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Thanks for posting this, Flurin. I had heard the news about the release yesterday and wondered what the movie would be about, since the concert was mostly a disaster not worth documenting. Unlike the first announcement before the concert (posted above), which talks about filming the travelling, rehearsals and the "grand finale" concert, the promo text focuses on the interviews. Maybe they just used some of the best bits. http://www.ptd.lu/dvd_stn.htm

It's a serious consumer protection issue. We need an EU directive on the standardized performance of jazz music in the internal market.

Even if it was them, this doesn't necessarily mean that they are in trouble. Acoustic Sounds, the store that runs the Analogue Productions label, regularly sells their (and other label's) test pressings. These are considered collector's items and are sold with a 50 or 100% premium compared to the regular price. http://store.acousticsounds.com/c/107/Vinyl_Test_Pressing Acoustic Sounds has been doing that all the time, and not only during these hard times.

Tiger Woods drives sales of physics book sky-high A photograph showing a copy of Get A Grip On Physics by John Gribbin on the floor of Tiger Woods's wrecked SUV has seen the book rocket up Amazon's bestseller chart http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/0...cs-john-gribbin

ARD (on Astra) sounds fine here. During the Christmas days, the german national stations (ARD, ZDF, and Einsfestival) will broadcast in HD (on dedicated channels), as a test before the definitive HD switch somewhere in mid-2010.

The main advantage of this box is to get all the albums for a great price, so it's ideal for someone who doesn't own a lot of Miles CDs yet and knows he will want a lot more. I would have loved to see such a box in the early 90's IMHO they should have split this box up among the acoustic and electric bands. There are still a lot of Miles fans who don't like his 70's and later stuff, or who don't want all of it.

27 minute promotional documentary on Youtube:

I just ordered the Blu-ray disc (the UK version is much cheaper), but it hasn't arrived yet. Here's a review (probably competent only for the technical aspects of the disc): http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Stravinsky-a...ay-Review/7455/

I think the only reason why some people use Monkey Audio instead of FLAC is the higher compression rate http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html

The enclosure of flat screen TVs has much less volume than CRT TVs, therefore the sound tends to be thinner. In addition to that, most movie fans now use a home theatre sound system, therefore the manufacturers care less about the sound of the built-in speakers. I have a 46" Sony LCD, and the sound is merely OK. I always use my hifi set for watching DVDs.

This "news" has been falsely reported everywhere. Linn continues to make players that play CDs, but these will be universal players that also play DVDs, Blu-ray, SACD. No "ditching of small disc players". It's just the CD-only players are being abandonned. I think more manufacturers in the middle and upper price range will make this move, and DVD-only players will also disappear, to be replaced by Blu-ray players. Neither evolution means the end of CD or DVD playback.

Although I prefer the sound of the LPs for the 70's and early 80's ECM recordings, I think that the CD mastering has been well done as from the beginning (1985 or 86), so that there is no need to remaster them. The only CD that I have been disappointed with is Chick Corea's "ARC". The LP sounds so much better, something must have gone wrong for the CD mastering (maybe the original tapes were missing).

The info by CD Pacific is outdated, the releases have been delayed multiple times. As they have have been in stock at Acoustic sounds for only a couple of days, that means that they will become available from other sellers only in a couple of weeks. That's how it was with the previous discs. I'm also waiting for them to become available at CD Pacific. Buying from Acoustic Sounds is twice as expensive, given their exorbitant international shipping rates.

It's strictly alphabetical.

My VHS rip (30 minutes long, a french TV broadcast from the early 1990s) is still available on Dailymotion (I'm not the uploader): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1c3z_coleman-hawkins_music

DVD recorders are a dying breed. With the end of analog TV, it makes more sense to put the recording device into the receiver (cable or satellite reception). At the same time, it's no longer possible to connect multiple tuners to one antenna (tuner in TV plus tuner in recorder), because the splitting technology is more sophisticted with digital TV. That's why many cable or satellite receivers now have a built in hard drive, or a USB connection for recording onto an external hard drive. If you need the recording on DVD, you can use your PC to convert it to DVD format and burn it onto a disc.

This depends on the ability of the DAC to accept 24/96 PCM signal on it's digital inputs. Even with current DACs, there are often limitations. Strangely, the manual on the Musical Fidelity website does not contain detailed specs concerning the inputs, but I found this: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/...ie-questions-UK If that is correct, you'll only be able to play 24/96 files with full resolution over the optical cable connection. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/...DAC-Information

I also use my PC a lot for music listening (lossless files). The stock SPDIF digital output from the onboard audio chip is connected to a high end DAC (Electrocompaniet). The Foobar2000 player allows for bit-perfect playback, by circumvening the Windows sound mixer. A lossless CD rip on the PC hard drive sounds exactly the original CD, when played through the same DAC. To switch tracks from my listening seat, I either use a PC remote or my laptop (desktop sharing over the network). It's especially convenient with CD box sets, where you can keep playlists to play sessions individually, with or without alternates, etc. It also allows to compensate bad mastering, with EQ, phase inversion, etc, something that is no longer possible with purist audio equipment.

The Blu-ray screenshots look great: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Wizard-o...reenshots/6366/

I've always had cats who spent a lot of time outside (every night, except when it's freezing), and none of them ever smelled bad, up to a very advanced age. If a cat smells bad, it's because it does not wash itself, and this can have several reasons: Seperated too young from it's mother, sickness, age. I'm not talking about an accident like the encounter with a skunk of course.

The demand for LPs has increased a lot in the recent 5 years, so it's a good time to sell. I see more and more second hand music stores open vinyl sections. The value of a used record can vary between nearly 0 and over $100, depending on the content, the condition and the rarity, so it's worth going through the collection (with the help of a knowledgible collector) and pick those LPs which can be sold seperately for a substantive price (over 5, 10 or 20 dollar, depending on your time and wish to maximise the revenue) and sell them seperately on Ebay. The rest can be sold in bulk in thematic packages of 5 to 10 LPs, if you are certain the condition is VG or better. Don't try to sell records in questionable condition to a collector unless he has the possibility to check them out himself, because you will only get trouble, for very little gain. Better sell them (for a very low price) to a second hand store, or give them for free.

That one is not legit for sure, with it's MP3 links.

They are highly regarded in Germany, but I found the TA1530 (3000€) to sound too cold and uninvolving.

Not in Italy/Spain. These recordings are not in the public domain in the EU.

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