Kevin Bresnahan

I stopped reading Stereophile decades ago. They peddle so much snake oil, it's ridiculous. I agree 100% with this. I have never bought speakers without hearing them first.

Eh, not quite my style but whatever...

It's too bad OJC never fixed this CD. ... at least in a way that would allow the buying public to know.

Shouldn't this one be titled something like "Jackie Never Heard It"?

Does Australia have different licensing/trademark laws or are they just less into enforcing them? I have never seen so many album covers available from one website, either authorized or not.

I do like to support Mosaic, who have released some great music over the years that I still enjoy. However, their recent modus operandi on new box sets, which seems to be, "Release material that has been in print for decades but in better sound", came a bit too late for me. My ears aren't good enough these days to care about a better-sounding CD of any of this material, which I have - sometimes in multiple versions - including LP. In fact, I listen to my Q0 VBR mp3 rips more often than my massive CD collection, which really needs to get thinned.

I just posted about this in the Forums forum.

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There is much to misunderstand here so I think I'll have to watch how I say here... a different amplifier cannot make the music louder. Audio amplifiers don't do anything but amplify. If you were turning up the Marantz louder than the Micromega, that's you, not the amp. What was making you turn it up the Marantz more than the Micromega?

I think you mean "enter an integer number".

I donated. I've seen Ken live many times... more times than I can remember. I always left those shows feeling better than when I went in. I only hope that my donation can help Ken feel the same way.

Rough Trade says it's from "Life Goes On": https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/joe-chambers/the-almoravid According to discogs, Life Goes On is a bootleg label: "Record label out of Europe. Releases are comprised of unofficial reissues for out-of-print albums."

I doubt I'd fit in their "L".

I was walking down the hall of my office the other day, when I did a double-take. A younger guy (~24) walking towards me had on a "Cornbread" tee shirt. I said, "Hey, I like your tee shirt. Who is your favorite player on it?" He responded that he's never heard it. He was walking by a Uniqlo store in Boston and saw that they were having a clearance sale and he thought this shirt looked cool. BTW - the Small shirt fit him fine. I told him I had the music on my external hard drive if he wanted to hear it but he said it was on Spotify and planned to listen to it later. He told me he likes Jazz and recommended Pharoah Sanders' latest, which he described as an amalgam of Jazz & electronic music. I still haven't heard that one ("Promises").

MLB protects their trademarks much more actively than a company like Blue Note.

I was always more of a Mr. Peabody fan than Mr. Wizard. Mr. Peabody was a scientist. Mr. Wizard was a... wizard.

When a CD is made with more than 74 minutes of audio on it, the pit spacing rules need to be ignored. Basically, the lands and pits are closer together, and due to the wavelength of the laser, it becomes more difficult to read. Here's a cartoon that shows what the digital data looks like (I think this is exaggerated for simplicity): That 1.6 µm spacing is the "redbook standard" spacing that enables the laser to properly read each "track" of 1's & 0's. CDs hold about 700 MB of data in a 120 mm (4.75 inch) CD. So how does a DVD hold so much more than that? Or a BluRay? As most know, a single-layer DVD-R's can store up to 4.7 GB. That's almost 7 times as much data. That's because the DVD pit spacing standard is .74 µm. This data is read back by a different wavelength laser. CD lasers operate at 780 nm. DVD lasers operate at 650 nm (Blue Ray lasers are only 405 nm). Smaller wavelength means smaller illumination area which allows for tighter spacing. Laser wavelength comparison: CD vs. DVD pit spacing comparison: If someone wanted, they could make a CD player that used a DVD or BluRay laser and fit a lot more music on this 120 mm disc. However, that would need to be done by creating a new "standard" playback format (and player). Could be done, but very doubtful. I suppose being able to get a 7 CD Mosaic box set on 1 single disc would be nice, but not many people want or need that much music on one disc.

Yesterday, I picked up a few things from the newly-reopened Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth, NH. LPs Paul Desmond - Summertime (A&M/CTI) Paul Desmond - Bridge Over Troubled Water (A&M). Bought this on an All Music Guide recommendation. It's good - not great - and I only thought one track was "eh" ("America"). Duke Ellington - Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse!/Analogue Productions). This is the recent reissue. CDs Al Cohn/Zoot Sims - From A To Z - And Beyond (RCA) Stan Getz - The Song Is You (Laserlight Digital). This one was bought after the discussions here. It is pretty good stuff.

B.J. Jansen - Common Ground (RoninJazz). I was lucky to see this band perform the music from this CD live (at Scullers I think?). Damn, I'm gonna miss Ralph Peterson. I was so lucky to live near Boston, where Ralph taught, so he was often called in to back singles playing in town. It got to the point where I'd see anyone who had Ralph in the drum chair.

Those original Plugged Nickel covers are my every day life at work! Do a Google image search for "IC die bonds". Here's one where they etched away the mold (with foaming Nitric Acid) to see why the die is no longer working: I work with "bonding diagrams" all the time. In fact, I'm getting some die built up in our Wilmington prototype lab right now. I also create little needles to touch down on all of those pads before those wires get attached. I have to test some of these die up 90 GHz. Like this:

Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (Blue Note/Disc Union). I ordered this from a Japanese seller after the word came out that the recent reissue in the Classic Vinyl series is cut too hot. I paid too much for this, but it's my favorite Donaldson date and I didn't have another version on vinyl. This sounds pretty great.

Charles Lloyd - Chapel

Charles Lloyd - Chapel (Blue Note). Kinda mellow for Lloyd. I got the vinyl and of course, there's stitching on the first track "Blood Count". When you're listening to a quiet track and you hear what sounds like a fart, it is not enjoyable. I don't know why I ever got back into vinyl.

If someone has a clean LP, send it my way and I'll do a needle-drop of it for them. I have had pretty good success in the past.

Arnett Cobb/Jimmy Heath/Joe Henderson - Tenor Tribute Vol. 2 (Soul Note)