Miles Davis - CD, Lp, pressings comparisons


After substantial equipment upgrades, including refurbishing my turntable, I'm really enjoying vinyl. Now I'm focusing on Miles Davis. I'm curious to hear opinions of those who've done comparisons, sound-wise, between the following issues:

'50's material (Prestige, Blue Note):

Early pressings (Lp)
'70's remasterings (Fantasy two-fers)
Japanese pressings (Lp)
OJC or other relatively recent Lp versions
XRCD's
Rudy van Gelder (RVG) CD remasterings (recent)

Columbia material:

Early vs. later Columbia pressings (Lp)
Japanese pressings (Lp)
Recent digital remasterings (which appear on CD and some Mosaic Lps)

There are a couple of threads that cover these issues to some extent, but I'm particularly interested in hearing about the 70's Prestige remasterings, and comparisons between the later CD remasterings vs. earlier Lps. For example, how do the XRCDs hold up as against the Lps? Or the RVGs against the XRCDs? By way of further example, I compared a couple of the XRCDs to the RVGs and thought the RVGs were a bit more "mellow" and easier to listen to. But I've never compared them to Lps.

Curious to hear others' thoughts.
eweedhome

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Try the hybird SACD of blue. Amazing sound in that it recreates the original master tapes three channel mono capture, no mixing. This assumes you have a three channel set up. You play it as it was. I have the other cd's and lp's and they all do not match the hybird. The sound stage, depth of image is so real.