Daniel A

Tschaikowsky: Piano concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, Richter/Karajan/Wiener Symphoniker (DG, 2nd pressing tulip label)

'Hank Jones Trio Plus the Flute of Bobby Jaspar' (original Savoy)

Kenny Dorham 'Una Mas' (BN, UA) Tyone Washington 'Natural Essence' (BN, Toshiba)

Says who? Dagogo? It was wise of jazz1 not to include a link to the source for this text. I did a google search for a phase from the text and was pointed to the Dagogo site. At the moment I entered that web page my anti-virus program alerted me that it (the web page) was trying to plant a virus on my computer.

I checked, and you're right. Most certainly to cut costs. I think so - if the initial run is selling out, that is. The Sony guy (not that he knows everything, but I trust him on this) said that the long boxes are much cheaper to produce - understandably - and that further, presumably smaller, runs of previous boxes therefore are manufactured in this design.

Europe was also almost two decades behind the US in adopting colour TV.

Got this one today (not by mail, but from a friend at Sony-BMG ), but will wait until the weekend before I start to get through the box. BTW, it's almost impossible to get the book/discs out of the box.

Not an aswer to your question about Black Lion vs. Arista/Freedom, but this thread has some comments regarding the various Black Lion pressings: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26436

Enough copies of an OOP disc will theoretically affect the possibility of a legit reissue. If it's a rare album, which is in reality not too good there will be less demand for a reissue once people have had their curiousity satisfied. For example, if everyone around here had actually heard Andrew Hill's 'Dance With Death', how many would have bought the CD reissue? To me, that album seems to be a typical example of a really obscure album which was very hard to come by, much talked about, but in the end not so exciting when ity finally came out.

I've heard some of it, I found sound clips online once but I'm not there any available now. It's appears to be mostly jazz in semi-symfonic settings; big band or larger ensembles, choirs etc. There are improvised solos, but the works have very "composed" settings and occasionally seem a bit stiff.

And yet you are starting a thread, asking which pressings offer the best sound quality... Sorry, just kidding! Surely it's mostly about the music. But I can honestly say that I'm also interested in sound equipment, recording and reproduction. There are people just interested in sound quality and the technology, spending thousands and thousands on their HiFi gear and never talk about the music. That kind of poeple often get wry comments on forums like this one, but I try not to say anything on the subject; let people obsess with stereo equipment if they want to. I also don't say anything about those who are interested in cars, but not in travelling.

Is there any point at all in releasing a 16 bit recording on SACD?

Oh, wasn't aware that Koch had reissued 'Score'. I have the Blue Note CD reissue (from 1993, I believe) which had the tracks resequenced. I had a look at CDUniverse, and they are (erronously) listing the tracks in that order also for the Koch reissue. BTW, I would also like to welcome a new member - the one who started this thread - to the forum!

And produced by Duke Pearson, no less! I agree about the funk tunes. Wisely, the CD is reprogrammed and has them at the end. The acoustical tracks are mighty fine, though. He also plays some straight-ahead jazz on Don Grolnick's two Blue Note albums.

I may use the expression that a recording sounds "dated", but what I mean by that is that the standard of the actual sound recording is decreasing my listening pleasure. Now, a recording from the 30s or 40s may be technically limited without disturbing me, and a less old one may sound "worse", so to speak. Strangely enough, most recordings which I think are really bad in this respect are from the early to mid-70s (a prime example would be Charles Tolliver's "Impact" on Strata-East (not the Enja album of the same name). I'm not sure why this is; maybe engineers started to use multi-channel recording without really knowing what they were doing.

I would like to know the answer to this, too. From what I've heard the RVG stamp indicates that Van Gelder was the mastering engineer for that LP release. I mentioned this recently in the vinyl spinning thread, but the post got buried rather quick. The album in question was Kenny Dorham's 'Whistle Stop'; Liberty pressing, no RVG stamp. The cover says that it was electronically re-recorded for stereo, but I don't believe it, since the original recording was in stereo.

If someone is buying a new car stereo today, I'd recommend a player which can play back MP3 discs (ideally DVD-Rs) and/or has an USB jack. Nothing beats bringing the contents of a Mosaic box (or several) on a single, inexpensive disc!

I think I've paid around $40 for OOP/import stuff. But you stateside people can just happily shop away. Over here (some other European countries come close) full price for a new CD in the shops is equivalent to $31. But "no one" is using the physical shops these days...

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Kenny Dorham 'Whistle Stop' (BN, Liberty). The cover says "Electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo". Was this a marketing gimmick? Surely the album must have been recorded in stereo from the beginning (cat. no. BST 84063); at least it sounds like true stereo. The run-out does not have the Van Gelder stamp.

"Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da", done as a calypso, is not far behind. (Unfortunately it is included on 'Summertime', disrupting the atmosphere of an otherwise balanced set.)

I had a mispressed Lee Morgan's VJ that sounded like a chewingum, after a couple of minutes I started to suffer of seasick. Chuck's statement applies to all my mis-centered UA pressings in that the LP itself stays in place, but the grooves are not centered on the piece of vinyl. So, technically, the hole is in the "right" place, the grooves are not. [Edit to correct spelling]

That was the way I did it this time. As it's the stamper which has been mis-centered the hole is in the "right" place anyway, so used the method you describe, watching the movements of the pickup/position of the label.

Haven't gotten a blue label BN in three years. Now, last friday I found Kenny Dorham's "Una Mas" at a good price, but guess what - when I put it on it turned out side one was off-center... I had to widen the hole to make it play back decently.