Kind Of Blue - Mile Davis 180g vinyl

Vivante have a 200g issue of KoB listed (www.vivante.co.uk)
It's on the Classic label and costs £25.95 plus £3.50 P&P

Not got it - cannot comment therefore

I had the KoB speed corrected release but it was a bit noisy and ended up returning it. From what ive heard its not upto much. The american import copy is quite good.

Martin, none of the stores in Berwick Street have it? Try HMV / amazon online for zero 7 for around £16-18. As for K&D Sessions, dont think its available now - great piece of vinyl

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Originally posted by Martin C:
Also anyone knows where I can get the vinyls set of 'Sessions - Kruder & Dorfmeister' or 'Another Late Night - Zero7'?

cheers
Martin

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Good luck on the K&D Martin. I've been looking for about 2 years!

Jay

K&D goes for £60 - £80 on ebay...I'm looking too

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

Thanks you all for the info.

I have already looked around around Soho (Berwick Street). For Zero7, I think I can get it in Virgin Megastore, or Amazon.uk as the last resort.

I know Sessions is really rare, but not this rare. I think it's a must have, I have the CDs.
I hope that they will be re-issued.

cheers
Martin

Just purchased the speed corrected CD. There is a sort of improvement to the sound but it's totally overwhelmed by the background noise. I will be returning it in the next day or so and returning to my inferior but listenable ten year old CD!!!

I have KoB on Classic Records 200g Quiex SV-P, and it is a stunning pressing. Absolutely the best pressing I've heard, completely quiet and devastatingly natural. I think this could be the one mentioned above =- the Vivante one.

Thoroughly recommended - I paid $27 in Sonic Boom Records, Seattle, so £26 seems about right given Rip Off Britain and all that...

John

I also have the Classic Records 200g Quiex. Highly recommended. Have you tried Grahams? -- they have a selection of 'audiophile' vinyl.

-Dan

Just checked classic records website their Qiex SV-P is the speed corrected. The supplier who i bought it from said there a batch of them that had this 'noise' problem, unfortunately i didnt bother waiting for him to get new stocks of it. Amazing that there are still noisy copies around, the trouble I had was a few years ago.

£60 - 80 for K&D sessions - hmm about time I got an insurance valuation for my collection - anyone know of good places to go for this kind of stuff let me know.

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Originally posted by Mike Hughes:
Just purchased the speed corrected CD. There is a sort of improvement to the sound but it's totally overwhelmed by the background noise. I will be returning it in the next day or so and returning to my inferior but listenable ten year old CD!!!

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Kind of Blue ? The Columbia/Legacy one ? I decided to keep this, rather than a standard Sony vinyl. There's tape hiss, sure, but unlistenable, well my gabber is completely flasted!

For c €10 it's a steal.

Peter

User34 at Laposte dot net

try Grahams HIFI

Peter,

I stand by what I said. We tried it again and again but the new brightness of the recording and the excessive levels mean it really is unlistenable. We took it back and got some nice Stevie Wonder and Jackson C. Frank.

Before I took it back I saved it to HD and messed with it in my various audio software. I could halve the background noise and still leave a sound quality better than my original CD IMHO. It really wasn't that hard. I play the latter occasionally but still prefer the original CD.

On the other hand, when I took it back to the shop they played it on their £200 CD unit and it was fine so... perhaps I need to downgrade!!!

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Originally posted by Mike Hughes:

On the other hand, when I took it back to the shop they played it on their £200 CD unit and it was fine so... perhaps I need to downgrade!!!

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errr, perhaps to a CDX. Ok, it takes all ears, I'll have to listen to mine again, I haven't done so in a while.

Peter

User34 at Laposte dot net

Thanks Dan & Kt66,

I got KOB (200g super vinyl) from Grahams. Will get the turntable this weekend.

Hi Haroon,

What exactly is the problem, hopefully the one I got has no problem!! As 2 other naimees gave a thumb up for the 200g super vinyl.

cheers
Martin

Wise choice Martin, the Classic Records version is excellent.

As far as noise is concerned, it's hit and miss with Classic Records pressings. Some are good, some are not.

My KOB was silent.

Martin C,

Well that was a lucky guess. Do they still have that Ella Songbook boxed set with the cool prints? I hope you enjoy your KOB -- it's truly a classic -- even if overplayed. I'd like to point out any recording from this time will have some tape hiss, but what you should expect is a general absence of surface noise.

cheers,

Dan

Sacrilege
I have KOB on SACD. It has both a stereo & a Multichannel track to choose from.

The Stereo SACD rendition is astonishingly "lifelike" by which I mean it feels like you are at the recording session with the musicians. I have a standard CD issue aswell and the SACD cleary elevates the music and brings a feeling of ambience which is'nt there on the standard CD.

It would be inetersting to compare with the 200g Vinyl you are all talking about, unfortunately I don't have it on Vinyl.

GEOFF

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your advice, Dan. Unfortunately the dealer is still waiting for the cartridge, so I won't get the turntable until Tue. Hope the KOB I got will have the minimal on the surface noise!

I am not surely whether they still have your mentioned Ella Songbook boxed set. As I just rushed to Grahams at lunch time. They do have a wide selection of vinyls.

Naturally the 200g super vinyl would be better sounding than the 180g, I bought the Sketches Of Spain (180g) at the Hi-Fi show for £5.

I am going to get the Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry (180g from simplyvinyl) for a tenner.

I am still after the Kruder & Dorfmeister's sessions, perhaps I can get a 2n hand ones in Berwick Street (Soho), you never know!

cheers
Martin

At some point I will break down an d buy this : Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Books (Box Set) (LP) which can be found at redtrumpet.com.

Dan

Multi-channel KOB?! This can't be good.

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Originally posted by Martin C:
I am still after the Kruder & Dorfmeister's sessions, perhaps I can get a 2n hand ones in Berwick Street (Soho), you never know!

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Not if I've got anything to do with it

Last one one ebay went for £60

Unfortunately this has given other people ideas that are getting completely stupid!

Time to lobby g-stone for a reissue?

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

So, can someone tell me?

If I want Kind Of Blue on CD then which versions are available outside of that horrendous hissy thing I sent back?