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I have that SACD. SACDs sound better than redbook cds, I haven't compared the redbook layers. But the Warner Japan cd sounds very very good imo. Scott, all I can say is that I was surprised by the improved sonics, and decided they were significant enough for this important muisc to collect the Japanese cds. I think it's a larger improvement than you may think on my system and with my ears, but only your listening could define that for you. And nothing to worry about if you have the music, I just enjoy these comparisons and having improved sound. Lon, I have the 2007 Atlantic 60th WPCR-25109 mini-lp "The Shapes of Things to Come" CD carrying the "2006 24 bit" remastering - is it possible to identinfy if the recent 1000 yen Warner/Japan carries the same remastering? Alex, I'm not able to. I'm not sure that the mastering is shared in this series with previous mastering. I don't have that other one to compare myself.

Looks interesting. What's the author's premise? I've barely done more than read the first few pages several times, but it seems to me that the author is trying to show that drugs made its way into mainstream culture through the use by artists and celebrities and that drug use was more pervasive than the media and the public really know and that has exacted a high cost on our society and shaped our world negatively. Publisher's page: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Cant-Find-My-Way-Home/Martin-Torgoff/9780743230117 I got my copy from daedalusbooks.com

A quick once through on my end and I say it's a very good reissue. YOURS would have been better, but Ace did the material proud.

Clunky, are you sure? You need one or more $60.000 systems, Superman like super hearing, and incontinence diapers to make sense of the Atlantic Jazz catalogue on digital. But if the diaper fits ... Thanks for the insult! I'll return the favor one day.

I don't see it that way to be honest. I've had decades to dedicate my money to equipment and that has been my big vice, stereo equipment and recordings. If I could start at the end, I could have saved myself probably over half the money that I spent as I've learned more what I like and need in musical playback and learned how to get there more by trial and error than guided direction. But that too is part of the fun. One thing that is beneficial about coming to a certain age is that if you're lucky you've discovered your taste and tolerances and developed a support for them. The trick then is to still be open and not stagnant. My whole system is going to be moved to a new home in half a year so I expect change and can hope for improvement. (I'm so tired of listening near field, for one thing, and can expect a room three times as large to fill). I'm personally glad I found that flexibility is a virtue. I jumped on this "tone controls are terrible" bandwagon and rode for a long time but jumped off when I learned how beneficial well done tonal control can be. Went way the other way for a while and wish I hadn't. Anyway, that's neither here nor there and this is not really a board where equipment is a focus. I'll just add my voice to those suggesting anyone who does not have a lot of the Ornette recordings consider this new box set as it has very good sound, awesome music, good notes, and a great price.

Well, and from the other standpoint, it puzzles me how vehement others get about this sort of release because my system just doesn't present me with the same issues (I guess). I hear really well still (surprises me every time I get my hearing tested) and I'm actually quite sensitive to treble grain and some high frequencies are really hard to hear. But I have an amp that has a treble cut circuit (outside the signal path, shunts high frequency to ground to varying degrees) and I can control the tweeters on my speakers with resistors, and I roll tubes to get a nice balance (I can roll input, power, voltage regulation and voltage rectification tubes). Also I have to say, getting a power regenerator really helped my system out tonal balance wise. Having played around with this sort of tailoring for years I now worry a lot less about the mastering of a cd, I pop it in and sit back and relax, tweak a bit if I feel the need. Have to say, that's nice! I feel even more fortunate when I read the problems others have with this or that series and their mastering. I'll start counting more blessings!

I think we've done this discussion before Erwin, I don't hear the Atlantics that way, and I have a flexible system that I have tweaked somewhat to de-emphasize treble on digital discs, so that may be why. They sound really good to me on my system on speakers (don't do headphones). I hear a lot more tape hiss on Atlantic sides than Columbia. And hearing tape hiss is better than having it scrubbed off with a digital program to my ears.

Well, being Japanese cd issues. . . they're out there. And then not. Frustrating. I have been buying a lot of these releases because they are limited and they all sound better than other issues I have of the material on digital, especially better than Collectables releases. They released two of the very first lps I ever owned (Charles Bell and the Contemporary Jazz Quartet "Another Dimension"/Leo Wright "Blues Shout") which sound wonderful and really surprised me that they would be released early on in that series. Because I collect them I got all the Mingus and Coltrane off the bat and have been getting more as time goes by. This also allows me to give away other issues of the material to my jazz-loving brother and other jazz newbies. Interesting. . .I find Atlantic recordings to sort of be all over the map in quality, and find Columbia releases to be of consistent (and imo better) quality generally during this time period.

I have that SACD. SACDs sound better than redbook cds, I haven't compared the redbook layers. But the Warner Japan cd sounds very very good imo. Scott, all I can say is that I was surprised by the improved sonics, and decided they were significant enough for this important muisc to collect the Japanese cds. I think it's a larger improvement than you may think on my system and with my ears, but only your listening could define that for you. And nothing to worry about if you have the music, I just enjoy these comparisons and having improved sound.

Details here: http://www.ask.com/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_%28Andrew_Hill_album%29?lang=en I think the new release is improved as well. The tonal balance is better, there is more depth to the sound field and that "bleached" sound of the Connoisseurs (at least to my ears) is gone.

No need to pass up a Blue Note title on Water Records, they did a fabulous job with their reisseus from the label.

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It's the outer box.

I know. Did it a while ago, but yeah. Tried just one, went with the others because the sound was so good. Others knock this series but my system likes them.

A great box set. That said I've bought the recent 24 bit Warner Japan remasters and man they sound great!

Hope you are having a good one.

Such great music. The Water Records release also sounds excellent, a bit meatier than this one. Black Rhythm Happenings is one to hear as well. Great music!

Mentioned upstream five or so pages. . . . http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/products?term.list_id=bluenote_shmcd_20150114

There is a batch coming out March 25.

Many happy happy returns!

Hope it was a great one!

Better Call Saul. Now that's what I'm talking about. Outstanding.