Hey, hey, in this episode, we check out the mega shootout of Jennifer Warnes' Famous Blue Raincoat. Yes, I know, it's been an audiophile favorite for many decades now... Alas, it never sounded any better, especially the newly reissued IMPEX 1 Step! Let's check out how it fares against the Crystal Disc and Tidal stream! elusivedisc.com/jennifer-warnes-famous-blue-raincoat-1step-numbered-limited-edition-180g-45rpm-3lp/ elusivedisc.com/jennifer-warnes-famous-blue-raincoat-low-number-ltd-ed-180g-lp-blue-vinyl-only-1000-copies-43-60 www.crystaldisc.jp Thanks for watching the video Famous Blue Raincoat MEGA shootout!

Absolutely gorgeous edition. Love it!

Thanks for showing some of the details of the 1Step Box. I find it interesting to see how much you get from Impex and how less you get for about the same money for other box sets. I am now looking for it. I am also very happy that the crystal discs are so expensive, no motivation to go mad on that price tag.

Great into, very clean artsy feel 👍👍

Danny, I know You are busy but We miss You when You are gone too long. Awesome Video as usual. Looking forward to the next one.

Danny wow those are some amazing editions of Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat love the story of this recording. The 1 Step packaging is stunning .

DANKE DIR ! Sehr interessant. LG GEORG

I have worked with developing CD test equipment for a decade when it were a thing. And implemented test parameters from red book and many orange books (orange book is the standards for the CD-R/RW and so on) . We has those glas discs back then also. One thing that they are is that they are flat (no warp). But also that glas has a difrent diffraction index than polycarbonate. For the laser going through. One thing that were Intresting to see in the video were that even when they make a CD that usally has a fully reflective layer of aluminum. On this glas disc they have deliberate opted for a much thinner that we call semitransparent layer. (that is what we use on dual layer dvd discs were the first layer is semitransparent also. Otherwise we could never read the fully reflective layer behind it.) So what we have here shown is a CD disc that let some of the laser light trough and wasted. And therfore only a part of the total light is reflected back to the diode plate for reading the lands and pits transitions (that is what we read, the length between the transitions). That is Intresting in that way that people debate if aluminum or gold as reflective layer, about which one is "better". Remember that this manufacturer is also making optical media drivers! As we clearly see on a 900$ disc that we are most likely not interested in to get all light back.. 😂 In other words aluminum reflectivity is probably good enough. And to use gold for better reflectivity is to solve a non issue. 😂 One thing that it does is that it probably extend the life of the CD player with less wear on the diode sensor. 🤔

Danny, you got me hooked. Cassette tapes never sounded so good when I record from a hi-rez file. I might record all my hi-rez files to cassette tape now.

Thanks!

lol I love that you have only the very best of everything, you’re a sick man ( in a god way of course) . When I go to main from Montreal I’ll ring 😍😅

I had one of those cassettes and the one before it. the clear one!!

I thought….oh no, he’s making a hipster pour over but then I saw the French Press!! Very nice and great video - gotta luv that snow. More coffee!!

Der Lichtblick der VC! ❤

Good stuff! What's that cool music in the intro?

Clever and informative review, thank you. Also, if your digital sounds better copied to a cassette tape, you need better digital. Good digital has no glare.

Do you know what happened to the company that made your shelves? I can't find them anywhere:(

Nice cup of coffee in an old lady’s tea cup.

Very nice review. Mr. Pete-------> aging hippie

There are so many variables involved in comparing the various formats that definitive declarations of one having superior fidelity over all others is problematic at best.

Danny can we get a review of your Auris Audio Bayadere 3 turntable. thanks

if you think a cassette copy takes the edge off try making a copy on reel-to-reel similar but larger like the difference between a house and a mansion

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Is not the question completely another one? Can we with say that we have the same source on all the 3 formats? If not then the comparison of the formats is totally useless.🤔

'promo sm'

The Japanese do it right they are very meticulous, and hyper ocd loves those traits

Please stop telling us about stuff that's unobtainable like crystal discs.