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How about a Kenny Burrell box: complete Prestige, Blue Note, Argo, Chess and Verve sessions???

Interesting. The wifi router is in the same box as the cable modem and the phone jack, all supplied by Comcast. Costco often offers a Motorola cable modem that claims better performance, but I can't use it because it doesn't have a phone jack. My box is not near a halogen light, but it is near a florescent light; I wonder whether there's a connection there. Sounds like you have the same modem they gave me last month. It says the model is technicolor 105+. Four ethernet ports and wifi. They sent me one last month. If you're having problems with your devices, ask them to swap the modem. If you're still having problems, suggest that it's a line problem. Are you new to Comcast? If so, you should know that your suggestion to swap out the modem is akin to suggesting I pull out my fingernails. Swapping the box is easy, but you then need to spend (literally) hours on the phone with their customer service depts to reactivate services, change passwords, and get permissions sorted out. You also need to deal with 3 different customer service departments, since Net, phone and TV are all handled by different departments, and, though it makes no sense, swapping out the modem usually leads to TV problems as well. That's part of my reluctance to call Comcast re my phone issues, because I know what hell awaits.

I wish there was some diagnostic tool that could just tell you what's going on in your house.

Thanks, erwbol. For those in the US: http://www.ebay.com/sch/bluenotesound/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Agreed.

Interesting. The wifi router is in the same box as the cable modem and the phone jack, all supplied by Comcast. Costco often offers a Motorola cable modem that claims better performance, but I can't use it because it doesn't have a phone jack. My box is not near a halogen light, but it is near a florescent light; I wonder whether there's a connection there.

By the end of the record, I was enjoying it more. But it definitely sounds "foreign" to these ears.

http://mic.com/articles/93502/three-huge-record-labels-are-preparing-to-take-a-lot-of-money-from-their-artists

I'm listening to Lemzo Diamono's album "Marimbalax" for the first time. It's interesting. If I were to describe the music to someone else, it sounds like: 1) It was recorded at 33 1/3 but played back at 45 2) A beat drops out every so often like a skip on a record 3) The record is playing backwards. All at the same time.

Thanks. Yes, Comcast does supply our phone service.

I'm wondering whether the problem stems from the Comcast cable system, perhaps from somewhere in the neighborhood.

There's something in my house (or maybe emanating from a neighbor's house) that occasionally causes wi-fi interference. I recently replaced our phone system, thinking our old system was dying, but we hear the same interference on the new phone system. It's intermittent, but it causes problems with internet receptivity too. I bought a wi-fi extender, and that helped a little, but it still occasionally pops up. It is caused by nothing in the house that I can tell: it's not connected to any microwave oven use, air conditioning/air handler cycling, or any other appliance. I half wonder whether a neighbor is using something powerful or off-use. Is there some kind of detector available that could help me find the source of the interference?

Still, we must recall that the Avids are boots. Not licensed, artists and labels aren't getting paid, not sourced from session tapes. We can get each of the Forrests from Prestige. Just putting things into perspective.

And if each disc is wonderful, who cares how long it takes to get through a box? Just savor each performance.

Which of the Delmarks is good?

I'll always have a fondness for Mr. Baker for "Pressed Rat And Warthog" - a lovely piece of nonsense from my childhood.

What's AMA?

TOKYO—Thirty five years after its debut, Sony Corp.'s Walkman is enjoying a little comeback. But while the original cassette player of 1979 heralded the age of mass-market, portable music, the new $700 Walkman is aimed at premium buyers, as technological advances help more audio-on-the go users head upscale. The ZX1, as Sony's gadget is called, is in many ways the antithesis of Apple Inc.'s slender iPod, and the Walkman's own svelte predecessors. It has a heavy, bulky body that houses 128 gigabytes of storage for ultra-high-quality music files. Sony says each ZX1 is manually carved from a block of expensive aluminum, which helps reduce noise. "The message for our designers and engineers was: please create a good product without worrying about the cost," said Kenji Nakada, Sony's sound product planner. More here: WSJ (or Google the article's title "Sony's Walkman Makes Comeback")

Tardo, welcome to the board.

I just got a notice from dead.net that the next Dave's Picks (vol. 11) will be Century II Convention Hall, Wichita, KS 11/17/72.

Just got back from the Beat Club movie. It was a lot of fun. They used what looked like the original video feed, not the final TV show, so you saw between-song patter, false starts, and Playing In The Band was even redone (so we saw it twice). It was really valuable for the in-depth view we got of the band working: how Garcia directed the band at key moments, how Billy Kreutzmann might be the hardest working man in show business, the almost telepathic communication between band members. Pigpen looked good; the sound was great.

RIP.

This?

Interesting article about this in WSJ: Modernizing Morton.

Release date September 9: Spring 1990 (The Other One) Box