Ron S

I also have a Stearns & Foster King Size, but mine's an "Easton" model. Great beds. Cost a bit more than Sealy, Serta, Simmons, etc., but worth it (considering you'll sleep on it every night for decades). One cool thing about S&F: unlike the other companies, they have a consistent coding system for their model names that applies across all retail outlets (the other companies do not have any consistency of model names among different stores, so it's almost impossible to do an apples-to-apples price comparison). So although the S&F model names may vary among stores, the first initials of comparable models are always the same, and you can do a rational price comparison. I.e., Jim's mattress set was called "Knightsbridge" where he bought it, whereas in another store it may be called the "Kingspoint" and in still another it may be the "Kentland", but S&F makes clear that all the "K" models are exactly the same. This isn't true for Sealy, Serta, etc., making shopping for them a nightmare.

In honor of its soon becoming OOP, J.J. Johnson, discs 1-4: Great set. Get it before it's too late ('cept for Ebay).

I don't want you wear the belt buckle in your home--just when you're out in public.

Hope you had a very happy birthday, Flurin! Just because it was your birthday, I won't call you Floren this time.

Happy Birthday, Erik! By the way, when you do finally get that Zweitausendeins order, you'll find that I asked Stephan to throw in a little something extra as a birthday present for you: (I guess having to wait for that to be shipped from Austin to Germany delayed your order a bit. ) I expect you to wear that with pride the next time you visit College Station. Have a great birthday, Erik!

Not sure about that. It seems that at least half the set is no longer available on cd. And what you can find is sold at high prices. In that case, the defense rests. Act now. Comes down to money. What my wallet can't afford, I do not need. On the other hand, you could just cut back a bit on the light beer for a while (it's not like you can really taste that shit, anyway).

Dude, you listen to MP3s all day--what do you care? Just kidding. It sounds great to me. My concerns mirror those of SS. This set was mastered in 1996. As far as the Mosaic website states, it doesn't appear to have been mastered in 20-bit or 24-bit. Can we get some other comments on the mastering? (Ron S likes everything! ) Not true! I'm actually pretty picky about sound quality. But you shouldn't get carried away with mastering dates and bit-rates--they're only numbers. The proof is in the listening. For example, the Shelly Manne Black Hawk CDs are still among the best-sounding CDs available, and they were mastered in the early '90's, presumably at only 16-bit resolution. You guys with only Blue Note CDs in your collection have been taken in by the RVG "latest-is-greatest" marketing machine, and assume that unless a CD was mastered in 24-bit resolution last month, it doesn't sound good. Many of the audiophiles on this Board will tell you that it just ain't so (Hans, where are you?). And the JJ set sounds as good or better than many of the 24-bit CDs in my collection. So there!

Dude, you listen to MP3s all day--what do you care? Just kidding. It sounds great to me.

From the Mosaic web site:

If he had picked up a soprano sax instead, he'd be a future you-know-who.

Erik, you gotta get the J.J. set. Have you had any recent communication with Stephan about the zweitausendeins order?

The audio of this Kessel/Green/Burrell performance ("Blue Mist", recorded at Ronnie Scott's in '69) is now available--with excellent sound--as a "bonus" track on this Gambit CD:

Mildred's gone. Wonder how long until J.J. is.

It SUCKS. The old Fantasy site had an elegant simplicity sorely lacking on the Concord site.

I'm and idiot in two (count 'em, two) centuries. Y'all should know that by now. Hell, two centuries--how about two millennia?

Don't think he can do that for the "Last Waltz" set--it never was in big box format.

He's a record producer, Dude! Try Googling him. (How many beers you had so far tonight? )

"There can be some exceptions such as when a set is returned and that number is then recirculated back into the system." So we're BOTH right! Meanwhile.......I just placed my JJJ order. I think I should have it by Friday or Monday. I wonder what number it will be. A "good one", I hope. But definitely higher than 4860, right? Do we have that straight now???

"There can be some exceptions such as when a set is returned and that number is then recirculated back into the system." So we're BOTH right! Meanwhile.......I just placed my JJJ order. I think I should have it by Friday or Monday. I wonder what number it will be.

Nope--they're going from preprinted numbers to NO numbers on the Selects. And for anyone interested in joining me in a bet against BFrank and Free For All on whether Mosaic ships the big boxes in numerical order, see this.

I'm with Free on this. I think it has been determined that they don't necessarily ship the big boxes in numerical order. Care to place a bet on that? (And FWIW, a definitive anwer to this question was obtained from Mosaic and posted in this forum some time ago. )

FWIW, I got it last July when it first went into "Running Low", and my set is number 4278. So they've sold about 600 sets since then.

Actually, it was determined that they do ship the big boxes in numerical order. It's the Selects that aren't shipped in numerical order (and in fact won't be numbered at all with the newest Selects). Like most of the recently OOP Mosaic sets, it sounds like the J.J. Johnson set is timing out without reaching it's full potential run of 7500 copies, and Mosaic is merely selling off whatever they have left from the last production run.