Claude

Maybe the fast-forward buttons were only available on the remote control, and not on the player front. That's the case with the Sony SCD-XA777ES, a popular high end SACD player. Every SACD player should be able to fast-forward, like all CD players do.

One CD I have gives more specific info: "Remastered at ZYX Music studios from the original analog tapes with APOGEE PSX100" Apogee PSX100 (hey, they invested $3000 in remastering equipment ) Check the ZYX homepage to see what their main activity is. Did you know the Country Sisters from Czechoslovakia and the I Love Disco - Diamond Collection Vol.23?

The info on the back cover is not always reliable. I have some OJC20 CDs which give credits to the Fantasy remastering engineer (the one that prepared the first CD reissue) while it's clear that they were remastered by ZYX.

I listened to one of the Chet Baker CDs in a store and the sound was pretty bad (processed and muddy). @Deus: The ZYX boxes use the same remastering as the US boxes.

Deus, don't buy a new Pro-ject Debut. You can get a used Thorens (TD16x/14x) for the same price on Ebay (if one adds the price of a new cartridge), which is a better sounding and more solid player. Check the german Analog Forum board for more info.

Is this a TD160 thread? - Thorens TD160MkII with an Ortofon Vinyl Master Red cartridge - Musical Fidelity X-LPS phono preamp But I mainly listen to digital: - Sony SCD-XA777ES SACD/CD Player - Philips DVD-963SA DVD/MP3/SACD Player - iRiver IHP-120 portable MP3 player (on the road) Amp: - Electrocompaniet EC 4.7 + AW120 Speakers: - Dynaudio Contour s3.4 Headphones: - Sennheiser HD580 - Musical Fidelty X-Cans amp Other sources: - Kenwood L-1000T Tuner (analog radio rules, still no DAB available here) - Sony TCK-808ES cassette deck I use my PC (Terratec 6fire 24/96 sound card) to record from radio or LP.

They aren't all bad. From my experience (I've bought about 30 of them, mostly the 20 or 24 Bit series, marked "OJC20" in the reference number) 1/3 of them sound like crap, 1/3 are acceptable (considering the low price, 6-8 Euro) and 1/3 sound good to excellent. The problem is that ZYX made awful errors during the remastering of many titles, partly because of the use of noise reduction processes: - On Art Pepper "Smack up", the bass intro of one track sounds like played on a rubber band - Red Garland "Groovy" is completely missing treble - Cannonball Adderley "Nippon soul": tape hiss and crowd noise come and goes, as if a noisegate had been used - Red Garland "Dig it": muddy sound I must have gotten rid of many more I don't remember. Those that I can recommend are: - Bill Evans "Waltz for Debbie"* and "Live at the Village Vanguard"* - Sonny Rollins "Saxophone colossus"* - John Coltrane "The last Trane" - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane* - Thelonious Monk "Misterioso" - Cannonball Adderley "Know What I mean"* - Art Pepper - "And Eleven"* I've upgraded those marked with a star to SACD, K2 or XRCD versions, and although the improvement was significant, the ZYX CDs sounded pretty good enough and most listeners will be happy with them.

That's correct, ubu. I checked the EU-made "Sonic boom" in stores, it does not have the Copycontrol logo.

Check www.amazon.de to see if a title is "kopiergeschützt". I haven't heard that the back catalogue is being replaced by copyprotected discs, but it would be logical.

I remember the first DMP CDs being released in 1985 or 1986.

This does not answer you question exactly, because it includes albums previously available on LP, but when the compact disc was launched in Europe in March 1983, these CONTEMPORARY jazz titles were available: - Terry Herman Trio - Blue Aranjuez (Denon) - Art Blakey - Night in Tunesia (Philips) - De Lucia/McLaughlin/Di Meola - Friday Night in San Francisco - Dutch Swing College Band - Digital Dixie (Philips) - Billy Harper - Soran Bushi, B.H. (Denon) - Archie Shepp & Dollar Brand - Duet (Denon) - Kazumi Watanabe - Lonesome Cat (Denon) - Miles Davis - Man with a horn - Weather Report - Night passage Jazz REISSUES in the first CD batch (all from Verve/Polydor): - Jimmy Smith - The Cat - Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Porgy & Bass - Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz - Jazz Samba - Wes Montgomery - Movin' Wes - Oscar Peterson - We Get requests I got the list from the german Audio magazine 3/1983 issue. In the US and Japan, different titles may have been released. As to the the first jazz album that was SIMULANEOUSLY released on CD and LP, this must have been much later.

I received an email today saying my set has been shipped

Bookmark this link. The "View today's active topics" function is available on the AAJ board, but the link is only displayed when you are logged off. However it also works when you are logged in.

I use a bookmark with the "View new topics" address, so I don't need to go to the front page and click the link. It only works by bookmarking the link, not the resulting page.

Michel, If you still searching for the Sonny Criss CD I could send you one from Luxembourg. My local supermarket has lots of the titles from the series. 6 Euros + shipping cost.

I have both Blue Note volumes. The first one contains all the famous covers and the second the lesser known (and also less good) ones. The price per book was $30 back then in Brussels but it was definitely worth it. The binding of the books is not very solid though.

As far as sound is concerned, you can't go better than with the SACDs of the two original albums, which contain the same bonus tracks as on the normal CDs. The CD layer also sounds excellent.

I have two Wayne Shorter Veejay/Blue Moon CDs (Wayning Moments, Second genesis) which sound good, but I don't have other versions to compare them. The master takes are stereo, the alterates mono. I would give them a sound rating of 7,5/10. I also bought (and immediately got rid of) Wynton Kelly "Kelly Great" on Blue Moon, which sounded really poor (3/10), and was mono, although the recording from 1959 must be stereo I guess.

Thanks for the recommendation, Leeway. I didn't know that one.

Could be that this "different set" is a collection of Impulse! out-takes and alternates released on LP. Though I couldn't find on AMG and the Net a different album containing a track named "Interconnection".

I don't know many stores in my area which have a representative jazz selection, so I can't say which RVGs are hard to find. The biggest CD store in my city has no Blue Note CDs at all (and no OJCs either) except Norah and some samplers.

Paul Horn - Something blue Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream

People from the customs in my country told me they had to get more staff because internet orders have enormously increased during the last year. More and more people are using the internet to order DVDs in the US, and the low $ rate has made it even more attractive. Customs couldn't cope with all those small packages and let most of them pass without charging tax. But now they cought up and I have to pay customs tax more often. Whereas $50 packages wouldn't be charged in the past (tax is due for value > 20 Euro) there are in 50% cases now. But even with 19% tax added is is cheaper to order in the US most of the time. Probably the store where you bought them didn't apply the rules properly. Internet shops now charge the local VAT rate of their EU customers. Before the rules changed this year, the VAT rate of the stores' country was applied.

Do you prefer even "The Avantgarde"?

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