Wes Montgomery and Milt Jackson "Bags Meets Wes" Keepnews Collection cd

Flora Purim "Carry On" Warner Bros. Japan lp facsimile cd

Flora Purim "Nothing Will Be as it was Tomorrow" Warner Bros. cd

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If you poke around different sellers have various changes. Some have no longer ship to your selected country ( USA ) , some items have gigantic price increases on shipping or item itself and some have only a small % increase.

Some things will still be a decent value even with small increase in price but others not so much. I think there will be changes and adjusting for sellers until they figure it all out. Like is it worth it to keep selling to USA or anywhere, how long can we absorb some loss before waiving white flag etc

Im worried more about stores that havent updated info yet and get caught with unexpected extra costs after item has already shipped.

The current fashion is to play Bruckner's monumental 8th symphony with the reverence and solemnity typically reserved for Bach's Passions. But that hasn't always been the case.



On CD.

A couple generations ago conductors like Eugen Jochum took a more lyrical approach to the 8th. While the big moments certainly get their due, the overall effect less prayerful, more picnic. And the early stereo sound on this CD is excellent.

Yup, that's what a 145% (+ a bit more) tariff on Chinese goods looks like to a U.S. consumer.

HK

This was great!  I loved the part where the guy was hosting an audio listening session, and he had everyone moving around to find the sweet spot

The line, "a dream... a dream of perfection", pretty much sums it up for all of us, doesn't it?

Thanks for posting, Kamran!

P.S.  I would love to have been in the audio store, shown at the end.  One of my all time favorite speakers is shown there - the Wharfedale SFB/3 open baffle!

Anyone try to buy from Aliexpress recently?  I went in to pick up some copper banana connectors, added them to my cart to find out what our new tariffs look like.  $13.00 set of 4 bananas, $1.14 tax, $1.20 shipping and $23.40 customs fee!  That for a $13.00 item.  Trade war has arrived at our door.  Grrrrrrr….

Please reframe from the political debates/opinions I just wanted to inform USA audio shoppers what our China tariff reality is now.

I've spilled a lot of virtual ink on Wilhelm Furtwangler lately, and now my other favorite conductor, Ferenc Fricsay. Unfortunately he died much too young and his recordings remain mostly on the fringe of the classical listening world, but many of them are remarkable.



On CD from the Ferenc Fricsay box.

Schubert's Unfinished Symphony is one of the most recorded works in the repertoire, and I have a bunch of them, but this is my favorite. Recorded in good mono sound it is a journey from darkness to light like no other.