Kevin Bresnahan

I travel for many months on end. I may see my LPs/CDs once a year. I cannot download over a Sudanese dial-up line. Much of the time, I don't even have a laptop. I rip all my mp3s at VBR Q2, which is pretty much indistinguishable from CD. I don't need FLAC for portable listening when VBR Q2 works as well as it does. A typical 75 minute CD will rip to about 85 MB at this VBR bitrate. Since many of my Blue Note CDs are more like 42 minutes each, they take about 45 MB. A 16 GB Sandisk player would hold ~355 "typical" Blue Note CDs or if you rip all 75 minute discs, ~188 will fit. That's alotta music!

Why do you need 30 GB minimum? I know so many people who have these huge 40 GB iPods and they have about 5 GB of music on there. And of that 5 GB of music, they listen to about 2 GB of it repeatedly. You should look at the Sandisk Sansa player. Sure, it tops out at 16 GB, but it is a very easy thing to add/remove stuff. Just rip all the music you want to your PC and hook the unit up and swap a few folders every 6 or 7 months. It will take you that long to go through 16 GB of music mp3s.

Coltrane - Ballads One of the new pressings. Sounds fine to my ears.

And got your recommended minimum exercise requirement by having to get up every 10 minutes.

Dexter's solo on "The Maze" is my favorite Dex of all time! Great, great cut. I've read that the Cisco Music vinyl version that's currently available sounds very nice. Anyone here have it? Any disagreement?

Now THAT was cheating! :D

The Rolling Stones - More Hot Rocks and Fazed Cookies

Two points. 1) You added the word "cheating" to your topic. It is not cheating to tape signals. In fact, it is STILL perfectly legal to tape those signals as long as it's from an approved spot. 2) The rule forbidding sideline filming was not instituted until 2006.

When this passes, it will go down as "The Beatle Rule", just as the US version that was passed was called "The Mickey Mouse Rule". It's going to pass because there is money being made on early 60s rock and roll. Now that "public domain" is going to start selling, the owners of that copyright are going to start screaming - loudly.

Sony's W3000 series of LCDs are nice. Mitsubishi's LCDs are nice too. I love mine. Don't eliminate the Pioneer and Panasonic plasmas. Both have beautiful pictures and are a lot less susceptible to burn-in. If I had an unlimited budget, I'd probably get a Pioneer Kura 1080p plasma.

On to Sonny Fortune's "Waves Of Dreams" (A&m/Horizon) Another find in Stereo Jack's dollar bin. I'm having a blast with these things.

Elvin Jones McCoy Tyner Quintet - Reunited (Blackhawk) Some pretty mellow Pharoah Sanders. Not a bad recording to test out my newest LP rig on my main listening room.

The funniest thing about this government-funded program is they set a spec that no box can exceed, not meet. In effect, they are forcing electronics manufacturers to make a box with severely limited capability. The unit cannot output the signal with anything but 75 Ohm coax. So if a box has composite, S-video, component or HDMI, it does not qualify for the government coupon. So who benefits? Well, the only companies making these simpleton boxes are some Chinese firms that sell mainly through Walmart. As you can guess, they're happy. BTW, I am very glad that the thread starter used "TV antenna users" in the topic. It's really bugs me to walk around electronics stores today and hearing TV salesmen telling potential customers that they "have to buy a new TV with a digital tuner or in February 2009, you'll get a blank screen". I want to smack these people upside the head. Total BS. The only people who have to worry are those who get their TV over the air. Cable companies are not switching to 100% digital. I doubt they will for many years, if ever. Later, Kevin

Start a thread about Rava and get it off of this thread. Keep it about Enrico Rava and never bring up WM's name in it and you might get a good thread going. The last thing we need right now is another WM thread.

Shoot, I haven't been over there so long, they changed the board software! Oh well. Worrying about getting banned for saying something in Wynton thread?? I imagine "bannable" offenses occur in almost every Wynton thread.

I have the JRVG disc that I'd trade. Unfortunately, I did not get the CD art. Instead, the artwork is a very high-quality scan/print. It looks very legit. I bought this CD from someone here a few years ago. As I said, I'd gladly trade discs if you don't mind the lack of original art. I prefer McMaster's mastering in most cases. Kevin

The current Johnny Hodges set is one of my favorite Mosaic boxes ever. It was great to be able to recommend it whenever anyone asked for a quick rec. Now what will I say?

If you buy a standalone video card, it will have it's own video processor chip. If you use the on-board graphics card, it uses your PC's processor. Processors generate heat with more processing=more heat. If you stick in a separate video card, you lower the processor strain on both. Make sure you find a "half-height" video card and if you can afford it, pay a bit more for a high-end card that has a video CPU fan. BTW, your on-board graphics card probably has only 8 MB of your system RAM allocated for video. Most standalone video cards have at least 256 MB of RAM. You will be amazed when you play some games with a real video card. I just did this for my daughter, who is a big Syms freak, and she couldn't believe how much stuff she couldn't see before. Kevin

Maybe the repubs had a brain fart and mixed up fat Red Sox pitchers Clemens and Schilling? They're easy to confuse, as our current administration proves time and again.

Isn't $5K cheap for a soprano sax? I thought those suckers went for almost $10K? Someone could buy it and with a little cleaning fluid... erase Gorelick forever! Yeah.

I assume you mean Dell's "Low profile" desktop? If you have one of these, the cooling fan is part of the power supply. It's pretty easy to change. I've swapped out a few. A word of advice if you do choose to go this route: order it new from Dell. It's only about $20 more than a refurb and it's guaranteed to work. Another thing to consider that helps cool it down is to add a video card rather than use the on-board graphics. On-board graphics heats up the system because it's almost always doing something. If you get card, try to get one with it's own fan (hard to do in a "half-height card"). Kevin

Believe me, I've been asking and asking and asking - every time I talk to Blue Note about reissues. Apparently, Leo's music has not sold well for Blue Note. That carried over to the CD era. The CD issue of "Rolling With Leo" was probably only in print for about 2 years in the late 80s. Since the Japanese have not seen fit to release it, it should have a market. But still, it sits. A lot of bari sax fans are missing out on a great, swinging date.

Not according to anyone I've asked, including Michael Cuscuna. I believe that he asked Dizzy himself. There is no evidence that John Burks is a "nom de session" for Dizzy.

Dan, where are you reading that? When Rodney Harrison got busted, I read all I could find on HGH. I thought it was a steroid. But after reading about it, it looked to me that HGH shouldn't even be against the rules. It probably doesn't do anything. Many of it's reported benefits have never been clinically proven. It does not make everything grow bigger, it replaces an enzyme the everyone loses as they age and they no longer need to grow. I couldn't find one report of an adult who took HGH and grew. It looked to me like the only people who could benefit from taking it are short adolescents. Taking HGH continues their "growth spurt". But adults? I couldn't find anything that said it stopped the aging process. According to one article I read, it has become a rich man's "fountain of youth", with a lot of stars buying it in an effort to stay young.

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