Claude

Hi Todd Welcome to the forum. The answer on your question depends on what your opinion on the quality of these other series is Most of these Warner titles have already been reissued in remastered editions (some apparantly only in Europe) in the "Atlantic Original Sound" series (digipaks). My impression of many titles was that there is little or no sonic improvement. They sounded as if the existing digital transfers of the analog tapes had been used and only a bit of "smiley face" EQ applied (more pronounced bass and treble). As usual with new reissues, the volume is also higher. It could also be that the existing tapes don't allow for better transfers, as mayn of the original Atlantic tapes had been destroyed in a warehouse fire in the 70's. So I would recommend sampling one or two titles and check yourself if the upgrade is worth it.

Amazon.co.uk states "Warner" as the label, so it's clearly not the Mosaic set. I've seen a Warner set at Zweitausendeins some years ago, it was a rectangular box with the square Mosaic cover on the upper front, as sidewinder has described.. The Spiegel set seems to be the Warner set with a Spiegel sticker on the front.

The Mosaic box is OOP, but the Warner version of the set has remained available in Europe. There is also an edition from the german Spiegel magazine: http://shop.spiegel.de/shop/action/product...;artiId=4398489 More discussion here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4716 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5537 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6953 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=19045

I'm watching it too, for the first time in years. It's better than I feared, although none of the songs is really original and they are just using calculated clichees and some are stealing from well known hits or almost cloning successful artists. Obviously all of the songs are conceived to please immediately to a maximum number of people. It's disappointing that most acts are singing in english now. The german contribution Roger Cicero (son of jazz pianist Eugen Cicero) is a kind of jazzy Sinatra-style song. The Americans must envy us for this freak show.

No, it's about the flexible part between the bass membranes an the enclosure, that allows the membranes to move. You can check it for cracks from the outside. In german, it's called the "Lautsprechersicke". I've heard of many people having to replace drivers of old speakers with foam suspensions (especially the popular Infinity speakers from the 80's), but never of problems with rubber suspensions.

I just received this DVD from a Amazon UK Marketplace seller. It's on the Impro Jazz label, probably connected to the well known spanish jazz reissue mafia. http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record_po...?record_id=4592 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chet-Trios-Baker-S...5/dp/B000JBWWSS It's also currently available at Zweitausendeins for 10 Euro. I love Chet Baker's drummerless trio from the mid 1980, so I ordered this DVD without any prior research. I expected a TV recording of a concert, with limited video and audio quality. When I played the first track, I was surprised by the very good stereo sound, and the fact that the concert was recorded in a small room without an audience. The thick leather armchair that Chet sits in looked familiar. I went through my Chet Baker CD collection and noticed that the album "Candy" (reissued on Sonet) was recorded the same day, in the Sonet library. And indeed, there's a picture in the booklet of Chet playing in that chair, and the track list and title duration is identical, including a Chet interview with Red Mitchell. So this is a video document of the recording session. The sound quality is not as good as on the CD, there are some distortions on the louder trumpet notes and a few drop outs, but for a DVD it's very good. The picture quality is not as great, the colour is a bit bland. The camera shots are mainly close-ups. The tracks are edited together, so there is no studio discussion, except for the interview. I think this is an essential document for every Chet Baker fan.

I just bought a Universal Japan reissue of "Clifford Brown and Max Roach Inc." (UCCU-9279), that I found for only 11€ in a german store (it's a budget reissue, 1000 Yen in Japan). Compared to the late 80's US CD reissue (AFAIK this album has never been remastered domestically), the japan CD has 3 bonus tracks (2 alternates and a brief "Sweet Clifford" extract), and the sound is much clearer. http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/...=lk_organissimo

It's difficult to see from the pictures if the woofer has foam or rubber suspension. Rubber usually doesn't have the problem.

I feel the same. Coltrane outplays everyone on the 1960 Stockholm (and Paris) concerts.

I can't say anything about the quality of the speakers (although Technics was one of the few japanese brands to make decent ones), but you can forget about their watt indication. In theory, it means the speakers can handle 70W (test signal) or 90W (music), but in practice you could kill them with a cheap 20W amp driven to maximum level (producing distortions that will fry the speaker drivers) and you can use them without a problem with a good 300W amp at normal levels (home listening, not garden party sound).

Don't judge a draft law based on the information from one news article. It could be that the situation described is unrealistic (extreme interpretation of the law) or just a side effect from a much more general law aiming to prevent reselling of stolen goods. The article could be part of a lobbying campaign trying to ease the law as to goods which are often resold and don't need this kind of regulation (CDs, DVDs, books,...)

For european iTunes stores, VAT is added, and the price is also influenced by the share that the local collecting society receives.

Thanks. I hope there are enough covers in the book that are not already in the two Blue Note and the "California Cool" and "New York hot" books.

That is normal. The phono input is for the much lower signals of a phono cartridge only. So you can only check it with a turntable. Connecting a CD player will produce horribly distorted sound and could even damage the phono input, although mass market amplifiers are usually immune against this sort of mistreatment. Congratulations for the purchase. Beware of the upgrade virus ...

Until recently, jazz festivals were usually named after cigarette brands, but tobacco advertisement or sponsoring is no longer permitted in the EU (and maybe Switzerland too).

That's a great idea, Jim. Why not go a step further and release an optional hi-rez download version (24bit/96kHz FLAC files), as the recording and mixing will probably be made in 24/96? I would pay $20 for that. Some hi-rez FLAC files are available on archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/charliehunt...03-07-20.flac24

wow, I wasn't aware of that new release (I miss jazzmatazz ) http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/hnum/7948709/

Hi Flurin, I don't know how old this amp is and how much it cost new, nor have I heard one. But given the excellent condition of the amp, the price seems good. I've checked a couple of ebay auctions with the same amp, one with a winning bid of 55 Euro (but worse condition), and a couple unsold ones from shops with much higher starting bids (80 Euro and more). It's not the type of amp that I would buy (I prefer more purist amps, like Rotel or other UK brands), but at that price there is not much choice, including on the second hand market. It even has a phono input, so you're ready for vinyl as well. When you check if it works ok, try all the inputs and settings, put on a CD with mono recording and see if there are channel imbalance, humming or other noise.

I don't think they would mention the producer and engineer in the booklet if it was an illegal rip-off CD (see the Barnes & Nobles page). And why would they copy mainly Concord stuff?

Hi, I own a couple of CDs that the japanese label DIW released in the 1990's, mainly stuff by David Murray and John Zorn's Masada. I recently checked for some DIW discs in online stores. Most of them are not available, or going for big bucks ($40 and more) on Amazon Marketplace. Are all these CDs now OOP and hard to find? That would be a shame, especially because of those great David Murray albums and the essential early Masada recordings. The recording quality of these sessions (engineered by Jim Anderson) is exceptional as well.

Mike, are you certain about that? The tracklist of the Shearing CD lists recordings made between 1947-53, i.e. in the public domain. I haven't checked the other CDs in the series http://www.zyx.de/main/artist.cfm?artist_i...aeger_vinyl=0#a

I bought many ECM LPs in the recenty years, including some albums that I already had on CD. Generally, the CDs sound more distant and flat, emphasizing the typical ECM sound. But both LPs and CDs sound very good.

Just for the info, there is a discussion thread on Masabumi Kikuchi on the AAJ forum: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=11400

Thanks! It's good that they are still offering Musaic/Universal sets, but for the Diz set other german online stores (Amazon.de, jpc.de) are cheaper.

How does the mouse arrow move on the computer screen? This japanese online microscope reveals the secret: http://www.1-click.jp