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XRCDs WOW

Spent the entire weekend (listening time, that is) enjoying 10 XRCDs I just purchased. (Bill Evans, Miles, Ray Bryant, Ella, Terry Evans and Art Tatum.) Unbelievable! I've often said, how wonderful it would have been if we had the technology, 50 years back, to record the greats. OK, they (XRs) are, still, not like today's stuff, but, man, it's the BEST I've ever heard these guys sound on Cd. Intimate, sweet on top, Sax never sounded better. Paul Motian's drum--forgeddabout it. You know all the lingo. Words just cannot do what a simple audition will do. I highly recommend checking out these babies. I'm doing another 10 as soon as my wife gets over the 10 I just bought. peace, warren
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gunbei
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Yeah, I love those JVC XRCD2s too. Pretty darn amazing. Recently, I purchased a Pioneer DV45 and some SACDs that duplicate some of my XRCDs, so that will be an interesting and fun comparison.
gunbei
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I first found out about these JVC XRCDs two years ago when Chet Atkins In Hollywood was finally released on CD. The people at JVC were very helpful when I asked them why this CD didn't soind like the same recording session as the LP my father owns from the early 1960's. After some research, they informed me that there was actually a previous 1957 recording of the same LP and that the XRCD was a release of this earlier session.

Other places to buy them are

www.elusivedisc.com

www.Amazon.com

www.amusicdirect.com

Since then I've purchased other releases by Jacintha, Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughn and John Coltrane. They're amazingly realistic sounding for recordings made forty years ago.
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