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| Help me find a smooth solid-state amp? The question you pose isn't as easy to solve as just buying a new amp. The other guys have already addressed several issues. Part of your difficulty is the fact that you have a pair of monitors that don't go very deep, and this relative lack of de... | |
| Best Digital Cable around $100 used Hi, Rutel: I assume you are referring to the best digital co-axial cable. If so, I recommend you start with the digital co-ax made by "BetterCables.com". They make an excellent co-ax cable for $80 (new) - I own two and have been very satisfied wit... | |
| Jazz- Modern big band Jayboard: The David Murray recordings from the '80's on Black Saint / Soul Note featured both his octet and his big band. If you are a relatively experienced jazz listener with a sense of adventure, you should find the Murray recordings a lot of f... | |
| Jazz- Modern big band If you want to hear some of the most adventurous and dynamic big-band music recorded in the past 20 years, you need to pick up a few of the CD's on the Black Saint / Soul Note label done in the 1980's by the David Murray Octet and band. Amazing st... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Glad someone included Ben Webster in this discussion. I didn't neglect him deliberately - just had to put some limits on my discussion. Ben, of course, was one the great tenor players who were part of the Coleman Hawkins stylistic legacy. Some of ... | |
| Jazz Recommendations OK, I guess no one's going to lynch me for monopolizing this thread, so I'm going to ramble a bit and share some personal thoughts about jazz with you. As I mentioned, I started listening to jazz in high school. I lived in one of the Maryland subu... | |
| Jazz Recommendations I swear this will be my last post - I have one last suggestion for those wanting to explore jazz. Ken Burns new public 18-hour TV series on jazz will soon be broadcast, and is said to be his best piece of work (not bad for the guy who started his ... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Well, I thought I was done, but I did forget to mention one other fine recording which is ABOUT jazz. In the mid-1950's, Leonard Bernstein (himself a great jazz fan) hosted a show about jazz on the television series "Omnibus" (back in the days whe... | |
| Jazz Recommendations OK, dinner's over and I'll finish the last posting I made. The question was the "young lions", and who do I recommend? Tough one -- truthfully, there aren't very many young players on the scene who fire me up. Many of them have great technical pro... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Wow, what a great thread. I often wish that more Americans were interested in this truly great form of music, which much of the world loves. Let me make a couple of quick comments in response to other posts 1. Despite being flattered, I am not rea... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Hi, Trelja: We usually have similar reactions to each other's posts - you always have good info, and I learn from your comments. We ought to swap a personal E-mail someday and talk about our hobby. In response to your question, I did not deliberat... | |
| Best Retailer Youve Done Business With? Danny Oovlin at "BestofDeal", a clicks-and-mortar audio business in Santa Clara, CA. Danny advertises in the back pages of Stereophile mag, which is where I first learned of him. I got excellent service and a GREAT price on my Bryston 4B-ST amp. H... | |
| Bryston 4B ST Opinions Needed Please I replaced my Adcom 5500 amp last spring with a Bryston 4B-ST, and I am continually amazed at the improvement in sound quality. Every aspect of the audio quality is greatly improved -- transparency, deep bass control, detail, transient response, e... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Kadlec: In my previous post, I suggested a textbook on jazz that will give you an excellent starting point for appreciating the music. If you want to start building a basic library of recordings, however, here are some of the artists you must incl... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Hi, Kadlec: I have been a serious jazz buff for about 40 years, and used to teach a course in jazz appreciation. There is a laundry list of jazz recordings I could recommend, but before doing that, I want to recommend an excellent textbook on jazz... |