Yeah, its me with a problem

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The Entry Level
Submitted by Lamont Sanford on

My wife needs HDTV because Fox's analog sucks and she will damn if she watches the Dallas Cowboys without it. So, I picked up a Samsung Series Six TV. Now that screws up my whole nickle and dime setup I have from the old TV. I need a new receiver. One with something called an optical audio connector or some sort of connector so I can use the receiver with the remote's volume control on the TV. I'm truly screwed on this one. Don't laugh!

WILSON AUDIO SASHA WP

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Loudspeakers
Submitted by deacongreg on

In my humble opinion, though others I`m sure will argue, that your speakers, are the most important, and have the most noticeable effect on your system. This is from experience of my own gear, and from my friends as well.
Now, I thought this would be informative. Wilson Audio, who i`m sure most would agree with me, make some of the best speakers on the planet. In fact, I finally got to hear the Watt Puppy 8s, at HE2007. They now have introduced a new speaker, the Sasha WP. Check it out, they do not rest on their laurels.

Linn Majik 109

Submitted by rmeyer52 on

I really enjoyed reading the review of the Linn Majik bookshelf speakers. I had seen them before at my dealer but never had the chance to audition them and Robert Reina's review provided some great insight into a brand that normally I might not consider.

Fly-ing

Fly-ing

Apr 27, 2009

<I>Sky & Country</I> (on the ECM label), the new CD by Fly—the trio that consists of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Jeff Ballard—is a deeply pleasurable album. It’s a tricky thing to improvise sinuous, crisscrossing lines over the span of an hour-long record, with neither a piano to lay down harmonic signposts nor a second horn to pick things up when the pace slacks off, yet still manage to keep a listener’s attention. Some have done it, and brilliantly: Sonny Rollins (<I>A Night at the Vanguard</I> and <I>Way out West</I>), Lee Konitz (<I>Motion</I>), Ornette Coleman (<I>At the Golden Circle</I> and <I>Sound Grammar</I>), and David Murray (<I>The Hill</I>), among others. But this list only amplifies the scope of the challenge. <I>Sky & Country</I> is nothing like any of those albums, but it’s harder to describe what it isn’t than what it is. It doesn’t have much in the way of distinct melody, but neither is it the slightest bit atonal. It’s low key but not mellow, cool but not insouciant. Turner plays the sax in a style reminiscent of Warne Marsh: without vibrato, even-keeled, endlessly inventive but not at all showy about it. (Josh Redman and Branford Marsalis also have pianoless-trio albums out now, but among the three Turner is the only one who doesn’t resort to riding scales or extending arpeggios when he gets stuck in a spot; he always finds ways in and out without lapsing into clich.) Grenadier and Ballard are the bassist and drummer in Brad Mehldau’s piano trio—which is to say they can take anything and shoot it right back while supplying support. Fly is as pure a jazz trio as I’ve heard in a long time; no player dominates, all contribute equally but in very different ways; the strands stream off in several directions at once, yet they seamlessly cohere, like some musical equivalent of superstring theory. I can’t figure out quite how they do it, but they do. The sound quality, by engineer James Farber, is superb: tonally true with plenty of airy ambience.

Bob Dylan - Together Through Life

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The Universal Pulse
Submitted by jazzfan on

The new Bob Dylan release "Together Through Life" has just been released and it's very listenable and surprisingly enjoyable.

After my first few listens I would describe it has a cross between his last two studio releases, "Love and Theft" and "Modern Times". The sound is very laid back with nice loose feel but featuring top notch playing by Dylan's crack band. The recording quality is first rate with a clear sound and an uncluttered mix.

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