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Bill Evans" You Must Believe in Spring" Warner Bros. cd Posthumously released masterwork.

Re-listening to this new release.Good way to start the day, the energy is focused and the playing flows. Immanuel Wilkins “Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 1” Blue Note cd.

Immanuel Wilkins has a new release! “Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 1” Blue Note. I’m listening to the cd. I knew I would like it, I think Wilkins is one of the current leaders I like most.

Well, I can and did make such direct comparisons in the same system.

1m 500×433 31 KB Danilo Perez, “Across the Crystal Sea” arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman Emarcy cd “Lazy Afternoon” sung by Cassandra Wilson. . .so good.

To each their own. I had an Oppo UDP-205 til it died in my audio-visual system. It sounded good, but I have two other combos of transport and DAC that sound considerably better in my systems and rooms.

I read a comment that the sound was awful and they should have been ashamed to release it. But it was obviously from someone who has not listened to a lot of "unofficial" recordings.

Several places online say that a box set will appear in September; I've seen no mention of how many discs within the set. Here's one site: https://wikijazz.substack.com/p/the-tiberi-tapes-the-recording-the

Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 3” 3 cd set, disc 1 October 22, 1971 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and bonus material from October 21. Second and third concerts with Keith Godchaux. Tight!

The cold is back, with a dusting of snow. Springtime in NE Ohio! Not unusual I’m afraid. I have some traveling to do today so it’s good it’s just a little snow. “The Complete Woody Herman Decca, Mars And MGM Sessions (1943-1954)” Mosaic Records 7 cd set, disc IV I’m continuing on a revisit of this interesting set of Herman music.Billy Eckstine on this disc! 400×400 57.7 KB

Yes, I have an original LP from 1972 as well that I bought back in the day, and also a Japanese SHM-SACD.

One of my very favorite ECM releases and one of my favorite “fusion” recordings. Chick Corea “Return to Forever” ECM Japan SHM-CD

“The Complete Woody Herman Decca, Mars And MGM Sessions (1943-1954)” Mosaic Records 7 cd set, disc III I’m continuing on a revisit of this interesting set of Herman music. Exciting live show.

The eerie quiet of Sunday morning! I'm breaking the silence with Wayne Shorter "The All Seeing Eye" Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD Shorter with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, trombonist Grachan Moncur III, alto saxophonist James Spaulding, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Joe Chambers. Alan Shorter plays fluegelhorn on the final track, “Mephistopheles.”

Time for some Wayne Shorter, and one that I haven’t listened to in a while, “Schizophrenia.” I think the title keeps me away from pulling this out at times, in my past I had an intimate knowledge of that disease. . . . This is a great one with Spaulding, Fuller, Hancock, Carter and Chambers. Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

Mary Halverson “Cloudward”

Spent a few hours getting some things done before upcoming storms arrive and am now settling down for a little listening. Starting off with Duke Ellington “Copenhagen 1964” on Storyville cd. Ellington always lifts and separates me from my frustraton. 600×600 13.9 KB

I like Elsbeth. It's definitely the character, which I have enjoyed since "The Good Wife," though now she's become Sherlock Holmes in many ways, and i enjoy how she is somewhat like Sherlock and Columbo combined. It's a fun show. . . I like fun shows to escape within.

Okay, you've no direct experience. In actual practice, there was a reason and a benefit, and I could not detect a real sonic deficit. There was better cabling available to use, and I could then use an EQ component after the DAC for both analog and digital components. I found however that using the balanced output of the phono preamp yielded slightly better sound than either the analog output with single-ended or the identical sounding HDMI I2S digital output and I got a Goldpoint 2 XLR into 1 XLR switcher to switch betwen phono preamp and DAC into that EQ component and discontinued the digital output.

Just to be clear: It's not an A>D to a D>A conversion within the phono preamp, it's an A>D conversion for either PCM or DSD (your choice) within the phono preamp, and then output digitally to the DAC and converted to an analog signal there.

I read someone mentioning the Concord Maybeck Hall series of cds so I pulled a few out to revisit. This one now: “Toshiko Akiyoshi at Maybeck” Concord cd It’s very good.

I was re-reading some old correspondence with one of my University of Chicago friends about jazz (he’s one of the best pianists and guitarists I’ve ever befriended and had been a music professor at Yale, and is now a music professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor). So I decided it was time for some “Chicago Style” so to speak. Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts, Vol. 10, Jazzology 2 cd set, first disc

I only managed to hear about half of this yesterday as I was called away and never got back to the stereo (I have not been getting enough listening time lately!) So I’m re-spinning this and really enjoying it. Dave Holland “Dream of the Elders”

Yes it incorporates an imo very good ADC. I now use the balanced XLR output of the phono preamp, but I used to use it with my DAC as at the time that had the best cabling. . . . The sound when routed to and from the DAC is very very close to the analog output I now use. Anyway it is this device, no longer made by PS Audio: https://www.stereotimes.com/post/ps-audio-nuwavephono-converter/ https://www.aspera-audio.com/pdf/manuals/NuWave-Phono-Converter-Owners-Manual.pdf