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maybe they should've gotten robbie fulks to play on it.

i was fortunate enough to catch nels' set there the night or two after wilco's nye msg show a few years back. great night and a cool bar. looks like they wanna try to open elsewhere at least.

Dear Musicians, Fans and Friends: After more than 9 years as a home for avant-garde, creative, and experimental music, Tonic will reluctantly close its doors on Friday, April 13th, 2007. We simply can no longer afford the rent and all of the other costs associated with doing business on the Lower East Side. The neighborhood around us has been increasingly consumed by "luxury condominiums", boutique hotels and glass towers, all making the value of our salvaged space worth more then our business could ever realistically support. We have also been repeatedly harassed by the city

the proposition junebug proof sherman's march

the drones are great but gala mill seems to recycle too many musical ideas for me when compared to "wait by the river..." that being said i just watched the movie "the proposition" and the last song from gala mill is their interpretation of the movie and is as good as any dylan song.

at this very second , will is banging that cowbell in sync with spiders. i'm mesmerized.

it was great show. good venue as well as long as you're not under the balcony on the sides. very boomy there.

7/4/01 is grant park, right? that one is killer. airline to heaven and feed of man blow me away.

answering my own question somewhat i found this out. rti does most of the matador releases and i've loved all the rti pressings i've bought so this bodes well. "The new LP was mastered by Stan Ricker, pressed at RTI." from stevehoffman forums.

highly recommend this but can't believe they didn't release more copies of roots and crowns. it sold out quickly.

we need some ylt reissues pronto! although, since many weren't on matador it might make it difficult. matador does vinyl right. love the included downloads.

deerhunter cryptograms

that would be sweet.

agib and yhf are held in pretty high regards on audiophile forums. never heard anyone claim summerteeth or being there as being well mixed and mastered. i don't think they're bad but just not as good as agib or yhf. but you're welcome to prefer music to sound like you want it to. in fact it would be easy to make agib or yhf sound like you want it to if you have soundforge. i think audicity for mac os might be able to add compression as well.

i haven't noticed that but i'd have to get the cd out to compare. the heavier weight shouldn't make a big difference in turntable speed. it can throw off the vta a little and if the vta was already on the edge of acceptable it might push it over the edge with a thicker lp compared to normal, 120gm lps. vta (vertical tracking angle) problems can dull or distort the sound i believe but don't know about causing a pitch problem.

hey that cover looks like this:

john cage bubblegum rocks. how did i miss this band until this year?

no problem i'm enjoying the discussion. yes, i do believe sacd and dvd-a can match the warmth of vinyl playback on the right equipment. i still marvel at how good some of the rvg engineered jazz reissues sound on sacd but not all sound great. many of the really great sounding ones were mastered on analog equipment after the dsd conversion. same goes for the incredible sounding ccr releases, also mastered on analog equipment. however, willie and the poor boys was transfered flat to dsd with no extra mucking about according to the mastering engineer, steve hoffman. but to note, all of those jazz

= me (no offense to the monkeys out there)

yeh but wasn't abbey road recorded before let it be? or am i imagining remembering that? that would mean there's an album in the can already. anyone got a boot?

it is. it's their first album of 2007.

i didn't make the analogy of analog =good/ digital= crap. someone else did. there can be really good digital recordings but they won't sound as good as a really good analog recording. i do believe the "hype" as it is based on actual measurable differences as was more succinctly and correctly described by mr sears in his writings. i also believe my ears. the best sounding albums and cds i own are analog recordings. i apologize for not being able to track down many of the more inclusive articles i've read over the years. there are a lot more discussions that i couldn't track down. as to dv

another pertinent passage: "Why do vacuum tubes sound 'different' than transistors in audio applications? Russell Hamm and I published our research in the May 1973 issue of the Audio Engineering Society Journal. We had been curious for years about why transistors sounded so different. Our research, which is often quoted and mis-quoted, revealed some interesting facts. Attack transients (initial wave front information) from a good microphone can hit your mic pre-amp at plus 90 dB. The poor amplifier, whether tube or transistor, can pass about 40 dB. The rest is clipped. Clipping the exces

http://www.segall.com/atr.html here's a brief discussion on sampling rates and how the cd medium is limited by such.