Also, on title "The Chase", played by Dexter Gordon And Wardell Gray I can 
hear a lot of artificial (stereo) reverb aded to ordinary lacqer transfer.

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From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Something new in audio restoration?


> There are Soundcloud excerpts on the descriptor page:
> http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=260-MD-CD
>
> I hear a LOT of digital artifacts on some of the tracks. It might be 
> lossiness from Soundcloud but you'd think they'd want to put a better foot 
> forward.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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> From: "Doug Pomeroy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 6:49 PM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Something new in audio restoration?
>
>
>> In the March issue of Stereophile magazine, Robert Baird's article, on p. 
>> 130, describes the
>> current reissue of a boxed set of 9 CDs by Mosaic Records: "The Complete 
>> Dial Modern
>> Jazz Sessions". These famous bop recordings on the Dial label have been 
>> reissued before,
>> and Baird quotes Mosaic's Michael Cuscuna who praises the audio 
>> improvements wrought by
>> mastering engineer Steve Marlowe who performs "bit density processing". 
>> Backer says the
>> result is "pretty dramatic": "he (Steve) goes bit by bit by bit and 
>> ferrets everything out.  It's very
>> tedious and very time consuming". Backer says re-equalization was 
>> performed, and (presumably)
>> pitch stabilization. Compared to the Savoy Records reissue from 2002, he 
>> says the sound has
>> "a much more three-dimensional presence -- a bigger, rounder sound -- and 
>> the high-frequency
>> response is greatly improved overall".
>>
>> I reached out to Steve Marlowe (via Jonathan Horwich) but have not heard 
>> back from him.
>>
>> I've had no experience with DSD, so I'm curious to know what might be 
>> meant by "bit density
>> processing".  Perhaps others can suggest the answer?
>>
>>
>> Doug Pomeroy
>> Audio Restoration and Mastering Services
>> 193 Baltic St
>> Brooklyn, NY  11201-6173
>> (718) 855-2650
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> 


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