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I've heard that there is a still-sealed mono copy on Alpha Centauri. Have always been pretty happy with my black/gold stereo deepgroove of this title. Good enough for me, anyhow ! Not anymore I just destroyed the planet in order to increase the value of my copy. Didn't you feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced? Don't you fear something terrible has happened?

I see, but frankly, I am too lazy to compare different masterings, and I should do it myself on my system, so that would mean I should buy two vinyls of the same record, that makes 20+50+20% import taxes, total 100 $ for a record, at this price I could get most of the original pressings on the yellow Bergenfield label, ( not the 50th NY ) Too much hassle for me and too much money for a reissue, but I understand your POV about SACD, though I don't have a SACD player. About WAY OUT WEST I bought a true sealed original mono pressing from Ron Rambach a coulpe of years ago. I thought I payed 200/250 $ for it and I believe I have the best sounding copy you could get in the galaxy

Woody Shaw, I digged the vinyl set all the afternoon, not bad at all. I probably underrated it.

I know it, but I am too lazy for them, though I have some. Btw, the 33 rpm Analogue reissues are good sounding too and they are cheaper. I always prefer their mastering then the Classics one.

These are 2 LP 45 rpm sets. Exactly... and 45 rpm are supposed to have a wider dynamic range...and you have to be wider dynamic to move your ass from the sofa and turn the record after 10 minutes... Of course, if you pressed them with side 1/4 and 2/3, you could put them on an autochanger... MG No way, it wouldn't be "audiophile"

These are 2 LP 45 rpm sets. Exactly... and 45 rpm are supposed to have a wider dynamic range...and you have to be wider dynamic to move your ass from the sofa and turn the record after 10 minutes...

Hey, look at this and part with your fellow members your music! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=33019

That's because you never posted in the political section.

Are you referring to the infamous VAN GELDER CODE or to VAN GELDER AND THE LAST CRUSADE?

Red Record! Always great sounding recordings and pressings, at least my copies. Now spinnin' Winton Kelly S/T VeeJay mono

However, from a seller's perspective, a sniping program has to be viewed as a good thing because it allows some better known deep pockets types to hang out in the wings until the very end rather than have them enter into the mix at an earlier stage -- a move akin to a largemouth bass entering the minnow pool and essentially 'scaring off' other potential bidders who realize that they have virtually no chance of beating him out in the final stretch. There's at least one eBayer that has that effect on me......and if I see him sitting there with three days to go, I simply move on. Well, okay...there was that one time that I turned and did a tap dance on his face...but it cost me $160. Now how dumb was that? I can see some logic in this, though I don't think it would change my behavior. Everything has a clear value to me. What it is worth to anyone else really isn't part of the equation. I suppose this would make sense to me if your 'value' changes by the minute... Wich would be the value for records? Value is fixed by the people who want that particular record at that particular moment. I observe closely the auction until I can, look at bidders, etc, then I decide if to snipe an item or not. Late seconds bid keep the price lower for me, if my max bid is the highest, because when you are running with a compulsive bidder in the last minutes he could rise his bid to insane $$$. Late seconds snipe avoid the hassle.

http://cgi.ebay.com/JIMMY-MCGRIFF-BLACK-PE...VQQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-THREE-SOUNDS-Soul-...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/JIMMY-McGRIFF-IVE-GOT-...1QQcmdZViewItem

We're tired of your hollow excuses. If you're going to place more importance on things like going to the movies or showering or trimming the hedges, than you are on cd acquisistion, then we just can't be bothered having you around anymore!!! I don't care about cd

Sniping tools are useful if you can't sit on your computer at the exact ending time: working, time zones, ecc. I use it basically for every auctions.

No it doesn't. I haven't got the deluxe cd anymore, I sold it after an A/B comparison with a cheap US pressing, so I couldn't do another comparison today. Generally speaking those UNIVERSAL DELUXE REMASTERED editions never convinced me, I kept the very few with some interesting outtakes, like The Who at Leeds, with the whole Tommy live on cd 2, or Marley's Catch a Fire with the unrealesed jamaican album w/o the heavy production of Blackwell but...De gustibus non disputandum edit: Remastered Superfly was on Universal, wasn't it?

Gabor Szabo Spellbinder (Impulse!) orange label stereo

I was checking Acoustic Sound website and I found these http://store.acousticsounds.com/preorder.cfm?Field_cat=5 Any informations, mastering, source, etc?

Not want to be a vinyl psycothic, but the analog version sounds far better then the overpumped remastered deluxe edition. Great record, anyway. I love Roots too.

Linn too is manufacturing in-wall loudspeakers, though I never listen to them and don't know prices. Usually they do good sounding, solid and serious stuff. http://www.knekt.com/spec_sound/product_di...NavBar=Playback http://www.knekt.com/spec_sound/product_di...NavBar=Playback

What surprise me is that in the today's vinyl rediscovering, they don't go that way for the the classic big box sets. AFIK vinyl sets went out of print quicker then cd sets, a part some exceptions like the electric Miles. Surely Cuscuna has a correct view of the cost/benefit of it and his choices are wise, but...

Media's market is a bit frightening from an investor's POV. In order to achieve synergy and fighting illegal downloading, they tend to merge different sectors, like production, distribution, ecc, but as you said antitrust is always a damocles sword about this strategy.

Probably 'cause stockholders are expecting a buyout for a crazy price. Nah. Would you really buy a recording company with such a catalog in the era of iPod and illegal downloading? I would buy instead a software company with all his patents. Even Steve Jobs, after the latest losses of iTunes realized that copyright is dead in the internet's world. Sad but true.

About Szabo Goldmine stated that Gypsy 66, Spellbinder, Jazz Raga, The Sorcerer and Wind Sky and Diamonds are on orange label, the following on Abc. But Light My Fire exist in orange label, I just bought it from A. Pearson.

My WLP theory is based on the fact that most radio stations broadcasted in mono at times, actually I don't know when they started stereo broadcasting in U.S.. About labels Tahuid was issued when they changed label (1967/8) so it could be that very early pressing of album of this period are orange/black, later pressing red/black. Anthony Pearson sold a Gabor Szabo Impulse! on ebay with orange label, that was pretty rare on that label, same period. I am waiting a sealed copy of the same record bought on ebay few days ago, and I presume it will be on red/black ABC label.

I've got a Pharoah Sanders 'Tauhid' WLP that seems to be in stereo. Seems? It sound strange to me because Tauhid was first issued on ABC Impulse! black/red label according to Goldmine in mono and stereo and WLP are usually mono, but I have a orange/black stereo copy.