Claude

DRM = digital rights management DRM-free means there is no copyprotection or other technically imposed restriction. The files can be played on any computer or portable player, without the device saying "you can't play it, because the files are limited for use on one PC or one player only" (as is the case with DRM-protected files)

Funny pic, but 3,8 MB ! This won't affect the forum server, as the avatar is linked from Flickr, but anyone who opens a thread with your avatar will be downloading this huge GIF file.

The ad only shows up occasionally on AMG, so you can't quickly check if your browser is affected by it.

Safer than a chinese SUV Chinese 4x4 gets zero in safety test

You probably encountered a new pop-up ad that shows up irregularly when browsing the Allmusic site. I posted about on the SH forum: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost...mp;postcount=39 My Opera browser wasn't able to block it, although it has a pop-up blocker. When it shows up, the ad page replaces the allmusic page I'm viewing.

SHM = "Super High Material CD" http://pub.ne.jp/oboe/?entry_id=1011905 (as translated by Google ) I personally can't hear a difference between an XRCD and CD-R copy of it (if the XRCD was ripped carefully), so I don't expect anything from a better CD material. I'll get the Gerry Mulligan "Night lights" CD, maybe the remastering is better than the 1990 domestic reissue.

Sorry, I thought the text on the Acoustic Sounds website contained new information, but it doesn't. The big difference between the popular OJC (Riverside, Prestige, contemporary, ...) material and the Blue Note material is that, as far as digital reissues go, the Blue Notes were often unsatisfactory soundwise. First a dull Ron McMaster remaster, then a botched RVG reissue. Blue Notes were almost never reissued on XRCD, SACD or other audiophile formats. Just a handful of MFSL and DAD reissues. So this 45rpm series would be for many fans the first occasion to hear the music in top quality (judging from the 45rpm OJC series). There were the Classic Records LPs of course, but most of them are now OOP, and I don't know how good they sound. But I would have preferred high quality remasters in a modern format (SACD, DVD-A, hi-rez downloads, ...) As far as the OJC stuff goes, there are already good CD reissues available (often the cheap OJC CD itself), so the 45rpm sets are not that essential.

The Blue Note Street Team boot camp? http://www.bluenote.com/BlueNotePhotoGalle...x?GalleryID=253

Nice gimmick But expensive to manufacture, and of no real practical use (only a few minutes of music on the analog side, probably limited sound quality)

http://store.acousticsounds.com/sale.cfm?s...reissue_AP_2008

The DA Music Vol.2 CD I have is stereo, and the MP3 copy of a Vol.1 CD I have heard is also stereo, but it's quite narrow stereo.

Nice Mosaic-style box http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000X74RKY

Given that Caiman can get all the items they list except for the small minority of stuff that is OOP, I don't think their offers are misleading. If the item is not in stock, that doesn't mean the seller doesn't have the ability to sell. We jazz fans may be more often in the situation where CDs have become hard to find, but on mainstream markets (pop music, movies) items going OOP is a much more rare situation. So if the seller fullfils the promise to get any item he lists in 99% of the cases, that's ok for me, especially if the prices are good. As Caiman seems to work without stocks, it would be impossible for them to continuously check the availablility status of every item they list.

I think it's rather pointless to order a CD from a seller who doesn't have it in stock, when you know the CD is OOP. Caiman seems to have nothing in stock. I've been ordering almost all my CDs from Caiman in the past 6 months (at least 50 orders), and I received all but one of them. The CD I'm still waiting for is Art Blakey's "Child's dance", that I ordered 7 weeks ago and that seems to be hard to find http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B000000ZE1/

"The concert will be recorded for a CD release on US label EREMITE." http://www.ptd.lu/sunny@dudelange.htm

I don't think DA, which belongs to the Pallas Group that also owns CD pressing plants, would be releasing CD-Rs.

Sorry, I hadn't noticed that.

DA Music ("Deutsche Austrophon") is a german label that has licensed some Black Lion recordings: http://www.da-music.de/news/news.php3?sid=...;beitragnr=1532 The only DA Music CD I have (Archie Shepp "Montreux Two") was made at the german Pallas pressing plant and looks like a normal CD.

Yes, the test result means that the problem is not the catridge, but another part of the turntable, from the tonearm wiring to the cable between the turntable and the amplifier (if there is a cable attached). I forgot, it could also be the phono input of the amp. You would have to connect a working turntable to the amp to find that out, or connect your turntable to another working amp.

Volume 2 has been reissued by da Music (Germany) in 2006: http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/hnum/5357480 Volume 1 has not been reissued by that label, and seems to be hard to find. But it was reissued on CD in 1988: http://wc08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&...10:0cfuxq8gld0e http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000046IW/

Go one step further in narrowing down the problem and switch the cartridge wiring between the channels (switch the cables between the sides on the cartridge). If the sound problem stays on the same channel it is the wiring/tone arm, if it changes to the other channel it is the cartridge. BTW, the Goldring manual is available here: http://www.vinylengine.com/library_model.p...cted_model=1012 (there is an error with the file name, you must rename the extension to pdf)

When confronted to an Internet problem, the first thing to do should be to check if it exists with a different browser as well. If you use IE, install Firefox. Both browsers can be installed and used at the same time. The other thing is to deactivate the Firewall temporarily, to see if that is the problem. Always change one thing at a time and check the result. If it doesn't help, undo the change and change something else. I don't know any competent diagnostics software.

Estate tax is a good thing as such, but it needs to be implemented in a way that it does not harm smaller family-owned enterprises and SMEs (which - at least in Europe - create most of the jobs). The statement that "tax is legalized theft" is incredibly naive, as tax is just one means of redistributing wealth from the richer to the poorer and compensating social injustice (and financing the governmement of course). Redistribution from the poorer to the richer is going on all the time. Why is it that the difference between the richest and the poorest populations in the developped countries has become much bigger over the last 20 years? Is it because the rich simply work harder or because they managed to use globalization in order not to have to share profits with those who helped making them? Is this just a clever way of doing business or legalized theft?

Jochum's EMI recordings are now also available on Brilliant Classics, which is probably the cheapest high quality Bruckner cycle available (the price is actually much lower in Europe). They have added a Symphony 0 recorded by Skrowaczewski. http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilld...p;comp_id=45267

I agree with these points. We already have all the technological and economic means to stop hunger in the world, as well as contain AIDS and other epidemics, but the greed of the developped nations (and of many leaders of the developping countries) makes it impossible.