erwbol Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 They are both atrocious in different ways. I cherish the Impulse APO Hybrid SACDs that are in my collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted October 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Well no way will this set be an upgrade on those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I just want the Rivers, damn you Universal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Not such a good idea then. Order canceled. If you have free shipping from amazon.de you can buy the set at pre-order price, keep it unsealed and then if the reviews are bad, return it. I think you have 30 days for return, and it should be free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Not such a good idea then. Order canceled. If you have free shipping from amazon.de you can buy the set at pre-order price, keep it unsealed and then if the reviews are bad, return it. I think you have 30 days for return, and it should be free. But you do have to pay the shipping yourself (unless you receive damaged goods, then they give you a refund for the shipping expenses). With such a set, shipping won't be cheap ... (and in my case, add official bribing of what are known as the infamous custom nazis) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Not such a good idea then. Order canceled. If you have free shipping from amazon.de you can buy the set at pre-order price, keep it unsealed and then if the reviews are bad, return it. I think you have 30 days for return, and it should be free. But you do have to pay the shipping yourself (unless you receive damaged goods, then they give you a refund for the shipping expenses). With such a set, shipping won't be cheap ... (and in my case, add official bribing of what are known as the infamous custom nazis) No, it is free. At least here in Austria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted October 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I just want the Rivers, damn you Universal!Which Rivers is in the set? I didn't manage to work that out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdo Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I just want the Rivers, damn you Universal! Which Rivers is in the set? I didn't manage to work that out... Streams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Not such a good idea then. Order canceled. If you have free shipping from amazon.de you can buy the set at pre-order price, keep it unsealed and then if the reviews are bad, return it. I think you have 30 days for return, and it should be free. But you do have to pay the shipping yourself (unless you receive damaged goods, then they give you a refund for the shipping expenses). With such a set, shipping won't be cheap ... (and in my case, add official bribing of what are known as the infamous custom nazis) No, it is free. At least here in Austria. really? I always paid fully for any returns ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Not such a good idea then. Order canceled. If you have free shipping from amazon.de you can buy the set at pre-order price, keep it unsealed and then if the reviews are bad, return it. I think you have 30 days for return, and it should be free. But you do have to pay the shipping yourself (unless you receive damaged goods, then they give you a refund for the shipping expenses). With such a set, shipping won't be cheap ... (and in my case, add official bribing of what are known as the infamous custom nazis) No, it is free. At least here in Austria. really? I always paid fully for any returns ... The time I returned three Thelonious Monk Black Lion 24bit CDs because one was a CD-R I did not have to pay. Volumes 2 & 3 were still shrink-wrapped. I could simply print out a label that made the postage pre-payed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Oh, wow, must be because I'm not living in the EU then ... didn't know! Several times I returned items where postage cost me 15 or more euros and I got an automated refund for 1.40€ or something like that ... then complained (since I'd received faulty goods, like box-sets with a disc missing) and got the rest of the sum refunded, too - but at the post counter, I always paid myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 It seems such service holds for neighbouring EU countries. I have the same service (free shipping over x amount plus free returns) with amazon.co.uk, but no free shipping with amazon.fr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I get free shipping from neighboring EU countries' amazon sites, too (.it, .fr and .de) - but no free return shipping ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Then perhaps the free returns are due to the Amazon distribution center at the Gyroscoopweg in Amsterdam. There was talk of them opening a Dutch site last year, and Dutch online retailers started preparing by also offering free shipping etc., but the Dutch Amazon site has yet to materialise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted October 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I just want the Rivers, damn you Universal! Which Rivers is in the set? I didn't manage to work that out... Ah. Got the LP. On CD ages ago right? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I just want the Rivers, damn you Universal! Which Rivers is in the set? I didn't manage to work that out... Ah. Got the LP. On CD ages ago right? Thanks. Yes, but I've not checked for it for a while. Heard a friend's LP years ago (it has one big, horrid scratch, alas) and thought it was real good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Streams CD has been out of print for many years. It is a very (the most) attractive piece to this box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
762rob Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 Ordered at Amazon.de US $138.60 including shipping. We'll see if it ever really comes out....lots of announcements over the past 2 years with no results. We'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted December 11, 2013 Report Share Posted December 11, 2013 The price at amazon.de has dropped to euro 64.24. And no, it is still not available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 11, 2013 Report Share Posted December 11, 2013 hum ho ... still a bit too expensive if it's just about a handful of albums ...here's a link:http://www.amazon.de/Impulse-50/dp/B005ORVN1O/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted December 11, 2013 Report Share Posted December 11, 2013 Now they'd have to redo all the cover art, call it 'Impulse 53', and add three more albums in the package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 11, 2013 Report Share Posted December 11, 2013 Yay, could need three more rare ones for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fer Urbina Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) Yesterday I got an alert email from Amazon related to the Impulse 50 box. Alas, it's a new 25-CD box (1961-1974), most (all?) of it available at some point as single CDs. By the look of it, it's based on the original 50-CD project. Info, here. Cheapest price I've seen, on Amazon.de This is how it compares with the original 50-CD set. IMPULSE 50th Anniversary 1961-1974 1. John Coltrane, Ballads 2. Roy Haynes, Out of the Afternoon 3. Quincy Jones, The Quintessence 4. Benny Carter, Further Definitions 5. Freddie Hubbard, The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard 6. Gil Evans, Into the Hot 7. Max Roach, Percussion Bitter Sweet8. Manny Albam, Jazz Goes to the Movies 9. Shelly Manne, 2-3-410. John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 11. Sonny Stitt & Paul Gonsalves, Salt and Pepper 12. Charles Mingus, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus13. Terry Gibbs, Take It From Me 14. McCoy Tyner, Today and Tomorrow15. J.J. Johnson, Proof Positive 16. Chico Hamilton, Passin’ Thru17. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme 18. Shirley Scott, Queen of the Organ19. Yusef Lateef, Live at Pep’s 20. Earl Hines, Once Upon A Time 21. Sonny Rollins & Oliver Nelson, Alfie 22. Stanley Turrentine, Let It Go23. Clark Terry & Chico O’Farrill, Spanish Rice 24. Marion Brown, Three For Shepp 25. Dizzy Gillespie, Swing Low Sweet Cadillac 26a. Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra, 26b. Oliver Nelson, More Blues and The Abstract Truth27. Rolf & Joachim Kuhn Quartet, Impressions of New York 28. Ahmad Jamal Trio, The Awakening 29. Lionel Hampton, You Better Know It!!! 30. Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda31. Pharoh Sanders, Thembi 32. John Klemmer, Waterfalls 33. Archie Shepp, Attica Blues 34. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Jazz!!!!! Messengers!!!!! 35. Gato Barbieri, Chapter 1: Latin America36. Dewey Redman, The Ear of the Behearer 37. Sam Rivers, Streams 38. Gabor Szabo, Gypsy ‘66 39. Danilo Perez, Central Avenue 40. Michael Brecker, Two Blocks From The Edge 41. Alice Coltrane, Translinear Light 42. Jose James & Jef Neve, For All We Know 43. Zoot Sims, Waiting Game 44. Chico O’Farrill, Nine Flags 45. Albert Ayler, In Greenwich Village 46. Tom Scott, Rural Still Life47. Michael White, The Land of Spirit and Light 48. Keith Jarrett, Death and the Flower49. Max Roach – It’s Time 50. Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins F Edited September 9, 2016 by Fer Urbina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisp Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 Sad. Almost all the struck-through titles are the ones I don't have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) Bizarre.  If youre going for the legacy rather than any rarities, the first title you would have on a box like this is "A Love Supreme".  And they delete that and leave in "Ballads"?  Huh?  And you would shortly thereafter add "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady", "Blues and the Abstract Truth", "Karma" and "Four for Trane" (and no doubt others I am forgetting) which are also not present.  Don't understand what the purpose of this box is supposed to be.  it doesn't have rarities or even hard to find titles, and it doesn't have the best or most representative of the label. Edited September 9, 2016 by felser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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