by Michael

Dylan

OK, this may be weird, but I have noticed this for many, MANY years, whenever I see Dylan on video.

When I watch a performer on TV, I just naturally look at their faces, and especially the eyes, because, well, what else is there to look at right?

And they might be bored (Sinatra, in his later years, for example. HOW this turned me off to that whole generation of music when I was young. How FAKE).

They might be putting on a show (Jagger).

They might be trying to sex an audience (many women singers)

The might be totally professional (Madonna)

But Dylan. His eyes…

I can’t figure him out.

It is not exactly like he is spacing out, though it is kinda like that.

It is kind of like he is in agony… but not exactly like that either.

The video they just had during fund raising, on PBS, was at… Newport… early in his career. But I think I remember him still looking like this.

It is almost like he is a kid up in front of his class in school, or something. Alert, but kind of shy, and not sure how people are going to react from second to second…

Anyway, anyone else notice how he his stage presence is so different from everyone else’s?

Anyone? Or is it just me? 🙂

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 by Michael

CES 2008 etc

At this time of year we get preoccupied with CES, what to take, how to get it there, what to ship and what to put in the car, will there be SNOW between us and Vegas, and how MUCH….

The Odin is still settling in on Kharma system. After such an intense burn-in process, it helps to just leave them in one place for a week or two.

We put the Emm Labs CDSA on the system with the ODIN, so we have CDSA -> Audio Note Ongaku. A little more detail, a little less warmth.

Detail fans are just going to go ga-ga over the Odin, especially the interconnect. There is so much more on the CD and LP than I ever had imagined – and I thought we had pretty high resolution here before …

And, as you can quite imagine, looking at Nordost’s line of cables as it extends up through Valhalla – the ODIN has w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l tone.

The Jorma Prime might have more emotion (though we haven’t done the shootout yet) but the musicality and tone on the Odin is way, Waaaay out there – very close to the real thing – recorded electric guitars really invoke the sound of my old electric guitar and amp [over and over again, it is not like it sounded like this once, on one CD, but many times, many CDs, springing out at me when I was just listening casually], significantly unlike anything I have heard.

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 by Michael

Fraudulent amps up on Ebay

We got a email (thanks Erick!) pointing us to an ad on Ebay that has someone selling amps that list for $30K for $2K.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lamm-ML2-1-monoblock-power-amplifier_W0QQitemZ250195088459QQihZ015QQcategoryZ67786QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Don’t know if they are stolen or non-existent, or the seller is just crazy.

But the old adage that if something looks too good to be true…. well, there is a reason that these old sayings are still around.

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