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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!

I just saw it in my room.

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Yes, in fact if you look there is even a recommendations thread for cdbaby!

A wonderful player. Killer clarinet as well! He and his brother Emilio did a wonderful album (short but very sweet) on I think Audiophile and G. H. Buck could and probably will but hasn't yet put this out on cd. But that's about it as a "leader" I guess. I love his work with the Condonites. . . ah I just love his work period. A friend/acquaintance of mine used to know him when he (the friend) was a child; his (the friend's) father was a piano player and band leader and he and Ernie and his brother knew each other well from being mainstays bands in the territory (the Caceres bros. were from San Antonio, Mel Winters Sr., my friend's dad, was an Austinite).

Tony, Thanks for the headsup.

YAHOO!

Yes, I knew the song titles predated the war. . . . But that doesn't exclude the nickname from referencing the vehicle, though I agree, it's unlikely! Alan, it's possible that the Segal character was the inspiration!

Which ties into another question here about songs written about the war effort, that's the context. Thanks.

Yeah, I know that was his nickname. . . . The announcer on one part of Volume 11 introduces this as a song dedicated to the military vehicle; I was just wondering which came first, the song or the nickname. . . .

Sad news. He made important contributions to the Ellington and CBBB and I enjoyed his singing. From all accounts a wonderful person as well. R I P.

Well, you don't have to flip sides or change speeds. Sounds really really good though. . . better than the vinyl I think (from comparisons to a tape of the vinyl).

Jazztones are cool. I think that my favorites of what I've heard on this list are the CBBB and the Ray Charles which is AMAZING.

No, this week it's the Lang and Venuti.

Totally cool stuff! Will make you want to hear more Dash! And some excellent Hawkins. Those are just highlights of a very top notch box! My favorite of the in print sets may be. . . the Berigan. . . this week.

I'm still not sure if the math on the old "you can fool some of the people" works out right or not! I do know you CAN fool some people at least ONCE.

I wouldn't call myself a Riddle-r, a fan. I woulds say that the MPS cds will sound great; I have the new Clarke Boland Big Band MPS cds and they sound fantastic.