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A Larry Young Mosaic set shows up on Ebay two or three times a month. The usual end price is around $250, but it has also gone up to $350. The lowest price I've seen was $150, it was a "US only" auction and the seller didn't accept Paypal.

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Check the Lou Donaldson phone call thread, archived on AAJ: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....s=&threadid=401

Thanks couw for the "Maltz for SACD" hint. I googled and found this AAJ thread which has all the Aric and Greg covers and some others: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=411

Does anyone still have the great Blue Note style Aric and Greg parody LP covers , which very posted on the BNBB?

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Here are scans from a german book. The pictures are black/white, but there is a color description in german below (identical to brownie's Goldmine quote) Part one:

Hello Freddy, I had this Sonny Rollins XRCD too. But the SACD of the same album sounds even better. I think XRCDs will disappear now that better audiophile formats are available (SACD, DVD-A). After all, it's just a CD with 16Bit/44.1kHz resolution, despite the name. BTW, this has been discussed here before: How good really is XRCD?

You could sell it on Ebay and get the new CD. I've never seen the MoFi go for less than $50.

On another forum, it was recently discovered that $400 power cords from a US hifi brand were in fact relabeled power cables from the belgian company Eupen Kabelwerke. These are high quality cables used for medical instruments, but they cost only $20 in supply stores.

John, there is a database on Pete Losin's "miles Ahead" website where one can search for tunes http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/query.asp The only occurence of "body and soul" is indeed the one mentioned by Mike and Brownie.

Why must he be rich? Have you seen her face?

Well, different players certainly handle these discs differently, but since wolff’s question was what causes the “possible inability to play”, I don't think it’s fair to blame hardware that is designed in accordance with existing standards and plays Red Book CDs flawlessly. The blame, IMHO, must be put squarely on the disc that deviates from the established standards. Standards and adherence to them is the only thing that can guarantee 100% compatibility between hardware and software, and the one who deviates from them is the one who must be blamed for causing the non-playability. Yes, but I wasn't talking about blame or responsibility in the compatibility issues. It's a fact that problems with copyprotected CD usually happen with players that have a DVD drive. The best way to avoid problems is not to buy copyprotected discs (this would also show the industry that copyprotection is not the right way). But if one must play such CDs, a CD-only player will give the best results

I just noticed that the 6th edition of the Penguin Guide has no entry on Bill Dixon, although he was featured in previous editions. His music fits into the author's preference for free/avantgarde jazz, and many of his albums on Soul Note are in print, so I guess this must be an error.

Don't expect miracles from a sharpness filter. The effect is only very subtle and it won't fix bad pictures.

I´m using ACDSee, which is primarily a picture viewer (the best), but also has some editing functions that are easy to use and powerful enough for my needs. It has picture transfer plugins for various brands of cameras that allow to bypass the transfer software that comes with the camera (which is often not very good). There is a trial version for download . www.acdsee.com

I agree with what Swinging Swede says, but the hardware part is also true. Problems with copyprotected CDs usually happen with DVD drives. Not only DVD players use such drives but also some car CD players. Currently, copyprotection is still rare on the jazz sector. Only EMI (Blue Note) has implimented it in Europe. I haven't yet seen other jazz CDs with copyprotection. This may however change very fast because of the labels anti-piracy craze. On the other hand, copyrotection technology may also improve so that compatibility problems become less frequent. What EMI did was irresponsible, their copyprotection scheme (Cactus datashield) was not ready for the market.

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=5372

As far as digital formats are concerned, this album is available on the regular OJC CD (late 80's remastering), K2 20Bit CD and SACD. I don't have any of them, but the comments I've read on the SACD were not enthousiastic. The tapes seem to be in rather bad shape. Steve Hoffman, who has reissued a couple of Wes albums during the mid 90's for the DCC label, refused to remaster this one for that reason. I have a Wes compilation from Fantasy, which is from the late 80's and probably has the same remastering as the original CD versions. The tracks from the "Incredible jazz guitar" album are those that sound worst. So I guess none of the digital versions sounds good.

If anyone is interested, I have written a used LP store guide for Munich on a german message board: http://www.analog-forum.de/wbboard/thread....=1426&boardid=4

What about the price? I guess those LPs cost 2-4 times as much as a RVG CD. People selling their TOCJ CDs is actually a good thing for those (like me) who prefer those remasters. My limited experience with JRVGs was mostly negative too. Most current RVGs are good but TOCJs have a fuller, less bright sound. If Rudy could tame that excessive brightness on cymbals thje RVGs would be really great.

A couple of turntable setup links from my bookmarks: http://www.audiophilia.com/features/cartridge_setup.htm http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/messages/819.html http://www.enjoythemusic.com/freestuff.htm http://www.stereophile.com/reference/170/index.html http://www.vandenhul.com/artpap/turntabl.htm http://www.vandenhul.com/artpap/phono_faq.htm

Some more panoramic views, in the Quicktime format. After the files are loaded you can move around with the mouse Panoramic view