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Okay. (If this were pertinent, I would wonder what else is in that set!)

The new RCA Centennial collection cd/dvd may be a good starting point. . . . You'll end up duplicating the material if you start collecting Fats, but the sound is excellent, the choice of tunes great, and the dvd is highly enlightening!

Okay, but it does supplement with information something that Jim mentioned that may or may not have had anything to do with the thread.

I think the PJs are due to be a Select. . . .

Good point Ron. Austin would be way UP on the "down" list. (Now that's political double think and talk for ya).

If the Legislature were ALWAYS in session rather than as it is now, Austin would probably be way up there. . .

I'm a big fan of Emily!

I think they may be European Blue Note releases. . . (?)

His record label is Sensaton Records, though it seems dormant, and he has also done work for Jazz Oracle, supplying records or comments and notes. . . .

Yes, I bought my dad a Denon receiver to replace an old Pioneer he was using and he loves it. He has a Denon cd player as well. It's only got about 30 watts, but he has full range EV speakers in a killer stereo cabinet handbuilt by a pro in 1964, and it IS a nice sounding system, fills up the big living room/dining room area with nice sound. What was originally in that cabinet was a Dynaco pre and power amp and tuner and an AR turntable. That was what I grew up on and I was spoiled!

WHEW! I'm not alone! What are you using instead of the Adcoms?

Hey, that was very nice of you!

Yes, I'd agree, it will be a nice reissue if/when it comes out.

Incredible sounding ride cymbal from Mickey Roker!

I have both Roulettes on cd, and agree entirely with Sidewinder's assessment!

I'd sure like to have one of those guitars!

One part of a room in my house is sort of an Audio Graveyard. . . . Components that have either died through malfunction or have become dormant with disuse. I've got a great Philips cassette deck in there that I discovered doesn't QUITE turn at the correct speed. SO I can play tapes I recorded on it, but not other tapes. . . and tapes recorded on it aren't quite right on other tape decks and vice versa. It sounds good and works flawlessly otherwise! I've got a Proton preamp that has one blown channel. In the midst of figuring out who to get to repair that I bought the 1959 EICO integrated amplifier that I used for a few years. . . . The EICO amp now resides there too. It has a problem, I've dealt all the tubes out to other uses, it's just an old friend taking a long rest. The companion Proton power amp (50 watt per channel with "power envelope," really a clean powerful amp) only gets used now and then. It doesn't have the tube magic, that's its major failing, it's a fine amp otherwise. There is a really heavy well-built pair of Knight Audio speakers that are functionally perfect. . . . Sound a little dry for my tastes and need quite a bit of power to get them up and moving. These probably sound really good with the Knight Audio early transistor integrated amp they came with, which is probably tubby on other speakers. I've never powered that up; I don't have the right sort of speaker wire terminations to use with it, looks sort of as if they need a banana plug sort of dual set up. Inherited this from my wife's aunt along with a B&O system; put the B&O to use and this Knight Audio amp is in the graveyard. I've got a really nice Cambridge Audio CD-One transport that is made to clock-slave to the Cambridge Audio Magic One DAC that it sits on. . . . The DAC has one blown channel. I bought the Dynaco cd player I used for some time when that channel blew and I've never fixed it. The transport works really well BUT it seems without the clock connected to the DAC it doesn't put out track information! So it isn't any good for me for use as a transport to feed my HHB Burner. I have one of the very first one-bit cd players, a Harmon Kardon, that still works though it has become finicky about cdrs. This is such a nice all around smooth and warm player that I just keep it in the graveyard. . . just in case, right? Also there's a PS Audio CD-1 cd player, "the first audiophile cd player built" if you believe them, that I bought off ebay on a lark. It said it didn't quite work. That's true. If you put in a cd it gives an error message as soon as it reads the contents. Haven't looked in to having that repaired. It's a heavy impressive piece of machinary! There's a Dual tuner that used to work fine but last time I tried it. . . it didn't! Which just reinforced my opinion that I didn't need a tuner! There are a few other items as well. I bet I'm not the ONLY one with this "graveyard." Sometimes. . . I hear the pieces wail quietly in the night. . . . B-)

I'd recommend anyone who can go to this show. Mike is by all accounts one great organist. Marchel is THE SHITTE. The night I saw him in Dallas was still one of the best nights of this millenium for me!

But NO. . . I've gone on a different path. . . I want it to sound spectacular, I don't care what it LOOKS like! Forget THIS I want THIS (that is one of my Monoblck amps). And I'd LOVE one of these for my Ovation Breadwinner!

I don't care what it looks like! I love Decware products. . . have their source, amps and speakers and now I have a linestage as well. The amps and speakers are prettier, granted!

Soul '69 . . . "it was a very good year."

No, I play those at my parents' place in Bay Village, Ohio. Big Victrola there, about the size of a chest of drawers! I ordered THIS: Zbox To use as a preamp between my DEC 685 modified sony SACD player and my Decware EL 34 Monoblocks.

This gogomobile: and this one: Look pretty darn cool to me. Looks as if they are Bertone designs.

I can even make bad expenditures like that stone sober. . . did that this weekend with a stereo equipment purchase I shouldn't have made!