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This lp is like comfort food for me.

Damn.

PM coming, I'm interested in the lot.

PM coming, interested in the lot.

The amazing Followed by LP playback is sounding amazing today.

Many happy happy returns!

anyone? I already have a fair amount of what's in the box but if the SQ is improved will take the plunge In my opinon, yes. . .but that doesn't make them sonic spectaculars. They're not the greatest original recordings. But they are mastered well here.

Awesome.

Have another shot as hair of the dog and enjoy your day!

My DVR messed up (I think power went out). . . I have to wait til the weekend or so. Great show!

That was a nice 'ride.' I'm watching Entourage, Season 5

More likely they were mastered in Japan from the tapes sent by Reeves for the 24-bit reissues that appeared in Japan (I have a few in lp-facsimile edition, don't know if they were ever in jewel box) earlier than 2011, before the Impulse Album boxes were released. . . .Or that would be my guess. Anyway, not knowing if the Japanese tweak things for SHM-CD mastering or just do a straight transfer to the SHM-CD process, I DO find that I hear differences between SHM-CD and other pressings. Maybe it's system dependent (I have a killer transport) or maybe it's just my imagining, but more often than not there's a "less digital" sound to the SHM-CD in cmparison for me.

Well I guess I didn't compare them directly. Sounded different to me from my memory of the US,* anyway of the digital copies I have this one is my favorite. I do NOT listen on headphones, just abhor that. *I'd have to look closely at release dates, and I'm not inclined at the moment, but it may be more accurate to say that the US release is a copy of a Japanese release a bit earlier; I have several other Japanese releases that seem to have their Reeves masterings "borrowed" for the US version.

In the Decware community Steve Deckert has discovered analog tape as the "ultimate sound" and some of these guys are buying 500 dollar "master tapes" of marginal music to be astounded by on their 200 dolllar used reel to reels. People spend their money as they will. I know a guy who spends more than that a month on booze. I can't conceive of either expenditure. Personally I think there's more going on in the digital world than electrical engineers quite have a handle on and I could believe these discs sound a bit better. But so what? My digital sound amazes me now, and I have a DAC improvement on the horizon that promises to bring even more amazement. Life is good, and in my case doesn't need to get better.

No, in comparison they are different masterings to my ears.

Thanks. Obviously I've lived just fine without it. In about five years there will be some other super-reissue of it!

Yep. http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-2000-cd-made-from-glass-1/

Many happy returns!

I haven't checked out this show but may get a look at the discs of season 1 one of these days. I don't do Netflix etc. so it hasn't been easy to see this, but I've heard good things.

With many of these I experiment with the polarity and there's a surprising number of Reeves masterings that I think sound better with polarity reversed.

Maria Schneider may be up for this. How about . . . Monday Michiru. I'm in love, so I'm thinking about women composers, but these two could really deliver imo.

I like that band with the Godchauxs, Muldaur and the excellent bassist John Kahn. I'll probably get this one.

Because then you can't put on your Enlightened Know it All hat.