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To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo. No idea, I sold my copy long ago. According to AMG it was mastered by Steve Rooke. The Let It Be - Naked was perhaps one of the most disappointing releases I ever bought. It. Sucked. And that after all the anticipation. Life could be so much easier ... THe thing about Let it be Naked that is not so obvious until you buy it - is that this is not just Let it Be stripped of the Spector added sounds - these are in fact different takes of the tunes in several cases - so it's not just naked - it's different and whether you prefer the Naked versions is up to you. I would have preferred that the Spectored versions would have been stripped - but that's not what happened. The sound, on the other hand, is so much better than any version of LIB out now. You're right about the Naked version being a totally different animal - and in my opinion not a good one at that - but I disagree with you 100% about the sound; to my ears it's atrocious, with all the life sucked out of the music, and certainly not better than the "regular" Let It Be.

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo. No idea, I sold my copy long ago. According to AMG it was mastered by Steve Rooke.

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo. No idea, I sold my copy long ago.

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo.

Yes, just had some of that half an hour ago. Before it worked alright. Some of that today. Very slow. It's pretty bad at the moment, it's very slow and it's regularly timing out - again...

According to a poster on the Hoffman forum Terry Teachout's Louis Armstrong bio was published a while ago. Has anyone read it yet? Opinions? Publishers Weekly Amazon.com

In fact the most recent version of this title (TOCJ 8585) seems to be not so expensive, and recently released so easy to find. I've only heard the JRVG so I can't vouch for it or indeed for any of these TOCJ 8000 series. Has anyone bought any of these? Edited to add link to full list of available TOCJ in release order on hmv.co.jp. Others may find this interesting. A Japanese contact told me that the TOCJ-8XXX series uses the same 24-bit masterings as the TOCJ-6XXX series from the early 2000s, but don't take my word for it. I bought and subsequently sold many of those TOCJ-6XXX CDs; they sounded harsh and very loud to me, with reduced dynamics.

Yep, digipaks are a disaster in that respect.

Yep, got this good news from him too.

So do I.

Noise reduction does not remove "higher frequencies information" unless that's where you use it. Current software is far more sophisticated than that. I know, but to my ears the Holiday box (the big one) sounds as if it was used there (followed by a frequency bump that made her voice and some instruments sound harsh), that's why I put it like that - perhaps too simplified.

Not to start a discussion or even a fight about it, but how can you compensate for something that isn't there anymore? Simply put, one of the problems with noise reduction is that it removes higher frequencies information and what isn't there anymore can't be retrieved. I'm not saying ít's what you're doing (that's why I'm asking ), but just bumping the higher frequencies doesn't do the trick, the musical info that is lost cannot be regained. Just curious.

Nice to see you're using the British-English spelling of "spelt"

The album title is Congliptious, and it does appear on Chuck's Art Ensemble box. See also this thread.

Mosaic's "Last Chance" page

Sure, no problem. It seems to me that Mark did politely ask you to edit it. Were you the one who deleted it, or someone else? See the small print in the first post - Larry Kart, who's a moderator here, deleted the content, not the post, otherwise the whole thread would have been gone.

If you were not unaware that it was a violation of board policy, then why did you post the whole interview? Just curious

No, that would be their upcoming Henry Threadgill box, which includes recordings from 1994-1996.

Thanks Larry. As Brownie said, a very wise decision. We don't need stuff like that on the open forum. Back to the Ladnier book

As much as I like Lacy's work, I don't think I'd buy a set with all those unavoidable Irene Aebi vocals...

Why don't you make a suggestion to Mosaic? It'd be a nice boxed set.

"Redmon" I thought you had the book, or did you return it?

I couldn't access the board until now, I kept getting the message: "IPS Driver Error There appears to be an error with the database." The board is very slow here now and it's regularly timing out.

Amazing, isn't it

It would have had to have been. The only passing trade in Looe is in mackeral. Hm, I don't remember the records being smelly. Maybe I didn't notice - I quite liked mackerel at the time