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I haven't gotten to the two bonus discs yet but I must say I think the sound of Lady in Satin on the first disc is a decided improvement over the earlier Legacy cd. Produced for release by Michael Cuscuna Transferred from the original three-track tapes to a hi-res Pro Tools file by Vic Anesini Remixed and remastered in 24 bit by Maria Triana, Battery Studios, NYC I'm just glad at least one leg of Sony did SOMETHING for the centennial besides release another compilation cd.

It's an interesting record but don't hate me if I say. . .it's sort of boring.

Oh boy, that nagging voice. . . we've been collectors too long.

Well, actually. . . I think only you can decide whether a sonic upgrade is worth it to you Dan! Though I haven't bought any of the 3 Sounds releases in the series, I feel the sound is a real upgrade on those I have purchased. And as a collector. . . buying a cd for one tune. . . don't you have that t-shirt?

Good news!

Season 2. 'S alright.

I'm familiar with the issued 78. My Dad, Bill Armstrong, bought a copy years ago for his brother, my uncle Jack Armstrong.

Actually, I believe the Zen ZCD-200 CD player did use the same Tascam CD-200 I'm considering. According to the Decware website, even the newer Zen ZCD-240 "uses the same high-quality TEAC-made CD drive designed for audio as other models in the CD-200 series." I'm assuming that this is an endorsement of the Tascam, at least as far as the transport is concerned. I owned the Decware model before that. There is now a new one, there were three models released in all. I owned the first release. Never bothered with the others.

This date was recorded in '57 and released later in '62 on New Jazz. . . seems it was a mono record. Is your copy mono Larry? If not, it might be fake stereo, which may be a reason it sounds uncharacteristic for a Van Gelder recording?

There was a Rudy Van Gelder series of remasters of Prestige material by Concord. This title however I do not believe was among them, and they were well-marked as RVG Editions.

No one can prove anything to you, you know everything already and just start insulting instead. So long, I"m putting you on ignore.

I never said any such thing, nor did I pay anything like that for that player. And anyway, if you can't hear something, does that mean no one else can? Get over yourself. So long. Sorry for derailing your thread Sonnymax.

Word. Good stuff you're selling at fair prices.

The very fact that you think that I make 'mystical claims' shows the chasm of our thoughts and life is too short. I know from experience you will just keep trying to belittle my experiences from your 'superior viewpoint' and I don't have the time to waste and be denigrated at the same time. In fact no one can speak freely about audio on this board without you criticizing them with your "objective" truisms that I and a few others don't find true. So I'm staying out of audio discussions on this board. I like you just fine when you and I are not discussing audio.

I'm listening to the "Electric Byrd" SHM-CD and it sounds REALLY good.

Whatever Scott. I totally disagree with many statements you make about audio and don't want to talk to you about audio.

I'm not interested in discussing audio with you, I get nothing but irritation from doing so. My response was in answer to another's request.

I'm not interested in trying to explain myself to you or hearing your version of "audio correctness." Sorry I posted.

Hope it's a great one Erik!

In other words it was super clean and lacking the "warm" distortion you're used to hearing. That's an excellent selling point, IMO. Wrong. Sorry I bothered to post.

I have first hand experience with the Onkyo. My best friend in Austin picked one up, and stuck it in his system that I am very familiar with as I gave him the PeachTree amp he uses and the Decware speakers he uses. It's a nice cd player, for the price. There are many better ones, but not at that price point that I've heard. I don't have experience with that Tascam model, but I do have experience with am older model that Steve Deckert of Decware modified with a tube outupt stage with volume control and tubed regulation. I never really enjoyed that modified version, it was too revealing, it made great recordings sound amazing in my system, but was not musical enough with less than stellar recordings. From the regular outs (not the Decware modded ones) it sounded. . . unexceptional. I think the Onkyo might have it beat by a bit, but I never compared the two of them in a system, and the Tascam is not the exact same model.

Well, I don't want to argue audio with you, I don't agree with you on key points and think a lot of your statements don't jibe with my learning about audio and personal experience. Mastering matters, format matters, everything matters. I'm not a Floyd person and don't have any of those. Neither am I a Beck fan. I have Pure Audio releases from Miles, Pops and Ella, Coltrane, I have music by Porcupine Tree, Steve Wilson, Pretenders, King Crimson, Yes, et al on Blu-ray. I have an excellent Blu-ray player (Denon DVD-A1UDC1) and some of these have cds and Blu-rays in essentially the same matering and the hi-resolution versions sound superior to me. Considerably. That's my experience.

Yes, Blu-ray is awesome, and for audio purposes as well. A few audio Blu-rays I have are the best sounding audio things I have.

Do you have a Blu-ray player Scott? Most of those can and do upscale DVD to higher definition. After seeing DVD on these I am spoiled. Of course Blu-ray is better (I LOVE IT) but DVD upscaled is a nice improvement.