Re: [ARSCLIST] New Universal Japan reissue LP's

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kohji-san:

Thanks for the links. If you want to laugh, feed those pages into Google Language Tools:
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
I could make any sense of the "translations"! The Universal Japan page does translate the list of 
titles and artists correctly.

One comment about your earlier post. I am pretty sure the 1980's Polygram Japan reissues were made 
from master tapes. I do not think there had been much mass-digitization in the company yet and I 
don't think the masters were strictly policed back then. In fact, I know for a fact that all or most 
of the Emarcy/Mercury and Verve jazz titles in that series were made from the original tape masters 
because when some of them were done as CD's in the early 1990's, the tapes were still in Japan 
instead of where the remastering producers expected them to be.

For what it's worth, one hi-fi journalist with years of experience covering the LP world told me 
that for this recent series, the original tapes were used on the European classical titles, and most 
of the jazz. However, in the case of "Getz/Gilberto," the tape is in very bad shape so the DSD 
transfer was used. In the case of the Stones albums, the DSD masters made by Bob Ludwig from the 
SACD series were used.

One more question for Kohji -- are these guys who mastered and supervised this series the same guys 
who did the 1980's LPs?

Thanks for all the information and the web pages are useful if just for the pictures.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MATSUBAYASHI 'Shaolin' Kohji" <shaolin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New Universal Japan reissue LP's


> At Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:52:39 +0900,
> MATSUBAYASHI 'Shaolin' Kohji wrote:
> > As far as I know, these AUNJ-prefix releases are equivalent ones
> > as UIJY-prefix releases for domestic market in Japan:
> >
> >   http://www.universalmusicworld.jp/LP/
> >
> > This Japanese website does not contain much information about the source,
> > but I have heard (or read on the web) that these LPs are from DSD masters,
> > cuttings by Kazumi Tezuka (at Toyo Kasei cutting studio).
>
> One more note - I found there is a small article about these LP reissues
> (unfortunately for most of the participants here, all written in Japanese
> though). Anyway you can see the photos of cutting equipment at Toyo Kasei
> studio, as well as Tezuka-san, the cutting engineer:
>
>  http://music.jp.msn.com/special/meiban/01.htm
>
> Another article (also in Japanese) also has several photos
> of Toyo Kasei cutting studio as well as Tezuka-san:
>
>  http://career.aol.co.jp/tatsujin/10toyokasei.html
>
> Kohji