Kevin Bresnahan

I checked the tonearm wires. I reduced the anti-skate to 0 and the problem is significantly better. I still think I may have an azimuth problem. Weird thing is everything was fine until I moved. I unplugged the headshell for the move and just plugged it back in and dropped the needle. But everything seems out of whack. I had to readjust the VTF and now the antiskate.

I am re-listening to this to decide if I should try the new(er) mono LP reissue that's in the stores now. As I am listening to side 1, I realize that "Blues To Bechet" and "Blues To You" are already mono.

That's great news! While my investigations seemed to indicate that the volume pot was sealed, I wasn't 100% certain. I'm glad to hear that it was able to be cleared out. Don't worry if that black gunk has some lubricant in it. Deoxit is also supposed to lubricate as well as clean so (hopefully) you should be fine. Now if only I could de-bug my own phono playback problem... distortion in the left channel on every LP I play. Nothing seems to fix it. Antiskate seems OK, VTF is dead on, azimuth looks OK. My tonearm height is fixed so it's not that. Now I remember why I loved CDs so much when they came out.

Sadly, Bebo passed away in 2013.

One of his biggest claims to fame as a vocalist was his work on the Schoolhouse Rock videos of the 70's.

Todd Barkan has reported on his Facebook page that drummer Grady Tate died Sunday, October 8th at the age of 85.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-francis-068b866a/

Does anyone know if the typo on the cover is intentional? Maybe they meant "Baubles, Bangles and Reeds"?

The Live At The SpeakEZ tracks are the bonus tracks to the B3tles CD? I didn't get that E-mail...

Baritone sax?? What's up with that?

I thought that this was a nice tribute...

I have the Japanese CD reissue that Lon speaks of. It sounds very nice. Unfortunately, it's short (~34 minutes) but there's some nice music in those 34 minutes. Edit: We discussed these Japanese Latin Jazz CD reissues in this thread: There were 8 titles: Cannonball Adderley 'The Happy People' (Capitol),TOCJ-66621 Guitars Unlimited 'Quiet Nights & Brazilian Guitars' (Capitol), TOCJ-66622 Stan Kenton 'Artistry in Bossa Nova' (Capitol), TOCJ-66623 Sergio Mendes/Wanda De Sah 'Brasil '65' (Capitol), TOCJ-66624 Wanda De Sah 'Softly' (Capitol), TOCJ-66625 Clare Fischer 'Manteca!' (Pacific Jazz), TOCJ-66626 Bud Shank & Clare Fischer 'Bossa Nova Jazz Samba' (Pacific Jazz), TOCJ-66627 Bud Shank/Clare Fischer/Joe Pass 'Brasamba' (Pacific Jazz), TOCJ-66628

Though I haven't seen him in decades, he put on a great show when I saw him. I hear he was a genuinely nice guy too.

From looking at the service manual, I believe that this is your volume pot: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ALPS/EC12E2430804/?qs=PoKhxlfUXjKf1hIerO3GPQ%3D%3D. It's a ALPS volume control pot, a fairly well-respected volume pot manufacturer. It looks like it's part number EC12E2430804. I checked a 3D drawing of it ( http://www.alps.com/prod/info/E/HTML/Encoder/Incremental/EC12E/EC12E2430804_3dcad.html) and I think it is mostly sealed so cleaning it likely requires disassembly.

A dirty pot can't be cleaned from the outside of the unit. I am editing this because I am finding that your Marantz integrated amp likely has a mostly sealed volume pot. The best way to fix this is to bring it into a shop because they may have to remove it and replace it or take it apart to clean it. I guess the days of a quick spray of Deoxit are over.

I just had an "Ah Ha" moment here... Many years ago, I had a receiver that had a muddy audio problem at certain lower volumes. It would have been a bitch to debug on a bench because it was a dirty volume pot but it only happened during a very small part of the volume rotation. Before you go through the amp experiment, see if the gargly sound changes with volume. Also, with the amp off, move the volume knob back & forth from no volume to full volume a bunch of times and see if the gargly sound changes after you turn it back on (make sure that the volume is not all the way up when you turn it back on!!). I also once had a noisy balance pot but that only affected one channel.

The video is grainy so I was wondering if I saw it right... Hino grabbed the kid's sticks and threw them away and they kid kept up his solo with his hands or a back up pair of sticks? Not having been on the bandstand in many decades, is that the musical equivalent of the middle finger? Not that it justifies what he did... I'm just curious if that's what happened.

If you hook an external amp to your PRE OUT connections and the sound is fine, then you have determined that it is the amplifier circuit of your Marantz that is mucked up. If it's still gargly, then it's something in the preamp section of your Marantz. If it's gargly both ways, it's probably your speakers. To Scott's point about headphones sounding fine, your Maranz integrated amp has a headphone amp that is separate from the amp that drives the speakers. Headphones have a different load impedance than speakers, hence the need for a different circuit to drive them. It's possible to have a good preamp and headphone amp but a bad speaker amp. And to clarify, what you want to borrow is a pure audio amplifier, not another integrated amplifier.

Your Marantz has pre-amp outputs. Take them up on the offer of an amp. Use the pre-amp outputs to drive the external amp amp, hook your speakers to that amp's speaker terminals and see if the problem goes away. https://mans.io/images/1056106/1116983.jpg The preamp output is PRE OUT

I can get you used CDs of volumes 3 & 4 for under $10 each at my local Bull Moose Music. I hate seeing those CDs sitting in that used bin every time I go there.

I wish he would swing through Boston someday. I've asked my friend at Scullers a few times if they could bring him in but I've never heard back.

While I don't doubt that you had a great time, describing Sanders this way: "it's pretty obvious that his stamina is waning (he sat out a lot of the 2nd set and his solos are shorter than they were a few years ago)" describes a lesser version of Sanders than the one I've seen many times over the years. I have been going to a lot of shows for a long time and I've seen a few where the elder statesman wasn't playing up to his usual standards and I've often left wondering if I would have been better off not seeing them in that lesser state. There's also the fact that Northeastern's Blackman Auditorium is not my favorite venue and the tickets are $40 each. In this instance, I'm going to pass.

I must be missing something... I don't read that review of Sanders' performance as positive. Sitting out most of the 2nd set is not a good thing. To be honest, he's scheduled to play in Boston Oct. 6th and I'm skipping it. I have many fond memories of Pharoah at the Regattabar. They'll have to suffice.

Kenny Dorham - Una Mas (Blue Note). Blue label Liberty Van Gelder pressing. It's pressings like this where I realize that those bright RVG CDs aren't so far off from the original LPs as I originally thought. Rudy liked his midrange.