I posted some of JGH's Audio Verities here.

My favorite:
If four irreplaceable screws are dropped, three will be found.

Do you have any of your own audio verities?

http://www.emt-studiotechnik.de/JPA66%20E-Dateien/EMT%20JPA%2066%20Prelim%20E.pdf

I read an article in another magazine about Media Monkey having it all over Windows Media Player so I downloaded it and gave it a shot. I have most of my cds ripped at full rez and a growing collection of 24 bit 96 vinyl rips. They sound great through WMP, so I was quite eager to hear the highly praised Media Monkey.

It sucked. It sounded like I was listening to badly recorded cassettes. No highs, it was flat and lifeless. My wife made a face from the kitchen and asked me what I had done to ruin the sound.

I just want to second Fred Kaplan's glowing review of Mostly Coltrane.

(Find it here: 'Mostly Coltrane' review.)

I'm really tired of tribute albums. No matter how wonderful Ellington/Monk/Mingus are, the vast majority of tributes are unavoidably backward-looking - and jazz has done so many, it sometimes feels like the majority of players spend their time looking over their shoulders.

Technics Sl-D2 turntable w/ Shure M44G cartridge -->BBE phono preamp-->Cambridge 340a integrated amp-->2 Seas Loki speakers.

I own everything except the amp and speakers.

Any Advice?

-Troy

When I first got very serious about jazz, I lusted after - but couldn't afford - a series of lps from the Smithsonian that documented Duke Ellington in 1938, 39 and 40.

Instead, a while later I got "Braggin' in Brass," the Columbia collection of the 1938 band.

It was overshadowed by "The Blanton-Webster Band" on RCA, but I have always had a soft spot for the 1938 band. It was lighter, poppier maybe, but I wouldn't trade a dozen or so of the performances.