Blue Note Jazz DSD downloads at Acoustic Sounds

[kumakuma]

I'd be interested in hearing how they sound but, much as I love these albums, it's hard to get excited about yet another reissue.

 

Cool Struttin' by Sonny Clark was the first jazz album I bought and I still love it but I'm not sure I need another version.

 

[kumakuma]

2 hours ago, Solstice380 said:

 

Wish TBM would consider offering downloads. 

 

TBM went out of business in late 2014 so probably unlikely at this point.

[kumakuma]

1 minute ago, smdb01us said:

Seems like the "Flat Transfer From Original Analog Master Tape" recordings are still on the store.

 

Ok, I will take one for the team and buy one of the albums and report back tonight. I am really curios to hear how these sound. I will get Somethin' Else and compare it agains my 6 other copies (some digital and some analog, including a US '60 mono reprint). The website does not have any indication whether these are monos or stereos but since it says "original analog master tape" I will assume this will be a mono transfer... we will see.

 

@kumakuma, I am glad to see I am not the only person that has SO many copies of the same album. My girlfriend was helping me organize my vinyl collection a few days ago and she asked me, looking perplexed "why do you have SO many copies of the same albums???", It was a long conversation/answer, lol.

 

Stay tuned!

 

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think. Something' Else is such a great album.

 

Were you able to convince your girlfriend of your need for so many different versions?

 

Downloads are great in this respect as you can "slide" the album into your collection without altering the significant other. The wife and I had many uncomfortable conversions in the old days when I buying CDs by the dozen. 

[kumakuma]

2 minutes ago, smdb01us said:

Luckily for me, she has a music background and a great ear for picking musical differences so I played a few different versions of the same album for her and she quickly understood why I do it. This weekend she had the control of the Aurender for the first time and just smiled when she saw a very similar situation with the digital copies (mono, stereo, CD, RVG remastered, SACD, etc).

 

Sounds like a keeper!

[kumakuma]

53 minutes ago, smdb01us said:

 

The very first thing I noticed was the difference in volume on all these editions. The RVG CD is definitely the loudest, significantly louder than the other two. Next is the flat transfer, which is what I would consider "normal" based on my listening patterns. Lastly, the SACD is the softest of the three, where I have to go up 7-9 clicks on my pre-amp volume. Not super important, interesting to me.

 

 

Thanks for sharing your impressions.

 

I've never really liked most of the RVG CDs. There's a theory out of there that RVG was suffering from significant hearing loss when he did those reissues.

 

SACDs are almost always attenuated by 5db. There is a technical reason why but I forgot it.