Monday, August 4, 2014

Mastering comparison and review of 2014 Sun Ra Mastered for iTunes Remasters Part 2


Sun Ra Arkive continues its review and mastering comparison of the new 2014 "Mastered for iTunes" releases via iTunes, with our next installment of 4 titles. Michael "The Good Doctor" Anderson (http://sunraarchive.webstarts.com/), Irwin Chusid (http://irwin.wfmu.org/), and Sun Ra LLC utilized new hi-res transfers from the master tapes where available and, as you can hear, the results are a uniformly excellent improvement from previous releases of this music.

Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and stay tuned for Sun Ra Arkive's upcoming interview with Irwin Chusid about this fantastic reissue series and what we have to look forward to.

You can purchase the 2014 Sun Ra Centenary Remaster Series at https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sun-ra/id72824

Mastering comparison for 'Round Midnight from Sound Sun Pleasure!! (19530000-19690000 RLC2 5, 24, 38, 41, 52, 53, 199)
00:00:00 - 01:45:10 Evidence CD
01:45:10 - 03:52:00 Mastered for iTunes Remaster 2014

Mastering comparison for Interstellar Low Ways from Interstellar Low Ways (19590000-19601000 RLC2 67, 72, 75)
00:00:00 - 01:58:80 Saturn LP
01:58:80 - 04:01:00 Evidence CD
04:01:00 - 06:08:85 Scorpio Reissue LP
06:08:85 - 08:24:00 Mastered for iTunes Remaster 2014

Mastering comparison for Holiday for Strings from Holiday For Soul Dance (19600617-19600630 RLC2 72, 74)
00:00:00 - 01:20:50 Saturn LP
01:20:50 - 02:39:30 Evidence CD
02:39:30 - 04:07:50 Mastered for iTunes Remaster 2014

Mastering comparison for Mu from Atlantis (19670000-19690000 RLC2 131, 132 New York, NY)
00:00:00 - 01:25:40 Saturn LP
01:25:40 - 03:01:40 Evidence CD
03:01:40 - 04:30:00 Mastered for iTunes Remaster 2014

Sun Ra's "Atlantis" is available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sun-ra/id72824
Sun Ra's "Atlantis" is available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sun-ra/id72824


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