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In the cat's defense, there was no more practical way to get on top of the speaker.

"I'm gonna scratch the shit out of those speaker grills."

I don't know what this says about me that I'm almost done listening to it, and I'm still not sure if it's serious or not. So A+ for artiste-ness and straight-faced delivery. Unrelated: have you ever listened to my ..."album"?

I love seeing Kaki King play. I've seen her in smallish places but not in front of only 50 people! In SF she draws much bigger. She's most often been quite chatty at shows I've seen.

Saw Kaki King last night, small venue in Southern Maine about 1.5 miles from my condo. She is so good! I described it on FB as feeling like being by a lake with gentle waves lapping onto the shore - at least her mellower songs. Then she would break out into her frenetic playing with body hits for rhythm, and fast finger moving and fret-playing. She even got pretty talkative with the audience. I guess it was her 3rd time playing the place; maybe 50 people there, but they were true fans.

Reminds me a bit of Caspar Brotzmann Massacre, without.....a lot......

It sounds AIsh

Jazz Standards to Kill Yourself To (Full Album) “Free Black Metal is a subgenre of metal that uses entirely improvised songwriting, akin to Free Jazz.” 00:00 Autumn Leaves 4:54 All The Things You Are 10:49 Giant Steps 14:01 So What 22:50 Blue In Green

Couldn't afford a video but it's still a vibe.

Yay Ben Webster!

Hey we are back!!! Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson by Ben Webster (1959) https://open.qobuz.com/album/0060253773074 Example: Friday coolness.

Not serious, but true. Oh! Well I wasn't alive back then, so that's my excuse (for not knowing that). I did say "AFAIK", so that's just not very far, innit. 🙃 Me now: not sure who this is, but I dig it: https://tidal.com/artist/57622719/u

Not serious, but true. 1954: Capitol issued Classics in Jazz: Miles Davis (T-762), compiling the 12 recordings from the famous Birth of the Cool sessions. Later in 1957: Capitol retitled/reissued the LP as Birth of the Cool. Cool is so much cooler.

These are available for preorder now: https://apos.audio/products/sjy-argos-electrostatic-headphones?utm_campaign=hyperfuse_last_day+%2801KZW4554JVNW58G1HET4TN43W%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alex_nongdpr_never_subbed_active_180&_kx=cd77Rbf3yu6_OAujM-M4VU1ihuQFsjtyVcb-jl8r-OKxvi62Czezy2yxdLQUUnAj.Ldk8SW&variant=48186260947180 List price is 1800$... yeah no that is a hard pass for me. Just as a point of reference, how bad this has to be for me not to buy one. I'm a degenerate electrostatic headphone collector with pretty much every set ever made in my collection... even weird prototypes which never went anywhere.

It was mostly adjusting the design to different parts and the weird stuff were the PCB caps that Stax decided to use... plus the enlarged the amp chassis for no particular reason. In terms of being better than the 252S... nope.

@Spritzer. What's the weird stuff added to the Stax SRM-270S? Does it make it sound better than the Stax SRM-252S?

Um...Not sure if you're serious, so will play the straight man: The Birth of the Cool is the first of many of Miles Davis' seminal albums. AFAIK, it's always been called that.

Thank god they renamed it from Classics in Jazz: Miles Davis

A guy on reddit rehoused Alec 604e in new enclosures:

Miles Davis, The Complete Birth of the Cool Music on TIDALMiles Davis - The Complete Birth Of The CoolListen to The Complete Birth Of The Cool on TIDAL

Meanwhile ... Ars TechnicaFCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair...FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be "technologically neutral."

This. and just to show the contrast of the passage of 16 years ...

who doesn't want to be faster?