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Blue Note 45rpm reissue

I am suprised that I can't find much discussion concerning the new Blue Note 45rpm reissue's from Music Matters. I got my first two and they are wonderful! Very quiet and dynamic. Solid classic jazz. Sound stage is deep and on a few occasions I jumped up because of a noise in my kitchen, (off the music room), or a knock on the door only to find out that the sound stage has expanded further into the room. Anyone else try these out or heard any other offerings than the first two?
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plinko
256 posts
 
Phaser, the word over at the Hoffman board was that Acoustic Sounds was going to send out replacements for this incredibly botched initial round of AP 45 Blue Notes. No need to ship the lp back to them. If you emailed and don't want to wait for the response back, I would suggest (the very expensive) phone call.
phaser
71 posts
 
Plinko, as you have suggested Leesa at Acoustic Sounds who is great to deal with has responded promptly and has advised me to keep the disc and a replacement will be sent out. Unfortunate that it happened and I really cannot understand how the QC process at RTI works or if there is a QC process but at least Acoustic Sounds are responding in the right way. They will be keeping me as a customer!
bigamp
219 posts
 
Just a piece of trivia that may not be news to any of you: There's a big to do on the Acoustic Sounds web site about the AP Blue Note 45s being stereo instead of mono. It turns out that a few of the reissues will be mono, according to their salesperson.
stiltskin
499 posts
 
Personally I would prefer mono over the stereo issues of these and other 1950s and 60s vintage recordings.

I'm not set up for mono as of yet.

If you have never heard a good system set up for mono,believe me it's worth the expense!

Vinyl is king of the hill.
dan_ed
2,451 posts
 
The stereo/mono issue was discussed early on in this thread. Most of the masters of these were recorded in stereo and then folded down to mono. So that is the way AP decided to re-issue this series. If the master happens to be in mono, then the re-issue will be mono. In effect, these are re-issues of the master recordings. Not necessarily re-issues of the original issues.
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