John Coltrane - Standard Coltrane HDTT15894

I absolutely love this album. Anyone tried the High Definition Tape Transfers version that comes from a vinyl rip?

https://www.highdeftapetransfers.ca/products/john-coltrane-standard-coltrane

Recording Info: Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ; July 11, 1958
Sourced from a Prestige Original pressing
Analog: Transferred using a VPI - HW-40 Anniversary Direct Drive Turntable - Cartridge used Ortofon MC Anna - Merrill Jens Phono Preamp
Digital: Merging Hapi Analog to Digital Converter clocked by an Antelope Audio 10MX Atomic Clock
Power Conditioning: Shunyata Research Everest 8000 for all components
All components grounded to Shunyata ALTAIRA Hubs
 

I have the Analogue Productions version already and I’m thinking about the HDTT version. 
 

https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/82058/John_Coltrane-Standard_Coltrane-Hybrid_Stereo_SACD

Part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige stereo reissues from Analogue Productions — 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made. All cut at 33 1/3 and also released on Hybrid SACD

All mastered from the original analog master tapes by mastering maestro Kevin Gray

I have several versions of this album but not the needle drop. It would be interesting to read a report on the comparisons. I am sure the mastering is different though among other things, then there is that vinyl “magic” that digital somehow seems to capture with needledrops!🥸

+1 This is an album that gets better with each listen. The reviews were not too good back in the day, but I trust my own ears🙂.

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The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz called the album "a low-intensity operation with the emphasis on ballads," and commented: "Harden's warm, unemphatic trumpet-playing is perfectly appropriate to the setting, and it rarely attempts anything that will scare the horses. He and the leader seem to have worked out the approach only rather notionally, and each of their improvisations has an informal, loose-limbed quality that is attractive but hardly dynamic.

I happen to own SACD rip of 2002 AP release of this album having Doug Sax  mastering, but never listened to it since archived to dsd.iso around thе time)

24 minutes ago, skipspence said:

I happen to own SACD rip of 2002 AP release of this album having Doug Sax  mastering, but never listened to it since archived to dsd.iso around thе time)

 

I have the CD layer rip of this one and it is probably my favorite. 

I have now listened to track 1 on the red book, DSD and the vinyl rip. I will take the red book version all damn day.