by Michael

Quartet Equinox – Philip's Wish SACD (hybrid)

We were sent this nice CD from www.QuartetEquinox.com.


It is definitely audiophile grade. Lots of separation and very quiet backgrounds.


The music itself is a mix, mostly quiet jazz but a few numbers are, well, now as quiet. Still, every song would do well at an audiophile show. Sort of in the Diana Krall kind of genre but without any singing.


I played this for a group of people the same night we heard the new Frampton and new Hendrix.

This Quartet Equinox SACD is definitively a very high quality recording. As good as the new FIM? Yes, could be. A little hard to tell with just this one CD, and with not very complex music. But it is indeed very close… a contender!

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 by Michael

The Vegetarian Point of View

.. on the oil-spill.

Or, more precisely on the coverage of all the birds and crabs etc. covered in oil.

See, all these people are upset… upset that some of these animals might die…

…upset that they might die and nobody gets to EAT THEM that is.

🙂

Meat-eating announcers moaning over ‘innocent’ animals being potentially harmed by what is to large extent an act of God, who then go home and eat cow tummies and chicken breasts that night which we slaughter by the millions.

Oh, the irony. The Irony!

🙂

[Sorry, I know sanctimonious TV news is all the rage . We’re green and love the environment more than most – putting our money where our sentiments are – but seriously… if you ain’t vegetarian (or vegan) you should probably focus your whining on the plight of the fisherman and tourist industry – and leave the whining about animals to us veggies.]

😉

[now that Neli is logging in and editing my posts – let’s just see how long this post stays here :-)]

[yes, back to audio. We have a few CD reviews coming up, and the M9Phono / S9 have just returned to the big system …]

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 by Michael

Most expensive stereos…

Actually most of the entries are just expensive speakers [and the Supremes are $350K, not 180] and they left out the Kharmas [I emailed them, but people only have so much time to put into each article, don’t I know it :-)]

most expensive home stereos

Interesting, though, some of these make sense, some of these shock me, some of them I roll my eyes at, and some I hadn’t heard of and would love to hear sometime 🙂

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