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Very interesting. Thanks!

Ok, I was looking for the SACD of Way Out West and stumbled across a Hong Kong Naxos version claiming to be multichannel. Anyone know anything about these things? Seems like they have a lot of titles from the Fantasy catalog. I'm curious about sound quality and how the heck you get (I'm assuming) a 5.1 mix out of a two track tape?!?

Did you mean the TT that read vinyl with an array of lasers? I heard a demo some years ago, forgot the brand: awful sound and totally unable to track even the slightest imperfection/flaw of records. A 'pop' was a "BOOM", a 'click' was like a gunshot at the Carnegie Hall during a performance of classic music. Maybe now they are better. I'm assuming he's talking about the ELP. I got the demo CD from them and it sounds very impressive. Of course, I don't have $17K+ to spend at the moment...

This sounds like it. Thanks!

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Bill Evans-Plays the theme from the V.I.P.S. and other songs Really? And Hot Afternoon is the A&M Desmond you need. It's really really good. The others, eh, not so much.

Saw this today. It was what appeared to be an original pressing of Elvin! but rather than the familiar blue "tape reels" label, it had a rather generic all text label. No Bill Grauer mention either. So, what's the story? I didn't pick it up, so I don't have a picture. Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.

All this does is convert the DRM'ed file to WAV and then reconvert it to something DRM free, which is something anyone could do themselves since day one by burning to a CD and re-ripping. All he's done is automate the process. Not quite a hack and it's stil transcoding, which means the end result is lower quality.

Can someone help me identify one of these things? A shop around here has A Love Supreme for a good price. It doesn't seem like a Scorpio issue, but there's no information on it about where it's from. Just an orange oval sticker on the front with information about "from the original master tapes" and (I think) 180g vinyl, etc. Is this the critter I'm looking for?

Awesome. That's a huge help. Thanks.

OK, could some kind soul help me out with who is playing on what for this Frank Morgan S/T album? I love eMusic, but I hat the fact that you get no liners and they just kind of jumble line up, if they give you it at all. Dates and all would be swell too. I couldn't find the info on the web. Thanks in advance.

OK, hang on a sec. Unless I'm misreading something here, I'm seeing a misconception coming up here that I see often. That being that there is some sort of dynamic compression in the mp3 encoding process. There isn't. mp3 is a data compression codec. All it's doing is removing bits of data, not performing any kind of dynamic range compression. If the source material is compressed to hell, then the mp3 will reflect that, but the process doesn't add that. If that wasn't what you were saying, my apologies. It's just one of those things I see mentioned so often because I don't think people understand the difference between data compression and dynamic compression. PS- there's a phrase I've heard often: no highs, no lows, must be Bose. Not to start a flamewar, but I've yet to hear a Bose product that couldn't be bettered by a much cheaper product.

To those who think CDs are going to hang on like the LP did, I'm not sure I agree with that. The two main reasons I can think of why the LP continues to endure are audiophile snob appeal and hipster snob appeal. Real audiophiles are probably going to go for the LP as long as it's available and there's nothing intrinsically cool about CDs. I really think, like it or not, CDs are going to go the way of tape based albums (cassette, 8-track, reel) over time. I could be wrong, but as long as more people are buying more mp3 players than CD players, it only stands to reason that this is the market the music industry is going to cater to.

Slightly OT: This is something that's been on my mind a lot lately as I've got a bit of money to play with and am weighing my options. I wanted to put together a really excellent stereo finally (retiring my decent but tired 70s gear) but I'm just not so sure it makes sense for me anymore. Ninetimes out of ten, I'm listening to music on my iPod (with a pair of top of the line Shure earbuds and a Bitheads amp.) I just don't have the time to sit down and really listen to my stereo rig anymore. I'm starting to realize I just can't justify spending all that money for something I'll rarely get to use. That said, I'll take a well encoded mp3 of a properly mastered CD over the over compressed mess most labels are shoving out there today. I'm not ashamed to admit, I can rarely tell the difference between a high bit rate mp3 and the original source, but I can't listen to the Amy Winehouse CD because IT'S SO DAMN LOUD!!!!!

Blue Note's stuff appeared on Liberty's Sunset cheap-o subsidiary. I just passed on a Jimmy Smith issue a couple of weeks ago.

I have a copy of it, yes.

First post, howdy. So far this month: Frank Strozier Fantastic Frank Strozier japancakes Loveless Kenny Dorham Jazz Contrasts Max Roach Deeds, Not Words Booker Little and Booker Ervin Sounds Of The Inner City Booker Little Out Front Drake/Gahnold/Parker The Last Dances Joe McPhee Nation Time Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron Left Alone Revisited Woody Shaw Blackstone Legacy PS the Strozier has a slight bit of bad rip on the first track. Nothing to totally ruin it, but there's a really loud digital tick about 5 seconds from the end. Great album, otherwise. And I'd LOVE some of the Uptown releases, except you lose out on the booklets.