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this reminds me I still have to listen to this with the answers on the side. I did some amateur guessing while driving on the Autobahn and also read through the discussion while listening. Wish I had more time! One thing is for sure: that's a KILLER opening track!!

sheesh robert, what bug crawled over your liver then? Cool down man! Venting your frustration with the "Hoffmanites" on Hans isn't fair. Particularly also because Hans obviously had some difficulties expressing his problem, which - believe it or not - are unlikely to stem from his having a below average IQ, but rather from his being a non-native speaker. It is really very sad to see native speakers punch on people for not grasping all the finesse of what is being written (often between the lines) or for not being able to express their thoughts with all the right adverbs and adjectives. anyhoo, thanks much for your insights (really).

Thanks for contacting Ron Kevin. Maybe someone can provide a good mp3 of (part of) the Donaldson Caravan from the Mosaic set, so we can all hear what the problem is? Anyone with the set reading this?

Hans, part of the problem seems to be that you refer to compression as a bad thing per sé. It is not. If applied moderately, it can make a recording sound better. Your problem is with the modern "pop music" way of *A LOT* of compression, which makes listening a fatiguing experience and which can make things sound really bad. Your problem with modern masterings and their love for compression is not a qualitative, but a quantitative one.

yes. There are interesting bets to be won where you have to hit the thing just right with your index finger to crack the smaller piece off without blood squirting from your finger. Plus these caps come in handy if you are drinking beer during heavy rainfall. This sounds rather bovine to me... -_- typical remark from an amateur

yes. There are interesting bets to be won where you have to hit the thing just right with your index finger to crack the smaller piece off without blood squirting from your finger. Plus these caps come in handy if you are drinking beer during heavy rainfall.

Um, no such luck for you, amigo. You'll only be permitted to touch my ceramic caps. ewwww, what are those? Ceramic cap condoms? Real guys have rubber rings only.

@ornette: does that box contain regular Vogue remasters also available as individual CD's ? Cheers, Tjobbe it looks like a compilation http://www.fnac.com/Shelf/article.asp?PRID=1803192 or does it? disk 10 = Barney Wilen Tilt, disk 9 = Martial Solal Vol 1, disk 8 = Henri Renaud All Stars disk 6 = Gerry Mulligan Pleyel Vol 1 (+2 cuts) disk 5 = Thelonious Monk Piano Solo disk 4 = Lionel Hampton Paris All Stars disk 3 = Dizzy Gillespie Pleyel Jazz Concert 1953 disk 2 = Clifford Brown Complete Paris Vol. 1 ...

Fortunately with this title you can also try the SACD, XRCD or the original OJC release the latter in 16 and 20 bit edition! And then there is the Coltrane Prestige box version.

Roots & Herbs and The Freedom Rider

System Tandem + Tony Scott... bet that's a good record. well, it is! There is some truly beautiful stuff here. I enjoyed it much.

I think there will be a line of blokes who want to buy you a beer and touch your nipple...

Tony Scott / Jirí Stivín / Rudolf Dasek - Rozhovory (Supraphon 1981) Scott on clarinet, tenor, piano and voice Stivín on flute, tenor and voice Dasek on Guitar

damn! This is good stuff! I see it's the same as the Tric( r )otism CD on GRP.

Lucky Thompson - Dancing Sunbeam (ABC impulse!) 2LP set 1975

yes, and I believe I read somewhere that the Donaldson source material wasn't too spiffy to begin with.

actually, that is exactly what a modern CD looks like. Problem is that it sez Britney Aguillera and that it is made for little girls with boom boxes who are listening while crying in their root beer over the first lost love of their life and pimples. There may not be any digital distortion, but there is hardly any dynamics. It's either loud or *real* loud all over the band from bass to treble all of the time. Of course you will hear some details you weren't able to hear on those nice fluffy discs from earlier days, simply because stuff is loud. But it is really very fatiguing to listen to. The loud peaks are not as loud anymore (relatively speaking) as they have had their guts limited out of them. If you look at the same wave form taken from the TOCJ, there is a lot of space all around, lots of dynamics, neat spikes and nice low volume passages. This extreme compression business is not good for the sound, bad for enjoyment and likely worse for your ears. To each his own of course.

I can! (the cut off corresponds to ~0dB, the RED zone we were taught the tape deck meter should not linger)

use another browser! (duh!!)

Hmm, never heard of the guy to be frank. Complete cover here: http://pcornuel.club.fr/bd2.html Seeing the line in the b&w detail, I would not have made above guesses...

who did that Sommer cover? Van den Boogaard? or maybe Schuiten?

using Opera 8.5, I just tried by editing my above post and was returned to the post in question in both full and quick edit mode.

over here either edit mode returns to the post edited. hmmm... full edit... (returns to post) and quick edit... (altso!)