The following announcement arrived too late to appear in our June issue:

Thursday June 12, 2008, 7:30-9:30pm: AudioVision San Francisco (1603 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA) will host a seminar featuring KEF's Muon loudspeaker, Naim Audio's Reference 500 Series electronics, and Nordost Reference Odin cables. Representatives from each company will be on hand to discuss. Refreshments will be served and a drawing will be held. RSVP: (415) 614-1118. For more info, visit www.audiovisionsf.com.

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And "audiophile" stuff vinyl should be $12 an LP, not the prices now being gouged, like a bad stylus The music companys are doing THEMSELVES in....pricing themselves out of business. The old axiom, raise the price and people think it's better stuff (only works on wires, and overpriced amps /pre amps, nudnick pricing), I think they have passed the peak, and are now on the decline, self induced. Music itself will be a "niche" market. AND, if they had any new stuff worth listening too, maybe they could sell. Music in the last 15 years has been total CRAP.

It seems that there are more than a few Elvis Costello fans here on this forum which is really great and therefore this thread should hopefully make for some interesting reading.

Here are a few of my favorite Costello recordings, listed in order of their original release date.

"This Year's Model" (1978) - the early, angry Elvis at his acerbic best.

Very impressive music-making. In the dance sections, the sense of rhythm and pace is unerring, but playful and liberating at the same time. This is one of the few renditions of the Bach Suites which balances the joie de vivre of the dance sections with the sober slow movements with equal poise. It's refreshing to see an approach that doesn't lean too far either to the overly-reverent scholarly side or the idiosyncratically stylized side... I've waited for Isserlis to record these Suites for a long time, and it was well worth the wait.