I must be going blind. I could have sworn when I clicked on it, it didn’t list that among the tracks. Mea culpa.
From what I have gathered, the hybrid Columbia SACDs are the 1997 SACD mastering with an added CD layer. But, there are many people far more educated about the different release variants of KoB than I.
Question for you KOB aficionados:
On the first track on my CD, there is some serious breakup and/or distortion in the right channel at the higher frequencies at two or three points in the song.
Is this an issue with the master for this record?
The rest of the album is clean so I now know this is not a problem with my system. I really panicked the first time I heard this, thinking I had a serious issue with my kit.
TIA.
I read somewhere, and can’t find it now, that the first couple of minutes of “So What” had the levels well into the red before the recording engineer noticed it and adjusted it. So, the distortion you hear is in the original recordings.
That makes sense. Thanks “Speed”.
Such a shame — a great track, “So What”.
SEE
Lots of interesting history about the mechanics of this recording, to include the discovery that the tape recorder was running off-speed which wasn’t discovered and corrected until the releases in the early 90’s.
Still on my list.
I heard, aside of the interesting main topic of the book, those who think later remasters of any golden era music are more or less generally made from original master tapes if renown labels and mastering engineers claim that and show pictures, shouldn’t read it, because the book states, that’s not possible 
The consolation is, there are just as many prominent and serious contrary opinions.
I mistakenly ordered two Kind Of Blue, UHQR pressings and the second arrived today.
Out of curiosity, I opened the second one and was surprised to hear a substantial difference between the two. I expect there to be variations from day to day in pressings, but this is a big difference.
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Just shoot me now…
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Wow! Is one clearly better? Or are they just different? Guessing these are numbered as well? Forgive my ignorance I have not bought new vinyl in quite some time.
I thought I read they had some returns because of quality issues on some of those new UHQR pressings?
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Here we go again…
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What was the difference?
I just compared mine to the various old Classic Records pressings on 33 and 45 RPM and results were as expected (slightly better than the 33 RPM in some and slightly worse than the 45 RPM in other aspects).
I’m only comparing two different UHQR pressings. One, the latest one that I received, is clearer, cleaner, more dynamic sounding.
I can’t comment on any others.
Has anyone consider the effects of humidity and the phase of the moon when listening to different pressings?
Both of these criteria should be applied to when the pressing occurred and when you played it.
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True dat.
I did another comparison, completely bourbon free.
Still different.
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And if the pressing occurred in Australia, then the whole thing is off because the water there spins backward.
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I thought @aangen mentioned a potential bad batch with the first pressing.
mayhaps. It’s a pretty big difference. My first copy was rather ordinary; certainly not up to the hype. The newest is quite good. But neither of them are worth a hundred bucks in my opinion.