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A few links on turntable setup: http://www.audiophilia.com/features/cartri...ridge_setup.htm http://www.vandenhul.com/artpap/phono_faq.htm http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/mes...ssages/819.html http://www.enjoythemusic.com/freestuff.htm (printable alignment protractor)

Nice animation. I have never seen this type of Europe either. But I rarely go to England

Two links, the first with basic info, the second very detailed: http://www.pcabusers.net/vinyllp/vinyllp.htm http://www.delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm

I had the RVG and then the JRVG of "A Fickle Sonance". Both had the dreaded "AM radio sound": no bass, no top high, distant and reverbed. There was really nothing to choose between the two. I was happy with this album only after I got the TOCJ. A huge difference.

Brain machine 'improves musicianship' Scientists have created a technique that dramatically improves the performance of musicians. The system - called neurofeedback - trains musicians to clear their minds and produce more creative brain waves. Research, to be published in the journal Neuroreport, indicates the technique helps musicians to improve by an average of 17% - the equivalent of one grade or class of honours. Some improved by as much as 50%. Students were assessed on two pieces of music before and after neurofeedback sessions. Neurofeedback monitors brain activity through sensors attached to the scalp which filter out the brainwaves. These filtered brainwaves are then 'fed back' to the individual in the form of a video game displayed on a screen. The participant learns to control the game by altering particular aspects of their brain activity. This alteration in brain activity can influence performance. A panel of expert judges found the 97 Royal College of Music students improved in a number of areas, including musical understanding, imagination, and communication with the audience. The technique has already been used to treat epilepsy, alcoholism, attention deficit and post-traumatic stress disorders, according to the researchers from Imperial College London and Charing Cross Hospital who conducted the study. But Dr Tobias Egner said: "This is the first time it has been used to improve a complex set of skills such as musical performance in healthy students." And Professor John Gruzelier added: "While it has a role in stress reduction by reducing the level of stage fright, the magnitude and range of beneficial effects on artistic aspects of performance have wider implications." Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/heal...lth/3091595.stm Published: 2003/07/24 01:26:03 GMT

And he is not even at his best. The fairness of Jan Ullrich, second overall, should also be noted. He did not attack when Armstrong was on the ground. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/cycling/n...21/tour_monday/

News on the "EZ-D" DVDs: DVD's Meant for Buying but Not for Keeping (New York Times)

I wonder why Blue Note puts out "Blue Train" on a hybrid SACD (available since june) and then again on CD. I suppose the remastering of the CD is the same as on the CD layer of the SACD. Just a pricing reason? I'm looking forward to the other reissues. I hope Rudy hasn't messed them up too much

It should be said that the financial situation of the city of Berlin is disastrous, after federal subsidies to the city have been cut and years of local mismanagement. Many cultural institutions and projects are facing enormous difficulties, those with low public interest (like free jazz) will have to find private funding or they will dissappear. It's not a discrimination of jazz, because many other cultural events are menaced.

Couw is a member here and on the AAJ board. http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....20&pagenumber=4 As Couw made the booklets available online (link in quoted post), there is no need for me to email them (unless there are problems with downloading). As the font on the booklets is rather small, you should use a good laser printer to print them out.

Would it really be so difficult for him to get a deal with a smaller (maybe european) label ? He recorded for Triloka in the early 90's, and those albums were also distributed in the US.

My Pepper box came with a small booklet. But Couw's discography is much more useful than the booklet. I can mail it to you

Aric, You're on the safe side with these "Vinyl" CD-Rs http://www.verbatim.com/products/products.....cfm?pro_id=380 But don't play them in your Wurlitzer

And why not simply ask them to add a Organissimo link?

http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-...i?ubb=get_daily I'm not so sure the omission of this board is deliberate. Organissimo may be the most active jazz board today, but it is a rather closed circle and not easy to find for someone who does not read jazz forums regularly (the Blue Note staff didn't even visit their own board regularly). AAJ is the biggest jazz portal, and Jazz Corner has a longer tradition, so these two forums were obvious choices. Organissimo is a much less known site that people find through links on other boards or through personal contacts. It wouldn't surprise me if Tomatbluenote doesn't know Organissimo exists. If Blue Note was really interested in knowing what jazz fans are discussing they would not have closed their own board, or reopened it very soon. It takes a couple of days to install a new board software or to reorganize a forum.

I'm wondering if these copy-protected CDs actually increase or decrease sales. CD buyers who want to burn a copy for a friend and don't have the knowledge to circumvent copy protection (on some discs it only takes a marker pen to defeat it) will not buy a second disc but try to find mp3s on the internet. Consumers who expect a CD to offer optimum sound quality will think twice before buying such crippled discs.

This is a german ZYX release. They usually remaster the tapes themselves, with extremely variable results. Some sound good, others are unlistenable.

Copy protection is used most in Europe, because in the US the music industry is afraid of legal actions from consumer protection organisations. The biggest problem of copy protection is that the CDs don't play in PCs and in many DVD players, car CD players and other devices that use computer CD drives instead of dedicated audio drives. Some protection schemes also make the CDs sound worse. They contain errors that the CD player can still correct without the CD "jumping", but error correction has a negative effect on the sound quality. This is still true of many currently used schemes, as tests by german audio and PC magazines have shown. I won't buy copyprotected CDs, because they are clearly inferior. Fortunately until now none of the CDs I bought or intended to buy had copy protection.

A video stream of the ad is available here: http://www.mountaindew.com/code_red/tv_ads/index.php ("Football court") I haven't been able to watch it because of network problems in my office.

You can find a list of all reissues of this material on the Miles Ahead website: http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/sessions....sp?s=580526&c=0

Every Windows 2K and XP user should turn off the messenger service, even if there were no problems until now. This feature was almost never used, until spammers found a way to abuse it.

One guy is trying to sell ZYX box sets on ebay.com, for 5 times the zweitausendeins price. John Coltrane 16CDs 30€ - Ebay starting price $165 The LP-size US box with full booklet costs $225 Good luck

When I posted this thread I only had problems with this website. All other pages I visited (US and european) were fine. Two hours later it was OK.

Thanks Bev, I have updated my list

Chicken Brain, you could have avoided this by using a proxy Here is what the board admin knows about you when you browse the board: http://www.multiproxy.org/env_check.htm