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Kara Swisher on CNN.

Your Friends & Neighbors - season 2 (Apple+)

The answers to that really depend on your budget and just how finicky you are about high end audio equipment and 'audiophile' issues of the diminishing returns variety. For me the answers to both of your questions are yes.

Is it possiblet to get great sound from a CD player without an external DAC? Is a CD player with a built in DAC at 2 grand a waste of cash?

I won't mention any names but Phil Freeman is a know-nothing, with a vengeance.

Time for some Wayne Shorter, and one that I haven’t listened to in a while, “Schizophrenia.” I think the title keeps me away from pulling this out at times, in my past I had an intimate knowledge of that disease. . . . This is a great one with Spaulding, Fuller, Hancock, Carter and Chambers. Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

Despite being recorded on a little cassette deck, yes it’s “listenable”. Evan is peaking madly here. Great performance.

April 19 Czesław Bartkowski - 1943

I've enjoyed the Yusef Lateef, Mal Waldron, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Michel Petrucciani immensely. I have been impressed with disc 1 of the Henderson, I haven't yet played the Cecil Taylor set.

shop here sold out of the Cecil before I could get over there... drat. If anyone has a line on a copy I would be appreciative!

Hell yeah!!!

Back in the day, I scoffed at this record. But no longer! Aqui lo tienes!

Lucinda Williams: So Much Trouble In The World (cover of Bob Marley song)