The Blue Note Thread

HuddieLedbetter said:
Yes.

Also, while I don't know what drove Rambach, Harley, Gray, Cuscuna etc to set up MMJ or to make the eventual changes. I am confident that:

1. They produced quality work during a long period where it wasn't as sexy
2. The work they did helped make possible a broader revival
3. They didn't exactly have some big pay out -- be it licensing, or Blue Note taking it internal, or whatever -- MMJ wasn't some giant IPO where they all got rich. My guess is that some of them had the chance to become employees (or contactors) and continue doing something they loved. Yay....hourly!

I don't love the what happens with the MMJ approach and stopped buying the subscriptions -- and hey I did 3 years -- and I was really bummed when the business model changed. I'm guessing though that it changed because it didn't work for them anymore and they don't own the content.

I've seen a lot of shops, restaurants go out of business this past year. Some of those were passion projects that while they were viable made good sense and money. Then things shifted. Some ended with grace and some ended hard.

I don't love what MMJ did with their approach, but I am very grateful that the stakeholders helped keep alive something that is special to me during stretches where it wasn't so cool and profitable.
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Ron Rambach makes the business decisions of MM. It's his company.
 
Andy said:
Hope it helped :)
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Thank you for sharing! I like that he focuses more on how he feels about the sound and the product than on the technical aspect of the recordings (which I never really understand tbh). He might have definitely convinced me to go with this serie (I'll probably end buying an hypothetic variant with gatefold sleeve if it happens to be released in future).
 
Skalap said:
Thank you for sharing! I like that he focuses more on how he feels about the sound and the product than on the technical aspect of the recordings (which I never really understand tbh). He might have definitely convinced me to go with this serie (I'll probably end buying an hypothetic variant with gatefold sleeve if it happens to be released in future).
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I would definitely recommend getting any from the Classic series
 
Dtknuckles said:
seriously though it was a good review. I like that he’s not overly precious. I have a question about sound related terminology. It’s not pointed at you specifically, but if you want to answer feel free. How do people understand the term sound stage? Is it about how defined each instrument is?
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My definition of sound stage is how I feel the music when I stand in front of my speakers and close my eyes.
 
Dtknuckles said:
seriously though it was a good review. I like that he’s not overly precious. I have a question about sound related terminology. It’s not pointed at you specifically, but if you want to answer feel free. How do people understand the term sound stage? Is it about how defined each instrument is?
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I've always taken it to be the thing that allows you to visually determine where each instrument would be in front of you. So imagine being at a concerty standing in front of the stage. If you close your eyes you would be able to hear that the drummer is on the right, the guitarist on the left, the singer centre etc. The better the soundstage, the more obvious this becomes.
 
Dtknuckles said:
seriously though it was a good review. I like that he’s not overly precious. I have a question about sound related terminology. It’s not pointed at you specifically, but if you want to answer feel free. How do people understand the term sound stage? Is it about how defined each instrument is?
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I'm probably wrong but I think of the sound stage as if the musicians are playing on a stage in your living room. With a good sound stage, like you said, you should be able to hear different instruments across the stage. (I think it's what you said). With a poor sound stage it all sounds like its coming from the same place.
 
Selaws said:
I've always taken it to be the thing that allows you to visually determine where each instrument would be in front of you. So imagine being at a concerty standing in front of the stage. If you close your eyes you would be able to hear that the drummer is on the right, the guitarist on the left, the singer centre etc. The better the soundstage, the more obvious this becomes.
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much more eloquent than my description.
 
Selaws said:
I've always taken it to be the thing that allows you to visually determine where each instrument would be in front of you. So imagine being at a concerty standing in front of the stage. If you close your eyes you would be able to hear that the drummer is on the right, the guitarist on the left, the singer centre etc. The better the soundstage, the more obvious this becomes.
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Andy said:
I'm probably wrong but I think of the sound stage as if the musicians are playing on a stage in your living room. With a good sound stage, like you said, you should be able to hear different instruments across the stage. (I think it's what you said). With a poor sound stage it all sounds like its coming from the same place.
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Basically, purchase this record, play it on your TT, take a few step back, close your eyes and be prepared to have to learn Japanese.
 
Dtknuckles said:
seriously though it was a good review. I like that he’s not overly precious. I have a question about sound related terminology. It’s not pointed at you specifically, but if you want to answer feel free. How do people understand the term sound stage? Is it about how defined each instrument is?
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Selaws said:
I've always taken it to be the thing that allows you to visually determine where each instrument would be in front of you. So imagine being at a concerty standing in front of the stage. If you close your eyes you would be able to hear that the drummer is on the right, the guitarist on the left, the singer centre etc. The better the soundstage, the more obvious this becomes.
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Andy said:
I'm probably wrong but I think of the sound stage as if the musicians are playing on a stage in your living room. With a good sound stage, like you said, you should be able to hear different instruments across the stage. (I think it's what you said). With a poor sound stage it all sounds like its coming from the same place.
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Basically, purchase this record, play it on your TT, take a few step back, close your eyes and be prepared to have to learn Japanese.
 
Selaws said:
I've always taken it to be the thing that allows you to visually determine where each instrument would be in front of you. So imagine being at a concerty standing in front of the stage. If you close your eyes you would be able to hear that the drummer is on the right, the guitarist on the left, the singer centre etc. The better the soundstage, the more obvious this becomes.
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Andy said:
I'm probably wrong but I think of the sound stage as if the musicians are playing on a stage in your living room. With a good sound stage, like you said, you should be able to hear different instruments across the stage. (I think it's what you said). With a poor sound stage it all sounds like its coming from the same place.
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that make sense, but I’m wondering wha power a og engineer had to change this mic location? Then there is later engineers stereo panning, which is just volume control. I think it also has to do with the amount of volume a band of frequencies have in a recording and how each instruments frequencies fit into the whole.
 
Andy said:
that record is probably the best one I own & probably the one that made me start paying lots of money on 'audiophile' pressings
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Completely agree. There was a running joke for a while where me and @Skalap would bring this record up every time someone asked what the best sounding record was. Seemed like we were posting it every other day!
 
mingerton said:
Another BN80 deal from Amazon warehouse: $13.65 "like new"

Amazon product ASIN B07WPX47FJ
One tip though: click button "ship in amazon packaging" at checkout since the warehouse has recently shipped a couple of LPs to me in nothing but a plastic bag.
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I grabbed the Hubtones from the last “Like New” posting. Think it’s waiting downstairs rn, will report on how “like new” it is!
 
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