Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby?

@prof,

Feels awfully cruel to have gone all this way landed on my final dream system, and then I can’t appreciate it.   Hopefully that situation will change at some point.

While things are ok (for now) with me, I have been following researches related to hearing improvement. While we are still a few years away from experimental treatments, news such as THIS is encouraging. My father had major hearing issue and that turned him form a full scale extrovert to an introvert and his social life at the fag end of his life was practically 0, because he was embarrassed that he could not hear others properly, even with hearing aids.

I am hoping that the treatment to REVERSE the hearing loss is available within the next 5 years. With AI now, things should expedite. Man lives on hope!

@whart ,

 I played a couple of discs from the Art Pepper Live at the Vanguard and Shelly Manne Live at the Blackhawk and reveled in what I was hearing. 

Talking about Shelly Mane, at 2015 AXPONA Chad Kassme played "Sounds Unheard Of!" at one demo and I have been searching for this recording ever since, on CD, since I am not into LP. My guess is that you might have this LP and it sounds fantastic on your system!

Just recently I came across internet archive where this LP has been ripped to FLAC. Since it is on archive.org, I believe it is legal?

@milpai there is a history of copyright litigation against the Internet Archive if you do an open web search. I’ll look up the record as an LP. Discogs will usually list legit CDs, so might be worth checking if you haven’t. 

Took a quick look- no CD listed on Discogs, Chad test pressing circa 2015, released 2024 on LP. Looks like a compilation of standards that was meant as a showcase for sounds back in the day, a/k/a a "demo record."

I particularly like side 2 of the 3rd Vol of Shelly and His Men at the Blackhawk. I don’t think Craft has reissued it, only Vol 1 (on vinyl, did not check CD). 

@prof

same thing your Fat Bob has:  TMD. And it has a dust cover  

Caught myself almost buying something new that I probably don’t need but like a lot of purchases was an act of want not need!