I know you've all missed me on this board lately. Sorry, but I've been scouring the earth for new vinyl treasures for the last couple of weeks and have returned home with about 400 more sonically superior but space hogging LP's. I was lucky enough to find some original Sun Ra Arkestra discs on the El Saturn label - very rare! I was also able to replace about 30 CD's with this hunting trip. Interestingly, one of the LP's I bought sounded less good than its corresponding CD. I looked up to see if the moon was blue!

I'm finding more and more people with turntables these days! There's a lot to choose from. Said people are figuring out the digital hype and turning to a superior sonic experience. One new convert found a vintage Miles Davis LP that was beat to hell. His comment was that even with all the surface noise, the music sounded more real than the CD.

For those of you into jazz and are in the St Louis area, check out Euclid Records. They have an entire basement well stocked with competitively priced jazz vinyl and I spent a goodly chunk of change there. Definitely worth the trip.