Strictly Jazz Sounds (Part 2)

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It’s Sunday, a good time to play this one.

John Coltrane “A Love Supreme” Impulse/Universal Japan SHM-SACD UCGQ-9037 (Acoustic Sound Series SACD)

There are so many good sounding issues of this masterwork. This one sounds phenomenal.

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Do you mean the SHM or the Analog Productions/AcousticSounds SACD or both? You named two. However both are great on the digital side. The UHQR LP finally is heaven. I also recently started listening to LS again more frequently.

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They are the same, the Acoustic Sounds is an SHM-SACD, the catalog number identifies it. I am sure the LP is fantastic but I don’t as a general rule buy new LPs. Just not worth the high dollars for me. (I can play an LP in one system, I can play a single-layer or hybrid SACD in all three of my systems).

So it’s an SHM-SACD in the Japanese Acoustic Sounds series.

Description

[Verve Acoustic Sounds SACD Series 2nd Volume] Features SHM-SACD format (single layer) and DSD mastering, using the DSD master produced by the US Verve Label Group in 2019. Cardboard sleeve packaging.

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Interesting…but this is a different one:

And they also have this one, which seems to be a third available SACD besides the SHM and the Analog Productions one:

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There are even more SACD of this title than those.

The first one you list is an older SACD from Analogue Productions not the newer one produced by Acoustic Sounds that I am listening to; the second one you post is I believe a former Japanese SHM-SACD not an Acoustic Sounds production, either from 2014 or 2010 :

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Acoustic Sounds catalog numbers don’t help differentiate this one.

Of all the digital versions I’ve heard, which includes the Analogue production, UCGQ-9037 sounds best in my current main system.

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Yes, difficult to say for sure.
I just wonder what’s the role of AcousticSounds for the one you listen to, if it uses a 2019 Verve label group mastering. The one I listet first is at least remastered by Kevin Gray for Analogue Productions…so it seems the SHM is the Verve label‘s standard mastering (which without naming the mastering engineer as usual for the label‘s own releases, according to Discogs was also used for two LP releases) put on the special SHM disc.

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Um . . . there’s a whole series Acoustic Sounds released, this is in the most recent batch of titles. . . LPs in the US. Universal Japan chose to issue the same series (some of? eventually all?) on SHM-SACDs in Japan. The LPs are mastered by Ryan K. Smith using the original analog master tapes and pressed at QRP. Japan uses the same masterings for the SHM-SACD series.

Here’s a piece about the first batch:

This is the LP version of the SHM-SACD I was listening to.

Here is the entire LP series. Acoustic Sounds does not seem to stock and sell the SHM-SACD series from Japan, probably a licensing agreement parameter.

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These are titles Universal Japan has issued in this series and those that they will issue next month:

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This would indeed be very interesting if true that RK Smith made digital masters, too (the LP masters are usually done during cutting the lacquer only)…I know and have several of those LP‘s…but they were released in 2021 fist time and the credit on your LS SHM says it uses a 2019 Verve mastering, no 2021 RKS mastering. Where did you read that those SHM are from RKS masters?

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Discussions on another board. How can there be a review of the LP from 2020 on the Acoustic Sounds page if this was released in 2022? Don’t think so. I personally don’t doubt that the master could have been made in 2019. What matters to me is the sound–this is my favorite digital version.

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Sure…and it’s really interesting for me. When searching for „UCGQ Ryan“ on Discogs, the 2023 SHM (only) appear, the earlier SHM not, those seem to have standard masterings.

But thanks for the hint on this, it rises my opinion of SHM that they at least occasionally use the better remasterings around and not only „standard“ ones (which can be good, too) pressed on their improved discs. I wasn’t aware RKS made digital masters, too, and I wonder that AcousticSounds didn’t also release those remasters on SACD in other countries…but as you say it’s a licensing issue probably. So it makes sense for those who play digital mainly, to keep an eye on SHM and where the masters are from within certain series they do.