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Hey Tom,
The Coltrane I got from you recently is mind-blowing. The texture and tone are something I’ve never heard from him before.
I played the first track (Lush Life) on my super high end digital setup first to set a baseline, while reading through the LP liner notes, and it sounded great. We’re talking a $17.5k streamer and a $27k DAC.
Then I played the same track on your record while attempting to finish the liner notes (with balanced levels etc.). I couldn’t focus on the text for even a minute. It was completely different and totally captivating. I went through the whole of side one (AAA) in a trance of ‘rightness’ bordering on a religious experience, in true communion with ‘Trane.
That’s why I buy Better Records!
C
Conrad,
Your letter makes me sad. You spent all that money on expensive digital playback and you got NOTHING for it but junk CD sound.
How many audiophiles have had the experience you just had? Not many. And certainly not from the typical cheap reissue.
But the cheap reissue kills the originals we’ve played, more evidence that you had a very special experience not shared by even those audiophiles with good turntables. Cheap reissues can’t sound any good! They’re cheap. They’re reissues.
And of course the CD and digital guys are really shit out of luck. They have no way of even knowing what they are missing, right?
Here’s the $64,000 question:
Did you?
No, you didn’t. Not until you played the right record. Then the skies opened up and the scales fell from your eyes.
Those are precisely the records we run into when when we do shootouts and listen for the knockouts. We find records with that sound.
Nobody else can find records like the ones we sell except by luck, and luck is not a good approach to record collecting. (But it can help.)
Enjoy!
TP
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