What's Spinning Tonight?

What is it that you are spinning tonight?

 

Tim

 

Tim, I heard some snippets of the Ella/Louis mono album the other day. Fantastic!

Lee

 

Tim

Tim

that album has been played at every BAAS meeting for the past 6-7years. Great album

 

How come I don't have it?

 

I just enjoyed this 45rpm...

 

On SACD.

 

I am listening to this on CD:

Rich

 

On CD.

 

This is one of my all-time faves. Monk is the man!

 

This is one of my all-time faves. Monk is the man!

Agreed .. This Monk album shall be added to my Library...


I am listening to two beautiful pieces .. Two Requiems although I am not on any particularly morbid mood.. I find the music beautiful and full of well .. Life. From Telarc:
Faure and Durufle requiems

 

Chilling out tonight with:

 

HDCD encoded CDs (3-disc set)

* It's in the morning here though. ...But for others on the globe, it's night time.

 

Not too long ago...

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But right now: Classical Opera by Rossini from the r.a.d.i.o. (88.9 Analog FM Stereophonic).

 

I am listening to this on CD:

Rich

 

Symphony No. 10 by Gustav Mahler (not fully elaborated)

Exquisite! ...From the analog r.a.d.i.o. (88.9 French FM Stereophonic).

Here's a glimpse:

 

Bare Bones - Wishbone Ash DVDA
If I could Only Remember my Name - David Crosby & Friends DVDA

 

I am listening for my first time to a special SHM pressing from Japan of this on CD; it was just delivered this morning:

Rich

 

Rich, which versions of this album do you have on CD with which you can attempt to make any comparisons?

 

Rich, which versions of this album do you have on CD with which you can attempt to make any comparisons?

Hi Ron,

The SHM CD is the 3 track WPCR-13246 released by WEA Atltantic Japan and it says on the back that it was Digitally Remastered By Joe Gastwirt at Ocean View Digital. According to Amazon it was released in 2008. It appears to be the exact same re-issue/re-mastered in 1994 released as 3 track 82666-2 Atlantic release which was Digitally Remastered By Joe Gastwirt at Ocean View Digital; I have this disc for comparison. It is not the Rhino reissue/remaster with any of the additional tracks or any of the Japanese SHM minidiscs with the HDCD.

I have listened now twice to the disc. My initial impressions follow those that I read on-line and confirms that the performance of these SHM CDs are going to be recording/mastering specific. I agree that I am hearing more detail in the recording with better separation from what I remember for the 1994 digital remastering and release. Instruments appear to better rendered and placed in space for both imaging and soundstaging. Additionally, bass is stronger and tighter and overall the sound is quite dynamic with a more natural presentation and more life like sound to the instruments and Jon's voice. I am not sure but I may be hearing a wider and possibly deeper soundstage as well, but I will need to listen more and make some direct comparisons. This seems to be due to the fact that the re-mastering was done quite well (I guess back in 1994) from the original tapes, and it is performing quite well with the Polycarbonate material of the discs.

Rich

 

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