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In Reply to: Overrated audiophile recordings posted by magiccarpetride on June 13, 2011 at 14:43:34:
I don't think most of the RVG Blue Note remasters would qualify or be marketed as "audiophile" recordings. They are for the most part great jazz "performances". Almost nothing from the 50-60's period of jazz recordings if not all recordings from that time period could be considered audiophile. They were state of the art of their time but suffer from the limitations of the technology of the time. I own most of the 200 RVG Blue Note remasters and they are sublime.
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Follow Ups Full ThreadTopic - Overrated audiophile recordings - magiccarpetride 14:43:34 06/13/11 (83)
- RE: Overrated audiophile recordings - Chazro 13:11:20 06/15/11 (0)
- Your system must not be good enough to hear them properly. - JimBop 20:05:08 06/14/11 (3)
- RE: Your system must not be good enough to hear them properly. - pictureguy 14:31:41 06/17/11 (0)
- Or his system may be so good that he can hear there's no there there... - musetap 12:08:48 06/15/11 (0)
- but do you believe that? bet not. you said it to make a funny. nt - Elizabeth 23:07:59 06/14/11 (0)
- Almost none of them are overrated... - genungo 17:31:12 06/14/11 (0)
- RE: Overrated audiophile recordings - JimL 12:49:49 06/14/11 (0)
- A pop/rock music fan chimes in - goober58 10:47:45 06/14/11 (0)
- You're close! (re muffled piano sound) - Charlie S in Maryland 10:35:28 06/14/11 (1)
- It sounded good on the original LPs. Blue Note got a very mellow, round piano sound. Many other labels were - oldmkvi 17:11:59 06/14/11 (0)
- Comment on vintage LP sound... - docw 07:59:19 06/14/11 (0)
- RVGs for sure. JRVGs much better. - Sigmund 07:50:04 06/14/11 (0)
- Mercury Living Presence & RCA Living Stereo - Feanor 07:34:47 06/14/11 (4)
- RE: Mercury Living Presence & RCA Living Stereo - geoffkait 08:44:48 06/14/11 (3)
- Very good but not consistently great * - Feanor 15:17:31 06/14/11 (2)
- Pretty sure noone ever claimed they were consistently great. - geoffkait 03:02:14 06/15/11 (1)
- Of course not ... - Feanor 03:56:23 06/15/11 (0)
- RVG's - jimmyjames 06/14/1106:02:09 06/14/11 (1)
- RE: RVG's - middleground 06:12:40 06/18/11 (0)
- The RVG catalogue - Larry I 05:50:38 06/14/11 (0)
- Audiophile self-loathing - Jim Austin 04:48:28 06/14/11 (5)
- RE: Audiophile self-loathing - magiccarpetride 10:13:31 06/16/11 (0)
- The problem is the group of boring but wonderful sonics sort of albums paraded around as 'jaw dropping' sorts - Elizabeth 17:15:15 06/15/11 (2)
- RE: The problem is the group of boring but wonderful sonics sort of albums paraded around as 'jaw dropping' sorts - magiccarpetride 10:16:34 06/16/11 (1)
- RE: The problem is the group of boring but wonderful sonics sort of albums paraded around as 'jaw dropping' sorts - middleground 06:14:51 06/18/11 (0)
- I'm going to chime in an agree with Jim - jult52 05:54:34 06/14/11 (0)
- RE: Overrated audiophile recordings - Gag Halfrunt 02:21:50 06/14/11 (1)
- Great rant! Thanks! :) (nt) - willkayakforfood 02:33:22 06/14/11 (0)
- I can't say i ever bought a recording for the sound rather than the plain old music. - Elizabeth 23:26:49 06/13/11 (3)
- RE: I can't say i ever bought a recording for the sound rather than the plain old music. - magiccarpetride 13:24:46 06/15/11 (1)
- RE: "So what's up with that?" I have an idea... - willkayakforfood 14:39:38 06/15/11 (0)
- RE: I can't say i ever bought a recording for the sound rather than the plain old music. - rick_m 15:18:22 06/14/11 (0)
- On the positive side - boboli 21:03:30 06/13/11 (2)
- RE: On the positive side - magiccarpetride 10:03:35 06/16/11 (0)
- Ditto!...N/T - musetap 11:09:00 06/14/11 (0)
- All of them... - audio_d 20:44:25 06/13/11 (5)
- M A Recordings is an "audiophile" label and everything I've heard of theirs is superb... - musetap 21:30:06 06/13/11 (4)
- I have Ita Ima plying the Goldberg Variations on vinyl - and it is superb! Both ... - andyr 19:41:43 06/14/11 (1)
- Dang! Vinyl is OOP, but I'll look for the CD. Thanks!...N/T - musetap 21:24:59 06/14/11 (0)
- Agreed. Great performances and production values! (mt) - Stephæn 11:47:15 06/14/11 (1)
- A description also worthy of Alia Vox...N/T - musetap 12:57:45 06/14/11 (0)
- Agree about most of Chesky catalogue but... - kuma 20:10:22 06/13/11 (2)
- RE: Now you just wait a derned minute! - amioutaline? 15:23:54 06/14/11 (1)
- Chesky's Lt. Kije? - kuma 18:34:31 06/14/11 (0)
- The definition of an audiophile recording... - mkuller 20:02:29 06/13/11 (9)
- RE: The definition of an audiophile recording... - Todd Krieger 20:07:01 06/13/11 (8)
- i waaay prefer......` - hifitommy 21:17:31 06/13/11 (6)
- Now yer talkin' - kavakidd 23:13:46 06/13/11 (5)
- there are quite a few that are good - hifitommy 06:00:03 06/14/11 (4)
- I have all of those - kavakidd 09:37:10 06/14/11 (3)
- "lack a certain energy" - hifitommy 14:59:21 06/14/11 (2)
- I have indeed - kavakidd 16:24:06 06/14/11 (1)
- its funny, i have always liked those perfs - hifitommy 17:10:17 06/14/11 (0)
- I saw her sing live in about 1985... - mkuller 20:13:06 06/13/11 (0)
- RE: Overrated audiophile recordings - Regor Ladan 19:20:46 06/13/11 (0)
- I agree with you about the RVG remasters - Mike K 19:11:09 06/13/11 (0)
- RE: Overrated audiophile recordings - Todd Krieger 18:55:43 06/13/11 (0)
- you have to know who to trust - hifitommy 18:01:32 06/13/11 (3)
- Kraftwerk - kavakidd 23:16:03 06/13/11 (2)
- cafe was on hp's list - hifitommy 06:02:39 06/14/11 (1)
- "not all of hp's choices were credible musically" - Rob Doorack 04:34:00 06/15/11 (0)
- What do you expect? - Kal Rubinson 15:38:45 06/13/11 (2)
- RE: What do you expect? - magiccarpetride 15:50:28 06/13/11 (1)
- RE: What do you expect? - Kal Rubinson 18:28:34 06/13/11 (0)
- Recording quality is different from "good" music or performances - Sordidman 15:31:59 06/13/11 (2)
- RE: Recording quality is different from "good" music or performances - Pat D 16:09:19 06/13/11 (1)
- South - Sordidman 20:31:21 06/14/11 (0)
- I'm always concerned with *the performance*. A quality recording--of a great performance--is a bonus. - willkayakforfood 15:11:09 06/13/11 (13)
- Agree with you 100% It is the performance and not the sound that matters, good sound is a bonus - Elizabeth 17:18:22 06/13/11 (12)
- C'mon, ladies ... - andyr 19:26:56 06/13/11 (11)
- Casals, Starker, 19/20th century performance practices vs. 16/17/18th century practices, etc. - willkayakforfood 21:10:18 06/13/11 (10)
- RE: Casals, Starker - pbarach 15:50:37 06/14/11 (0)
- RE: Casals, Starker, 19/20th century performance practices vs. 16/17/18th century practices, etc. - rmilewsk 23:26:32 06/13/11 (5)
- Start here, but don't stop here... - willkayakforfood 00:32:46 06/14/11 (4)
- willk - jult52 05:41:26 06/14/11 (3)
- RE: Mischa Maisky - willkayakforfood 07:32:03 06/14/11 (2)
- Hey debating the merits of musicians - jult52 06:44:31 06/15/11 (1)
- RE: Hey debating the merits of musicians - willkayakforfood 07:00:09 06/15/11 (0)
- So,wkff ... what good "baroque" version of the Suites would you recommend? :-)) ... - andyr 21:19:02 06/13/11 (2)
- Please see reply to "rmilewsk", above. (nt) - willkayakforfood 00:38:11 06/14/11 (1)
- Thank you, thank you, wkff. :-)) ... - andyr 01:36:16 06/14/11 (0)
- RE: Overrated audiophile recordings - pbarach 15:06:15 06/13/11 (1)
- For Britten - Daverz 21:15:12 06/13/11 (0)
Follow Ups
- RVG's - jimmyjames 06/14/1106:02:09 06/14/11 (1)
- RE: RVG's - middleground 06:12:40 06/18/11 (0)