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This is as big a can of worms to open as interconnects or speaker cables! I agree with porcy, it depends on so much! I've tried a few types and have stuck with PS Audio "XSTREAM" Preludes (the bottom of the line, still expensive). I like these because the connectors are uniquely constructed and the sonic difference is quite noticeable and to my tastes. Also, I really like PS Audio as a company; I've been using their Power Plant P300 since its introduction (I got one from the first few batches) and have not had one lick of a problem, and it really has been a big benefit to my system. I use the Preludes for the Power Plant, the EL34 Monoblocks and my Dynaco cd player. . . well everything. A/B ing a recording of any kind reveals that with the right power cord a digital recording sounds less "digital" and the whole system seems to be a bit more detailed, with a nicer tonal balance and "louder" (it's not really louder, but the noise floor drops, the backkground hash disipates, and it seems to be a bit louder).

Organissimo and two or three tenors? (Come on SS1!) That would be great! And we have a relief organist on the forum as well as other drummers and guitarists. . . Quite a resource!

Now you just credited the doofus with an impossible task, making the judges appear geniuses! Hmm. . . that Summertime did nothing for me. Guess I'll have to make a doctor's appointment.

Hmmm. . . just have to beg to differ. Nobody seems to be breaking any new ground if you ask me and there are a good four or five who are good solid singers and ahead of the others in my opinion, and I have (different) favorites of those top four or five. . . .

Jeff, thanks for sharing that. I feel very similarly. The "exclusionary" aspect of personal salvation (and the whole idea of personal salvation really) through Christ only just was a fit I couldn't wear comfortably. It's interesting that this comes up in a late Trane discussion. The spirituality at the heart of the music seems to be quite evident and important. I wish I knew more specifically from Coltrane himself as to what his beliefs were, but I do thnk that we can feel some of his beliefs as they are expressed in and through the music itself.

Shrdlu is just being true to his religious beliefs, which ARE in those scriptures as he reports. He has faith and he is following it staunchily; I don't think he should be criticized for that, and there should be room for his postings of this nature in this large forum. He is quite respectful in my opinion to those of us whose beliefs differ (I'm a Preacher's Kid yet in those ranks).

On one session only, I believe, "Mingus Presents Mingus."

Well said Jeff, and I feel quite similarly.

I thought a knife came into play before the firing or after; thanks for that link. I wouldn't threaten my boss in any way. I love my boss. She's such an intelligent and caring person. I spent six months previous to her working for someone who was her opposite in personality and totally unaccustomed to state government and totally unwilling to make the changes that would mean successfully fulfilling the duties of his job. Luckily my current boss lobbied to remove me from that trainwreck before the collision occurred. Now if only we both loved HER bosses, those in upper management! They are NOT nice people. Nor are they good public servants. They're more like pirates!

Google picks that up as a part of your organissimo profile!

I voted no, because I'm not OFFENDED by it. I do myself feel that these particular animated gifs may be a little TOO MUCH. I can certainly understand that they may offend someone else, certainly I can understand that they may offend women who might otherwise decide to nest here. I'm not slinging stones. I don't have a clean slate. I like to post in the Babes section indeed. Though I wouldn't mind at all posting fully clothed babes only!

Yes, the sound is going to mirror the parts in the source or the amplifier BUT it could also be sonically affected by the compatibility of the source and the amplifier as far as voltage matching (impedance, etc.) which I know is real, but don't UNDERSTAND at all (the engineering of this is beyond me). More likely than sounding "aggressive" (an active, powered line stage has a better chance of this) a passive line stage would sound thin or not lively or lacking dynamics and volume. . . . THAT is not how organissimo.org sounds!

I've had good experience. The Masters of Jazz series is in great sound, has items not found elsewhere, and has notes! One of my favorite series of cds is the French CBS "Complete 1947 to 1952"--six cds, much of which are not in print from the US or Japanese branches of the label, and the sound is quite decent. (I know it could be better but it's quite good). The Chronogical Classics series again has decent sound and has items that are not found on US cds. . . .

UNLESS vinyl is your thing and all that, and that is perfectly understandable; in my brief experience with vinyl (the CBS Mingus set) theirs is da bomb! I really love the music on this Taylor set, I have the cd version, and I've heard a few of the Candid cds, and either is a good way to go, the lps would be great for a vinyl lover as well. . . . The music is worth having indeed.

Why almost anyone here could tell you that it is a line stage that is "not active." It might sound "agressive" though.

I went with Thurber too, though I like the others, the exact order would be inverted for me, but Thurber was someone that my dad turned me on to and that we can share humorous moments about in a wonderful way. . . . I've got a 1000 page bio of Thurber in my stacks to read one of these days when I'm ready for serious weightlifting (or when I retire.)

Thanks!

I'm getting a little tired of Fantasia's "personality" and I really wasn't that knocked out by her "Summertime." Jennifer wowed me though. I thought George did well too, at least as well as Fantasia, but the judges felt differently. I get really really sick of the judges by the time the final group is picked. . . . That's why guest judges is a good idea for the most part. Gives you someone else to get miffed with!

You mean you're a huge Louis Prima fan and you DON"T have the stuff in this set? I like this set a lot, mainly because I'm a Wingy Manone nut and I like Prima of this vintage a lot. The sound is very good. There are some killer sessions in here and very little filler. Some nice Pee Wee Russell. Very nice, really. It's New Orleans jazz with a swing sauce liberally sprinkled on and lots of personality from the leaders. The remastering is excellent; a tad bright in some systems. Really good booklet as well.

Well I think he did a good job on the show, and obviously I like his movies better than you do! John Stevens sucked, but that's not surprising. Most others did quite well. George and Jennifer were the best for me, and the first two!

Hmm. . . I actually liked Forrest as Bird. . . but whadda I know ('cept what I like!)

I think you WOULD like it Flurin.

"Jacknife" is going right now (still don't like the cover). I can listen, rather quietly most of the time at work. Thank goodness! Like Mule I have difficulty listening at home during the week to anywhere near the extent I listen at work . . . but I can listen more loudly at home when I can listen. Most of my quality listening is the weekend. Come on Saturday!

One of the greats that I saw that I have been thinking of lately was John Lee Hooker. That man's performances in Chicago that I saw left a lasting impression. He inspired me to pick up a guitar. He seemed so real in a way that many other performers DIDN'T. I was remembering one of his performances quite vividly a week ago. . . . Maybe that means that memory cell is going away and gave up its ghost!

Yeah Jeff, I feel that immense poweful rush of feeling in the work of 1965 to the end. . . . I think the first time I felt that it might be the illnesses pain channeled/ sublimated/defeated and transformed by the music was listening to "Live in Japan" one time about four years ago. . . . I literally started thinking about my grandfather while listening to one of the pieces, who had died slowly of an ever-increasing painful pancreatic cancer. . . I got to thinking of his pain somehow out of the blue because of the music, and did some thinking. Not sure it is valid, but I think that the pain that Trane HAD to have felt HAD to have gone somewhere because he did not give in to it til the very very end. . . . Anyway, I do believe that his spiritual search was at least in part one of communicating the spiritual benefits I think he found earlier and found that he had to communicate and share. I think he may have been looking for a way to go beyond the known forms of music and fuse or forge some new form of direct communicating sound . . . . Uh oh here we go getting "out there" again. . . !