With all due respect, I could not disagree more with the assessment that past XRCD's are not good. To name just two, Everybody Loves Bill Evans and The Reiner / Chicago performance of the Scheherazade, both are very dynamic and natural to my ears.
More generally, I have found the series as a whole, and whether in XRCD, XRCD2 or XRCD24 iterations, to be excellent and far superior to most CD's. I have no idea what you and HP are hearing (or not hearing).
More generally, I have found the series as a whole, and whether in XRCD, XRCD2 or XRCD24 iterations, to be excellent and far superior to most CD's. I have no idea what you and HP are hearing (or not hearing).