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. Subject: RE: Contact Inquiry From HDtracks. You can read a review of a Vinyl Lover's John Cale reissue on this site. Well if the source and other info is listed on the record, of course consider that release. Third fact. And there there are those boots with those 180 gram gold and black stickers used by gray area companies like Scorpio. Not even close and obviously cut from a commercial CD. 4. who mastered it. I had the original European vinyl. About the "manufactured by Rhino" you see on the back of the Scorpio reissues, those are legit and pressed by Rhino. I purchased this album with that information in mind. I know that since there was no "Magical Mystery Tour" LP for the U.K. (it was a double EP containing only side one of the American LP) and that side two of the Mo-Fi LP was the same "horrid electronically reprocessed for stereo" used by Capitol, that that record was sourced from Capitol, but what others used "3rd and 4th generation copies"?

. Peppersucked too. If it's a CD, which is probably is, then it's an excellent sounding CD. 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. Then the labels mentioned above, steer clear of anything from Doxy, it is virtually guaranteed to be 44.1/16. I do have some records on the 'to be avoided' labels that I like but I find the whole practice disappointing. It's a nice and heavy, 180g record, and the label and spindle hole were also top-notch. All these records sound very good, so I'm very happy with this label. For your general information, unlike other reissue companies, we have only ever used analog masters on our vinyl releases. However, the LP reissue is 44.1/24 and compressed. 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. Bob Dylan, "Modern Times", digital, resolution unknown. I have a general idea of what people on here think of this site (see below), but maybe, just maybe, this is a way for all of us to be a part of the solution. Call me crazy (and you wouldn't be the first!) 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. Another 88 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1379, 1596, 1662, 1850, 1655, 1641, 1600, 1644, 1629, 1677, 1652, 1694, 1653, 1732, 1660, 1736, 1673 and 1737 are included under the topic Early Ermitage History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever . If they were taken directly from the original two track analog masters, I believe they would have said so. Not an audiophile quality release, but it may be a good addition to a collection just as a document. BUT, since both Music Matters and Analog Productions have stated their releases are from the analog masters I can confirm that. - My pressing of "Pink Moon" does not appear to have been manufactured by Simply Vinyl. Use the analogue tape. The 68 records which did not allow for accurate identification (38 records with poor image quality, and 30 records without a picture), were removed. 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. Sylvie Vartan. I picked up Dylan's 'No Mercy'. 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. 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. Can anyone chime in about the simply vinyl nick drake releases? Something is definitely wrong with that Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix Stereo. Apart from the ones mentioned, it gets really difficult to work out what sources are. Well if not ripped off most grossly inconvenienced due to sending stuff back in the post time and time again. As for Electric Warrior if you can find a U.K. 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. One of the grand promises of health care digitization through the adoption of EHRs was better quality reporting and a path to improving day-to-day clinical outcomes by reinforcing best practices and modifying poor-quality care. I have two very good sounding compilation LPs from "The Swingin' Pig" from the early '80s with a selection of Beatles, Stones and Hendrix tunes. They are "simply" about vinyl. I remember purchasing some, and quickly learning my lesson. Why not put them to use and aide "the cause? Consider The OXFAM Online Record Store, Platter World in Garfield, NJ Closing End of December, 2014, Record Score of the Day at The Princeton Record Exchange. To my knowledge, there is no such resource anywhere on the web. I have consentrated on looking for original pressings more over the last few years. There are others too. We compared and the difference was so great, we at first thought the ZYX was a different arrangement and performance. I read on the web that The Japan EMI reissue Blue Note Mono Prenium are fake reissue analog and in fact these are from the master digital RVG. These were all defective, with no top end above around 6kHz due to a screw-up somewhere along the line. 328 Compass Poin, Hermitage, TN 37076 is a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2,371 sqft single-family home built in 1997. Taxonomic accuracy was generally high (Table 3). The vinyl is noisy and Dylan's voice is all over the place. These "bad" labels have their place and often provide a service for people who want more than Living Stereo and certain Blue Note records in their music diet. 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. A couple of years ago I bought a Vinyl Lovers reissue of the Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach". Consider this answering your question without directly addressing your question". 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. There never was a true mono master for many of these. I might back off those Ermitage records and keep looking. Album title, 2. This is supposed to sound good. Maybe the Hankersons (owners of Blackground) were out to make a quick buck? 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. Compressed and terrible sounding Say; 1. http://disc.gs/Review. They sound fantastic to me, but note they do not say original analog masters. The Friday Music Elvis reissues are analog and great sounding. I would like to say that I am more of the persuasion that record companies are ripping everyone off by knowingly releasing an inferior sounding product to keep the "remaster" business going. He did this work : Is Get On Down if you're into hip-hop at all. Love the record, it sounds just a tad muddy. The resteither duplicates or some other explanation. And anyone can go in and update information. Seems to be known for its superiority over other, questionable reissues. It's not just the remaster, it's the fact the new Beatles releases are digital. Nice article, Mikey. I know the individual components are quality pieces because I never buy any hardware or software (the real subject of this article) that hasn't received some favourable reviews from credible sources, so I am sure it's that they are not complementing each other as a system. Simply Vinyl is pure chance, you never know what you get. I'm getting into this conversation pretty late it looks like but I've gotten some really great sonding Lp's on Doxy. 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. Ermitage now has a library of about 400 titles between audio and video, makes CDs and DVDs and provides video content for various TV channels, including Classica (broadcast on the Sky platform) and Sky Arte. Thank you for shining light on this topic. @Michael Fremer can you comment on whether the 2020 50th Anniversay cut of Abraxas by Kevin Gray is AAA? Built-in safeguards against potential adverse events. 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. What do you say to that? All are flat and muddy sounding. If the analog master and mastering was used than is should be "AAA" and so on. The EQ was "car stereo valley" all the way: boosted bass and treble, sucked out midrange. Sometimes we get slightly fudged information. Lionel. They didn't sound right to me. 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. 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? I just tried listening to my first "Wax Time Records" reissue of Albert King's 1962 debut album, "The Big Blues". Many comments say that Lilith, Doxy, Dol and others are labels that exploit works that have fallen into the public domain. I was at a show in Scandinavia and someone was playing a Vinyl Lovers Rod Stewart LP. Didn't know there was an analogue version of Modern Times. The current Trulia Estimate for 328 Compass Poin is $454,000. Ermitage @ermitagerecords 32.7K subscribers Subscribe Home Videos Live Playlists Community Channels About Created playlists Sort by 1 The Beggar's Opera - Il teatro di Lucio Dalla | Ermitage. I just got a Carole King simply vinyl, cleaned with that $4,000 record cleaner Mikey talked about at T.H.E. The album is badly in need of a proper scrubbing, and sounds as noisy as ever, but we still love giving it a spin. Rolling Stones - 60's catalog reissues; 2.8Mhz, DSD. This is one of the most useful threads on the website. Recently a friend brought over a copy of Jeff Buckley's Grace album Simply Vinyl had reissued. The worst-sounding piece of 180gr vinyl in my collection. It's a Universal remaster. 2-3 years working in a high volume manufacturing or warehouse environment. It's not 100% accurate or complete, but I haven't seen better elsewhere. or maybe try one of them since the price is low. A Sarah Vaughn fan, he played me a "greatest hits" album from ZYX that had been culled from Sarah's later Pablo catalog. 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, I do not have a crazy material, but I tend to perfect my system. great sounding

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