@czarivey: Your feelings about Chesky’s releases are very much like those of us old guys in regards to the Sheffield Labs direct-to-disk LP’s of the 1970’s. Those LP’s possess astounding sound quality, but few of them are admired for their musical content.
Chesky Records started out releasing audiophile-quality LP (vinyl for you youngins) reissues of highly-regarded albums from the "golden age" of Classical music recording: the 1950’s and early-60’s. The original LP’s (I don’t like to apply the term "OG" to original pressings of old albums) were highly regarded for both their sound quality and their musical merit, many being RCA Records from that company’s "shaded dog" center label-era. There were other audiophile companies doing the same, but Chesky did it on the largest scale. Dozens and dozens of LP’s; I myself own 29 of them.
David Chesky then moved into making his own recordings and issuing them on LP and CD, many of them being of Jazz artists (including Chesky himself). As my musical taste is light on Jazz, I don’t own nor have even heard the Jazz releases. I therefore can comment on neither their recorded sound quality, nor their musical content.
As Chesky was transitioning from Classical album reissues into releases of new recordings of their own, Classic Records began doing LP reissues, many of them being titles Chesky had already done. The Classic Records LP’s were very well received and bought.
Regardless of the musical content of the "new" Chesky releases, I found David’s observations, philosophy, and objectives expressed in the video in regard to the recording and playback of musical recordings to be very interesting, and thought other AudiogoN members might as well.
One of J. Gordon Holt’s "Audiophile Rules": Often the better the sound quality of the recording, the worse the quality of the music. And visa versa. The music lover/audiophile dilemma!
