I've been jonesing for Ella's 'Twelve Nights in Hollywood' for months, but it was peculiarly hard to come by for a while - I'm guessing the first run was small and sold out quickly.

Well it's back - Amazon and Jazz Loft both list it, and I bought a copy at a brick and mortar store in Syracuse today. I played one disc on the way home and it's everything it's cracked up to be.

Even after (it seems) every stone at every label has been overturned, It makes you wonder how much other unreleased material is out there.

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I currently have Bose Tri-Port Headphones connected to my Thinkpad T400 laptop and playing flac quality files.
I was thinking of buying nicer headphones and a USB DAC, but do to money constraints i will upgrade to only of of those.

In the November 2008 review of the Cary CD 306 SACD Professional JA shows a graph with the spectrum of the CD 306's balanced output under a variety of conditions, taken by sweeping the center frequency of a 1/3-octave bandpass filter from 20kHz down to 20Hz. JA states "two pairs of traces overlap below 3kHz; they are the spectra of a dithered tone at 1kHz, first with SACD data, then with external 24-bit data (footnote 1). Both show a drop in the noise floor of around 15dB, suggesting that the Cary player's ultimate resolution is between 18 and 19 bits."

When it comes to sports, I love stats and numbers and the stories and everything....except for watching an entire game. (Example: Who has three hours free to piss away watching football?)

Anywho...

Why is it the best Final Four, ever?

I'll tell ya: The fantastic stories!

West Virginia: Last championship 1959 with Jerry West playing! The current coach, Bob Huggins, had a successful tenure at Cincinatti, but there was a recruiting scandal and fall from grace, inculding an ignominious DUI episode and a myocardial infarction.

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I was at a concert tonight, and I was wondering, "what is the best spot to stand in order to get the best sound?" I tried a number of spots; right up near the stage (too loud!), in the back,(sounded pretty good), and next to the audio mixer (also sounded pretty good). I figured if I stand close to the audio mixer, I'm hearing what he's hearing, which should be best? Correct? Or is he mixing so that it sounds good to the crowd and not himself?