So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

spiderfriend (on discogs)

"special transfers, you know, the copy protected ones, because that is what noise reduction is, just like the R.I.A.A. curve, or HDCD, or K2 Supercoding, they have nothing to do with improving sound quality!"

WTF?? What a moron. To equate noise reduction with copy protection, the RIAA curve, HDCD & K2 supercoding shows that this idiot knows nothing about audio at all. I can understand complaining about excessive use of noise reduction, though I have no idea if it's badly done or used at all on this CD from Mosaic, but that is where this complaint should have ended.

Can you imagine what records would have sounded like if they never implemented the RIAA equalization in the LP standard? No bass. Too much treble. Records that many turntables would not be able to play. It's just nuts to think that this was a bad idea.

[Balladeer]

Ernest Ranglin - Bless Up (Avila Street Records)

[Joe]

[jazzbo]

Now spinning disc 2 of this release. I sent a copy of this to my best friend as part of a package for his birthday (yesterday was his 66th) as I really like it and I am revisiting it again. . . I find this very involving. . . I get sucked right into the performances.

Bill Evans “Evans in England” Resonance Records