SACD and DVD-A dead, but K2HD is HERE!!!?!!?!?

[jim goulding]

Mr. Peabody- I, too, think live jazz recordings are usually very good. I think you're right about setting up the mikes. Then, it usually goes to a two track machine with very little mixing. The result is in real time. I think that's the difference. I got one for you and I think bobsticks will agree, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers at Keystone Korner 3. The designation 3 is very important. This version of The Messengers features Wynton and Branford Marsalis and a hellova bop pianist, Donald Brown. Go right to side two, or if you're listening by CD, that would be tract #4. Blakey's drum hits are so clean and his cymbals shimmer. You can hear the inside of the piano's box. And yet things are miked with regard for your perspective as tho you were in the audience and with regard for the position of the players on stage. The last track is the best on the album, in my veteran opinion. Clean cookin with gas! Blakey positively shines on this and he is positioned behind the front line as it should be. You mentioned The Crusaders. Have you heard "Live at The Lighthouse '88"? Good recording.that's not thin, I think you might agree. My copies are on vinyl and regular CD, respectively.

[bobsticks]

Mr. Peabody- I, too, think live jazz recordings are usually very good. I think you're right about setting up the mikes. Then, it usually goes to a two track machine with very little mixing. The result is in real time. I think that's the difference. I got one for you and I think bobsticks will agree, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers at Keystone Korner 3. The designation 3 is very important. This version of The Messengers features Wynton and Branford Marsalis and a hellova bop pianist, Donald Brown. Go right to side two, or if you're listening by CD, that would be tract #4. Blakey's drum hits are so clean and his cymbals shimmer. You can hear the inside of the piano's box. And yet things are miked with regard for your perspective as tho you were in the audience and with regard for the position of the players on stage. The last track is the best on the album, in my veteran opinion. Clean cookin with gas! Blakey positively shines on this and he is positioned behind the front line as it should be. You mentioned The Crusaders. Have you heard "Live at The Lighthouse '88"? Good recording.that's not thin, I think you might agree. My copies are on vinyl and regular CD, respectively.

Absolutely cosigns...

Search out this recording Mr. P, you won't regret it. It has also been my experience that most of the Oscar Peterson and Lionel Hampton recordings on the Telarc label are pretty solid. Both Live at the Blue Note and Encore at the Blue Note just "take you there" and are excellent DSD recordings in standard redbook format.