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They seem not to have been integrated into the new forum software, but the search script is still on the server: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/aff_search.php Bookmark this link to use it as a hub for your Amazon and CD Universe purchases. Just select the store from the list and hit the arrow (no need to enter a search term). This will set the referrer that will make Organissimo benefit from your purchase. (Jim, please rectify if that's not accurate).

Virenque even has a "daily" column (though I couldn't find a more recent one) on the Eurosport site: http://www.eurosport.fr/cyclisme/tour-de-f...to1257085.shtml

Maybe no shipping to Europe, but there are better deals available here: http://product.half.ebay.com/_W0QQprZ3188214

This is no surprise of course, as doping is still widely spread. I'm wondering how many Tour editions screwed up by doping incidents it will take before a clean cut is made. Some teams really think they can sit this out and doping will be tolerated (either officially or by lax controls). This edition is a huge success so far for my country (2 riders among the top 20), but I can't feel good about that because the event and the whole pro cycling sport is a joke, and I don't trust my countrymen either. It's not the best rider who wins, but the one who wins the poker game of continuing to cheat and not being caught.

On the first pressings, there was a wrong track on CD1, but I I don't remember which one it was. The buyers received a replacement CD.

I want this one, in brown I actually like the Jarrett T-Shirt, but it's too large for me.

A couple of new Mercury and Impulse! titles will be released this year, as indicated on the preorder page of Acoustic Sounds http://store.acousticsounds.com/preorder.cfm?Field_cat=5 - Clifford Brown & Max Roach - A Study In Brown - Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Rundown - Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins - Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon And on the Pure Pleasure label: - Gil Evans - New Bottle Old Wine - Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves (Black Lion) - Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty

I can't watch the Tour TV transmissions, because of this annoying sound effects tape loop they are playing all the time when a certain motorbike camera is on. It's the motor of a bike roaring two times, and then someone screaming "YEAH YEAH ... Yeah yeah yeah" (2 long yeah and 3 shorter ones), looped at 15 second intervals. It's supposed to mimmick live sounds, but it's so amateurish. At the London stage individual time trial), I first thought it was the team manager of a certain team, driving behind his racer and motivating him, but then he could be heard with every racer. And now the "YEAH YEAH ... Yeah yeah yeah" guy is in the Alps, at every street corner of the 200km stage. On all the TV channels showing the Tour.

Me too. I saw the news this morning (i.e. 10 hours ago) on the german spiegel.de site and I checked Google News US and UK, but no one else was reporting it. It that moment, it almost looked like a hoax.

Great news. Hopefully that means some people will get rid of their LPs ...

Thanks wolff, As far as classical goes, I'm a bit reluctant to buy LPs and I prefer SACD or other hi-rez digital formats, such as DAD (24/96 DVD). Classic Records is also releasing the Everest stuff on HDAD (a hybrid disc with a DVD-A and a hi-rez DVD-V side). I love audiophile vinyl reissues for jazz, but for classical I don't like the surface noise on the much more frequent quiet passages.

If the Statue of Liberty and the Christo Redentor can be nominated, he should be too:

I've heard only negative things about the Blue Note DMM pressings as well. But it has nothing to do with the DMM (direct metal mastering) process itself, as there are many great sound (non-Blue Note) DMM pressings around . I've been buying a few Enja LPs lately, released in the mid 1980's and made of analog material. They sound warm, dynamic and detailed.

I hope people don't think the DMM process is the reason why those Blue Note reissues sound poor. All the DMM pressings I have (jazz and classical) sound great. The sound problems of the french Blue Note DMM pressings must be due to inferior mastering.

Instead of clicking on the link to the zip file, better point to the link, right click and choose "save target as ..." and select a download folder. When the download is finished, open the file from the folder on your hard drive that you chose to download it to. http://www.organissimo.org/mp3s/ELJF.zip

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record_po...?record_id=4799

In the meantime, you can use (and bookmark) this link: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/aff_search.php

Here's another one in apple size: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/tech...ws/4217134.html

Sorry Mike, I don't have it yet. I've ordered it from Amazon France a week ago (17 euro only!) and immediately moved it from my SA-CD.net wishlist to my library. Amazon says it will be sent in a week. I'll post a review on sa-cd.net.

It's been released in Europe at the end of May. It's a December 2006 concert. There are sound clips on this page: http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/hnum/1272640/

Cookin' will have previously unreleased 5 seconds of studio chatter

Hi Quincy, I guess that certain somebody must be me I've quite a large collection of SACDs, and I can recommend almost all of them http://www.sa-cd.net/library/725 Besides the Living Stereo and Mercury series, my favourite classical SACD labels are Pentatone and Telarc. The recording quality is flawless. Here are some of my favourites: Russian Violin Concertos - Fischer/Kreizberg Franck: Symphony in D minor, Chausson: Symphony in B flat - Janowski Wagner: Overtures & Preludes - Varviso/Schumacher (from Pentatone's "Remastered Quadro Recording" series) Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony - Atlanta Symphony/Spano Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice etc. - Cincinnati/Lopez-Cobos And from other labels: Shostakovich/Shchedrin: Piano Concertos - Marc-André Hamelin Bartok: The Wooden Prince, Kossuth - Kocsis Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations - Scottish Ensemble The inevitable Mahler: Mahler: Symphony No. 6, Henze: Sebastian im Traum - Jansons All of the Jordi Savall SACDs are worth getting, if you like medevial music: Carlos V: Mille Regretz, La Cancion del Emperador - Hesperion XXI/Savall La Folia - Hesperion XXI/Savall Another of my historical instruments favourites: Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire - Minkowski Some more unusual repertoire: Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Sinfonia Tragica, Concerto for Viola and Piano Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (complete) - Frank Strobel The best sounding solo piano recording: Volodos Plays Liszt The prices of many SACDs is quite steep (over $20 or even $25). For the past year, I've been buying almost exclusively from Caiman or DVDlegacy, through the amazon(.fr) Marketplace. Prices including shipping are usually 30% lower than the regular price, and the discs are shipped individually. When clicking a link on SA-CD.net and ordering a disc, that site will benefit from the seller's affiliate program. If you want Orgasnissimo to benefit from your purchases, go to the store by using the search box on this page (no need to fill in a search term), and then only click the direct link provided by SA-CD.net. Of course both sites deserve support.

Hi, Does anyone have any experience with LP reissues by the german label Speakers Corner? http://www.speakerscornerrecords.com They have plenty of Verve, Impulse! and Mercury stuff, and the jazz LPs have been mastered from the original tapes by Kevin Gray. There are even some titles which are not available on domestic CD, such as Chico Hamilton's "El chico" or Gerry Mulligan's “The Concert Jazz Band” (only avaialble in the Mosaic box). So far, I only bought Paul Desmond's "Take Ten", and it sounds great compared to my crappy Collectables CD reissue (too trebly). Surface noise is a bit higher than on other recent reissues I have though. I've now ordered Jimmy Giuffre "The Easy Way", which is OOP and hard to find in most stores, as well as Bill Evans "Empathy". As usual for such audiophile reissues, the price is quite high: $30 in the US, around 25€ in Europe. Here's my source in Germany (prices were 2€ lower until yesterday ), they have a dedicated Speakers Corner section: http://www.buch.de/shop/bde_mu_ug_speakers_corner/show/

30 second soundclips: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

Interesting. But why do they survey consumers in order to find out which store sells more music? Wouldn't it be easier and more reliable to use the sales figures in the stores quaterly reports?