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I don't believe it is copy-protected.

Singles is very cool. . . but as for the vocal work I personally prefer the Spaceship Lullabye material. But I'm a RA-aholic (at least up through the seventies) and I would definitley advise anyone starting out to get all the Evidence material first. . . .

My favorites are the ESPs. I've quite a few others but I keep coming back to those. . . .

Yes, not the Who!

Looks more like the catalog. I don't know, it's not because I'm sentimental or anything, but I miss the old catalogs and the very first edition of the web page with the Mobe as the frontpiece.

It's not really dreadful. To me it's really interesting and I would guess the same for you. . . .

I've had this for years. . . interesting, and yours was a decent price. . . .

Check out the Charles Tyler ESPs. . . you might like them.

Peter, I'm with you all the way on this one, and I don't have any additional information to offer; I've heard (and like) those that you have heard, and I'd be cautious of the rest of these for the same reasons. . . . Hopefully someone will chime in with some information.

Mine may be there waiting for me tonight. .. I hope, as having a day off tomorrow would make that quite opportune! Thanks to a friend I've had all this music for a few years. . . cool stuff!

I ordered her second one (the two cd set) just to be different! Should be here in a week. . . .

And Kirk Felton has been doing a wonderful job of remastering.

In most ways yes, the box is an improvement. NOT hugely different, a little warmer and more dynamic would be my appraisal. I really didn't want that to be the case. . . I love my little minilp DSD releases! I was astonished to find the difference in the Antibes material as well (still edited in the DSD Sony releases, unedited in the box set).

Len, thanks for posting that link; I had looked to be helpful, but not found anything like this in my search.

I agree with Conn that you bring your mood and interior life into a listening and the result is deeply influenced by what you bring. And like others here I listen to a multitude of styles of jazz in rotation, or sometimes in a fixated sequence, and also to Hendrix, Dead, brazilian music, etc. and that helps me stay interested. And when things are really bad Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller and Nat Cole are what I reach for and they WORK.

I agree that the lps can sound very different from the cds! I don't know Claude, I certainly, on my system, wouldn't call the difference in polarity positions "subtle." As I understand it, one way the speaker is moving in one direction, the other way the other direction, and this does not make a subtle difference to me. I agree that it doesn't make a "bad" recording "good"---but it does make a more than subtle difference in overall tonal balance, center fill, and soundstaging, to me, in my main system. Maybe it's because my amplifier has so few parts within? I almost always notice clear differences between brands and types of tubes, interconnects, wire, footers, AC conditioning, etc. The difference is less apparent on my other system (B&O receiver based) but after a lot of listening to my main system a lot in both polarity signatures I've learned to tell the difference better in that system as well. It's not a big deal perhaps, but when the correct polarity (in my estimation for most JRVGs it is inverted) is applied the recordings sounds more "natural". . . whatever that means. Stereo impressions are so subjective it's hardly worth talking about them . . . .

I ordered some speaker cables. . . guess that's neither here nor there, but it's going to mean fewer cds til after the holidays!

And it says here. . . "Some people would rather see babies than babes. What's up with that?"

I like most every one that I've heard. I've sortof pledged myself to not get too involved with remastering and sonic issues etc. My system now seems to let me enjoy earlier remasterings more than previous incarnations have and I just sort of have fallen out of the habit of keeping track of what is great and what isn't and I honestly don't want to backpedal my way back there!

Good point I guess, and it definitely wouldn't be a runaway hit if it were smarter and more creative than it is. . . . I still wish it were though.

That's what I find so fascinating about the JRVG and to an extent the RVG series. . .. I really LIKE the Night in Tunisia! And a number of others that get panned, and some of those I like least are sometimes touted as sonic spectaculars! Ah, the subjective world of audio reproduction!

Okay, the short version: on a board in a galaxy far away (called the Blue Note bulletin board in the galaxy of We Can't Get No Respect) it was revealed by a poster who has a decided audophile bent (and a pugnacious nature) that by reversing the polarity of the playback of most JRVGs (that is changing the + and - leads at just one end of the speaker cables, either the amp or speaker but not both) yields a more natural sound. I have been doing this for years now when playing back most every JRVG and in fact some of the early domestic RVG cds, and I agree with this. Others have expressed scorn, ambivalence, and other emotional responses.

What? I didn't start anything!

You're not the only one! I like this series a lot. . . I have quite a few. I enjoy the sound and the packaging.

I guess I want the edginess it doesn't have. . . well I could keep watching to see if it develops. . . there are a few reasons to watch. . . .