For that reason, companies usually offer screens in different price ranges. For example, Sony has 5 different 40" LCDs, from $1500-4000. The difference is in the picture quality, the technical features and the design. The cheap models usually have the technology from the previous generation. For 4K I would prefer get one or two of that infamous 'Lexington' pressings that pop up on eBay.

Which third is that? Left arm & left leg? MG Actually, I am a CSI fan, so I just started a necroscopy on the corpse of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Pretty well conserved, I couldn't say the same when I did the necroscopy of Mozart

The Third of LvB, Berliner, Karajan