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Thanks for all this useful information. I found a decent deal on ebay for Living Space, and I ordered from a few sites Live in Seattle, Interstellar Space, and Stellar Regions. Looking forward to them. I think I have nearly every other session in a great-sounding digital version, I really wanted these as well.

Absolutely. Great to read that it's now satisfying!

According to what I can decipher from Losin's site (someone else may figure this out better than I) no. The two listed with the added matrerial are from '96 and '97. There is a later one listed that is the lp length and mix. I can't tell if the Blu-Spec or Blu-Spec 2 cd is listed, they don't appear to be, in any case both are not. No extra minutes on the 71 disc box (Complete Columbia Album Collection). CD 2 of Agharta is 51:56 there. Are the Japanese discs sonically superior to the Complete Album Collection editions from 2009? I thought these sounded very good. This besides the question JETman put forward of the quality of the music in those ten minutes. The Agharta in the Complete Album Collection is, I believe, a very good-sounding Wilder-tweaked mastering from Sony SICP 1230/1

I think we've all talked and talked about this music so much over the years. . . in many cases what is there to say? And so the new reissues lead to talking about sound.

Man, light bulbs are NOT capacitors and capacitors don't work anything like light bulbs. Just saying something doesn't make it true. Components do break in. ArtSalt, the best thing to do is to try the headphones out with different sources. Bug your friends and neighbors. That should give you a good idea of how they sound overall. And if possible, try other phones with the headphone amp. If you've used that daily for a few weeks it should be broken in enough if not yet seasoned to it's full potential. This should help you answer the question.

Not sure what irritates the hell out of you this time. It's not clear. Hans, I thought I had the answer to that and remembered seeing it printed in booklets but I just looked at three and there's no credit. What I was remembering was the engineering credit on the excellent new CTI Supreme series of Blu-spec cds. I was leary of the SHM-CD series at first but the more I listen the more I think these are the best I've heard these dates. Haven't yet bought any that I can compare to the SACDs or XRCDs. I do like RVGs when played on my systems (liked them less on my former system(s)) and I still really like the mono RVG sessions, especially those he did not record originally, but the SHM-CDs I can compare of stereo sessions better the RVGs. I'm not getting rid of those though, I love the presentation of that series and still enjoy listening to them.

You're not wrong as far as I know Hans, all the SHM-CD that have been reported on online and that I have heard personally (about a dozen now) are remastered. And the best I've heard those dates.

This 'un http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Disco.aspx?id=Agharta-CD2 Maybe new Blu-spec 2?

RVGs, SACDs and XRCDs.

Don't do that. You'll probably pre-order like I did.

Yes. If you don't have East Coasting, gnab it, MIngus on Bethlehem and his band at this time. . . awesome.

Juju is very improved. I'd say that you would enjoy it and immediately hear the differrence. Grass Roots too is improved. I haven't heard ASE. . . .

Maybe Miles just wanted to be different and move from tenor to soprano just because rock and soul fans might find it a novelty and it would play with their preconceptions and give them a trippy new sound. Or maybe Miles was inspired by Coltrane's ventures into the land of new sound on the soprano and felt that instrument might lead his players into similar zones. And maybe Miles himself just wanted to get as far away from the trumpet-tenor and rhythm history of his as he could as he shifted gears.

Your favorites and or those you think are the least well mastered on cd. I have been trying to show some restraint and I'm going to have to stop buying some, especially as I'm also very happy with the Japanese Atlantics out now and grabbing some of my favorites from that release series. I really love the Mingus titles and how they sound.

I truly enjoy Bartz with Miles. I guess we're all different. Bartz really brought something new and different to the sound.

Porcy my hat is off to you. We think alike.

Listened again and again to Polycurrents yesterday. What I'm noticing as perhaps most significant as a difference in these masteirngs is the depth of the soundstage. Don't generally hear the instruments centered behind the others placed as deeply and disctinctly as you do in these masterings. Interesting new view.

I agree the notes are not all that. Interesting photos of "rustic Bob" on his friend's farm (I thought when the lp came out with photos on that farm that it was Bob, Bob the farmer!) I bought the deluxe box set of this one AND the vinyl, I really love this period of Bob's, Self Portrait was always a favorite and that mystified most of the Dylan fans I knew. But so what. I really like this Bootleg. Looking forward to the next one!

Indeed, thanks. The information you have provided in this thread and others is very useful.

I'm with you Flurin, all the way.

Thank Goodness Mosaic owns it. I bet they would sell more copies if they didn't.

The Mosaic. I mean it's a crazy disjointed work of an obsessive, but there's some incredible Bird there, just INCREDIBLE. And a fascinating book.

I have one, it was a necessity for me when we were living in both Austin AND Houston during the two years Helen battled lymphoma and mds. As soon as all that was over I used it in my office a few months before I retired. Then. . . I used it occasionally a few times a month for walking. That was my only form of "music on the go"--didn't have a car, don't listen to music on my motorcycle, didn't have a job or a cubicle or office. Haven't used my iPod now in over a year. I moved from Texas nine months ago. . . and I haven't unpacked it since the move.

It's cold out there. If I had a woman with me I'd be saying "But Baby, it's cold out there."

I honestly believe that a more resolving system allows one to hear differences that a less resolving system can't. And I honestly believe that the placebo effect works in reverse as well in that people who don't want to spend money or think some things are "impossible" convince themselvest that they don't hear things that others hear. That's neither here nor there in my opinion. I don't present things the way you do in my estimation. And thanks for the nice and polite remark. I'm putting you on ignore if that's still possible and I'll check with others to see if you've grown up a bit more or not in a while. Post Script: I've never done it before, but I put you on ignore.