You ARE missing the point David when you continue to refer to the 50's RVG recordings, it's what has been done in this SRX lot that I'm critical of irrespective of the RVG. Strad and I hope they will sound even better through that. Now I am waiting for the VDH African Grenadine Master Sig. The only exception that comes to my mind is soundsmith strain gauge cartridge sounding different on some of them, less to my liking. I changed 3 cartridges during these years and with all of them I had the same result. It still feels natural although you know it can not sound like this live. Still this era of RVG Blue Note recordings for me is just at the right point. This is whats been happening since then mostly with all recordings further and further. You hear more into instruments than you can hear if it was live. These Blue Note recordings we talk about has his close miking technique and this does not aim for a natural recording of event but more like a idealized sound.

RVG remasters are not good, for my ears, RVG started adding too much treble later in his life. The naturalness of treble and its extension, the timbre of wind instruments and the dynamics are all better with 45rpm on my system. Why has some people preffered the 33s over 45s in MM reissues is beyond me. My group of friends all thought the same.

I was so happy to hear them like they sounded in MM 45, I stopped pursuing the original pressings. The 45rpm MM reissues beat all of them for me. I have some 33 versions from MM, some Japanese pressings of these albums too. I also have some of the original pressings and have a record collector friend who has most of the original pressings. I love that era of blue note and as I have stated before, I got all the 45 reissues of MM. It is very interesting for me hear these.

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