bogdan101

Contains a pure LP from the DSD master...It don't get no purer than that!

...And cram in 5 more albums!

https://www.amazon.ca/Impulse-At-50-Black-Orange/dp/B005ORVN1O/

How about a Pignose? https://www.amazon.com/Pignose-7-100-Legendary-portable-amplifier/dp/B0002D0JZ6

Well in my experience digital can _start_ to close the gap with vinyl if you have a proper D/A converter. I only started to get acceptable sound from cd's once I got the Oppo 105 player. The typical cd/dvd/blu-ray player sounds bad, especially with cd media. By the way, I'm talking here strictly about older, analogue recordings on vinyl vs cd. New digital recordings sound much better, but again, it takes quality playback equipment to get all the benefits. Edit: To the OP, your Grado Red cartridge might be holding you back a bit.

I believe you picked the wrong albums for this comparison, W & W sounds like crap in any medium. Try some Henry Cow, Pink Floyd "The Wall", Queen "A Night At The Opera", Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" or " Bitches Brew", "Duke Ellington with John Coltrane", or any Led Zep. In all of the above, and many others, vinyl sounds better than digital. I also know cases where the cd sounds better, but they seem to be fewer.

Crap, you're right!... My order shows the same thing. Oh well...

I see Ellington vol. 2, Live Monk and Blakey. If anyone needs Ellington vol. 1, popmarket still has it at a reasonable price. Looks to be out of print and it goes for silly money on amazon.

I'll probably pick this up, the samples sound great!

Timofeyeva, unfortunately out of print and impossible to find...

People like to throw around terms like "lossless" and "lossy", which are meaningless in a discussion about audio quality. If you're not "there" as it happens, it's all "lossy".

This is great news! If jazz were becoming more popular I would probably stop listening to it.

That's the one.

If I may jump in re: Szigeti, there is a Biddulph issue titled " Szigeti Plays Bach, Brahms and Bartok" which unfortunately is not cheap these days: http://www.amazon.de/Szigeti-spielt-Bach-Bartok-Brahms/dp/B00000K2NP/ I haven't heard anyone come close to that, and the Brahms with Egon Petri is a stunner as well. I'm a recent Tatyana Nikolayeva convert, especially after getting a hard to find box on the Russian label Venezia from HMV Japan, it has WTC, Goldberg and Inventions that are quite compelling. One thing that stands out for me is she seems to always find the perfect tempo for anything that she is playing. Also investigating Yudina right now, but she seems too heavy handed from what I heard so far.

Received the Farlow from Mosaic today, no problems with disc 6. Everything sounds great!

Or the Black Artists Group; found a great film of them performing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZQEcooUgk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7H6pjvn6w0 I only found one record to their name (In Paris, Aries 1973). Is there anything else?

Missed the Mulligan, got the Farlow.

Well, I checked all the albums in the box, and "From G to G", "Missa", "Baghet" and "Cinque piccole storie" are fine; the others all suffer from compression and limiting. To compare, I bought the "Verano" track mentioned above from the cam jazz web site, and it turns out to be identical to the one in the box set. So I guess there is the possibility that the bad ones were like this to begin with; is anyone who has the the original releases able to chime in?

Basically that this particular track, "Verano" from "Around Small Fairy Tales" has been compressed and clipped; the peaks don't have any room left under the 1.0 line, which is the maximum amplitude that can be represented by the digital file. And indeed it sounds loud from start to finish, harsh and fatiguing. Have you done the same analysis on the original CD release? No, I don't have it.

Basically that this particular track, "Verano" from "Around Small Fairy Tales" has been compressed and clipped; the peaks don't have any room left under the 1.0 line, which is the maximum amplitude that can be represented by the digital file. And indeed it sounds loud from start to finish, harsh and fatiguing.

I usually don't like looking at waveform graphs and such, but this time something sounded off, so I opened Audacity to look at some of the files, and here's what I saw:

Try "Around Small Fairy Tales".

I just received the Trovesi set today, and the remastering job is brutal; compressed and limited to hell and back. The weird thing is some tracks are fine, but too many are not. Got it from amazon.ca and am thinking of returning it....

Friday night I saw Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood play at Massey Hall. Very nice show, I was most impressed by Martin and Wood; Medeski was a bit quiet, his piano being a bit low in the mix didn't help either.