2025 remaster of NRBQ’s 1992 live CD, with two previously unreleased tracks. I bought the 24-bit/44.1k FLAC download from ProStudioMasters dot com. I never fully realized how muddy the 1992 CD sounds until I heard the dynamic new remaster.
… And speaking of dynamic, why hasn’t this stellar early Steely Dan concert received an official release?
Thank you. ![]()
Sublime music on a picture postcard afternoon sitting on my deck. A My Father, The Judge Nicaraguan Cigar in hand!
Cannonball Adderley “Know What I Mean?” Analogue Productions SACD
Not really one of my favorite Cannonball or Evans date. . . but a famous one, in great SACD sound.
What a lineup of musicians! 1960.
As HDTT describes: “When you talk about jazz in 1960, you’re talking about a music in transition. Bebop had already reshaped the landscape, hard bop was thriving, modal experiments were breaking ground, and the avant-garde was stirring restlessly. In the midst of all this, One Foot in the Gutter appeared, not as a revolutionary manifesto, but as a down-to-earth, swinging, soulful document of jazz as a living language.”
Max Richter - Sleep Circles
For the first time I think, it’s an absolutely pristine copy from Deutsche Grammophon, they absolutely nailed this one.
In spring, summer and fall, I listen to music outside as much as inside. I very much enjoy my relatively simpler outdoor system.
The fun thing is my new Lumin U2 streamer makes a big improvement on my outside system (much less on the big rig). I use digital volume control outside, controlled, of course, through my phone. The U2 has a LEEDH volume control. It works well out here.



















