Kevin Bresnahan

This is my point exactly. If it's legal to bypass the admissions process through a big donation, why is it a jail-able offense if done through a different avenue? It's the same thing - buying your way in. They conspired to pay a school official money to allow their child admission to a school they would not get in on merit. It happens all the time. It will continue to happen too. They just went at it through the wrong school official. If they had paid off a dean or president by means of a large donation, we wouldn't even be talking about this. And don't get me wrong - I think what these people did is terrible. But to raise it to the level where someone goes to jail over it... why? I just don't get it.

Why is this illegal though, with jail time being mentioned for these parents? There's a law that says, "Bypass admission to a college results in 4 years in prison"? I think it's terrible and I can see it being against the rules at the school, but why are the courts involved? These schools aren't free so these rich kids' parents aren't stealing their education, they're simply bypassing the admittance procedures. I especially don't see how this is illegal at a private school. They can admit anyone they want. Yale? Really? Like some rich Yale grad hasn't endowed some chair and gotten his idiot son or daughter enrolled there on a wink? We're supposed to believe that this doesn't happen? If someone at my company hired an incompetent idiot because he got paid off, he'd get in trouble if the company found out, but he wouldn't get arrested, tried and sent to jail. He'd just get fired along with the incompetent idiot.

Personally, I think Richardson is a bit overrated, as he was never a game changer with the Jets or they would've done more during his stay. He only has 23.5 sacks over 6 seasons. I saw him play the Patriots twice a year back when he was with the Jets and they didn't win many games (they were 2-6) and during those 8 games, he only had 1.5 sacks (total). Of course, Brady's ability to get rid of the ball in a little over a second during most plays makes almost every team's pass rush look bad.

Until Beckham gets hurt or starts bitching about his contract again or threatens to hold out or flat-out quits. I'm actually more impressed with what the Browns have done defensively, although their new D-line is more of a pass defense. A good rushing team should still be able to run all over them.

Happy birthday George. I have seen him play many times and loved it. I wish his semi-retirement included a short trip to Boston every now & then but alas, he limits himself to the Smoke Jazz Club these days. I really should head down there the next time he books a gig.

I found it in my spam folder. Weird. I've never had their E-mails go to spam before.

It's pretty simple really. The collectors/fans want them to reissue the rarely-heard/reissued titles. The label wants what sells. BeBop & Hard Bop sell well in Japan. Very well.

Smart move. Hernia city if you're not 100% healthy. Maybe you can slip someone a few bucks to do the heavy lifting for you? Any nephews?

Yeah, I know as well! My old Mcintosh MC240 weighed a ton and because the weight was mainly in the transformers, it made for an awkward lift/carry. It's very unbalanced.

Be aware that this CD reissues the material from the 10 inch LP, which is ~30 minutes of music. The old US CD had a lot of bonus material and clocked in at almost 60 minutes.

I'll take these 2. I'll take this one if it's the Verve Master edition:

"Bird of Prey Blues" is probably my favorite Hawk tune.

Stefan - what Type 45 tube amp are you picking up?

Googling "tube amp hot" brings up many discussions of this. Tube amps run warm to hot. Here's a discussion on headphone amps: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/do-all-tube-amps-run-hot.359543/ Headphone amps running hot seems to indicate that it isn't dependent on the load, correct? Here's another discussion that actually starts off with a post showing the measured temps on an Dynaco ST120 amp while playing music: http://dynacotubeaudio.forumotion.com/t828-tube-amps-get-pretty-warm-especially-in-the-summer-photo

I have B&W Nautilus 805s speakers. They are not inefficient speakers at 89 dB, but they are not horns at 100 dB either. Lower efficiency speakers are not a problem for tube amps unless you're trying to play them loud. Conversely, some tube amps hum or whoosh like crazy with high efficiency speakers, so there's that side of the coin too. Both of my tube amps were rated at 40 watts per channel and I would say that I was never playing my music loud enough to generate heat in my amp. In fact, I nearly always let my tubes warm up before playing any music and when I went into the room after about 10 minutes or so, the room would be warmer. The Quicksilver GLA got very hot, very quickly. The Mcintosh got pretty hot and took longer to heat up but was still brutal in the summer. Both tube amps were much nicer looking than my solid state amps. I do miss that glow.

Jimmy was an absolute dick the one and only time I saw him. I've said it enough times here so I won't go into detail but it was not a pleasant evening for me or his band. He treated all of us like crap.

BTW - if you think buying used records on eBay is a hassle, don't even think about buying weird tubes there! I ordered from several different eBay sellers and got tubes that were "tested good" that didn't even work. I just remembered another story from my tube days... I once bought a very expensive (~$400) quad of the Psvane 6CA7 (EL34) tubes for my Quicksilver GLA amp. I was told to wait until 300 hours before deciding if I liked them. One of them flared out in less than a year, probably less than 75 hours. Psvane said they were out of warranty. Before dying the tube sounded fine, but that was a very expensive experiment.

Part of me loved it. I am an electrical engineer, after all, so playing with circuitry and wires is kinda fun. But it is a hassle. When you want to get home from work and play a disc, you just want to turn it on and hit play. Not smart with a tube system. You've got to turn it on and make it's all set before you hit play. Then get the hell away from that radiator unless you're cold. Also - be aware that the tube rolling examples I posted were pulled out of the air and not real examples of what I did back then, but is typical of the kind of stuff that happens in tube rolling all the time.

I had two different two amps during my "tube phase". One was a Quicksilver GLA EL34-based amp and the other was a Macintosh MC-240, a 6L6-based amp. Both were hot as hell. I also had a Mcintosh MX-110 tube preamp. That was not really that hot and I almost kept it because of that. I came very close to buying a Decware amp based on Lon's recommendations but by the time I decided to go that way, I was moving away from tubes. Part of it was that I decided to downsize and my new home didn't have a listening room where excessive heat wasn't too big of a problem. Besides, for me, tubes really were a hassle that I couldn't justify when I couldn't really hear any difference between them and my SS amps. And be real here - tubes are nothing like solid state. Solid state - turn it on and play music. Tubes? Are you kidding me here? Find the right tubes. Match the tubes. Manage the turn on of said tubes. Manage the heat. Don't turn on/turn off too quickly (and those random turn on pops in a cold room are so fun!). Red plate (now that is really fun!!). That ever-present hiss. The dreaded hum. Pick the right speakers - gotta get that synergy . Don't fall asleep or you prematurely wear your tubes out and according to a few users, could cause a house fire. Don't ever blow a speaker unless you want your tube amp to go up with it as they can't drive an open load. The list goes on & on & on. Tubes require constant vigilance. Not so with SS. Plus, add in that the world of tube amplification seems to bring out the wilder tweaks. Like esoteric, no longer made tubes that change the sound so much you have to spend the money to get them. Different application, different esoteric tube. Driver stage? Get the CV491, a military specification version of the ECC82, which is the medical grade version of the 12AU7 or maybe some Amperex Bugle Boys, but don't use them if they're driving an 12AX7. Output stage? Depending the amp, you could be talking thousands of dollars depending on the vintage, getter design and plate design. Then there's the questionable stuff like the 200 hours of burn-in required before said expensive tubes "sound right". Like cryogenically freezing these tubes somehow improves them. Like gold plating the leads improves their sound (every red plated tube I had was a gold pinned tube). Like isolation rings to minimize harmonics (I tried Herbie's rings - they did nothing). The list goes on and on and on. Way more tweaking in tubes than SS. Tube amp users are the most subjective group of listeners I've ever encountered. There's no science here - it's really all subjective. If you follow someone's recommendations on your tube compliment and your hearing isn't like his, you just spent a lot of money for something you don't like. Some tube rollers think this is part of its charm. I tried it and found it to be (an expensive) pain in the ass.

Michael Cuscua tells me that Malcolm Addey will be mastering this set.

I went tubes for several years but switched back to solid state after realizing that the hassles were not worth it in the end. To my ears, tubes sounded no better or worse than solid state. What I really hated the most was the heat. In the summer, I would often forego turning it on due to the heat. When I thought about that, I mean really, not listening to music because the tubes would roast me... that was just dumb. I picked up a nice Marantz solid state integrated amp and never looked back.

I discovered I lived around the corner Brad Delp from the band Boston, when they showed scenes from in front of his house after he died. It was surreal.

I guess those Miles Davis reissues from MoFi will now be worth a lot more since they may represent the last "audiophile release" they will get?

There's one for $20 at discogs: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/5151710?ev=rb I'd also like to add that hybrid SACD (it has a CD layer) that Fantasy issued in 2004 is supposed to be the first digital release of this title that used newly-found master tapes and while I have not heard it, it is supposed to sound very good. There's a fairly inexpensive copy from Canada at discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Art-Pepper-Art-Pepper-Eleven-Modern-Jazz-Classics/release/9726101

The real question would be, "How much more does Steve Hoffman charge versus whoever will do it otherwise?". Remastering these tapes isn't free. Someone has to do it and they will get paid. I have no idea how much Hoffman charges any more than I know how much Malcolm Addey charges. But I do believe that Mosaic could get this info rather quickly.