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Norah Jones - Come Away With Me [APP 042 USA 2021 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] It's hard to believe this album was first released twenty years ago, it took a few years for Blue Note to get around to pressing Come Away With Me on vinyl, and all those who own one of the noughties compact disc or other Blue Note via Universal vinyl versions will have experienced some unnecessary compression. In fact, even the most recent pressings are compressed. What most people don't know is that this album was recorded as pure analogue, so a few years later along came Classic Records who acquired the rights, and then pressed the album onto 200gm vinyl. Classic Records were bought by Analogue Productions who then recut the album with Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio, then repressed it at the label's Quality Record Pressing plant (the clue is in the name) in Salina, Kansas. Prior to this year's Blue Note 20th Anniversary edition (4xLP box set - and likely from the digitally compressed files), ...