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[SEAWOLF97]

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some folks had said it was nearly unlistenable compared to the better japanese Zep remasters of a few years back. ...

Perhaps my speakers/system not good enuff, dont hear the problems you are referring to..sounds natural and effortless and clean

Can't make me buy more.
je

buy ? who said buy ? county library is a great source . ( I ,too ,have bought too many in the past )

[SEAWOLF97]

Wow - that's interesting!

I'd heard that Mothership was one of the albums mastered with high compression to get a higher loudness setting, so it would compete with other contemporary recordings with similar high compression settings ...
some folks had said it was nearly unlistenable compared to the better japanese Zep remasters of a few years back..

STRICTLY for research purposes,,,, (cause you have to believe a Bimmer drivin' JBLer ('cept bottomfeeders )) , I set a new SPL record for my house on "Dazed & Confused and "Babe, I'm gonna leave you" , if there are problems...I didnt hear them ( and this was on my $5 Kyocera player)

Where did you pick up that info ?

[hjames]

STRICTLY for research purposes,,,, (cause you have to believe a Bimmer drivin' JBLer ('cept bottomfeeders )) , I set a new SPL record for my house on "Dazed & Confused and "Babe, I'm gonna leave you" , if there are problems...I didnt hear them ( and this was on my $5 Kyocera player)

Where did you pick up that info ?

I'd heard it mentioned in anumber of places at the time, but here is a couple of quick links ...


http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/sh...d.php?t=126513

Interesting comments on pg 26 of that thread ...
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/sh...126513&page=26

http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=28445

also see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

[SEAWOLF97]

I'd heard it mentioned in anumber of places at the time, but here is a couple of quick links ...

Hj ...I read those links ....highly divergent comments , so I have the choice of evaluating what is in my hand/cd player on my system or believing unknown posters comments about sound on unknown systems ,,, hard choice

gotta say tho, these 250ti's were made for playing "Dazed & Confused"

[hjames]

Hj ...I read those links ....highly divergent comments , so I have the choice of evaluating what is in my hand/cd player on my system or believing unknown posters comments about sound on unknown systems ,,, hard choice

gotta say tho, these 250ti's were made for playing "Dazed & Confused"

Yeah, I have the Japanese remasters from a few years previous, so I can't personally comment on Mothership - I just heard folks say it was louder and mixed a bit more trebley as is the custom in these days ...

[SEAWOLF97]

Different subject

I was P2Ping around, and picking up Rolling Stones tunes....got a full album called "Hillsdale" (49 minutes) ....Its obviously Stones, but mostly instrumental, things I've never heard them do, maybe original.....tried to do some research on it, but found nothing...Any nfo ?

[SEAWOLF97]

Got in my 10 miles on the bike today. I make a couple of different circuits to cover 6 different thrifts in the area,
anyway ..

picked up these today ...all very nice condition and the Montoya 5 disk set looked liked they had never been played .....$1.47 total ...guess what I'm listening to today ?

[SEAWOLF97]

It was a beautiful day and did the 12 mile loop on the bike,,,,spent $7 on 4 disks (theM&P's are a double) ...high for me but the Lp's are in perfect condition, very low hour(s) pon them

[BMWCCA]

"It's A Beautiful Day" indeed. What a wonderful album. One I still have and intend to convert to a CD someday. Someday. Now I see I can simply buy it on-line for twenty-bucks.

[SEAWOLF97]

"It's A Beautiful Day" indeed. What a wonderful album. One I still have and intend to convert to a CD someday. Someday. Now I see I can simply buy it on-line for twenty-bucks.

loved the lyrics on "Hot Summer Day"

They told me that the sun turned green
I said I didn't know
And they told me that the moon turned blue
And I said it didn't show
And they told me that I looked a fool
And I said I'd let that go
But when they told me that our love was dead
I had to turn and go

Oh love, love, love, love
Love, where did you go



Mid 80's today, so I did #3 loop, about 8 miles. dragged home these 2 LP's ,,the jackets are a little worn , but disks are like new ...$1.60

[SEAWOLF97]

I picked up "The Capitol Albums" Beatles vol2 yesterday from the lib....its "The Early Beatles" , "Beatles VI" , "Help!" and "Rubber Soul" complete albums on 4 CD's

The booklet says "prepared from the original 1965 Capitol master tapes" .....and the CD's truly do sound fine.

I was amused by this album cover on VeeJay records of the "mop tops"

[hjames]

Watching The Sopranos last night, they ran the episode where Johnny Sacs is allowed out of jail to attend his daughter's wedding. They had a wedding band doing the usual hits, but at one point they played "At Last".

So - afterwards, because its been ages, I had to play Etta James' CD to hear the original.
Sat back, took off my glasses, dimmed the lights - and cranked the big system a bit ... and I hear an intermittent thump! Maybe Emma walking around upstairs, maybe the cats jumping around - not regular, but Thump ... ... ... thump.

Completely weirds me out - I call out to Emma - she's in the office - wasn't her. Cats are in the living room, not overhead - wasn't them hunt around - no lights on the subwoofer amp (CDs generally play in stereo and don't feed the sub amp or subs). Pause the CD - no thumps. Play it again, intermittent thumps.
Its in the recording and I never heard it before on the L-36s or the 4320 hackers - but - the 4341s play low enough that I got it this time ...

Apparently just random bangs from the recording studio process ... amazing.

[LRBacon]

loved the lyrics on "Hot Summer Day"

They told me that the sun turned green
I said I didn't know
And they told me that the moon turned blue
And I said it didn't show
And they told me that I looked a fool
And I said I'd let that go
But when they told me that our love was dead
I had to turn and go

Oh love, love, love, love
Love, where did you go



Mid 80's today, so I did #3 loop, about 8 miles. dragged home these 2 LP's ,,the jackets are a little worn , but disks are like new ...$1.60

Tom, I still have my original "It's A Beautiful Day" LP. Bought it new in 1969. I have the San Francisco Sound CD version of it, too. Haven't listened to it for a while.

[BMWCCA]

Don't knock it until you've tried it! Nice full sound. It'll surprise you.

http://www.amazon.com/Grapefruit-Moo.../dp/B001C28Z8O

[SEAWOLF97]

I had forgotten how good BOTW is... .4 disks...total $3