Kevin Bresnahan

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Sullivan Fortner is at the top of his game these days. Tia Fuller is always great, Ditto Billy Hart. I'd say Terri Lynne Carrington would be a "must see" but not with Social Science. I'm not a fan of that band. Billy Hart's quartet is really good. Charles Lloyd would be worth catching but the last time I saw Lloyd, he was just OK. Maybe he had an off night?

Don't go higher bitrate CBR. Instead, switch to Q0 (highest quality) VBR. Same sound quality as 320 CBR but with smaller files... not that storage is an issue anymore... but it might be in your car on a thumbdrive.

I don't know many people who can compare different playback set-ups with such clarity when they were unable to A/B the two digital playback set-ups using the same amp/speaker combo. I know that I would have trouble playing a CD on my upstairs system, taking it downstairs to my second system, playing the same tracks and declaring with certainty that there were major differences between the two. My musical memory is good, but not that good. It works when comparing different CD masterings, but not the same CD.

If one has an Oppo UDP-205, it has a perfectly good internal DSD conversion path though. I don't see any reason to spend good money to experiment with an external DAC when my current solution meets my needs, even if it may or may not convert it to PCM first.

I don't know why any company needs a license to pass a DSD bitstream anymore. A license is usually required to use a patented design/technology. The patents for the DSD technology expired quite a while ago. I would think anyone could make their own DSD encoder/decoder now. Although I guess they'd have to call it something other than DSD or Direct Stream Digital as those terms are trademarked by Sony/Philips. Maybe call it PDM (pulse density modulation) instead?

I get what you're saying here... there are not a lot of SACD players these days for under $2K. Denon makes a couple of players at that price point, but the options for SACD playback are very limited. As I said earlier, the worst thing that happened was Oppo Digital exiting this business.

Caught Steve Davis and his "We See" band at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on April 17th. The frontline of Davis, Eddie Henderson & Ralph Moore was smokin'. Here's Steve during one of his solos. Ralph was right in front of me so I had a great view of his solos. Eddie, at 85, is a wonder. I hope I am still around when I'm 85, much less able to play trumpet at a high level.

@Milestones Did you ever get an external optical drive that worked for you?

I'm actually anticipating it will have even less jazz content as has been the case for most "jazz" festivals these days.

I'm up for the Henderson date on CD. My days of buying new vinyl when there's a CD option are slowly going away. I already have too many LPs that I don't have room for.

I saw this band on tour at the time. It was a fun show. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I seem to remember Hutcherson stealing the show. I'm pretty sure I also Tyner & Hutcherson play a set as a duet in support of the CD, "Manhattan Moods", but it's been a while so my memory is a bit fuzzy on that.

My wife and I used to really like the show "Elsbeth" on CBS. But it has gotten ridiculously repetitive. Even worse, the mysteries are always "insta-solved". The latest one we watched, she gleamed the murderer in less than 30 seconds. I know we're supposed to believe that Elsbeth is very good at detecting, but this one was absolutely insane - the husband had already confessed to the murder.

But a turntable is already analog. I wouldn't think there would be any benefit to converting it to digital for playback purposes. I could see using that digital output from my turntable to make a digital file for future playback but not when straight-up playing LPs.