Kevin Bresnahan

No - it will sound as it was digitized. Not different at all. If you digitize a photo of a statue of liberty and the file gets corrupted, you don't get a picture of the Eiffel Tower. In order for the analog output to have a different "soundstage", millions of bits would have to change. I'm not exaggerating here. A few seconds of music is 100's of thousands of bits. To change the frequencies and output levels, we're not talking a few bits flipped here & there... we're talking an entirely different sequence of data. It would be a totally different sequence to change the analog output that much.

Tor Lundvall’s “Yule” might not fit most people’s definition of Christmas music, but it sure is a cool looking LP. And the inner liner has some of his yuletide drawings...

The data is the data. Improving the reading of the data doesn't change the data itself, it just makes it easier to read. Let's say that the data on a CD is not music. Let's say it's a .doc file. If this disc has a thumb print on it that causes readback errors that error correction can fix, you are not going to open a different document. You're gong to get the document - the only document. It will say whatever was written in it when it was saved to that file. It will not change that document to say something completely different. CD music playback is simply a way to open a file. Unlike a file like a .doc file, these files are opened sequentially. That is the only difference between CD playback and opening a file. A document file gets opened and buffered until the whole file is read. CD "files" (music files) open as they're read. Let me ask you to try this instead. Take one of your messed up CDs and rip a track to a .WAV file. Then, clean it up. After, rip that same track to .WAV file again. Play those two ,WAV files and hear for yourself.

At least Kansas City is in Kansas as well as Missouri. They could move to Kansas and still legitimately be called the Kansas City Chiefs. Two "New York" teams have their home field in New Jersey. They should be called the New Jersey Giants and New Jersey Jets. The only team that should be called "New York" is the Bills.

Ripping hard-to-play CD-Rs in a PC drive using Exact Audio Copy can allow you to rip that disc because it does multiple reads of problematic areas and can maybe get that data off. In my experience, it doesn't work often. I found that turning on burst mode helps but with burst mode on, you can get click-filled audio too.

Most solvents, alcohol, acetone etc. could damage the playback layer. The physical action of peeling it off could also affect it. I think I would use one that you'd be less unhappy damaging and trying alcohol first, acetone (some nail polish removers are pure acetone) second and see if that works.

Spinning a lot of Christmas tunes today... so far:

The science of the CD playback system says that this cannot be true. The 1's and 0's are converted to an analog signal. That's it. If the 1's and 0's are messed up beyond the ability of the error correction, you don't get different analog, you get no analog or noise (ticks, pops).

There have been several reports over the years of people washing CDs like this and having the label side and reflective layer wash away. After reading this, I stopped washing CDs.

GRP was a weird label. You never knew if you were getting smooth jazz or just plain jazz, even if the artists involved were skewered one way or the other. This looks like a good one though.

Classical Jazz Quartet - Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (Vertical Jazz). Stefon Harris (vibes), Kenny Barron (piano), Ron Carter (bass) & Lewis Nash (drums). Very well done.

The problem with ripping or duplicating a CD-R with a label unbalancing it is that most duplication processes do it at speeds >>1X, which exacerbates the problem.

I merged @jimmyjrg 's topic with this one to get all of the interested parties in one place.

I have that John Patton session on a Canadian CD from 2007.

I have had one CD and several CDrs stop playing. The CDrs that failed were not burned by myself. They were sold as a regular CDs and I got a CDrs instead.

Not all CDrs deteriorate. Some do, some don't. It depends on the manufacturer. I have a few CDrs that are 30 years old and still play.

I've never managed to see Schneiderman play live. I don't think I've ever seen him listed in a band playing in the Boston area. I wonder if he still performs in the New York area?

If they do a "complete" release and they find more takes of these tunes, I'd be interested. However, I do hope that they don't copy the format of the Rollins' Vanguard release, where they cut all of the banter between songs. That was included in the RVG CDs and I really enjoyed hearing Sonny's little talks.

I think you are right. I just saw a news report that stated (how they got the number, we'll never know) that 37% of young LP buyers are using them as art decorating their walls.

Sadder yet to read that it was his son that likely killed him. Such a tragic end to a great director & comedic actor. Meathead will live on. I still think of this when I put on my shoes.

Ford's tours are very poorly advertised. I haven't managed to see him live in decades and I'd be willing to travel a bit to see him again. I don't see any more performances around this in CT. He was scheduled to play in the Boston area a few years back but had to cancel due to the weather.

They don't really do extra material now. They are doing mostly LP reissues. They have only been releasing what was on the original LP unless they decide to go with a "complete" version. like they've done with a few sessions like Trane's "Blue Train", Rollins' Vanguard or Burrell's Five Spot material.

I just don't see this in my area. CDs are dirt cheap and plentiful in every store I go into. If they were gaining any traction, I doubt I would see so many rare CDs sitting in these bins with $5 price tags on them. I guess you could say that Jazz CDs are rising as a way for someone to acquire a large collection cheaply, but that doesn't seem to be the way it's going. FWIW, the argument that today's younger music fans aren't willing to buy equipment and have an actual stereo setup doesn't hold water when you consider that they are also the generation that has supposedly caused a resurgence in LPs.

I was searching for "Tony Sestanovic" and this thread popped up. I had completely forgotten about it. I was talking to Michael Cuscuna a little while after this sale ended and learned that he sold his CD collection to ejazzlines. That's why these were mostly promo copies - they were sent to him by the label. He was laughing his ass off that I had bought so many, saying something like, "Why didn't you tell me you were looking for these"? At one point, he was going to send me a copy of the Japanese LP of Sonny Clark's "My Conception" because he had multiple copies, but after it came out on CD, we sorta forgot about it. I jokingly told him that he blew it by not selling his extra copies years earlier, especially since they were sealed. Michael once told me what "remixed by Tony Sestanovic" meant but I am not able to drag that from the cobwebs of my mind. Maybe he was the one who duped a bunch of masters back in the day... I'm not sure.

I have that on her CD "Merry Christmas". My daughter still likes to play "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and fakes the high note. Mobile Fidelity has even come out with this title as part of their "One Step" LP program... yes @Dan Gould, they're charging $100 for an audiophile Christmas LP.