Steely Dan's playing at the Beacon in New York. Chances are I'd be paying the low price ticket for those pretty crappy balcony seats at the Beacon (which I've been at before, and its kinda tough to enjoy a concert from there). I know they tour rarely, and I consider myself pretty into their music. My question is, is it worth the $154 for a better seat or even the $75 for the mediocre seat or is their live show not that good? This is more looking for a general opinion on their shows since I've never seen one. Even if I don't end up going, I'd like to know how they are live.

So, I get these email coupons from Borders & Barnes & Noble. And it's not so infrequent that Borders would send 40% off on single CD coupons. Not so much B&N. But a couple days ago, they sent this coupon: 40% off on all CDs, not only on single, but multi-discs. Plus whatever discount that was on an item still applies. Fire sale anyone? I couldn't refuse so went to the Lincoln Ctr B&N where they actually have a decent stock of classical CDs, spent like $280 on CDs, but feel slightly better thinking that retail, it would have cost me more than half a grand.

Hi,
Has anyone heard the Piega tc10x (or another Piega Loudspeaker)?

Mario

How do studios, live recordings, or any musican ever get anything played to sound so good, without following these 2 simple rules? To think Jimi hendrix, Cream, Rory Gallagher,Lee Michaels, didn't know about this? http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/audioproducts/freeaudiotips.php

Always something new and creative, keep that open mind. But VPI and others claim THEIRS' are teh finast, and now VPI has a super duper unit quieter, etc, but all ya need is a steam blaster, VPI won't do ovens or stoves...hmmmmm, MapleShadey, what will they think of next? And I do a a couple of their CD's, horrible music, ain't got no emotion, no soul, what is it? http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/audioproducts/deepcleaningsystem.php

So that's what the medicine man was working on, while smoking some natural herbs, he was thinking how great his room sounded, cus' it musta' been the shape right? http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/audioproducts/cablelifts.php

I'm probably the last person to find out that one can listen to FLAC, OGG through iPod by installing Rockbox. But I can't help but be skeptical... does Rockbox just let iPod play these files as is, or is there some file-to-file conversion process which would change/degrade SQ? I'd love to try this, but not at the cost of losing SQ...

And the listing proudly mentions that the collection includes American Idol albums. THERE's an incentive to spend that $3M. But all kidding aside, I'm sure there are bound to be killer music in there, not to mention ultra-collectible stuff. But I'm willing to bet that most of us wouldn't care for like 80% of the collection.

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