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The greatest thing we can share with our community is the music that moved us in 2020. We make no pretense that this is the "Best Music of 2020" but from the TMR family to you, this is our list of the music that moved us in this strange year (in no particular order): TMR's Favorite Albums of 2020 All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal (Blues Rock / Psychedelic) Fleet Foxes - Shore (Indie Folk) Boniface - Boniface (Deluxe) (Alternative) Holy Motors - Horse (Dark Twang) Moses Sumney - græ ( Indie Rock / Folk) Colter Wall: Western Swings & Waltzes (Western / Country) Mulatu Astatke - To Know Without Knowing (Ethiopian Jazz) Glass Animals- Dreamland (Psychedelic Pop / Electronic) Sylvan Esso - Free Love (Electropop) Orville Peck - Show Pony - EP (Country)

For out first week of 2021, I picked one of my fav's. Aja is a go to for testing systems. Give it a listen, but think about it technically, the mixing, engineering, how does information on the left and right channels differ? Things like that. One of my favorite things about this album is the use of negative space. Those little delays where there are no notes, but has big impact on the track. Post your impressions! Let us know how you are listening, too. Vinyl? CD? SACD? Streaming? 8-Track? Side one 1."Black Cow"5:10 2."Aja"7:57 3."Deacon Blues"7:33 Side two 4."Peg"3:58 5."Home at Last"5:34 6."I Got the News"5:06 7."Josie" Steely Dan Donald Fagen – lead vocals (all tracks), synthesizer (all tracks but 4), police whistle (2), backing vocals (2, 5, 7) Walter Becker – bass guitar (3), guitar (2), guitar solo (5, 6, 7) Additional musicians Victor Feldman – Fender Rhodes (1, 3, 7), vibraphone (5, 6), piano (5, 6), percussion (2, 4) Joe Sample – Fender Rhodes (2), clavinet (1) Paul Griffin – Fender Rhodes (4), backing vocals (4) Michael Omartian – piano (2) Don Grolnick – clavinet (4) Larry Carlton – guitar (1, 2, 3, 5, 7), guitar solo (6) Lee Ritenour – guitar (3) Dean Parks – guitar (3, 6, 7) Steve Khan – guitar (4) Denny Dias – guitar (2) Paul Humphrey – drums (1) Rick Marotta – drums (4) Ed Greene – drums (6) Steve Gadd – drums (2) Bernard Purdie – drums (3, 5) Jay Graydon – guitar solo (4) Chuck Rainey – bass guitar (all but track 3) Jim Keltner – drums, percussion (7) Gary Coleman – percussion (4) Tom Scott – tenor saxophone (1), Lyricon (4), horn arrangements Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone (2) Pete Christlieb – tenor saxophone (3) Jim Horn, Bill Perkins, Plas Johnson, Jackie Kelso – saxophone, flute Chuck Findley, Lou McCreary, Dick Hyde – brass Michael McDonald (4, 6), Timothy B. Schmit (2, 5, 7), Clydie King (1, 3, 6), Sherlie Matthews (1, 3, 6), Venetta Fields (1, 3, 6), Rebecca Louis (1, 6) – backing vocals Production Executive producer: Stephen Diener [ABC Records] Producer: Gary Katz Engineers: Roger Nichols, Elliot Scheiner, Al Schmitt, Bill Schnee Assistant engineers: Joe Bellamy, Lenise Bent, Ken Klinger, Ron Pangaliman, Ed Rack, Linda Tyler Mastering: Bernie Grundman Production coordination: Barbara Miller Sound consultant: Dinky Dawson Consultant: Daniel Levitin Horn arrangements: Tom Scott Art direction: Oz Studios,[9] Vartan Reissue Design: Patricia Mitsui, Geoff Westen Photography: Hideki Fujii (cover photo), Walter Becker, Dorothy A. White Liner notes: Walter Becker, Donald Fagen Reissue coordination: Beth Stempel

I never liked the rules.

Maybe we should have a Nelion Audio Fest instead. Screw those jerks.

More suggestions, please.

Sir, YOU have become a Snob.

SNOB: ...a person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people. "a musical snob" MISOPHONIA: ...a strong dislike or hatred of specific sounds. Imagine if a sound could make you panic or fly into a rage. I'm thinking you have a touch of the latter. Maybe we all do?

Awesome! Yes, I'll put that in. A's are covered!

Different versions? Sure! That will be a big part. Blow by Blow works awesome for the first B.

Since we have 52 weeks in a year, let's start off 2021 with a new Carver Site! feature. A different album to listen to and critique for a week. Alphabetically by album title. First week of 2021 will be Steely Dan's 'Aja'. I think we all know it (or of it). Let's dive in and say what we like or don't like about this classic. Starts 01/01/2021. Not now. Lets get some things in order first. Like what will be the other A? Or the first B? I'm reserving the first D to be DSOTM. Just sayin'. I'd really like to have some diversity here, get everyone to listen to an old favorite in a new way or be introduced to a new favorite. Let's hear some suggestions! Remember- it's alphabetical, by album name. We need two of each letter for 2021. Zoot Allures comes to mind for a Z. You get the idea. Each one gets to be featured for a week, discuss it to death, then move on. Cool?

Looks like I'm late to this party, so, WELCOME rcdarcy! Glad you found us! I have a full SoundStream SystemOne going as a bedroom system, C-1, T-1, DA-1, R-1. Sounds great through ADS L-730 speakers. At last count I had 16 C-1's, 7 T-1's, 6 DA-1's, 5 DA-2's and a bunch of other stuff. I must ask, why are you ending your quest? What direction are you going in? While I'm not buying any more C-1's or T-1's, what are you asking? Just to help those here, that SoundStream gear is quite decent. They are both remote capable, the tuner only remote via the preamp, by the way.

I can do Taco Tuesday again.

Capacitance is more dependent on your cables, IIRC.

I'd like to put my name on 11. I'm hoping someone wants to share. There are two bedrooms and a couple of futons. Must like dogs.

Welcome! I believe I might be helping you expand your inventory. M-1.0t, maybe? Rob's already a goner, but what a way to go...

OK, If we're going down THAT hole, here's the all-time champ:

No.

Not so bad, IMHO.