Rolling Stones, get your ya yas out reissue box set; 96/24. Pablo was a Norman Granz label (Granz founded Verve among other labels) that used top engineers and the RCA vinyl infrastructure to process its albums and what this guy was playing me sounded wrong. ON THE CUT! Hi Michael and the crew! There are certain labels I urge you to avoid. And I'm glad you are not "digiphobic" and call them as they sound. 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). No-one seems to know. But the latter doesn't sound better IMO. It was then that I noticed that the actual tracks on the individual albums weren't in the same order as on the cover or the original, and that there were actually some additional tracks, like one of those extended cd reissues. The past 10 years, as vinyl picked up popularity again, it seemed like an onslaught of companies offering "audiophile 180G" vinyl. And here's a reissue to steer WAY clear of WaxTime Lilith and others and the public domain, What about the Japan EMI DBLP Blue Note mono Reissue. Tell ya what though, the pressings I've been happiest with have come from Quality Records. For your general information, unlike other reissue companies, we have only ever used analog masters on our vinyl releases. The Hoffman/Gray re-issues from Analogue Productions and Music Matters are spectacular, and a benchmark for how an audiophile re-issue should be made and marketed. Love the record, it sounds just a tad muddy. Hey! 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. The EQ was "car stereo valley" all the way: boosted bass and treble, sucked out midrange. I was able to push it out of the two adjacent groves easily. There are a lot of factors that go into whether an LP sounds good or not, and whether digital was involved is only one of them. No information is lost. I also really like the Japanese red mono vinyl, but mostly for the different mix. It was my first MFSL and nearly my last. eXhibit Records/Soundboard The original purchased White Album was far superior to the remastered 180 gram from sound Soundstage Direct. Simply Vinyl is pure chance, you never know what you get. I have plenty of LPs from the 50s, 60s and 70s that were cut 100% analog every step of the way (obviously) and still sound horrible. So, please, any ideas would be much appreciated. Can you be more specific here? Of course, the CBS Mastersound LP of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is a great example of this. "Old Ideas" soundsbetter. And some post partial information, like on some John Coltrane reissues that have a sticker that says "Sourced by Rhino, distributed by Scorpio.". The Hickory County Recorder of Deeds, located in Hermitage, Missouri is a centralized office where public records are recorded, indexed, and stored in Hickory County, MO. I've been around vinyl since the 70s and many of the Scorpio records sound good and have stickers stating "manufactured by Rhino" (whatever that means). Again, this is 1960s jazz material that is in the public domain in the EU. 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. A look a the photos of the tape boxes that appered in the box set were very revealing. Experience live in-store music and artist signing events. Thanks for that information. For example, CD-quality audio has a sample rate of 44.1kHz, meaning the sound is sampled 44,100 times per second, and 16 bits of data are recorded per sample. Then the labels mentioned above, steer clear of anything from Doxy, it is virtually guaranteed to be 44.1/16. 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? Wasn't terribly impressed with it, either. Some say dub tape, some say corrected copy tape etc. View 110 Hermitage Ave, Lafayette, LA 70503 property records for FREE including property ownership, deeds, mortgages, titles & sales history, current & historic tax assessments, legal, parcel & structure description, land use, zoning & more. Affiliate programs and 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. They used Capitol 3 & 4th generation copies, Parlophone eq'd dubs etc. This is a really good article and makes a very good point. resolution unknown. The non-recorded areas are extremely quiet. I have some Elvis gold CDs that sound better. Also Traffic's "Shoot Outn At The Fantasy Factory", which I bought the week of release in 1973, featured EDITED versions of 2 tracks. Transparency in what you buy in music is not good. 2) we don't know what we cut this LP from. 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. I kept listening in hopes of adjusting my ear, but could not have avoided that eerie feeling that they tortured music to death before they buried in the vinyl. ). Great article, and critical subject matter. But still other times you get nothing, yet you're asked to plunk down big bucks for these reissues. In my opinion, 10 new songs suffered a bit from some wierd Pro-tools sounding stuff. I own a ton of Music On Vinyl records and I have always thought they sound great but i'm a vinyl noob and only have about $3000 worth of gear so maybe i'm not hearing what you hear. There are some excellent vinyl reissue labels that use original anaolg sources and produce very good lps such as Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner Records, RhinOvinyl, Classic Records, Impulse!, Sundazed, etc. To this day I think it's my brightest-sounding LP. I'll wait for the Music Matters reissue later this year. Perhaps they don't have the dynamic range of a re-mastered LP from a major label, but I find the sound quite enjoyable on my vintage system. I do have some records on the 'to be avoided' labels that I like but I find the whole practice disappointing. I have no idea. The UHQR Pepper ain't in that same league at all. But believe whatever you want. Wax Time reissues are sold widely by reputable record stores like Amoeba and Rasputin, and while not in the price range of the true audiophile masterings, they're not exactly cheap, eithertypically about $20 retail at a brick and mortar store. I should have known that there was something up when I saw a sealed copy of Romeo Must Die available at such a reasonable price. Before Mobile Fidelity did The Beatles box in 1982, there had already been 3 Beatles releases. Rolling Stones - 70s and 80s; 48/24K; compressed. Maybe the Hankersons (owners of Blackground) were out to make a quick buck? 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. It could have been a great Beatles collection but some one at MFSL back then was making bad judgementcalls in regards to the eq used. Apart from the ones mentioned, it gets really difficult to work out what sources are. The CD is totally compressed while the LP has lots of dynamic range and better tonal balance. 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. Some Girls came from the tapes, so I suppose it depended on the condition of the tapes. The reissues sound nice but the original recordings weren't audiophile material. Why not put them to use and aide "the cause? The compression may be an aesthetic choice, or may be done so to accommodate use on portable devices. He never had the original mono tapes. I have consentrated on looking for original pressings more over the last few years. Probably different sources. I would move Doxy Music / Doxy Records from the "generally avoid" to the "check before buy" category. 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. 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. P.S. Then there are all those cheap Blue Note reissues. Propel Administrators can customize the fields that are displayed on different types of Quality records. While the Music on Vinyl might be from a high rez digital source (although given I've never seen one on HDTracks etc, maybe not), it definitely isn't just ripped from CD, as the mixes are distinctly different. The Friday Music Elvis reissues are analog and great sounding. The T-Rex "Electric Warrior" reissue is also "apparently" Hi Resolution digital, though I haven't heard it. ermitage records quality. Concord Music Group's Original Jazz Classics. I am not impressed with the quality controls in the press/release process at Wax Time, a record company out of Spain. They sound fantastic to me, but note they do not say original analog masters. There has been a long history of decpetive marketing, as we are slowly finding out. Mark has experience in auditing, improving processes, and writing procedures for Quality, Environmental, and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems, and is certied as a . EU law used to be sometimes quite advantageous, for umm, unofficial releases. If you spend $25-$50 on a reissue, all the info should be printed on the album jacket, or available in plain sight on the reissue companies, and dealers, websites, including source tape, mastering chain (absence of digital), mastering engineer (s), manufacturing plant. Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 8, Tell tale signs; 44.1/16k digital. Whatever your take on Robert Palmers interpretation, the sound on that single is awesome. When I played the record back, it played beautifully with no more skips. Many of them were cut at places like Bell Sound that used dupes of dupes for cutting, and they sound awful. Of course, you will need to already have a turntable and phono amp but, if you already have these items, the AU-D4 ADC is an ideal budget digitisation option. If you buy from Sundazed, for instance, you can be assured that the original tape was used as the source, because Sundazed's Bob Irwin, who has worked for Sony's Legacy division for years producing CD reissues, is very focused on using masters. They use their own mastering engineers, so I imagine they aim for the best possible result. 2-3 years working in a high volume manufacturing or warehouse environment. So i buy my lps produce before the digital era, with warts and all. I do not know whether these rights are the slightest in Russia, Spain, or Italy, but I doubt it seriously. The same problem exists for audiophile CD reissues. University Records means records or record systems that Proposer (1) creates, (2) receives from or on behalf of University, or (3) has access, and which may contain confidential information (including credit card information, social security numbers, and private health information (PHI) subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 . Electronic medical records and quality improvement Neurosurg Clin N Am. Hermitage. Exile on main street - 2010 reissue; 48/24. Sony/Legacy's Record Store Day Monomania! From: Support [mailto:contact@hdtracks.com] Bryan Ferry, Dylanesque, 96/24. We're proud to present the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series, a continuation of our acclaimed Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series which was launched in celebration of our 80th anniversary in 2019. Put on album title, record label or company, and what the sources were for the record. Anyone know anything about Fat Possum's reputation? We will let you know before it is started. The low end was muddy (thought it was my old ears at first), sloppy mid and highs. Simply Vinyl refuses to identify sources. Under 120X power, I gently pushed the material out of the grooves with the clean tip of a wooden toothpick. I just tried listening to my first "Wax Time Records" reissue of Albert King's 1962 debut album, "The Big Blues". Legend also states that because of the availability of the "Pink Moon" original tape, it is the only remaster done with an entirely analog signal path. Once MFSL was able to license the whole shabang for the box setthey were granted access to vault tapes from EMI England. I suspect it was either a bad sounding tape supplied by Decca (though why?) https://www.otaiweb.com/anarog/bluenotefront.jpg. But I know people that will refuse on principle to buy any vinyl that they know to have had its purity of analog essence contaminated by digital. That makes no sense though because some people are still interested in music from Aaliyah's catalog (which is available on an extremely limited basis right now.). 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. Kevin Gray cut the lacquers, and the vinyl was pressed at Quality Records. Greetings, Kevin here in The City. Can anyone of you tell me about the reissues on the DOL-Label? I didn't trust and don't like what I read about them and also didn't like the sound (like Cd I think) Blue note sound on my mind is more "dirty" with some "saturation" sometimes. This is one of the most useful threads on the website. I remember when MFSL reissued several John Lennon LP's about 10 years ago. Don't you? Sound is Ok, sounds digital, a bit flat. My apologies if someone has already asked this. It is unfortunate. Januar 2012 22:59 A lot of The Beatles 1/2 speeds were NOT done with originalEMI master tapes. But to much confusion and poor information about the source. I played the box version of Sgt. I think the guy "robert" is full of it, and doesn't know anything about this series. Support for diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. I sometimes think these labels would do better getting a mint, native original LP, cleaning it, transferring it to 30 ips tape via a reference level set up and then cutting again. The albums were subsequently re-cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, this time using the analog master tapes, and they sound fantastic. The Londons? Those Wayne Shorter titles, for example, were all recorded only in stereo, RVG did a simple fold down to produce a mono version. The resteither duplicates or some other explanation. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and EHRs can help providers make efficient, effective decisions about patient care, through: Improved aggregation, analysis, and communication of patient information. The terroir of wines in Ermitage and Hermitage Hermitage Hill is one of the few places in the world to benefit from the 4 geological eras that have taken place over time. So not really "original masters". Also, I've come to the conclusion that so called "mastering" is simply a ploy to make the recording sound LOUDER. Are you changing your recommendations of the Fairport Convention reisuses on FMWB? Album title, 2. These include Doxy (not Sonny Rollins' labelapparently there's another one using the same name), ZYX from Germany, Vinyl Lovers, Simply Vinyl and Abraxas. I suspect the James Brown reissues are from CD but it's nice to see them out there, it's also funny to see a mid 60's King LP with a early 70's Polydor label with JB's picture when he had the big fro. I have a couple of other artists from that label, and they're ok; nothing to write home about. The Leonard Cohen live stuff recently released on vinyl is a 48/24k recording upsampled to 96/24k. All the printed materials say "from the original mastertapes". A lot of websites that sell new re-issues have little to no information about the pressing. Actually some of them, especially those licensed from EMI, can sound very good and could very well be analog tape sourced, but the company refuses to identify sources. He heard the HF boost and was outraged. The sad reality is that some people involved in putting vinyl out probably check it on a crappy deck in a poor system and would regard a SL1210 as high end, our vinyl gets played and checked by at least two or three of us on a Rega 3, SL 1210 and a Michell Gyro or Orbe, plus one or two other decks as well and in different systems, bad pressings may still slip through, but they will be very few and not down to a problem with the whole run. Anyone can go in, open a new record, and put in the info. That could mean Bob took the master tape, did his thing, produced a 96/24 file and had Wes Garland cut from that, or that he went with the tape to NRP and cut from analog (assuming NRP has a preview head equipped playback deck), but sometimes there's nothing written in the Sundazed "deadwax", which leaves buyers with not a clue as to who did the all important lacquer cut and where it was cut, which is equally important: a mastering chain is like a hi-fi system in reverse. Yup, "Old Ideas" on vinyl sounds remarkably better than the CD that came with it. Chopin . October 23, 2020. This is unfortunate because, as you note, LPs cut from hi-rez digital can sound fantastic. Great read Mikey, thanks! Epub . Sylvie Vartan. Very sad. Sure bet. They are the real deal. I'm sure I'm not making this up, I have a distinct memory of buying a Stevie Wonder album, I think it was Innervisions, on the 'Music Lovers' label that sounded dreadful and if I was in any dohbt that the source used wasn't analogue, or in any way near the master, you could hear the CD that was used to cut the vinyl actually skipping. For example, I have Juke Box Hits by Chuck Berry in WaxTime edition, and the same at Chess version 1984. The Mo-Fi UHQR of Sgt. There are a few others like that here too. And, do they have the samehigh compression applied? Patricia Barbers "Caf Blue" is a 44.1/16k recording, but the LP is very listenable. 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