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Excellent SACD quality "A Love Supreme" Coltrane

I'm on a mission, I'm looking for a high quality download of John Coltrane's " a Love Supreme" album. I have the '86 MCA/Impulse reissue and it's painful to listen to on a good system. I love this album, it transformed me into loving jazz and I haven't looked back but I rarely play this album due to it being so fatiguing.

Does anyone know if there has recently been a much improved high quality version?

Sadly I don't use vinyl but hoping I can find a downloadable SACD-audio quality music file of this album. I've looked everywhere and any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
crad

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nicotico
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Crad,

The 2003 Impulse version (B0000610-02) is vastly superior to the '86 version you own. According to the liner notes, this version was mastered by Rudy Van Gelder, from a copy different than "all previous digital incarnations of A Love Supreme." Also from the liner notes: "...Rudy Van Gelder declared it to be as close to the real thing as one could get in the analog domain without having the original tape..."

I haven't heard any subsequent releases (SACD or otherwise) because I'm happy enough with this version.
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