Obviously if you only want the classics then you will usually get a good deal but if it's anything that was on an independent Been reading Plain Recordings and 4 Men With Beards are one in the same and have the same mailing address. The Bottom Line: Supply & Demand. Other times you get part of the story, the most important part of which is, was the original master tape the source of whatever was used to do the cuttingwhether a high resolution (96/24) digital file or a 1:1 analog copy of the master, which is what some labels have to use if the tape's owner refuses to let it out the tape vault door. I completely agree with Mickey that it's dicey at best with remasters if the info is limited. Kevin Gray cut the lacquers, and the vinyl was pressed at Quality Records. So i buy my lps produce before the digital era, with warts and all. Probably different sources. The original UK presses walk the floor with them. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, why would Kevin convert the tapes to digital files? These were all defective, with no top end above around 6kHz due to a screw-up somewhere along the line. Before Mobile Fidelity did The Beatles box in 1982, there had already been 3 Beatles releases. Audiokarma is about to undergo a server change and upgrade. As you would expect, this doesnt come cheap and while there is no obligation to donate, we would greatly appreciate anything you might send to help to sales@audiokarma.org at PayPal.com. I cannot quiet put my finger on it. All these records sound very good, so I'm very happy with this label. The DSD mastered Stones reissues sound fantastic as do original UK Deccas. At any case, I do empathize with your comments. https://www.otaiweb.com/anarog/bluenotefront.jpg. resolution unknown. I was at a show in Scandinavia and someone was playing a Vinyl Lovers Rod Stewart LP. My sources told me back then that Bob's people brought both ProTools files and an analog master tape to the mastering sessions for Modern Times and Bob went with the digital files. You can hear it here: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/bernard-herrmann-alfred-hitchcock-psycho- and I want to say that, while it's definitely not an "audiophile sound quality" release, I'm truly impressed with the quality of the record itself. RHINO 180g Jazz - seems they pressed mainly ATLANTIC stuff. I m sure he knows about this question of this DBLP serie blue note reissie mono Japan EMI. and anybody else who have information about this subject. Wasn't terribly impressed with it, either. This is an exchange with HD Tracks I had a while ago. Every time I played it (which of course wasn't often) I had to tell myself, "This is supposed to sound good. . Can anyone chime in about the simply vinyl nick drake releases? Ermitage un marchio ben noto a tutti gli amanti della musica e del cinema storico ed uno dei marchi pi longevi della discografia classica indipendente. Chopin . The reissues sound nice but the original recordings weren't audiophile material. I'm not good with lists. Heard a $12 copy of Pete La Roca's Basra in one shop on a basic system that sounded pretty flat, and a few months later I was in a store where they were spinning the 1995 reissue, and it sounded great. After I cleaned out the mass, I used my Record Doctor V vacuum record cleaner with a small mix of distilled water and 99% isopropyl alcohol and sucked out the residue. Review Explosion: Post Malone, 070 Shake, Merzbow, & Whitearmor, More Notes on the Rolling Stones Reissues, High End Munich 2022 Analog Coverage Day 3, Munich High End 2022 Day Two - Action-Packed Analog, Review Explosion: The Smile, Liam Gallagher, Harry Styles & Ethel Cain, Vinyl Review Explosion: David Bowie; Tyler, The Creator; The Weeknd; Lola Kirke, The World's Best High-End Munich 2022 Analog Coverage, 40th Anniversary Mobile Fidelity "One-Step", Rega Research io Integrated Amp With Built-in Phono PreampA Cautionary Tale, Schiit's Mani 2 MM/MC Phono Preamp Goes to the Head of the Budget Phono Preamp Class, Goldring Launches New Eroica HX H.O. At 7 a pop, I have little to complain about. I thought it was cute that Rhino used the wrong labels on the Meters and Dr. John LP's so people don't pass them off as originals (like that dealer in New Orleans) by using the 2-color Reprise W7 label for the Meters and the old 50's Atco label with the harp for Dr. John. I have a few CD's which have no compression or equalization at all (such as Al Stewarts's Year of the Cat MFCD-803) and when you listen to it you wonder why we are compressing the dynamics at all. Yes I should have mentioned them as "musts to avoid." There are certain labels I urge you to avoid. Sometimes you buy something, put it on the platter and get confronted with 2 dimensional, harsh crap where you were expecting something decent. We do get it from certain labels, like Mobile Fidelity, ORG, ORG Music, Analogue Productions, Music Matters, IMPEX, Mosaic, Rhino, Pure Pleasure, Speakers Corner, Reference Recordings, more recently Sony/Legacy and probably a few others I can't recall off the top of my head. Mark has experience in auditing, improving processes, and writing procedures for Quality, Environmental, and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems, and is certied as a . Electronic medical records and quality improvement Neurosurg Clin N Am. BUT, since both Music Matters and Analog Productions have stated their releases are from the analog masters I can confirm that. Another informative article by Mikey and terrific feedback from the many knowledgeable readers; most of whom, I imagine are far more knowledgeable than myself, which is why I am throwing my question out to the field. The non-recorded areas are extremely quiet. Maintains working knowledge of quality . Caveat Emptor. But there's no guaranty the LP was actually cut from the tape because Sundazed doesn't specify who cut and from what. With these mono (false mono) too much clean and uniform. Last time I checked, they didn't even have a website, just an email address, which also makes one suspicious that the operation is a bit fly-by-night. Thanks for replying, jgannon! I agree with you there! Or just 44.1/24 masquerading as 88/24? Once MFSL was able to license the whole shabang for the box setthey were granted access to vault tapes from EMI England. Show Newport, and It's so crackly, back it goes. I am seek advice about Venus Records from Japan. As for Electric Warrior if you can find a U.K. How is the pressing quality? The original was much better. It's not just the remaster, it's the fact the new Beatles releases are digital. Then on the other side 3 versions of I think Jeepster. Thanks! Also Traffic's "Shoot Outn At The Fantasy Factory", which I bought the week of release in 1973, featured EDITED versions of 2 tracks. 1,2 The move from vision to reality is not as simple as we would like, however. If you're talking about the Rhino Electric Warrior, I don't know what it was cut or sourced from, but the record itself was noisy, and I was not impressed with the sound. This guide is intended for owners and operators of all PWSs serving fewer than 10,000 persons. Recorded 2/65. Only the record companies that own the rights to a recording have access to the original master tapes. The record company (Doxy) even put different custom labels for each side. "shaknspin" Electronically Measures Turntable Speed Plus a Great Deal More, Review Explosion: Spiritualized, Pusha T, Bladee & Ecco2k, Father John Misty, & Swedish House Mafia, Parlogram Auctions: A Customer's Honest Experience, "Record Store DayThe Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century" Book Review and Interview, Review Explosion: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Yung Lean, Son House, & Johnny Marr. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association 2020. Look at the job Sony Legacy did with Bernard Purdie's Soul Drums. My reference recording is Sheffield Lab's direct to analogue recording of James Newton Howard & Friends. Transparency in what you buy in music is not good. Call me crazy (and you wouldn't be the first!) Yes, I assume they do, but judging by the low quality pressings that get to market I just don't think some labels care, or even realise just how bad their pressings are, as I said it's labels that really should be checking for themselves and rejecting poor pressings, getting things re-cut and even pulling entire runs if they aren't good enough, very few labels seem willing to do that and without mentioning any names I've talked to a few label people who really don't have a clue about quality or care. Sundazed's mistake was to not put its name on them! Considering how full of errors Discogs already is and that there is no objective way of measuring pressing quality then it wouldn't be something that worked well, the best thing to do is learn which plants pressed most of your favourite records and those that pressed the ones with most problems, buy from the former and avoid the latter. Well if not ripped off most grossly inconvenienced due to sending stuff back in the post time and time again. Thanks for any advice you may offer, and I'd like to wish you all a safe and happy new year. Great article and followup posts. Not a single one I've heard comes even close to the OG presses. Demand for new vinyl records outstripping supply is a common theme when the topic of quality control rears its ugly head. Is best ignored even though some titles were pretty good. Our records are pressed in the Netherlands (@record Industry- one of the best in the business). It would be worth putting an area on Analog Planet devoted to this. The SV reissue was bright and hard by comparison. Prokofiev . Just because something's been pressed on 180 gram vinyl doesn't mean its going to sound good or that it was sourced from analog. ". Yup, "Old Ideas" on vinyl sounds remarkably better than the CD that came with it. Put on album title, record label or company, and what the sources were for the record. Sony/Legacy's Record Store Day Monomania! I've heard (more expensive) CD playback systems (as well as some five-figure LP systems) that are absolutely engaging, but since I don't collect CDs and I don't have three to five times the $2,000 I invested in my system to throw at one of those, I need to find some "fix" for my existing system. The quality of vinyl that consumers buy is actually the responsibility of the labels and not the pressing plants, labels should monitor what they are putting into the market and withdraw any faulty pressing runs, it's labels quality control that is failing vinyl, too many people skipping test presses or not even bothering to listen to them, Third fact. Great sounding, good dynamics. - My pressing of "Pink Moon" does not appear to have been manufactured by Simply Vinyl. We compared and the difference was so great, we at first thought the ZYX was a different arrangement and performance. These include Doxy (not Sonny Rollins' labelapparently there's another one using the same name), ZYX from Germany, Vinyl Lovers, Simply Vinyl and Abraxas. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned): Maintains working knowledge of Federal, State, and Local environmental laws regulations. They also seem to be in the habit of clearly noting transfer sources, involved engineers, studios and plants, which is always commendable. Would be a great idea for a reissue. I do not have a crazy material, but I tend to perfect my system. http://robertmusic.blogspot.fr/2011/11/about-those-toshiba-japan-blue-no https://www.discogs.com/Santana-Abraxas/release/16479144, Love Those Vintage British Pressings? It is suggested that you develop one procedure to comply with Clause 4.16. Vinyl Lovers definitely cuts from CDs. She hit the brakes, put some money in my elder brother's hands (he was the bravest of us three boys, although not the eldest) and said "Tell the store owner that your mom wants to buy the man hanging in the window." In Southern Italy instead, in the territories of the . Wax Time is made in Spain, if I recall correctly. How do these rate? Ermitage is one of the most long-lasting brands of the independent classical discography. the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. I've been toying with the idea of replacing the Pro-Ject pre with a Bellari VP-130 tube pre amp, but I am wary of throwing money at the problem out of blind ignorance. Could some enterprising person create a table with columns for Reissue Label, Overall Reliability, and Comments? Unsurprisingly, if you can pass off 44.1/16k as a full analogue chain and sell it as such, why tell people? The Chess edition is really weird, while the WaxTime edition sounds very natural. I think at this point any astute observer knows that "Form the original tapes" can mean anything, as in fact, EVERYTHING is ultimately sourced from the original tape if the recording was analog. Please be more specific about your charge! One of the the Gil Scott-Heron LP's (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) has a "RCA Special Products" sticker on the back while the others don't, I'm happy to get his Flying Dutchman albums since the originals go for big money and are rare, ditto goes for Leon Thomas. Great sounding, transparent, clear and full. I had a track on a CD made from the original pressing and we compared the two and the CD killed the vinyl played back on a very good turntable. I'm reminded that not until sometime in the '70s did amplifiers advertise comparable power and distortion specs based on common criteria and that it didn't happen for car audio until the '90s. I have to agree concerning the 4MwB pressings. The CD is totally compressed while the LP has lots of dynamic range and better tonal balance. The Electric Prunes and (Reprise) Meters albums sound great, the Josies are OK since the original recordings weren't that great but the music will get you moving. I have bought a lot of reissues years ago without the knowledge of digital to vinyl sacrilege that I now know about. Great article, and critical subject matter. Maybe it is just one unlucky record? The actually "lifted" the black and gold sticker Sundazed first created. One concern I have is that some vinyl enthusiasts will automatically reject any reissue that has been "contaminated" by digital in any way whatsoever, which might be part of the reason labels are sometimes not forthcoming with information. To your specific inquiry, the original analog master tapes were the source for our remastered vinyl release of Chet Atkins & Les Paul, "Chester & Lester" (eXLP1-44061). The worst-sounding piece of 180gr vinyl in my collection. I need to review that I have it here. Then the labels mentioned above, steer clear of anything from Doxy, it is virtually guaranteed to be 44.1/16. eck, any version of an album is "sourced" at some point from the master, regardless of how many copies, remixes of digitizations have occcured. Patricia Barbers "Caf Blue" is a 44.1/16k recording, but the LP is very listenable. this is fairly disconcerting. EHRs Support Provider Decision Making. Miller Industries is seeking to fill the position of Quality & Regulatory Assurance Engineer at our Hermitage, PA facility. Capitol had somereissues that were wretched (Heart - Dreamboat Annie). The "sourced from" designation pretty much means: 1) it is not cut from the original master. We buy the hardware and software in the hope we're avoiding the digital nasties but it would appear there's much more to this than would appear. We compared. of the "Chess master" reissues from the mid '80s are actually analog, although it says "digitally mastered by" on the back. The same problem exists for audiophile CD reissues. Nirvana, Nevermind, Simply Vinyl. And while some pressing plants are clearly better than others, there is a general feeling that many well-meaning pressing plants are running flat-out to meet demand. And in the end, I believe we would be better served by greater transparency about sources and mastering because the current atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion not helpful. Yesterday I compared the Beatles White Album, original and 180 gram remastered and now I'm checking all my newly purchased remastered vinyl. If it's a CD, which is probably is, then it's an excellent sounding CD. I emailed Music on Vinyl and this is the response I got. Leonard Cohens"10 new songs" also digital. We use analog & digital sources, for the majority of our releases we use high res digital files sourced from the master tapes. This goes way back to the original Mobile Fidelity LP's from the 70's and 80's. Digital something, and not good. The conversion's resolution depends on the sample rate and bit depth. I was in Greece a few years ago visiting a Stereophlle reader who'd invited me over to hear his stereoone of the best, if not the best I've ever heard. I bought one, a Blind Willie McTell. Italian Archives online. Call me crazy but I think this would sound much better. The Leonard Cohen live stuff recently released on vinyl is a 48/24k recording upsampled to 96/24k. I see their stuff sold here in real, reputable record stores like Jecklin and other places. Sylvie Vartan. So there might be a tape that could be used for a reissue!

, The Old Ideas vinyl sounds remarkably superior to the CD also included in the jacket. Now when I shop and I'm not sure about a title I'll ask the vendor to hold the record behind the counter for a day or two so I can do some research on sites like this. Awful! I've never heard a 1st pressing, only CD masters until this point, so I can only compare what I have heard. Pre-order limited edition new releases and exclusive record pressings. Very interested to compare to originals though. They sound great. They are "simply" about vinyl. I'm French, excuse my english. For $13 a piece at your local Half Price Books, you could do a lot worse, especially since many titles in the WaxTime catalog are totally unavailable except as rare scratchy originals that go for $100 a piece. Mark Hammar is a Certied Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence through the American Society for Quality and has been a Quality Professional since 1994. Not one single click or pop. That belies a lack of understanding of how cutting to vinyl works. It would stand to reason the highest resolution digital files were used for the LP Can you tell me please what the original sources for the HD Tracks files are? Rolling Stones, get your ya yas out reissue box set; 96/24. I suspect it was either a bad sounding tape supplied by Decca (though why?) (Swiss-Italian Radio Orch./ Scherchen. 2) we don't know what we cut this LP from. At least I'm not as dissapointed when it is a dud. Glad someone else noticed. Lack of provenance and of relying on familiar "Good Housekeeping"-style labels are pervasive. A truly great article and responses. And even if they did, as a new collector, is it trial and error or is there a comprehensive list out there of the good and not so good producers? They are taking advantage of the EU law that puts stuff beyond a certain age in the public domain. Is Get On Down if you're into hip-hop at all. A Sarah Vaughn fan, he played me a "greatest hits" album from ZYX that had been culled from Sarah's later Pablo catalog. Compression has a HUGE impact on the aural perception of a recording and should be banned as far as I'm concerned. Kevin Gray didn't convert the mono tapes to digital. 3,4 To capture and leverage EHR content, the challenges relate to variability in the . LIke the original reissues of the Tom Waits Elektra albums Rhino issued that were stickered "cut from the original analog master tapes" when in fact, they'd been "cut" by Ron McMaster at Capitol from 96/24 files (per Tom's instructions) produced from the original master tapes. The American medical Informatics Association 2020 remastered and now I 'm not as as. Wish you all a safe and happy new year vinyl Lovers Rod Stewart LP fewer than 10,000 persons there. It here serie blue note reissie mono Japan EMI EU law that puts beyond. 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