Herman Leonard's Jazz

Herman Leonard's Jazz

Dec 24, 2010
Attention, last-minute Christmas shoppers: No gift could be more welcome to a jazz lover than a copy of Herman Leonard’s last book of photographs, titled, simply, Jazz (Bloomsbury, 320pp., $40 retail).

Leonard was the consummate jazz photographer, a true artist as well as a chronicler, whose black-and-white pictures—most of them taken between the late 1940s and the early ’60s (though with a remarkable reprise in the late ’80s and ’90s)—captured, even visually defined, the passion of the music, the intimacy between the musicians and the moment, the spirit of the times.

Why switch to Computer Audio?

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Computer Audio
Submitted by Bogartg1 on

As I think about getting something like a Squeezebox Touch, I'm curious about whether it is worth the time to put my CDs on my hard drive - or what other benefits people have felt they have gotten by moving away from a CD player? Perhaps a better way to word the question is, 'why did you switch, and what did it do for your listening enjoyment?'

I have a dedicated listening room, so I generally have to be in the room to enjoy music (as opposed to having it on as background as I do other things).

Would hi-rez downloads be a reason to make the switch?

Review: The Denon DVD-2930ci up-converting DVD player

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by dog_or_man on

If you've read a single AV-related post of mine, in any venue, then you know without my having to say so that the biggest problem-area in my system hasn't been the DVD-player. Neither has it been the amplifier, the television, the speakers, or the cabling. What it has been, is an inscrutable bug somewhere in my electrical system. I've installed dedicated lines, common-mode chokes, isolation transformers, even improvised additional AC-cord shielding using dryer duct. I've replaced speaker wires and interconnects and the romex in the wall. I've tried everything. Nothing has worked.

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