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Claude

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  1. Is this indeed a stereo recording, as CD Universe indicates? http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo
  2. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ult_type=topics
  3. Slightly off topic: Last year, the company that managed the maintainance of the house I live in (20 appartments) as well as 2000 other resident buildings in Luxembourg went bankrupt, after it's director had fled to Cameroon with two million dollars, money that appartment owners had advanced in order to finance costly maintainance work. We were lucky, as the several thousand $ that were on the account of our house remained untouched. We even benefitted financially from the bancrupcy, not having received bills for the last 3 months that the company had worked for us. Meanwhile, the director has been arrested at Brussels airport and is about to be extradited to Luxembourg. Apparently the preparations for his "retirement" in Cameroon (he was even honorary consul for Cameroon in Luxembourg) weren't that perfect, he feared for his life and prefered to return and turn himself in.
  4. ""The biggest utility of having a doorman is that there's someone to accept the packages," said Andrew Rosenblatt, " My neighbour, a retired lady, takes care of my deliveries. I've a sticker on my mailbox asking the postman to ring at my neighbour's door for packages that don't fit my mailbox (Mosaic sets ). In return, I empty her mailbox and forward her the mail to her appartment in southern France when she's on a longer vacation. BTW, that's also a privacy issue, seeing whom a person receives mail from. Doormen (what we call "concierge") are almost non-existent here, even in the most luxurious appartment buildings. The cost would be out of proportion with the benefits, even when the person would also take care of maintainance, repairs, gardening etc. Security is not such a big issue here.
  5. Every day is April Fools Day at the Onion http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27696
  6. Claude

    Prestige RVGs

    Fortunately with this title you can also try the SACD, XRCD or the original OJC release
  7. The whole paper can be found on Doron Nof's homepage http://doronnof.net --> "Walking on ice"
  8. The Times has the police document online: http://www.times-archive.co.uk/onlinespecials/gravity.pdf (PDF file)
  9. Test Edit Works OK with Opera 9.0 (Full edit) Edit Works OK with Firefox 1.5.0.1 Edit With IE 6, after doing a Full Edit, I'm returned to the top of the thread. So it's an Internet Explorer problem only
  10. Claude

    Prestige RVGs

    I'm listening to "Quiet Kenny" right now. I don't have any other version to compare it to. It doesn't sound too bright at all, unlike many Blue Note RVG reissues. Most OJC CDs I have sound brighter. However I have the impression that it is slightly maximised, as the bass has that fat boomy sound that often indicates compression. The stereo base is also more reduced than on most OJC CDs.
  11. There's a japanese reissue from 2002 (POCJ-9240) which was remastered in 24Bit. It has a clean but dark sound, not very transparent.
  12. Now the world regrets no to have switched to Swatch's Internet time
  13. Hey, she could write a sequel to Woody Allen's Another Woman http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:2586
  14. My wishlist for remastered versions is: - Gil Evans - The Individualism of Gil Evans // how is the japanese remaster?) - Clifford Brown - Study in brown - Booker Little (Time label) // if tapes exist - Cecil Taylor Candid sessions // if they can be improved - Charles Mingus Candid sessions // same - Charles Mingus / Mingus at Antibes
  15. I have the latest (2001) japanese DSD remaster of "Pangea" (SRCS 9752/3), and I found it doesn't sound significantly better than the regular US/european CD released in 1991. If you have the old CDs, you're not missing anything.
  16. Luxembourg is kind of dangerous too: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_953.html A civil war was recently avoided in Luxembourg when the government denied reports on plans to cut the civil servant's Christmas bonus.
  17. http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_2743.html
  18. Concord ended the Fantasy licensing agrrement with Ace (for the UK), just like they did with ZYX/Mikulski (for continental Europe). It doesn't mean the albums are going OOP, as the Freak Emporium website suggests.
  19. R.I.P. Jackie My all-time favourite alto player
  20. The Ikea Expedit shelf is very popular for LP collections. OK, it's not really DIY, but you still need to assemble it http://www.flickr.com/photos/83851528@N00/...in/photostream/ http://www.bewegungsfrei.de/tagged/content...expedit_en.html http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/serv...productId=11499
  21. http://www.staugustine.com/kathy_allen/ (only headlines can be read) (Google on "kathy allen" + suv)
  22. The Blue Note Europe Forum has been taken over by a turkish hacker: http://www.bluenoteeurope.com/mb/
  23. Looks good for the moment: http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=BOS Enjoy your stay, David
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