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Best ad about road safety...and funny too. I love it! My link

The head of Sony:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11443271 I am really sad. I have the strange feeling that all the stars of my childhood, like Marlon Brando or Tony Curtis or John Lennon, were characters in books, like Achab or the three muskeeters, that they would live forever. I am just getting older, I presume.

Agreed. A consistent payment from me, was blocked once by my CC company, a part that, never had problems with paypal.

Actually breakin in a cartridge isn't an audiophile myth at all. As Clunky said above after some hours of playing the cartridge got its proper sound, a brand new one might sound a little harsh at the first listenings, just like new loudspeakers. It's not different then any other mechanical based device like the engine of a car or motorbike. The way the common people do it is just drive the bike or playing records. Obviously if you are a top rider in the Nascar your engine is breaked in on the test bench...and if you're a top audiophile geek you cartridge is breaked in on awful records. Me I am a common man.

The Beatles did it before on Sg Pepper's.

Exactly, about cleaning LP, I'd do it anyway, the stylus will last longer.

Who cares? I am happy, stuck in cube, my beloved flat monitor and my superfast connection, now if only I could 'erase' all those noisy human beings outside the cube, and the postman carrying the parcel, I mean couldn't they find a clean way to deliver the records?

Nice selection, unfortunately that Marsalis...

BUT 'the environment and the vast cultural traditions' are trasmitted, internalized and memorized through Languages. Agreed...in the sharing of them. However, I submit, the longest lasting memories are those which are contained within the images and feelings we associate with them. As an example, the words are long since forgetten but the images and feelings still remain. Of course, but that's the greatness of human beings! Wittgenstein said in last sentence of 'Tractatus logico-philosophicus':'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.' BUT another philosopher, I forgot the name I quote by memory, replied that actually the most interesting things are exactly the unspeakable ones.

BUT 'the environment and the vast cultural traditions' are trasmitted, internalized and memorized through Languages.

Indeed, MG. math would be different if we'd have six fingers for hand or a fin. Like as the incipit of 'Smilla's Sense of Snow' of Peter Høeg, where the main character, Smilla, describes lots of different types of snow and their characteristics and their different names in Inuit language. Since 'snow' is the main enviromental for inuit, any little difference has and worth a specific word.

I would be surprised of the opposite affirmation: Language Doesn't Shape How You Think. From what I remember of my Philosophy Courses at University, it was Ludwig Wittgenstein that wiped out the concept of a objective world in wich human beings just gave name to things. Actually most of the last century philosophic reserches is about the way we 'create' and 'indagate' the world with our languages, mathematics included. It was a very interesting and challenging subject of research and I was serioulsy tempted to choose the academic career because of it.

Agree, I have a turntable with two tonearms and two cartriges, mono and stereo. And the mono cart is really great in tracking the mono records, it's such great in cancelling the noise and pops and clicks, that I saved a lot of money buying mono records graded far less then NM, go figure.

A true mono cartridge should only transduces the lateral movement of the grooves, so the body is as important as the stylus, since the suspension of the cantilever should be optimized for a single movement, lateral, rather then the vertical one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereophonic_sound#Vinyl_records

I agree with TTK. A true mono cartdrige would be the best, but would imprison you in the 1950-1965 spatiotemporal continuum, so unless you got a working time machine, go back and buy at 2,99 all those records, I'd buy a good stereo cart. I don't think there is a true difference, any good stereo cartridge should track your monos as well as your stereos. Anyway I never heard of a particular stereo cartridge that works better then another one on playing mono records.

I really must give your 'ex' CD version of the set a spin ! Definitely, though a CD spin isn't quite a Lp spin... How about that? Did you compare it with mono original?

T-Bone Walker Mosaic Box Set

This CIA issue would be great for a spy plot, on the side of internal conspiracy, just add E.J.Hoover and his obsession against black people and social issues, and the early CIA, coming from the Ivy leagues, could even play the good guys. Too bad I am here and not in Hollywood as screenwriter.

getting older has a downside btw the older I get the less seriously I can take myself, if you wish PM me the list of the records, I'd be interested in some of them.

Nah, I am for Connery.

Is it a Reprise or a Track label? I got an original Track pressing, not even a NM I would say VG, and it doesn't sound bad at all, actually it sound gorgeous with all pops and clicks in the proper place.

Johnny Cash - The original Sun Singles 1955/1958 - Sundazed double reissue.

Mine's in the mail. I'm looking forward to comparing with the NY USA mono. Let me know. BTW as far I love originals, I hate to admit that a reissue can sound better. Though I'll never admit that a cd could sound better then a vinyl, nor under torture, I can say my name, rank and catalog number, no more, according to the Geneva Convention.