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I could, but I need to retain the capacity to do a clean install of OS X 10.6. USB flash drives make for a much more convenient installation medium anyway.

Than you are more fortunate then me in that respect. I had to make a USB installation drive from an earlier image I made of the OS X 10.6 DVD.

He would still have to pay those high USPS overseas rates. True. But the good news is the re-issues would come to him in the CD format. He said he wasn't legally allowed to buy them where he is. Oh sorry, you were responding to my post about HD Tracks? Those are 192khz 24 bit FLAC files, remastered by Alan Yoshida who also did the Audio Wave xrcd24 series. This kind of situation involving downloads is my nightmare for the future. There are some interesting titles like Out To Lunch, Speak No Evil, and Unity.

The wave of the future is that people outside the U.S. can't legally purchase the HD Tracks Blue Note remasters and will have to make do with some nice MP3s.

Today I compared the Impulse! Originals and SHM-CD of Live At Birdland and Meditations by making secure rips of track 1 with XLD and looking at the log files. The Japanese and Originals Birdland have the same CRC32 hash number and AccurateRip signatures and so must be identical. I suspected as much by listening. The Japanese and Originals Meditations are not identical, and do not sound the same to me either. The Japanese and Hip-O Select Sun Ship also seem to have differing log files (seem because the Hip-O rip is not my own), and sound different. Perhaps a bit off topic. Edit: Also identical are Live at the Village Vanguard and Crescent. Also different Transition (Hip-O not my rip).

He can't read the DVD. His MAC locks up. I've tried three different times. Macs are known to have not so good DVD players. My three year old iMac has been refusing some commercially released DVDs for some time now, DVD-Rs are even more of a problem. CDs are a different matter and all but one disc of my colection can be read by my iMac.

The Japanese BNLT 999 series counts 33 entries.

Why not use some private filesharing service?

That disc must have been one of the last batch to be released with copy protection. I stopped buying EU Blue Notes for some 5 years when the scheme was introduced, although I was given Joe Lovano's I'm All For You as a present. It's funny the April Fool's Day thread linked to above should mention that disc, because I found the sound on that particular disc was affected. When listened to on headphones my copy displayed an assortment of tiny digital pops and clicks not part of Motian's drumming. The errors were perfectly reproducible on multiple CD players. Years later I imported a copy of the disc from the US and it had none of these artifacts.

So the new policy of Amazon.com of pre-collecting import duties on orders with Expedited shipping (or higher) to the E.U. is a consequence of the changes U.S. Postal Service implemented?

Internet forums and comment sections seem to bring out the worst in a lot of people (not accusing Scott Dolan here ).

Can they be relied upon to use quality packaging materials for the Mosaic sets?

The only Abercrombie album I have is Gateway's Homecoming (apart from Joe Lovano's Landmarks). How would you grade Abercrombie's sound on that (those)?

Reggie Workman - Summit Conference

You have to do this every time you place a new order. Shipping methods are otherwise remembered except for this option. So if you forget, you're f-ed.. And check upfront what the limit for importing a gifted item is in your country. Because the total amount is correctly displayed on the customs declaration.

CDJapan, that's right. You can make them send the items as a gift so you can put more CDs in one order/shipment (to avoid taxes).

How long did yours take to arrive. Still waiting for a shipping notice a week later. I went on to my account and the status was "back ordered". Not impressed so far. HDwow still advertises the set for $15.99 with 7-10 days for shipping. Nothing about being a back ordered product. I ordered the same day as cloninmce and just received a shipping notice. It is now once again listed as in stock for the same price, $15.99 or €11.99 through their EU sites.

M. Emmet Walsh Ridley Scott Johnny English

The lack of civility displayed from time to time on this board bothers me greatly.

Take Grant Green's Nigeria, recently reissued in the BNLT 999 series and compare it to its portion of the Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark (SBM, 1997). Guitar on the left, Blakey's drums on the right. It now sounds like angels continuously kissing your ears left and right vying for your attention with its beautifully detailed airy sound. The music was always compelling to say the least, but now I just want to listen to that album over and over again on repeat. And it costs just ten bucks. I have the Mosaic Green/Clark set that came out in 1990 and it sounds good to me. I don't need the Japanese disc. Like many Ron McMaster Blue Note CD reissues from the 1980s and early 1990s the Mosaic CD sets he did in those years sound good to me. Don't like his Mosaics from the late 1990s onwards very much, though, which is why I'm thinking of getting the 2 Stanley Turrentine CDs in the Japanese LT series. I'm contemplating getting some more BNLT 999 discs I otherwise would have passed on that are presently not in my collection in any form. Perhaps Hank Mobley's Thinking of Home and Ike Quebec's With a Song in My Heart. These days I search the internet for info on which CD release of any classic album I am interested in has the best sound and then download FLACs if possible through a foreign bittorrent tracker to compare on my own system. I have wasted enough money in the past on rubbish releases. I do not keep the files indefinitely as part of any digital collection. Think of it as modern day in store listening. No way would I otherwise have spent €160 on an ebay auction of the 7 CD Andrew Hill Mosaic box. This way I was able to compare all three releases of Nigeria a while ago. The BNLT is close to the Mosaic in character but adds a whole new dimension of presence and subtlety in my opinion.

Take Grant Green's Nigeria, recently reissued in the BNLT 999 series and compare it to its portion of the Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark (SBM, 1997). Guitar on the left, Blakey's drums on the right. It now sounds like angels continuously kissing your ears left and right vying for your attention with its beautifully detailed airy sound. The music was always compelling to say the least, but now I just want to listen to that album over and over again on repeat. And it costs just ten bucks.

One of the most appalling (to me) RVG's is Time For Tyner. I'd be interested to know if that album ever sounded good in previous incarnations on Vinyl or CD.

Real Time With Bill Maher. I thought this joke was really funny (you'd have to know a little about what Trump jokes Maher made last season and The Donald's $5.000.000 lawsuit).

BBC World Service mostly. Music has been pretty much gone from there for years, though.