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The data is the data. Improving the reading of the data doesn't change the data itself, it just makes it easier to read. Let's say that the data on a CD is not music. Let's say it's a .doc file. If this disc has a thumb print on it that causes readback errors that error correction can fix, you are not going to open a different document. You're gong to get the document - the only document. It will say whatever was written in it when it was saved to that file. It will not change that document to say something completely different. CD music playback is simply a way to open a file. Unlike a file like a .doc file, these files are opened sequentially. That is the only difference between CD playback and opening a file. A document file gets opened and buffered until the whole file is read. CD "files" (music files) open as they're read. Let me ask you to try this instead. Take one of your messed up CDs and rip a track to a .WAV file. Then, clean it up. After, rip that same track to .WAV file again. Play those two ,WAV files and hear for yourself.

Ruby Braff “I Hear Music” Arbors cd A great swinging date with a tight band. Bass – John Beal Tenor sax - Tommy Newsome Cornet – Ruby Braff Drums – Tony Denicola Guitar – Bucky Pizzarelli Piano – Bill Charlap Vocals – Daryl Sherman (one track) Recorded July 28, 2000.

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COLD. It’s going to be one of those winters (as I keep finding myself thinking and repeating to myself). Starting a day listeninig as Lucinda takes her first nap. . . a disc I haven’t heard long enough for it to be a joy to me after decades of listening to it. And in my favorite edition: a JVC XRCD in lp facsimile. There’s just a deeper soundstage to this mastering, and little details that reveal texture. . . I love the sound of this disc. Steamin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet LP facsimile XRCD

That's the response I always get. Then please explain to me why we hear a difference. And how does error correction react to changes in the data it reads. The signal reading is improved. Like removing a fingerprint or the like. With Exact Audio Copy you copy the flaws, too, possibly.

At least Kansas City is in Kansas as well as Missouri. They could move to Kansas and still legitimately be called the Kansas City Chiefs. Two "New York" teams have their home field in New Jersey. They should be called the New Jersey Giants and New Jersey Jets. The only team that should be called "New York" is the Bills.

Ripping hard-to-play CD-Rs in a PC drive using Exact Audio Copy can allow you to rip that disc because it does multiple reads of problematic areas and can maybe get that data off. In my experience, it doesn't work often. I found that turning on burst mode helps but with burst mode on, you can get click-filled audio too.

Piano Trio No.6 & No.7

DEJAVue Records (Italy) DJV 2000027 - Basso-Valdambrino Quintet - rec. Milano 1959 - Engineer: Alberto Angelini

Thanks for your suggestions. This is more or less what I was afraid the turnout would be. Though I really cannot see how the disc that plays with that significant distortions can be ripped or copied to give better results on the disc the files are copied to. In fact I had already tried to copy one of the affected CD-Rs via my CD burner but the burner refused to continue after the first reading step. The sound distortion is hard to describe but is just what it was on the occasional CD-R that had failed in the past (after a couple of years). Except that on those older CD-Rs the sound got worse towards the final tracks (indicating that data had started to fail from the outer edge towards the center) . Whereas with the CD-Rs I recently got and turned out to be bad, the sound improved towards the final tracks (without getting perfect), which to me seems to indicate that the center area where the label clearly had started to peel was affected more because the CD rotates faster when the laser reads the music data in that zone and slower as it advances towards the outer edge. On one CD-R (that I found a bit more important to salvage, though it is no desert island CD either ) I tried to remove the label manually but it was only the already detached section that came off (both round the center hole and near the edges). But that neither improved nor worsened the playback sound. So I guess I'll at least try to make "next-generation" CD-R copies of those that are still intact. In preparation of other CD-Rs that might come my way from that source and that might be historically more important to safeguard for the future. (Different story ... )

More details? Hand-printed sleeves, sealed, open, condition, what the sleeves look like?I know I can do this myself, but would you be willing to at least post pictures of the album sleeves? The atcual albums?

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Incredible icon of jazz and beyond, incredibly cool photo. His outfit hasn't changed one bit!

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Now the Chiefs are thinking about moving over the line to Kansas. As Chiefs talks ramp up in Kansas, Missouri officials rush to respond

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Just played Thumbscrew's version of Effi - good stuff.

Thanks for the reminder - haven't listened to this wonderful set in a while.

My all time favorite bossa nova record Always liked Ray Draper. Jazz tuba!

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming, primarily to bask in the Mark Knopfler guitar work.