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For me, she swings both ways. When I first open it she's going counterclockwise. If I scan down and watch her feet, she shifts to clockwise. Once she's clockwise, she tends to stay that way.

If you can only get one, get the Secret Sessions. . . spans decades and has some incredible playing. The first time I played this set my late wife Helen, who generally doesn't even notice a piano trio recording playing, kept coming in and sitting down and snuggling with me to listen. Not sure what that means other than it reaches out and suggests attention.

"Pharaohs of the Sun" Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Excellent catalog and scholarly compilation (okay, some of the essays are excellent) of the Amarna Period.

Hmmm . . I like all the Transparency releases better than Media Dreams and Disco 3000. Although I'll probably skip most of his next posts until I see his second semi-annual positive post, I'm sort of with Clem on the 80s Ra, I don't necessarily bother. Those June and July releases of 1968 and 1969 material will be sought out.

I love that Weston, just great music. Right now, Curtis Amy disc two. Again, a great set of music from top to bottom.

Many more happy happy ones!

When I've compared, a bit "better" (it's a bit sharper, less thick sounding (?))

My sentiments exactly. I had a similar sonic situation in an old EICO integrated tube amp I have. A bad solder on a connection to the rectifier tube. It did this for a spell than started blowing fuses. Once the solder weld was corrected, back to normal.

If you can find the deleted Sony changer Sony DVP-NC685V 5-disc DVD/Super Audio CD Changer you can have it modified by Steve Deckert of Decware High Fidelity and have a fantastic player; he takes the audio signal right after the DAC chip and runs it to a class A tube powered amplification stage. The transport on this is an interesting design, and the sound is excellent. I've enjoyed this in my system for years. It doesn't have HDCD but I don't miss it, I haven't been that impressed with HDCD cd players to be honest. It's also a DVD player, and I enjoy fantastic two channel nearly holographic sound from dvds, it's a player I don't want to be without. I've not had one lick of trouble with it. Steve doesn't offer the machine and mod right now, but if you provide the machine he'll modify it and it would be worth it. I might look for one in the near future. Steve now offers a modified TEAC single drawer cd player that I have heard is even better than this Sony universal player, and if it were a DVD player as well I'd go for it in a hearbeat because I'm addicted to having one player with excellent sound for cd and DVD, and I'm not that attached to SACD--great, but not enough interesting titles to call it essential. http://www.decware.com/newsite/mainmenu.ht...w.htm&intro

You certainly deserve "Customer of the Year" from Sweetwater!

Many more happy ones Cary!

Yeah, those were good lps. The Dukes could be a hot band. Right now, Duke Ellington Centennial box, Second Sacred Concert

Yay heavy and a bottle of bread! I think I'm done after I have the Breadwinner worked on . . . or sold and replaced with something with single-ended pups.

Pretty nice. My mania continues. I found a beautiful unplayed it seems used (2006) one of these. . . .(Epiphone Jack Casady Signature bass, a extensively designed bass based on an '82 Les Paul bass, has a low impedance humbucker and a mahogany block under the pickup, but the maple top floats free of the block.) SOB has tone to burn. Doesn't play as well as my fretless Wishbass to me yet. . . may need some adjustment. I'm thinking about taking off the pickguard. I'm going to try to stop buying guitars now, okay?

Many more happy returns mon ami!

I have only bought the Cherry Vol. 2. . .and my copy is a digipak!

Bummer amigo. Here's hoping for a speedy restock.

Nothing to apologize for. Got my SACDs and have listened to most of them. (Man, I'm glad I finally got the Bitches Brew). Don't hesitate to get these from Scott if you're interested. They don't at first sound radically different than the cd versions (well, my cd versions are the Japanese DSD remastered ones) but there's a bit more dynamics and an ease to the higher frequencies.

Yes I know. . . . I'm not going to get them though. I have this music in enough forms already!

No, unfortunately. . .I got money through a very sad process.

Indeed. Sad news.

Wild. I just ordered those two (and Bitches Brew) SACDs Sunday! I really like these sessions enough and thought I'd go for them. And I have held off buying Bitches Brew on SACD for years and years and as I currently have more money than sense I finally ordered it. Someone should consider these if they like the sessions. I also have "Live/Evil" from this series on SACD and it sounds wonderful.

I hear you there, but Roney isn't the draw for me on this one. Though I must say, if he were selected to play "Miles-like" he really fits the bill.

I know where yous guys are coming from, but I'm enjoying this one, I think Bob did a great job of pulling this off. I let it wash over me and be a sonic backdrop and it's nice for that purpose. My favorite sections are Spanish Key and Great Expectations, not surprising since I love the originals so much. Years ago I was excited by Yo!Miles and yet they haven't held up that well for me. Hard to say what this will evoke in me years from now but I'm digging it now. I wish that there were official releases of the live recreations Bob did a few years ago.

I confess that I have not heard the HEP cds. It sounds really good if you ask me, and what I like about it is that all the sessions share a common sound, and I think I would have to listen to eight cds that sound different from each other to listen to this material outside this set. In comparison to the Columbia box set "America's #1 Band" I'd say this sounds a bit darker, mellower.