J.A.W.

Just tried again to reply to a message and function not working.. Same here.

Click on the various titles on the playlist in the right-hand column of this page; all albums mentioned there have been issued on CD.

I get that, but it's a problem with my connection - and it's fine this afternoon - dreadful yesterday. MG It's definitely not a problem with my connection, all other sites load perfectly.

I keep getting error messages today like "the page is not available" and the board is frequently timing out. Anyone else having problems?

Maybe the expected postal strike in the U.K.?

Why don't you ask Mosaic?

No problems here (XP SP3, IE8). The clips sound great, I might consider this set - maybe in a few months

I agree about Sony/Columbia's mastering of older music; their Louis Armstrong and Charlie Christian boxes are examples of - to my ears - "less than excellent" masterings, and I'm not even talking about their 1990s "Roots 'n' Blues" CD reissues, which generally sound horrible.

While I agree that the original box is a great collection of Billie Holiday's wonderful music, I don't like the mastering. I was disappointed by the sound quality; Billie’s voice and some of the instruments at times sound harsh and piercing to my ears. Judging by other issues of some of this Sony-owned material, such as the excellent Teddy Wilson CDs with Holiday on the Scottish Hep label, which were mastered by the late John R.T. Davies, I think the Sony mastering could have been better. Just a guess, but maybe the mastering engineer decided to boost the higher frequencies to make the sound more detailed and transparent. This is done quite often these days and many times the result is what I would call a "shrill" sound. Many people seem to like it, but I don't.

You can find the info earlier in this thread. See also Ron's post above (#83).

I had this set but sold it, I found it disappointing and I have more than enough Pepper albums that do more for me; I like Pepper better in a quartet setting.

But at least with Mosaic you get a lot of Bing for your buck.

Kind remarks are always appreciated. The website is about-time-records.com/ Link to AT Records

I totally agree Anyone else?

I've heard complaints from a few people who say that the sound restoration was a bit too drastic in that the highs sound muffled, "scrubbed", and the lows were suppressed. Any comments?

And I'll keep saying it as long as people say otherwise - not that you did say otherwise I agree, his work is usually good to excellent.

I noticed that too, but I find it far more interesting who mastered it, in this case Malcolm Addey. The mastering is more important than the format (16-bit, 20-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, DSD or whatever) that was used; if someone screws up the mastering, no format will compensate for that.

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You may have a point.

This certainly doesn't look good... By the way, what do you mean by "carpe diem those titles..."? The Latin phrase "carpe diem" literally means "seize the day".

Benton

Couldn't agree more, and I'm out of here.

Bill's report above makes me feel old and sad...

Or about $32.40 at today's exchange rate

Make that two years and almost six months (April 2007 - October 2009) Ah! In some threads I look like a numbers nerd, but this shows I'm a duh. I'm deffinately a duh! Well, it's definitely almost 2½ years