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In Reply to: Fantasy SACDs posted by Robertc88 on April 20, 2007 at 06:43:36:
I've gotten rid of many Fantasy SACDs, because the mastering is often inferior to other CD reissues of the same albums.The DCC Gold CDs are usually the best digital version to get, but they are OOP and quite expensive ($30-50). For other albums, the XRCDs (mastered in the US in case of many Riversie sessions) are usually superior to the Fantasy SACDs.
I wouldn't count too much on the new Concords CDs, as the remastering work by Rudy Van Gelder and Joe Tarantino is decent at best. The problem with these reissues is that the initial OJC CDs already sound very good and have bonus tracks.
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I got rid of many of the DCC gold and other prior versions of these OJC titles (well, I gave them to my brother) because my determination was the opposite of yours. Especially on such releases as Gil +10, Art Pepper + 11, Benny Carter Jazz Giant, etc. The Gil + 10 SACD is undeniably the best digital version, not even open to debate. Some of the others I can see your point and hear that the DCCs do some things better, but I still prefer the SACDs overall for the detail and dynamics.
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Thanks for the prior post with the experiences you have had with those SACD recordings and CDs. Much appreciated.
I have a couple of these JSACDs.From the point of view of sound quality, I particularly like the piano trio discs (Don Friedman, Great Jazz Trio), which sound very natural, dry and closeup, in the best audiophile sense.
Also very good are the two discs with acoustic quartet or quintet recordings by Eddie Henderson and Roy Haynes. Musically they are straightforward and a bit routine-like (as happens so often with sessions on japanese audiophile labels).
The SACDs by Ravi Coltrane and Joe Chambers sound a bit too overproduced for my taste (sonically).
You should not wait too long before getting the Eighty Eights SACDs, because most of them seem to be OOP (the same titles are also sold on LP and CD). I got mine a few months ago from HMV.co.jp
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