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I think more. Maybe even 100, or 125.

Correct, there was a CD box set that has faded into obscurity, as outside the USA, and even within, there is a fairly narrow market. First, the 'original master tapes' and a hodge-podge of dubs from second generation (at best) tape copies, then 'Dexterized' for radio play and young american...

As I said earlier, the cash flow issue has been dire for some time. This is obvious. No viable business throws up as many smoke signals as VMP that it is hanging on by a thread. Anyone who ups for a 6 or 12 month sub at this point has no one to blame but themselves if VMP belly flops and they...

Here in Toronto, record stores are on to this scam - being very careful about any used VMP that comes in, and refusing most. There are people on this board I am sure do this. I wrote many times about how the people who return repeatedly for often minor or superficial reasons hurt everyone...

Agree. I was wavering about resubscribing. The Gus Cannon insult is pretty much the last straw, but there have been many issues adding up. Let's face reality here. VMP is on a death spiral, grasping for survival. But once in the spiral, few companies survive. I would NOT renew for longer than...

Sure, it is, to some extent. Remember that back in 1999, vinyl was a very trivial consideration for a new release. They probably used the raw digital files, which Vlad mixed loud. The 1999 vinyl is definitely less brickwalled than the concurrent CD. The 2012 vinyl is only a notch higher in...

In general, no. If truly brickwalled - like DR 5 or so - it cannot be cut to vinyl. Nothing will track it. Generally, in digital, neither the mix or digital master are brickwalled. It happens in mastering after for the CD or download/streaming file. The typical mode is to send a specific vinyl...

A few things here. Impulse, as a label, doesn't exist anymore. It is part of Verve, which is in turn part of UMG. There is no re-release strategy outside of VBR and licensing, such as to Chad. There are very few true UMG Impulse master tapes in existence. The large majority were lost in the...

Not really. You can't brickwall vinyl, just make it louder. The 2009 Big Brother reissues are definitive to me.

In this, we agree completely. We are at a tipping point, which is being seen at retail. This has been standard procedure for the record industry over many decades, which has led to repeated boom-bust cycles. Milk it, over-saturate the market, zero in on the most easily manipulated market...

Fair, and no one can knock enjoyment of any music. I would point out, though, that back in the day (I was around then), TBM had a fairly narrow audience and little awareness outside Japan. There were plenty great jazz labels in Japan producing outstanding records. Search them out, don't just...

Not sure about that! These TBM sell out fast. They are not aimed at the foreign markets, although I have no doubt Sony is well aware that many are exported. TBM was never a BN equivalent, it's catalog is far too narrow, and veered from very straight ahead piano trio sessions to a lesser number...

Technology, at least the audio underground, already has. A cleaned up high bit rate vinyl transfer. Probably the best you will get, outside of a mint original.

But I can download plans for a working 3D print gun. Legally.

It's a witch hunt by the Biden DOJ.

LOL. I have 8TB of SACD DSD files. All the way back to the beginning. Most are from physical discs, and back in the day, there was a very small private ripping circuit I participated in. I keep triple backup. There's in excess of $100k in material on these drives.

And probably shouldn't say this. I have them all. Pretty much everything on SACD, domestic and japanese. None physical, I have no physical disc player. ISO rips. Hundreds. Rips actually sound better if done correctly, as it takes the transport out of the equation and gives you the clean data file.

The JT-555 is a decent cart, principally because of the stylus and cantilever. Decent sounding. Good tracker, forgiving of surface noise. does nothing wrong. I would say, in my heirarchy, the SAS-1 with a boron SAS-1 stylus is supreme, followed by the Garrott P77i, the Garrott K-3 Shibata which...

It's not like I'm not a fan of Nagaoka: But I am a bigger fan of Jico:

Muse were one of the successors to Blue Note, who carried on the mission after BN went into hibernation. Major stars were Ricky Ford, Bill Barron, Dave Schnitter, the mighty Willis Jackson, Houston Person, Carlos Garnett and of course Woody Shaw. Many were recorded and cut by RVG. All sound...