Claude

I buy samplers only occasionally, when individual albums are not available, not consistingly good or when they are too expensive. I'm a big Jackie McLean fan, but from his Prestige recordings I only bought a "Best of" sampler, because the individual albums are short and quite expensive (before the Fantasy sell-out started).

As EMI has abandonned Copy Control in June, I guess the previously released copyprotected CDs will be repressed as regular CDs when they have sold all of the old copyprotected discs in stock. That could take some time though.

Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?

XRCDs generally have very good remastering, but the price is high ($25-30). Some of them have been sonically superseeded by later SACD reissues, for example the Living Stereo (classical) reissues. As far as the Fantasy albums go that have been released on XRCDs, the US K2 versions often sound very similar (both XRCDs and K2s are remastered at JVC), for less than half the price. The K2s are currently being sold out by Concord. Gold CDs have been released by various labels, so it's hard to give a recommendation. The most important in a CD reissue is the remastering, not the material of the CD surface.

But he was too old to make love on the floor

Unlike SACDs, these formats are all regular redbook CDs (i.e. with 16bit/44.1kHz PCM sound). So they are compatible with every player that handles CDs. - XRCD is a certain CD mastering and pressing method. K2 CDs use the same mastering process but are normal pressings. XRCD24 discs have been remastered in 24bit. http://www.xrcd.net/Shopping/process.asp - Gold CDs have a gold surface, whereas normal CDs use aluminium

I know it's in the wrong forum, but: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=28982&hl=

Sad news http://p081.ezboard.com/fmaynardfergusonbo...icID=8352.topic

Pluto is no longer a planet. Here is the newly redefined solar system: Pluto loses status as a planet (BBC)

The federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the german federal government are now fighting about who has to bear the costs of Bush's and Merkel's "grill party" in Stralsund - 14.65 million Euro (= 18.7 million dollar).

The Bill Evans discs are on Warner CDs, at least in Europe. Other albums which were reissued on CD are: - Charlie Parker: One Night In Washington (Blue Note, expanded) - John McLaughlin: My Goals Beyond (Rykodisc) - Steps Ahead: Steps Ahead (Elektra) Collectables has recently reissued some of the Elektra sessions These three were available on Nonesuch CDs: - Julius Hemphill: Big Band - Bill Frisell: Before We Were Born - World Saxophone Quartet: Rhythm & Blues This is all from memory, please correct me if I'm wrong.

A tricky thing about ordering Fantasy/ZYX discs at 2001 is that some discs are available as both regular OJC and OJC20 editions (the latter with often crappy remastering). Even if the online info does not show the "remastered in 20bit" info they may send you the OJC20 version, because their internal item number for both versions is the same. When I visited their store in Munich in July, I found a regular OJC of Chet Baker's "Once upon a summertime". I already have the OJC20, which sounds quite poor, so I wanted to try if the regular remastering sounds better. I went to the counter with a dozen CDs (empty boxes), and the guy went to the back to get the CDs. I paid, and only later when I was already on the way home I noticed he had replaced the Chet OJC with a sealed copy of the OJC20

I don't know if it is OOP, but it is quite hard to find. There is a copy in stock at Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0000279RS/

Definitely the 11th

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=29118

Here it is: http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Sessions.aspx?s=671107

Certainly not in France, since it is Joachim Ernst Behrend who introduces the band.

Customs fees have to be paid by the buyer. If the value of the items is above 45 Euro and below 350 Euro, he has to pay approximately 20% customs tax (16% VAT + other taxes). Above 350 Euro there are special tariffs depending on the nature of the goods. As far as customs go, private carriers (Fedex, DHL, etc) should be avoided, because these companies charges the buyer additional administrative fees related to customs formalities (up to 20 Euro). The seller has to comply with export regulations for military equipment

Yes, that is the player that opens the compressed tracks on the data portion of the CD. But the software does not load in order to prevent the CD to be copied. It's harmless. The data section of the disc and the software are only a added convenience, to allow the CD to be used on a computer. If the protection works as planned, the CD drive will not see the audio data on the CD but only the data section with the player and the compressed tracks. The Sunncomm scheme, which was used by BMG on some CDs in the US, loaded a driver that prevented Windows to access the audio data on the disc. If the user did not allow the software to load after inserting the CD (prevent Autostart by holding the Shift key), the CD just worked like a regular audio CD without copyprotection.

Anne-Sophie Mutter and André Previn Quietly End Their Marriage By Matthew Westphal 21 Aug 2006 André Previn (left) and Anne-Sophie Mutter photo by Deutsche Grammophon Anne-Sophie Mutter, at 43 one of the world's most celebrated violinists, and renowned composer and conductor André Previn, 77, have quietly ended their four-year marriage, according to reports from the London Mail on Sunday and United Press International. Sources quoted in the reports indicated that the reason the marriage ran into trouble was that the aging Previn was unable to keep up with the extremely busy and peripatetic schedule that Mutter, as one of the most in-demand instrumental soloists on the scene, maintains. While Previn just completed a term as music director of the Oslo Philharmonic and maintains relationships with the London Symphony and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, he travels far less than he once did and reportedly now concentrates on composing. Previn was married four times previously, most famously to actress Mia Farrow. Mutter had been married once before, to attorney Detlef Wundelich (also nearly three decades her senior), who died in 1995. When Previn and Mutter married in 2002, the match was widely publicized as being creative as well as romantic. He wrote several works for her, including a violin concerto which they toured widely together and whose DG recording won a Grammy Award in 2005. When asked, in 2002, by David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer whether being married to the composer of a concerto allowed special insights, Mutter replied, "The musician's compositions and private personality have little to do with each other. I don't think I would play the Beethoven Violin Concerto any different if he were my husband." Previn chimed in, "Married to Beethoven? I can't cope with that thought!" http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5088.html

No, you're confusing the Cactus Datashield (EMI) with Suncomm (BMG) copyprotection schemes. Cactus Datashiled does not rely on software loading from the CD. It's the data themselves that are corrupted, resulting in crackling noises on the ripped files, unless the drive is immune to the scheme.

No, Phil Schaap's "pause tracks" are missing on the new set

I think it may have been the SonyBMG rootkit scandal that made them change. Although the Cactus Datashield system is harmless in comparision, the perception of many CD buyers is now that copyprotection in general is risky for the PC. The iPod boom also creates a big problem for the labels to justify copy protection. While many people understand that they are not supposed to burn CD-R copies of their discs, they can't accept the fact that they cannot transfer the music to their iPod, and have to pay again for downloads of the same tracks (if available). The Cactus system only offers the possibility to play the music on the PC (in a compressed format), but not to transfer it onto a portable player.

Thanks for the clarification. I got confused with the two series. I also found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control It's strange that this didn't make the news.

Sorry Cliff, I missed that in the RVG thread, when you wrote about no "C.C. info on the labels". What about the June RVGs? Is Amazon.de wrong, as some suggest in the Conn thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...6096&st=200