J.A.W.

Everything he did with Clifford Brown and Sonny Rollins.

The problems in 2007, which came to a head in the last couple of months of that year, arose from personal attacks and indeed the different American and European interpretations of freedom of speech. They drove members like couw, deus62/neveronfriday and a few others away. I was also very upset and left the board for a while. I miss couw - the board was a better place with his contributions. You're right. Unfortunately, he has no intention to return.

Let me just refer to the nasty exchanges you (as one of the "well-known people and/or people with active public profiles") had with couw and myself here a few years ago and leave it at that. Paul Secor is right in his post above this one, let's let this go - I will.

Very briefly: in many European countries free speech is regarded as being relative, i.e. not as absolute as in the United States; you can freely attack someone's beliefs/convictions (political views, religion, etc.) but you can't attack a person because of what they are (gender, race, sexual preference and things like that). In some cases insults and verbal abuse aren't allowed either, though this varies depending on the social climate. There's a saying here that one's freedom ends where it violates another person's freedom.

The problems in 2007, which came to a head in the last couple of months of that year, arose from personal attacks and indeed the different American and European interpretations of freedom of speech. They drove members like couw, deus62/neveronfriday and a few others away. I was also very upset and left the board for a while.

Not all of those well-known people and/or people with active public profiles are victims only; some of them have launched petty and personal attacks on others as well, which sometimes resulted in nasty exchanges, bad feelings and a negative atmosphere.

Maybe both of you could give it a rest, it's boring and annoying (I don't mean you, Erik )

If he really decides to stay away I will miss his very interesting and informative posts on music, but not his repetitive rants about some people and religious/political issues.

Everyone can post what they want to post, but within the rules set by the board's owner/administrator.

Stress. Stress isn't a factor for Guus, it's because he already has too many other commitments, one of which is the Russian national team.

With whom?

I just checked and Chris' last post on the Blindman's Blues Forum was on April 3, just 12 days ago.

Hi Al, Just saw this thread. You know I'm not religious and I don't pray, but I wish you and your daughter the best of luck.

A great album.

Mosaic may still have the individual discs you're looking for. Have you contacted them yet? (Edit) See also robviti's post above.

My condolences.

Wait and see is putting it mildly. The statement you posted contadicts all the audiophile hype. I've been in more than enough fights about "audiophile hype" here and didn't want to get involved in another one, that's why I was putting it mildly So do I.

Well, I'm not a fan of noise reduction or limiting as it's often done these days, with strongly reduced dynamics and sometimes even hardly any dynamics left on many remasters, so for me it's a case of wait-and-see - or rather, wait-and-hear.

@ 2) According to the press release they used limiting and noise reduction: "Re-mastering the Beatles catalogue The re-mastering process commenced with an extensive period conducting tests before finally copying the analogue master tapes into the digital medium. When this was completed, the transfer was achieved using a Pro Tools workstation operating at 24 bit 192 kHz resolution via a Prism A-D converter. Transferring was a lengthy procedure done a track at a time. Although EMI tape does not suffer the oxide loss associated with some later analogue tapes, there was nevertheless a slight build up of dust, which was removed from the tape machine heads between each title. From the onset, considerable thought was given to what audio restorative processes were going to be allowed. It was agreed that electrical clicks, microphone vocal pops, excessive sibilance and bad edits should be improved where possible, so long as it didn’t impact on the original integrity of the songs. In addition, de-noising technology, which is often associated with re-mastering, was to be used, but subtly and sparingly. Eventually, less than five of the 525 minutes of Beatles music was subjected to this process. Finally, as is common with today’s music, overall limiting - to increase the volume level of the CD - has been used, but on the stereo versions only. However, it was unanimously agreed that because of the importance of The Beatles’ music, limiting would be used moderately, so as to retain the original dynamics of the recordings. When all of the albums had been transferred, each song was then listened to several times to locate any of the agreed imperfections. These were then addressed by Guy Massey, working with Audio Restoration engineer Simon Gibson. Mastering could now take place, once the earliest vinyl pressings, along with the existing CDs, were loaded into Pro Tools, thus allowing comparisons to be made with the original master tapes during the equalization process. When an album had been completed, it was auditioned the next day in studio three – a room familiar to the engineers, as all of the recent Beatles mixing projects had taken place in there – and any further alteration of EQ could be addressed back in the mastering room. Following the initial satisfaction of Guy and Steve, Allan Rouse and Mike Heatley then checked each new re-master in yet another location and offered any further suggestions. This continued until all 13 albums were completed to the team’s satisfaction."

Sorry to hear this. His two Vanguard albums (and the Bill English Vanguard, for that matter) should be reissued on CD, but in the current climate...

You can change the thread title yourself by using the edit button of the first post.

Amazon.com just cancelled my order for Ashley Kahn's Blue Note book, which was due out about now. The reason they gave me is that "it is not available from any of their sources at this time." It still seems to be available for pre-order at Amazon U.K.

My guess is that it will be a split decision (especially on the SH board!) on whether they actually sound better, but they will sound different than what we have now. If your frame of reference is the CDs (as it is for me), I really don't think there is any benefit to getting the remasters. It will just mess with your head. The only Beatles I've heard on LP was Sgt. Pepper's. I'm happy with the sound on the CDs and that's what I listened to all through college, etc. Not saying that this project is an abomination or anything, I just don't see any value for me. I do seriously wonder if Apple is misjudging things though -- I think the target audience here is in their late 50s to 60s, and this group is really starting to wind down its CD buying. No not us on the board or SH Board but we are such outliers it is a little scary. And truly the next generation or two below me (Z?) isn't going to buy anything at all. It will be all torrents all the time. We'll see how well that works out. I guess the major question would be: Will they sound better than the Ebbetts? Though I think even these are overrated... I take it you're aware that the Ebbetts are bootlegs? Just curious

The Hoffman forum has gone crazy, 1,000+ posts on this in less than 8 hours... (sigh)

We Swedish-Americans even speak English funny, so I am sure you're correct, Hans!