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The Booker Little date is my favourite session from the trumpeter's career, and from this label. The other sessions are more mainstream. Unfortunately all CD versions of the Booker Littel date have been dubbed from LP, so the tapes seem to be missing. The Sonny Clark and Stanley Turrentine had been released on hybrid SACDs, which are now OOP but can still be found with some luck. The remastering is outstanding.

I have ~2000 CDs. Until today, I have never accidently bought the same disc twice, but my memory doesn't suffice anymore and I need to check my CD list on the PDA more often when going through second hand shops.

The Kenny Wheeler albums are all available on CD and in print.

The music is essential for Eric Dolphy fans, except the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis big band session where Dolphy doesn't solo. Apart from the classic albums (Out There, Far Cry, the Five Spot sessions, the Waldron album) I particularly like the european recordings. I have bought the box at a very good price ($60) from Zweitausendeins some time ago (the german box has the same mastering) and since then upgraded a couple of albums that have been reissued on K2 remastered CDs. While the remastering of the box set isn't bad, the new CDs sound fuller and smoother and are more enjoyable. This is especially true of the first session (Outward bound) which sounds too thin in the box version. On "Far Cry" and "At the Five Spot Vol.1"the difference is more subtle but easily noticable. I haven't heard the "Out there" hybrid SACD yet.

Thanks for link. Be aware that this concert document, unlike many other Miles bootlegs from the 70's, is an audience recording. The sound quality is very low. 3 years ago, darkfunk.com offered dozens of Miles 70's bootlegs as Realaudio mono streams. These had to be taken down for copyright reasons (I kept a personal backup ) Many of them had rather good sound.

Yes, but until recently (Internet Explorer versions up to 5.5 I think) it was only possible to disable ActiveX and Javascript together. ActiveX is generally not often used on websites (one of the few useful ActiveX applications is Windows Update) and not supported by Netscape or Mozilla, but many websites rely on Javascript. So the users had to enable both in IE. In Internet Explorer 6, ActiveX can be deactivated or restricted seperately (Internet Explorer --> Tools --> Internet options --> Security --> Custom level --> Run ActiveX controls --> set to "disable" or "prompt")

In addition, I would recommend to install Ad-Aware Personal (freeware) and let it clean the PC from all spyware remains. www.lavasoftusa.com

Of the September 20th european reissues, some titles seem to be copyprotected, which can cause compatibility issues with some players. I've seen these two so far (format says "kopiergeschützt") - MJQ - Porgy & Bess - Mingus - Oh yeah To find the new releases, go to the Amazon.de advanced music search page, enter "Rhino" as the label and select "Ordnen nach: Erscheinungsdatum - neue zuerst". I could be that this concerns german pressings only. Some titles have been reissued at various dates in different packaging. The situation is rather confusing.

Even the simplest haircut costs 15 Euro here (= $18). I usually give a $2 tip.

The K2s are remastered by JVC and the SACDs by Fantasy, that is the main difference apart from the format. The list price of the K2s is $15, the SACDs $20. But as the SACDs are hybrids and play on every CD player, there would be no reason to continue the K2 line. It is particularly strange that some titles get reissued on SACD only a year after the K2 release. I've heard some SACDs that are better than the K2 version (Art Pepper + 11), others are worse (Monk & Trane). It's a remastering issue, it's not possible to generalize on this.

Ebay Germany sent out emails 5 days ago asking certain members (sellers) to fill in their telephone details. This email came just after a wave of scam emails, and so most people thought it wasn't from Ebay. Strangely, Ebay chose the same text as many scam emails, saying the Ebay account would be suspended if no action was taken. eBay: Kein Handel ohne Rufnummer (german news)

Good news. But why does Fantasy continue to have two series of audiophile reissues, K2 CDs and hybrid SACDs?

The easiest solution would be to have a "sticky" thread at the top of the Reissues forum containing links to such threads. This thread (or single post) would have to be maintained by one or several users and would not be used for discussion (closed thread).

When you log into the board, there is the "Privacy: Do you want to appear on the active users list?" setting. If you tick the "Don't add me to the active users list" box, you will not appear with your user name (on the front page and on the "currently reading this topic" line) but only be counted as an anonymous member.

Here's a discussiobn on CD and CD-R life spans: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9965

The Connoisseur is clearly superior to the later Mosaic Select, which seems to have been NoNoise'd. I have just received the RVG and briefly compared it to the Connoisseur. My first impression was that the RVG sounded better, more dynamic and detailed, but with the usual RVG spike on cymbals. I haven't listened to it completely yet.

Argh !!!! I had just finished a long post in this thread and was about to hit the Reply button, when the whole country was hit by a 30 minute power outage, the first one since 1964 As couw has said, you'll need a good sound card. Most onboard sound chips that are built into PCs are crap. A decent soujnd card, like the Soundblaster Audigy, will cost $50. But try the built-in card first, mabe it isn't that bad. Cabling is not an sound quality issue, if the cable length is below 10m and you avoid interference from power cables. I don't think that compression is that bad. 256kbs MP3 files sound very close to CD. It is important that the CDs are extracted without errors, on a suitable CD/DVD drive and not too fast. The biggest problem with a PC juke box is the usability. You'll need to go to the PC in the other room to skip a track or change to a different album. That's where those new "multimedia streaming boxes" come in. They are integrated in a hifi set and play music and videos via LAN or wireless LAN from the PC's hard drive and can be controlled with a remote control just like a CD player. This is ideal for those who prefer to keep and organize their MP3 collection on the PC in another room. But as this technology is still new, the available products are rather expensive and not necessarily well conceived. There are frequent compatibility issues with certain movie files (Divx and Xvid). Streaming MP3s is no problem. Another alternative would be a DVD player that plays MP3s from discs, or a DVD recorder with a hard drive. Unfortunately the best sounding players (Sony and Philips DVD players around $200-400) don't play MP3s from DVD-R yet, but only from CD-Rs. So you are limited to 6-8 hours of music per disc, which cannot really be considered a juke box. A DVD-R could hold 36-40 hours. Many cheap no-name DVD players can play MP3-DVDs, but the sound quality is not as good. Navigation on the disc is generally done on the TV screen. So, first try connecting the existing PC sound output to the amplifier, maybe it will be good enough for your needs.

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Blue Note stopped releasing SACDs because they thought mastering costs were too high. There is a post on the AAJ board where Kevin Bresnahan gives some information on that. I would think the cost factor would be much more important for limited edition reissues. Many Mosaic collectors would complain if the hybrid sets cost $5/disc more than the old CD sets. On the other hand, Fantasy and a couple of small classical labels are doing SACDs, so the cost is not prohibitive even for smalleditions. Maybe Blue Note didn't check all the possibilities. With Ron McMaster's rather so-so remasterings (my opinion of the recent Selects) it wouldn't make a big difference in sound anyway. The biggest improvement would be a remastering of the old material in surround sound

http://www.cduniverse.com/help/help.asp?page=shipping So the only possibility is to wait with the order until the dates match for the "ship together" option. The pre-order price is usually avalable until the release date.

Welcome to the forum, MeadowEagle. If you want to discuss Count Basie's music, it is better to post in the Artists forum. This forum here is for selling or buying CDs. Board member deus62 has recently started a Count Basie website, so there is a lot of knowledge on Basie present here. As far as his Pablo recordings are concerned, most of them are available on CD: http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/basie_c_cat.html To easily sample those albums, I would recommend getting a subscription at Emusic, which offers MP3 downloads of the Fantasy catalogue (and other jazz labels) for a monthly fee.

In my view, the only adavantage that Roxio has over Nero is the packetwriting program. Packetwriting is used to format a CD-RW (or DVD-RW or CD-R) in the UDF format and use it as an additional drive in which files can be written within Windows Explorer. This is great for frequent backups or data transport. The Roxio packetwiting program DirectCD is better than the Nero counterpart InCD. On all other aspects of data burning, Nero is preferable. I can't judge the video functions. It is also better for audio CD bruning. But for this task I would recommend Feurio, which is the best and most powerful audio CD writing software I know. It is unlimited shareware. The only negative point is that it has so many options and features that a beginner might be overwhelmed. But that is true for EAC too.

Could we also have a more friendly ;-) (wink) smilie? The standard one used on most boards is , but ours ( looks too depressed.

This is not correct. If the company has a valid patent (in my view the process is obvious and therefore not patentable), it would not "own exclusive rights to all recordings" but only have the right to forbid anyone to sell recordings made with the patented process. It doesn't have anything to do with the ownership of the music (which is a copyright issue). So the title of the article is misleading. The problem with patents these days is that too many of them are granted without setrious examination, especially in the software and business method field (the Clear Channel patent is more a business method than a technical innovation). The owners of these patents are then trying to cash in (asking moderate licensing fees), knowing that it will need expensive legal procedings to challenge the patents. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/07/16...ing.patents.ap/

There are different degrees of dangerousness in adware - spyware - trojans. If you don't tell what it was exactly, nobody will be able to help you. Spyware may track the website you are browsing (to "persononlize" the ads it is sending you), but it won't log your keyboard to get your credit car info (which should not be saved on your PC) or passwords. Adaware also find cookies which will tell the owners of cooperating websites (which then use the same cookies) which of the websites you have browsed. Normally cookies are only sent to the website which created it (like this board for example), so it's not a privacy problem.