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The Mulligan SACD has 10 of the 15 tracks from the 2CD set. That's because of the CD layer time limitations of this hybrid SACD.

I received my "european" set from Amazon.de today (it took 10 days to ship from Germany ) The CDs are manufactured in the US, the only difference with other Mosaic sets being the absence of a serial number, the fact that the 2 parts of the box are not attached (feels like a chocolate box) and a large sticker at the back with the text from the webpage. I've listened to the first two CDs. The remastering is wonderful.

Here is some more info on this DVD, and a much better price than Amazon.fr Play.com link

There are known problems with hybrid SACDs and some DVD players as well as some computer DVD drives. None of my hybrid SACDs can be read by the Pioneer DVD drive of my PC. I can only play them in the CD writer drive. I don't think this can be fixed, if you have such a problematic drive.

"Vintage Getz"?

When I check my collection for CDs which are not reissues, I see a lot of red and orange. So hatART must be one of my favourite labels.

JSngry seems to be right. DMP claims on it´s company history page that: In Europe, DMP discs were available much later, when audiophile CD became popular, after people noticed that not every CD sounded like state of the art

MFSL PINK FLOYD / "THE WALL" PAPER MATERIAL bought for $28

Thanks for this URL, wesbed. At last one that can be remembered.

The best bootleg I've heard (from the point of view of performance, and irrespective of his musical phase) is the October 28, 1967 concert in Antwerp, Belgium If Sony could release just one of the concerts from this tour ...

Blue Note should put couw's animated covers on the data section of their european copyprotected CDs. It would be the only reason to buy those CDs.

The label on the Gracham Moncur III "New Africa" LP I have says "digitally remastered". It's a 180g pressing but the quality is not very good. I bought it because I found one for 8 Euro, but the normal price is 15 Euro.

Well, it's boring old jazz ... but it can be recycled! LEO SMITH,divine love LP.ECM Records.samples!

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