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Thanks Luca, I hadn't heard of that label before http://www.kindofbluerecords.com

I bet you skipped Ayler

Here's a bit longer account of that incident: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/sports/o...s/18landis.html

I frequently use my MP3 player with earbuds at work (1-2 hours per day). My boss doesn't mind, and I only occasionally receive visits from customers in my office. Of course it's not so loud to cover the phone ring, or a knock at the door. That way I can listen to everything without disturbing anyone. I have no illusions about somebody at my office hearing my music and liking it.

Except in Woody Allen movies from the past 15 years I live in an appartment as well, with a large living room and good acoustic isolation, but when I listen to classical orchestral music, I prefer headphones, to avoid having to turn down the volume on climaxes.

The remastered french 2 DVD reissue is great. One of my favourite movies. http://www.amazon.fr/Playtime-Édition-DVD-.../dp/B000BKJ794/

Yes, it's that one http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:45083 http://www.criteriondvd.com/item_info.php?item_id=290

I'm no expert on this, but there seems to be a system of financial compensations between countries, called "terminal dues" http://www.upu.int/faq/en/upu_activities/w...ts_settled.html http://www.upu.int/terminal_dues/en/index.shtml

Nescafé GOLD Dessert Refined aroma instant coffee prepared with water from the Esch/Sauer lake in Luxembourg, heated in a Philips Cucina kettle Since I redid my kitchen with gold water pipes and rewired the boiler with a shielded mains cable, the coffee tastes much better! Next, I'll try an external regulated power supply.

I use Winamp Lite and Foobar 2000. I mainly listen to lossless FLAC files. I use Winamp to preview files (it loads faster), and Foobar to listen to complete albums. Foobar is extremely powerful, with many useful functions and optional extensions. I particularly like the ASIO support (higher quality driver) and the possibility to re-tag files (or the CUE-file in case of a CD image) using FreeDB. Don't be fooled by "uncool" looks. It's a no-frills non-commercial software, supported by many connoisseurs. http://www.foobar2000.org For videos I use VLC and Media Player Classic, which in terms of usability and flexibility are miles ahead of the big commercial products (Windows Media Player, Realplayer, Quicktime) http://www.videolan.org http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm Foobar 2000 for audio and VLC or MPC for video are the favourite media players in the "geek community", so there is lots of information available on how to use and customize them.

I don't think it's a good idea to dig up old sales threads to discuss the music.

Already the layout of the website and the lack of technical info make this look fishy. Distributing high quality TV signals via internet connection needs certain technical requirements, it can't be done just by installing a software and connecting to a website. As far as the legality goes, if this service would indeed transmit TV signals, the provider would need the authorisation of the TV stations. But the software only seems to provide links to existing web streams.

That sounds like the swedish pronounciation.

In fact most of the Sony Classical SACDs released so far consist of vintage recordings, but there haven't been new SACD reissues for years. Some titles available on single layer SACDs (most of which are now OOP) have been reissued on DSD-mastered CDs. http://www.sa-cd.net/titles/0/1/date/5/1 I agree that the Living Stereo SACDs are excellent. I have most of them. http://www.sa-cd.net/titles/0/296/date/100/1

I voted no, because I think that if a seperate sub-forum was created, it should be for all non-jazz styles.

If you take into account the western european votes only (first column in the table in the middle of the page), the top rankings would have been almost the same: http://www.bildblog.de/2258/warum-mag-uns-eigentlich-keiner

Hi Todd Welcome to the forum. The answer on your question depends on what your opinion on the quality of these other series is Most of these Warner titles have already been reissued in remastered editions (some apparantly only in Europe) in the "Atlantic Original Sound" series (digipaks). My impression of many titles was that there is little or no sonic improvement. They sounded as if the existing digital transfers of the analog tapes had been used and only a bit of "smiley face" EQ applied (more pronounced bass and treble). As usual with new reissues, the volume is also higher. It could also be that the existing tapes don't allow for better transfers, as mayn of the original Atlantic tapes had been destroyed in a warehouse fire in the 70's. So I would recommend sampling one or two titles and check yourself if the upgrade is worth it.

Amazon.co.uk states "Warner" as the label, so it's clearly not the Mosaic set. I've seen a Warner set at Zweitausendeins some years ago, it was a rectangular box with the square Mosaic cover on the upper front, as sidewinder has described.. The Spiegel set seems to be the Warner set with a Spiegel sticker on the front.

The Mosaic box is OOP, but the Warner version of the set has remained available in Europe. There is also an edition from the german Spiegel magazine: http://shop.spiegel.de/shop/action/product...;artiId=4398489 More discussion here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4716 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5537 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6953 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=19045

I'm watching it too, for the first time in years. It's better than I feared, although none of the songs is really original and they are just using calculated clichees and some are stealing from well known hits or almost cloning successful artists. Obviously all of the songs are conceived to please immediately to a maximum number of people. It's disappointing that most acts are singing in english now. The german contribution Roger Cicero (son of jazz pianist Eugen Cicero) is a kind of jazzy Sinatra-style song. The Americans must envy us for this freak show.

No, it's about the flexible part between the bass membranes an the enclosure, that allows the membranes to move. You can check it for cracks from the outside. In german, it's called the "Lautsprechersicke". I've heard of many people having to replace drivers of old speakers with foam suspensions (especially the popular Infinity speakers from the 80's), but never of problems with rubber suspensions.

I just received this DVD from a Amazon UK Marketplace seller. It's on the Impro Jazz label, probably connected to the well known spanish jazz reissue mafia. http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record_po...?record_id=4592 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chet-Trios-Baker-S...5/dp/B000JBWWSS It's also currently available at Zweitausendeins for 10 Euro. I love Chet Baker's drummerless trio from the mid 1980, so I ordered this DVD without any prior research. I expected a TV recording of a concert, with limited video and audio quality. When I played the first track, I was surprised by the very good stereo sound, and the fact that the concert was recorded in a small room without an audience. The thick leather armchair that Chet sits in looked familiar. I went through my Chet Baker CD collection and noticed that the album "Candy" (reissued on Sonet) was recorded the same day, in the Sonet library. And indeed, there's a picture in the booklet of Chet playing in that chair, and the track list and title duration is identical, including a Chet interview with Red Mitchell. So this is a video document of the recording session. The sound quality is not as good as on the CD, there are some distortions on the louder trumpet notes and a few drop outs, but for a DVD it's very good. The picture quality is not as great, the colour is a bit bland. The camera shots are mainly close-ups. The tracks are edited together, so there is no studio discussion, except for the interview. I think this is an essential document for every Chet Baker fan.

I just bought a Universal Japan reissue of "Clifford Brown and Max Roach Inc." (UCCU-9279), that I found for only 11€ in a german store (it's a budget reissue, 1000 Yen in Japan). Compared to the late 80's US CD reissue (AFAIK this album has never been remastered domestically), the japan CD has 3 bonus tracks (2 alternates and a brief "Sweet Clifford" extract), and the sound is much clearer. http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/...=lk_organissimo

It's difficult to see from the pictures if the woofer has foam or rubber suspension. Rubber usually doesn't have the problem.

I feel the same. Coltrane outplays everyone on the 1960 Stockholm (and Paris) concerts.